Category: Volume 19 – Number 1 – September 2008
Embracing Aporia?: The Lessons of Popular Knowledge
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Suzanne Diamond (bio)Youngstown State Universitysdiamond@ysu.edu Review of: Clare Birchall, Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip. Oxford: Berg, 2006. Gossip and conspiracy discourse have long been epistemologically suspect, and recent critical treatments tend either to celebrate or to excoriate these social phenomena. Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip heralds a new […]
Space and Vision in Language
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Christopher C. Robinson (bio)Clarkson Universityrobinscc@clarkson.edu Review of: Nana Last, Wittgenstein’s House: Language, Space, & Architecture. New York: Fordham UP, 2008. Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote two of the core texts of philosophy’s linguistic turn in the twentieth century: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. The Tractatus, revered as the Bible of Logical Positivism, was written by a […]
Stupid Pleasures
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Graham Hammill (bio)SUNY at Buffaloghammill@buffalo.edu Review of: Michael D. Snediker, Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 2008. We all know that happiness is a form of stupidity. Once The Declaration of Independence promises the pursuit of happiness as an inalienable right, it’s difficult not to […]
The Special Case of Four Auschwitz Photographs
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Susan A. Crane (bio)University of Arizonascrane@email.arizona.edu Review of: Georges Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz. Translated by Shane B. Lillis. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008. Paris, 2001: an exhibition that commemorates the Nazi concentration and extermination camps of the Holocaust stirs up a vehement public debate. Georges Didi-Huberman, a […]
Kenneth Goldsmith’s American Trilogy
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Darren Wershler (bio)Wilfrid Laurier University Review of: Kenneth Goldsmith, The Weather. Los Angeles; Make Now, 2005, Goldsmith, Traffic. Los Angeles: Make Now, 2007, and Goldsmith, Sports. Los Angeles: Make Now, 2008. I can’t help it: trilogies are nerd Kryptonite. My childhood library was chock-full of science fiction and heroic fantasy books organized into epic […]
Watchmen Meets The Aristocrats
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Stuart Moulthrop (bio)University of Baltimoresamoulthrop@ubmail.ubalt.edu This essay reveals key plot details of the graphic novel Watchmen and the film based upon it. On March 6, 2009, Warner Brothers released a motion picture based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s graphic novel, Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder and written for the screen by David […]
Cyborg Masochism, Homo-Fascism: Rereading Terminator 2
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David Greven (bio)Connecticut Collegedgrev@conncoll.edu Abstract As the most important and sustained cyborg narrative in Hollywood film, the Terminator films, particularly the first two, continue to demand a considerable amount of critical scrutiny. When the highly charged allegorical power of the figure of the cyborg is added to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star persona, now evolved […]
Tolerating the Intolerable, Enduring the Unendurable: Representing the Accident in Driver’s Education Films
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Jillian Smith (bio)University of North Floridajlsmith@unf.edu Abstract Driver’s Education, like all accident-prevention discourses, attempts to govern that which it cannot represent. Representing the accident reduces the multiple, complex force of its coming forth. The images of accidents shown to students in driver’s education can never be the accident that awaits them, and the accident that awaits […]
Others’ Organs: South Asian Domestic Labor and the Kidney Trade
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Kalindi Vora (bio)University of CaliforniaSan Diegokavora@ucsd.edu Abstract “Others’ Organs” explores the particular limits on the mobility of rural agriculturalist South Indians, middle class Sri Lankan women, and young Indian and Pakistani men, whose needs for jobs become entwined with the commodification of “life.” I argue that the material constraints on these workers, as well as the […]
Code-Scripting the Body: Sex and the Onto-Theology of Bioinformatics
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Steve Garlick (bio)University of Victoriasgarlick@uvic.ca Abstract It is generally acknowledged that molecular biology has been enamored with discourses of information theory and cybernetics from its earliest days. Equally common, in critical theory, is the belief that biological science has lost purchase on important dimensions of embodied life as a result. This essay suggests, however, that when […]