Category: Volume 16 – Number 2 – January 2006
Notices
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Volume 16, Number 2 January, 2006 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Globalizing William S. Burroughs
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David Banash Department of English & Journalism Western Illinois University D-Banash@wiu.edu Review of: Schneiderman, Davis and Philip Walsh, Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. London: Pluto, 2004. Imagining the work of William S. Burroughs through emerging theories of globalization promises to keep an extraordinary and difficult body of […]
Building Pictures: Hiroshi Sugimoto on Visual Culture
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Patrick Query English Department Loyola University, Chicago pquery@luc.edu Review of: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Architecture. Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. 22 February-2 June 2003. Figure 1: World Trade Center, 1997. Hiroshi Sugimoto Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2004 One of the most useful points Nicholas Mirzoeff makes […]
The New Imperialism, or the Economic Logic of Late Postmodernism
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Allan Borst Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign borst@uiuc.edu Review of: David Harvey, The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. In The New Imperialism, David Harvey demonstrates once again the adaptability and durability of a critical theory that grafts geography onto cultural studies and historical materialism. In publishing his Clarendon Lectures […]
Hard, Dry Eyes and Eyes That Weep: Vision and Ethics in Levinas and Derrida
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Chloé Taylor Department of Philosophy University of Toronto chloe.taylor@utoronto.ca In Totality and Infinity, Emmanuel Levinas opposes the Greek interest in aesthetics, luminosity, and the plastic form to the rejection of the image in Hebraic philosophy and ethics. Christianity, in making the Word flesh, repeats the Greek desire for the visible, the artistically manifested need […]
Fragments of Utopia: A Meditation on Fassbinder’s Treatment of Anti-Semitism and the Third Reich
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Justin Vicari justinvicari@verizon.net I If only because of his difficult and unenviable historical position as a postwar German (he was born in 1945), Fassbinder could not escape bearing witness to the destructive impact of the Holocaust in every frame of his films. I believe absolutely without question that the Six Million were the most […]
Post-Cold War Paranoia in The Corrections and The Sopranos
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Martin Hipsky Department of English Ohio Wesleyan University mahipsky@owu.edu Being lectured by the President on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in the country. Senator John Kerry, televised presidential debate, 13 October 2004 In the autumn of 2001, novelist Jonathan Franzen said of […]
Not Burroughs’ Final Fix: Materializing The Yage Letters
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Oliver Harris Department of American Studies Keele University o.c.g.harris@ams.keele.ac.uk Consistent Scrutiny In the last decade of the twentieth century it seemed to some that a breakthrough was taking place in the longstanding isolation of interpretive criticism and textual scholarship. It may be premature to speak “in retrospect,” but it doesn’t appear that the theoretical […]
Laurie Anderson’s Telepresence
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Eu Jin Chua The London Consortium eujinchuaemail@gmail.com Alter Egos Ventriloquism–the act of speaking through a surrogate body–is a frequent device in the work of American performance artist Laurie Anderson. In many of her installations and performances, Anderson herself does not speak as such–rather, she speaks through alter egos, usually technologically generated, who ventriloquize her […]