Category: Volume 14 – Number 1 – September 2003
Notices
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Volume 14, Number 1 September, 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. […]
Theatres of Memory: The Politics and Poetics of Improvised Social Dancing in Queer Clubs
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Theresa Smalec Performance Studies New York University tks201@nyu.edu Review of: Buckland, Fiona. Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2002. Scholars who take up Fiona Buckland’s Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making will step into the vastly underexplored arena that Buckland defines as “improvised social dancing in queer […]
The Speedy Citizen
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Valerie Karno English Department University of Rhode Island karno@uri.edu Review of: Scarry, Elaine. Who Defended the Country? Elaine Scarry in A New Democracy Forum On Citizenship, National Security, and 9/11. Eds. Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers. Boston: Beacon, 2003. The collection, “Who Defended the Country,” with title essay by Elaine Scarry and reply […]
Responsible Stupidity
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Diane Davis Division of Rhetoric and Department of English University of Texas at Austin ddd@mail.utexas.edu Review of: Ronell, Avital. Stupidity.Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2001. It takes a lot of courage to write a book about stupidity. And to call that book simply Stupidity, not even bothering to frame the term in a […]
Materiality is the Message
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Del Doughty Department of English Huntington College ddoughty@huntington.edu Review of: N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines.Mediawork Pamphlet. Cambridge: MIT P, 2002. The first thing I noticed about N. Katherine Hayles’s Writing Machines was its design: its slimness (138 pages) and its texture. The pages are printed on the heavy, glossy paper typical of fashion […]
Gullivers, Lilliputians, and the Root of Two Cultures
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Claudia Brodsky Lacour Department of Comparative Literature Princeton University cblacour@princeton.edu Review of: Arkady Plotnitsky, The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the “Two Cultures.”Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002. In The Knowable and the Unknowable, Arkady Plotnitsky takes on (at least) two unenviable double tasks. He endeavors to explain […]
A Response to Leonard Wilcox’s “Baudrillard, September 11, and the Haunting Abyss of Reversal”
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Brad Butterfield Department of English University of Wisconsin, La Crosse butterfi.brad@uwlax.edu Leonard Wilcox is right that the conception of symbolic exchange has continued to inform Baudrillard’s work up to the present, but until 9/11 Baudrillard had stopped using the language of symbolic exchange, preferring instead to speak in terms of “seduction,” “fatal strategies,” and […]
Baudrillard, September 11, and the Haunting Abyss of Reversal
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Leonard Wilcox Department of American Studies University of Canterbury Leonard.Wilcox@canterbury.ac.nz . . . at the height of their coherence, the redoubled signs of the code are haunted by the abyss of reversal. –Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death In his article “The Baudrillardian Symbolic, 9/11, and the War of Good and Evil,” Bradley […]
Smart Bombs, Serial Killing, and the Rapture: The Vanishing Bodies of Imperial Apocalypticism
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Peter Yoonsuk Paik Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee pypaik@uwm.edu One of the most well-publicized hypotheses regarding the terror of 9/11 is the notion that religious fantasies played a major role in inspiring the militants of al-Qaeda to launch their suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and […]
Constellation and Critique: Adorno’s Constellation, Benjamin’s Dialectical Image
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Steven Helmling Department of English University of Delaware helmling@udel.edu Fredric Jameson years ago characterized Adorno’s chief critical device or method as the “historical trope” (Marxism and Form 3-59), so it shouldn’t strike anyone as a novel claim that Adorno’s “constellation” displays affinities with other now-familiar devices of modernist art and literature–Eisensteinian montage, cubist collage, […]
Postmodern Historiography: Politics and the Parallactic Method in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon
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Christy L. Burns Department of English College of William and Mary clburn@wm.edu In 1997, Thomas Pynchon published Mason & Dixon, his much anticipated history of America written from the perspectives of the astronomer and surveyor sent over from England to draw the famous boundary line. Their work was necessitated by a long-standing dispute between […]
Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature
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Chris Bongie Department of English Queen’s University bongiec@qsilver.queensu.ca Put me in a room with a great writer, I grovel. Put me in with Roseanne, I throw up. –Jamaica Kincaid1 When Tina Brown asked Roseanne Barr to serve as guest consultant for a special women’s issue of The New Yorker in 1995, Antiguan-American novelist […]