Category: Volume 17 – Number 1 – September 2006
Stylistic Abstraction and Corporeal Mapping in The Surrogates
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D. Harlan Wilson Liberal Arts Wright State University, Lake Campus david.wilson@wright.edu Review of: Venditti, Robert, and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates. Issues 1-5. Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2006. In the tradition of Blade Runner (1981), Akira (the early 1980s comics and film), Neuromancer (1984), Watchmen (1987), Ghost in the Shell (1995), Dark City (1998), […]
In the Still of the Museum: Jean-Luc Godard’s Sixty-Year Voyage
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Jehanne-Marie Gavarini Art Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell Visiting Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University gavarini@brandeis.edu Review of: Voyage(s) en Utopie, Jean-Luc Godard 1946-2006, In Search of Lost Theorem. Paris: Pompidou Center, 11 May-14 Aug 2006. Voyage(s) en Utopie, Jean-Luc Godard 1946-2006, In Search of Lost Theorem was presented at the Pompidou […]
History and Schizophrenia
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Michael Mirabile English and Humanities Reed College michael.mirabile@reed.edu Review of: Sande Cohen, History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History.Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History begins by expressing surprise at the various claims that fall under the rubric of […]
Not What It Seems: The Politics of Re-Performing Vito Acconci’s Seedbed (1972)
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Theresa Smalec Performance Studies New York University tks201@nyu.edu Review of: Marina Abramovic’s Seedbed. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 10 Nov. 2005. For seven days last November, Marina Abramovic engaged in a seemingly simple art experiment. The Solomon R. Guggenheim’s program straightforwardly outlines her weeklong endeavor: “In Seven Easy Pieces, Abramovic reenacts seminal […]
After the Author, After Hiroshima
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Bill Freind Department of English Rowan University freind@rowan.edu Review of: Araki Yasusada’s Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada’s Letters In English.Eds. Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez. Cumberland, RI: Combo, 2005. While Foucault imagines a time in which questions of the “authenticity” and “originality” of the author would […]
The Past Is a Distant Colony | Explosions in the Sky
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Read an introduction to these videos written by Viet Thanh Nguyen. View Flash streaming video of The Past is a Distant Colony | Explosions in the Sky View Quicktime movie of Explosions in the Sky View Quicktime movie of The Past is a Distant Colony University of California, […]
Radical Indulgence: Excess, Addiction, and Female Desire
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Karen L. Kopelson Department of English University of Louisville karen.kopelson@louisville.edu What exactly is morally objectionable about excess? –Stuart Walton, Out of It By Way of (an Excessive) Introduction In the introduction to The Female Grotesque, Mary Russo writes that feminism has often “stood for and with the normal”; that in efforts […]
The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, the Evangelical Right, and the Culture of Life
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Melinda Cooper Global Biopolitics Research Group Institute of Health University of East Anglia M.Cooper@uea.ac.uk I also believe human life is a sacred gift from our Creator. I worry about a culture that devalues life, and believe as your President I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and […]
A Dialogue on Global States, 6 May 2006
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Introduction by Global States conference organizers Anna Cavness, Jian Chen, Michelle Cho, Wendy Piquemal, Erin Trapp, and Tim Wong. Video by Laura Johnson. [image of Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak] The following dialogue between Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak took place on 6 May 2006 as the keynote event […]
Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú
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Arturo Arias Program in Latin American Studies University of Redlands arturo_arias@redlands.edu At the first conference on Maya studies in Guatemala City (August 1996), Luis Enrique Sam Colop, a K’iché Maya academic, public intellectual and newspaper columnist who debates politics in the national press, accused the country’s most celebrated Ladino writer, novelist Miguel Angel […]