Category: Volume 17 – Number 3 – May 2007
Adorno Public and Private
October 21, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Steven HelmlingUniversity of DelawareEnglish Department helmling@UDel.Edu A review of: When students excited by “The Culture Industry” or some other Adorno reading ask how to get a larger grip on Adorno overall, I finally have a good answer: History and Freedom, Adorno’s previously unpublished 1964-1965 lectures at Frankfurt. There are now several of these collections: in […]
“BONKS and BLIGHTY? Oh, Tabloid Britain!”
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Brook MillerDepartment of EnglishUniversity of Minnesota, Morriscbmiller@umn.edu A review of: Martin Conboy, Tabloid Britain: Constructing A Community Through Language. New York: Routledge, 2006. I said Charles, don’t you ever craveTo appear on the front of The Daily MailDressed in your Mother’s bridal veil?. . .Oh, has the world changed or have I changed? –The Smiths, […]
Performance and Politics in Contemporary Poetics: Three Recent Titles from Atelos Press
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Eric KeenaghanDepartment of English State University of New York, Albany ekeenaghan@albany.edu Review of: Laura Moriarty, Ultravioleta. Berkeley: Atelos, 2006; Jocelyn Saidenberg, Negativity. Berkeley: Atelos, 2006; Juliana Spahr, The Transformation. Berkeley: Atelos, 2007. Disturbed by the mid-century capitalistic imperative that Americans make a living, and unsatisfied with the Soviet Union’s alternative of valorizing communal labor, Hannah […]
Futures of Negation: Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future and Utopian Science Fiction
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Kyle A. WigginsDepartment of English and American Literature Brandeis University kwiggins@brandeis.edu A review of: Jameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. New York: Verso, 2005. It is difficult to gauge the political utility of expressly fictive locations like utopias, given the immediacy and concreteness of a daily, lived […]
Narrowing the Range of Permissible Lies: Recent Battles in the International Image Tribunal
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Jim HicksSmith College University of Massachusetts, Amherst JHICKS@email.smith.edu I begin with a naïve question. How is it possible that the publication of the Abu Ghraib photographs did not (yet) adversely affect the careers of those responsible for the war in Iraq? The photos offer dramatic evidence to the court of public opinion. And the case […]
Toward a Photography of Love: The Tain of the Photograph in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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E.L. McCallumEnglish DepartmentMichigan State Universityemc@msu.edu “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” –Susan Sontag, On Photography On Photography To speak of ending in a photograph, as Susan Sontag does, would seem to aver photography’s orientation towards death, an association it has held since its inception and one that has become practically axiomatic in photography […]
Badiou’s Equations–and Inequalities: A Response to Robert Hughes’s “Riven”
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Arkady PlotnitskyTheory and Cultural Studies ProgramDepartment of EnglishPurdue Universityplotnit@purdue.edu Robert Hughes’s article offers an unexpected perspective on Alain Badiou’s work and its impact on the current intellectual and academic scene, a cliché-metaphor that (along with its avatars, such as performance or performative, also a pertinent theoretical term) may be especially fitting in this case, given […]
Riven: Badiou’s Ethical Subject and the Event of Art as Trauma
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Robert HughesDepartment of EnglishOhio State Universityhughes.1021@osu.edu “Can we be delivered, finally delivered, from our subjection to Romanticism?” asks the French philosopher Alain Badiou (b. 1937), with an evident sigh (Conditions 158f, Theoretical Writings 22e).1 A peculiar question, it would seem, for an epoch often eager to declare itself at once post-Romantic and postmodern. For Badiou, […]
The Swerve Around P: Literary Theory after Interpretation
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Jeffrey T. NealonDepartment of English Pennsylvania State University jxn8@psu.edu I. Literature On a recent trip to the library to find an essay that a visiting speaker was going to talk about, something odd (and a bit embarrassing) happened to me. I got the call number for the volume, and bee-lined directly to the library’s “P” […]
Motor Intentionality: Gestural Meaning in Bill Viola and Merleau-Ponty
September 9, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 3 May, 2007 |
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Carrie NolandDepartment of French and ItalianUniversity of California, Irvinecjnoland@uci.edu “Is it possible to express emotions without the movement of the face?” –Bill Viola During the last fifteen years of his life, roughly from Phenomenology of Perception of 1945 to the lectures on “Nature” of 1958-61,1 Maurice Merleau-Ponty developed a theory of the gestural that has provided […]