Category: Volume 16 – Number 3 – May 2006
The Politics of Ontology
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John Garrison JohnSF@gmail.com Review of: Judith Butler, Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004. Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender offers her latest thinking on a variety of issues related both to gender and also to the larger idea of becoming “undone.” In this volume, Butler goes beyond her earlier examinations of gender performativity to explore […]
The Hamartia of Light and Shadow: Susan Sontag in the Digital Age
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Manisha Basu English Department University of Pittsburgh mab79@pitt.edu Review of: Susan Sontag. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2003. In the first of the six essays in On Photography (1977), Susan Sontag had claimed that after repeated exposure, photographs of atrocity became less real for their audience, and therefore less able […]
Mystics of a Materialist Age
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Justus Nieland Department of English Michigan State University nieland@msu.edu Review of: Marcus Boon, The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs.Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. Marcus Boon’s ambitious, lucid, and far-ranging cultural history of the connection between literature and drugs eschews a “single chronological history of drugs” and seeks instead “to reveal […]
Counter-Networks in a Network Society: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
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Laura Shackelford Department of English Indiana University, Bloomington lshackel@indiana.edu The proliferation of critical work on the networking logics that underwrite capitalism’s global restructuring suggests, quite mistakenly, that capitalism’s rearticulation of the spaces of the world to suit it is something new. Working immediately prior to these shifts, Henri Lefebvre, in The Production of Space, […]
A Critique of Neo-Left Ontology
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Carsten Strathausen Department of German and Russian Studies University of Missouri-Columbia StrathausenC@missouri.edu The term “ontology” occupies an increasingly prominent place in current politico-philosophical discourse. “Political philosophy forces us to enter the terrain of ontology,” declare Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (Empire (354). Ernesto Laclau recently said that he has “concentrated on the ontological dimension […]
The Speed of Beauty: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Interviewed by Ulrik Ekman
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Ulrik Ekman Department for Cultural Studies and the Arts University of Copenhagen ekman@hum.ku.dk Professor Gumbrecht was interviewed after his visit in November 2005 at the Department for Cultural Studies and the Arts, Copenhagen University, Denmark, arranged by the Research Forum for Intermedial Digital Aesthetics directed by Ulrik Ekman. On that occasion, Gumbrecht gave a […]
Lose the Building: Systems Theory, Architecture, and Diller+Scofidio’s Blur
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Cary Wolfe Department of English Rice University cewolfe@rice.edu “The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.” –Niklas Luhmann, Art as a Social System (153) The Blur building designed by the New York architectural team of Ricardo Scofidio and Elizabeth Diller–a manufactured cloud with an embedded viewing deck, hovering over Lake Neuchatel in […]
Queer Optimism
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Michael Snediker English Department Mount Holyoke College msnedike@mtholyoke.edu Epithets While optimism has made cameos in the pages of queer theory, “queer” is not itself readily imaginable as one of optimism’s epithets. More familiar, perhaps, is Lauren Berlant’s and Michael Warner’s invocation of “hegemonic optimism” in their 1998 essay, “Sex in Public” (549). Berlant […]