Category: Volume 14 – Number 2 – January 2004
Notices
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Volume 14, Number 2 January, 2004 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. […]
Exposition in Ruins
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Charles Sheaffer Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature University of Minnesota Shea0016@umn.edu Review of: Gregory Ulmer, Internet Invention. New York: Pearson, 2003. Gregory Ulmer’s Internet Invention can be accurately described as a composition handbook for students working in an increasingly visual culture–provided that one follows Ulmer in understanding the newfound prevalence of […]
Killing the Big Other
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Daniel Worden Department of English & American Literature Brandeis University dworden@brandeis.edu Review of: Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity.Cambridge: MIT P, 2003. The first book in his “Short Circuits” series from MIT Press, Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity strives to […]
Irigaray’s Erotic Ontology
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Hillary L. Chute Department of English Rutgers University Kinny8@hotmail.com Review of: Luce Irigaray, Between East and West: From Singularity to Community.New York: Columbia UP, 2002. Many contemporary feminist thinkers reject the accusation, most forcefully leveled by Monique Plaza in 1978, that Luce Irigaray’s theories of the feminine are naturalist. Irigaray’s conception of “the […]
Not Just a Matter of the Internet
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Stuart J. Murray Department of Rhetoric University of California, Berkeley sjmurray@socrates.berkeley.edu Review of: Mark Poster, What’s the Matter with the Internet?.Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. There is surely a double entendre at work in the title of Mark Poster’s book, What’s the Matter with the Internet?. In this matter, it is not […]
Pain-in-the-ass Democracy
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Jeffrey T. Nealon Department of English Pennsylvania State University jxn8@psu.edu Review of: John McGowan, Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics.Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2002. Are we so confident in our current formulations that we would not value the person who comes along to challenge them? More likely than not, that […]
Evolution and Contingency
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Arkady Plotnitsky Theory and Cultural Studies Program Purdue University aplotnit@sla.purdue.edu Review of: Gould, Stephen J. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002. We often complain about long books, and, at nearly 1500 pages, Stephen Jay Gould’s magnum opus is about as long as one could find in the sciences. But then, […]
Montage/Critique: Another Way of Writing Social History
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George Dillon Department of English University of Washington dillon@u.washington.edu In the last 40 years, numbers of writers and artists have come to see Walter Benjamin as a pioneer who blazed a new way of writing historical and cultural critique. The drafts of and reflections upon his Arcades Project (Passagen-Werk) have been the subject of […]
“Eden or Ebb of the Sea”: Susan Howe’s Word Squares and Postlinear Poetics
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Brian Reed Department of English University of Washington, Seattle bmreed@u.washington.edu In Poetry On & Off the Page(1998), Marjorie Perloff argues that the era of free verse may be drawing to a close. She examines recent work by a number of avant-garde poets–among them Caroline Bergvall, Karen Mac Cormack, Susan Howe, Maggie O’Sullivan, Joan Retallack, […]
Reading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communities
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Eric Hayot Department of English University of Arizona ehayot@u.arizona.edu Edward Wesp Department of English University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee edwesp@uwm.edu A lot had to happen between 1915, when the U.S. Supreme Court first ruled that cinema was not “speech” and was thus unprotected by the First Amendment, and 1982, when the Court decided […]
From Advertising to the Avant-Garde: Rethinking the Invention of Collage
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David Banash Department of English Western Illinois University D-Banash@wiu.edu I see no reason why the artistic world can’t absolutely merge with Madison Avenue –William S. Burroughs (“Art of Fiction” 29) Cutting Up Consumer Culture: “Big Daddy” In her article “The Invention of Collage,” Marjorie Perloff begins the story of collage at […]