Category: Volume 19 – Number 2 – January 2009
The Dream of Writing (review)
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Peter Schwenger (bio)University of Western Ontariopschweng@uwo.ca Herschel Farbman, The Other Night: Dream, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature. New York: Fordham UP, 2008. A profoundly “other” concept of writing is unfolded in Herschel Farbman’s The Other Night–other than the commonly accepted notions of writing, and other than the subject from which writing is presumed to […]
Cinema After Deleuze After 9/11 (review)
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Richard Rushton (bio)Lancaster Universityr.rushton@lancaster.ac.uk David Martin-Jones, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts. 2006. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity is an ambitious attempt to bring together the writings of Gilles Deleuze and discourses on national cinemas. In arguing that some of Deleuze’s concepts can be relevant to […]
Anthological and Archaeological Approaches to Digital Media: A Review of Electronic Literature and Prehistoric Digital Poetry (review)
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Stephanie Boluk (bio)University of Floridasboluk@ufl.edu N. Katherine Hayles. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008; and Chris Funkhouser, Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. N. Katherine Hayles’s Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary and C.T. Funkhouser’s Prehistoric Digital […]
“God Knows, Few of Us Are Strangers to Moral Ambiguity”: Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice (review)
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Bernard Duyfhuizen (bio)University of Wisconsin-Eau Clairepnotesbd@uwec.edu Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice. New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. With his seventh novel, Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon brings his readers back to late 1960s California for the third time—though the story is set in 1970. As with The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Vineland (1990), Pynchon is […]
Performing Politics: (review)
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Phillip Novak (bio)Le Moyne CollegeNovakPP@lemoyne.edu Jennifer Fay, Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany. UP of Minnesota, 2008. The usual approach to writing about film culture in postwar Germany is to restrict the discussion to films made by Germans, in order, as Jennifer Fay puts it in the introduction to Theaters of […]
A Brief Reply to Kalindi Vora’s “Others’ Organs: South Asian Domestic Labor and the Kidney Trade”
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Neil Larsen (bio)University of California at Davisnalarsen@ucdavis.edu Basing itself largely on an emergent body of ethnography concerning the contemporary traffic in human organs, and especially on the buying and selling of human kidneys in South Asia, Kalindi Vora’s “Others’ Organs: South Asian Domestic Labor and the Kidney Trade” can certainly lay claim to a considerable […]
New Media Critical Homologies
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Brian Lennon (bio)Pennsylvania State Universityblennon@psu.edu Abstract New media studies, we might say, has discovered temporality. After fifteen years in which its cultural dominant was presentist prognostication, even a kind of bullying, the field has folded on itself with such new guiding concepts as the “residuality,” the “deep time” or “prehistory,” and the “forensic imagination” of a […]
Irreducible Vagueness: Mixed Worlding in Diller & Scofidio’s Blur Building
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Ulrik Ekman (bio)University of Copenhagenekman@hum.ku.dk Abstract This article argues that Blur Building, Diller & Scofidio’s architectural project for the Swiss Expo 2002, demonstrated performatively and interactively how contemporary worldmaking involves cultural and technological invention and construction both, implying our cultural co-evolution with ubiquitous computing and media such that “worlding” must today be approached and approximated as […]
Unknowing Susan Sontag’s Regarding: Recutting with Georges Bataille
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Louis Kaplan (bio)University of Torontolouis.kaplan@utoronto.ca Abstract This essay reviews and challenges Susan Sontag’s use and abuse of Georges Bataille in her last book, Regarding the Pain of Others. Sontag takes up Bataille’s understanding of and fascination with a group of Chinese torture (or lingchi) photographs from the beginning of the twentieth century. Her somber reading glosses […]
The Well and the Web: Phantoms of Community and the Mediatic Public Sphere
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John Culbert (bio)University of California at Irvinejohnculbert@lycos.com Abstract “The Well and the Web” examines a number of media watershed events in which the sense of community in crisis, threatened by new technologies of communication, is expressed in sensationalistic dramas of young lives in mortal danger. From the advent of live TV news to the rise of […]
Notes on Contributors
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Stephanie Boluk is a Ph.D. student in English Literature at the University of Florida. She is currently writing her dissertation on seriality while working as an editor for the open access journal Imagetext. She has written essays and reviews for The Journal of Visual Culture, New Media and Society, and the proceedings of the 2009 […]