Category: Volume 15 – Number 2 – January 2005
Notices
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Volume 15, Number 2 January, 2005 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Works and Days 43/44 Capitalizing on Play: The Politics of Computer Gaming
Some Day My Mom Will Come
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Heather Love Department of English University of Pennsylvania loveh@english.upenn.edu Review of: Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia.Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Back in 1979, Robert Hass wrote, “all the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking.” He seemed to be referring to […]
Whose Conspiracy Theory?
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Andrew Strombeck Department of English University of California, Davis amstrombeck@ucdavis.edu Review of: Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files.New York: Routledge, 2000. In the post-9/11 world, cultural paranoia and its number-one star, conspiracy theory, have reemerged with a vigor unseen since their heyday in the fifties. The Bush Administration’s anti-terrorism rhetoric […]
Whither the Actually Existing Internet?
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Chris McGahan English Department Yeshiva University clm7458@nyu.edu Review of: McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004; and Vincent Mosco, The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace.Cambridge: MIT P, 2004. Anyone with an interest in political and cultural developments in and around cyberspace would welcome new books by McKenzie Wark and Vincent […]
From the Proletariat to the Multitude: Multitude and Political Subjectivity
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Jason Read Philosophy Department Colby College jread@colby.edu Review of: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire.New York: Penguin, 2004. Where Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s first book, Empire, defined an object of critique–the book’s title is also their name for the global order they seek to analyze–their […]
Maximal Minimalism
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Charles Altieri Department of English University of California, Berkeley altieri@uclink4.berkeley.edu and Rei Terada Departments of English and Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine terada@uci.edu Review of: Robert Smithson. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 12 Sep.-13 Dec. 2005. We saw this show together. We saw it differently. We enjoyed those differences and wanted […]
Enduring Proximity: The Figure of the Neighbor in Suburban America
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Dana Cuff Department of Architecture and Urban Design University of California, Los Angeles dcuff@ucla.edu “For it is a simple matter to love one’s neighbor when he is distant, but it is a different matter in proximity.” –Jacques-Alain Miller (79-80) Figure 1: Spite Fence Eadweard Muybridge, San Francisco (1878)[1] Image used by permission of […]
Neighborly Hostility and Literary Creoles: The Example of Hugh MacDiarmid
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Laura O’Connor Department of English University of California, Irvine loconnor@uci.edu This article explores the influence of linguicism–discrimination against others on the basis of language and speaking style–on the poetics and politics of literary Creoles by examining the “Synthetic Scots” of modernist poet Hugh MacDiarmid. When languages that have previously been separate are brought into […]
“Never Again”: The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide
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Robert Meister Department of Politics University of California, Santa Cruz meister@ucsc.edu Proximity and Ethics Since the fall of communism, there has been a growing literature on the responsibility of the “world community” to “never again” stand by while neighbors commit atrocities against neighbors (Power, “Never Again”).1 This literature has yet to be reformulated as […]
Preface: Approaching Proximity
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Rei Terada Departments of English and Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine terada@uci.edu Ethics and Politics of Proximity reflects on the contemporary state of thought about proximate others, whether they be like or unlike oneself, neighbors, friends, rivals, or enemies. Coming from disparate disciplines (politics, literary studies, and architecture) and using heterogeneous principles, these […]
Unmade Men: The Sopranos After Whiteness
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Christopher Kocela Department of English Georgia State University engcpk@langate.gsu.edu Maurice Yacowar is right that The Sopranos “bears the critical analysis routinely accorded good literature, drama, and films” (19). Yet critical discussion of the program so far has not considered its interest in race. This is certainly not for lack of provocation. In almost every […]
During Auschwitz: Adorno, Hegel, and the “Unhappy Consciousness” of Critique
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Steven Helmling Department of English University of Delaware helmling@udel.edu As was already pointed out in Dialectic of Enlightenment, strict positivism crosses over into the feeblemindedness of the artistically insensible, the successfully castrated. The narrow-minded wisdom that sorts out feeling from knowing and rubs its hands together when it finds the two balanced is–as trivialities […]
Interface Realisms: The Interface as Aesthetic Form
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Søren Pold Multimedia Studies and Comparative Literature University of Aarhus pold@multimedia.au.dk Until now, digital arts have largely been understood to belong in traditional genres or forms of art: we are said to have electronic literature, net.art, or electronic, techno music. Sometimes interesting discussions have arisen concerning the very ontology of digital art, and questions […]