Category: Volume 13 – Number 3 – May 2003
Notices
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Volume 13, Number 3 May, 2003 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. […]
Virtually Transparent Structures
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Mimi Yiu English Department Cornell University msy4@cornell.edu Review of: Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel. The Singular Objects of Architecture. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. Structured as two free-ranging dialogues, The Singular Objects of Architecture brings into conversation two of the most thought-provoking cultural innovators of our time: Jean Baudrillard […]
A Disconcerting Brevity: Pierre Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination
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Martin Wallace English Department University of Manitoba kaplanrose@hotmail.com Review of: Pierre Bourdieu, Masculine Domination. Trans. Richard Nice. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001. Pierre Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination is the English translation of La Domination Masculine (1998), which was developed from an article of the same name published in 1990 in Actes de la Recherché en […]
Poetry and the Paleolithic, or, The Artful Forager
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Kevin Marzahl English Department Indiana University kmarzahl@indiana.edu Review of: Jed Rasula, This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry.Athens: U of Georgia P, 2002. I remember well the March 1984 cover of National Geographic because it seemed that I could look right into it at an iridescent eagle perched on a floating branch within […]
The Measure of All That Has Been Lost: Hitchens, Orwell, and the Price of Political Relevance
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Matthew Hart English Department University of Pennsylvania matthart@english.upenn.edu Review of: Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters. New York: Basic, 2002 Orwell Matters Orwell’s relevance to contemporary political thought dominates recent treatments of his essays and fiction. In his introduction to a recent Penguin Modern Classics miscellany, Orwell and Politics (2001), Timothy Garton Ash […]
The Language of New Media
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Thomas Swiss University of Iowa Thomas-Swiss@uiowa.edu & George Shaw george@divinepenguin.com ENTER: The Language of New Media
“A Generation of Men Without History”: Fight Club, Masculinity, and the Historical Symptom
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Krister Friday English Department Michigan State University kfriday@msu.edu There is a brief but suggestive moment in Chuck Palahiuk’s popular novel, Fight Club, in which the first-person, unnamed narrator describes how Tyler Durden splices tiny pornographic frames into film reels. In the scene (dramatized in David Fincher’s largely faithful cinematic adaptation of the novel), […]
Barrett Watten’s Bad History: A Counter-Epic of the Gulf War
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Philip Metres Department of English John Carroll University pmetres@jcu.edu More than a decade has passed since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, a war that offered up an “instant history” that effaced the histories of colonialism and empire in the Middle East, thanks to saturation media coverage that covered up far more than it […]
The Body of the Letter: Epistolary Acts of Simon Hantaï, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida
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Julie Hayes Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of Richmond jhayes@richmond.edu Editor’s Note: For the original French versions of selected quotations, please mouse over or click on the ¤ symbol. “Lire, écrire, affaire de tact” J-L Nancy In the summer of 1999, Jean-Luc Nancy wrote to the artist Simon Hantaï […]
Is There a Subject in Hyperreality?
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Temenuga Trifonova Film Studies University of California, San Diego ttrifonova@UCSD.Edu The discourse of materiality or objective reality today is, first of all, a discourse of ethics. Objective reality is either treated as a victim that has been wronged by subjectivity (the latter must, therefore, be brought to justice) or is regarded as “fearful,” “fatal,” […]
The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism
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Michael Truscello Department of English University of Waterloo novel_t@rogers.com Introduction The traces of power in the network society are equally located in the architecture of bricks and mortar and the architecture of information, the discursive practices that constitute the coding of network topologies. This paper examines the discourse of computer programming through Eric Raymond’s […]