Category: Volume 19 – Number 3 – May 2009
Notes on Contributors
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Vicki Callahan is an Associate Professor in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She is the editor of the recent collection, Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (Wayne State University Press, 2010), and with Lina […]
Liu’s Ethics of the Database
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Vicki Callahan (bio)University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Southern Californiavacall@uwm.edu Review of: Alan Liu. Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008. Print. In many ways, one might see Alan Liu’s collection, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database, as a kind of retrospective […]
From Capital to Karma: James Cameron’s Avatar
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Ken Hillis (bio)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillkhillis@email.unc.edu James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) participates in an underacknowledged yet widespread contemporary resuscitation of Neoplatonism. In the Timaeus (c. 360 BCE), Plato introduces the concept of the demiurge: “Therefore, we may consequently state that: this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul […]
“Time is Illmatic”: A Critical Retrospective on Nas’s Groundbreaking Debut
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Alessandro Porco (bio)SUNY Buffaloasporco@buffalo.edu Review of: Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai, eds. Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2009. Print. There are indisputable watershed years in hip-hop history. 1979, of course, is the year Fatback Band and The Sugarhill Gang released rap’s first singles. In 1984, […]
Matches, in Our Time
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Patrick F. Durgin (bio)School of the Art Institute of Chicagopdurgin@saic.edu Review of: Carla Harryman, Adorno’s Noise. Ithaca, NY: Essay Press, 2008. The first of two major new works collected in Carla Harryman’s new book of “literary nonfiction,” Adorno’s Noise, begins by eliding two otherwise remote passages from Minima Moralia: “If normality is […]
Three Poems
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Grzegorz Wróblewski (bio)Translated by Agnieszka Pokojska (bio) In A Christianshavn Pub, Larsen Talks About His Undeservedly Settled Life I know what you mean, Larsen. Just like me,you are now a big fat pig stuffing yourselfwith salted peanuts and reading gossip columnsabout the Austrian Nazis who dominatethe Internet with impunity.Don’t worry, Larsen! […]
The Queer Spaces and Fluid Bodies of Nazario’s Anarcoma
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Michael Harrison (bio)Monmouth Collegemharrison@monm.edu Abstract At a time when Spanish culture was attempting to emerge from the shadow of an oppressive dictatorship, a generation of queer artists used comics to comment on the time’s significant cultural changes. This essay examines the original queer sensibility of the comic Anarcoma, by Nazario, as a symbol of the changes […]
Self-Portrait in a Context Mirror: Pain and Quotation in the Conceptual Writing of Craig Dworkin
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Paul Stephens (bio)Emory Universityps249@columbia.edu Abstract This essay explores the role of quotation in the writing of the poet-critic Craig Dworkin. Dworkin’s “Dure,” an ekphrastic prose poem concerning a Dürer self-portrait, is a complex meditation on selfhood, the representation of pain, and the nature of linguistic appropriation. “Dure” demonstrates that an appropriative, heavily quotational poetics can enact […]
Anagram, Gestalt, Game in Maya Deren: Reconfiguring the Image in Post-war Cinema
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Orit Halpern (bio)New School for Social ResearchHalpernO@newschool.edu Abstract This article examines the relationship between the film work of American Avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren and Cold-war science, particularly the sciences of Gestalt psychology, cybernetics, game theory, and anthropology. The central concern is to link Deren’s investment in time and in transforming the cinematic image with contemporaneous developments […]
Romance in the Age of Cybernetic Conviviality: Hsia Yü’s Pink Noise and the Poetics of Postcolonial Translation
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Lili Hsieh (bio)National Central University, TaiwanLili.hsieh@gmail.com Abstract In 2007, acclaimed Taiwanese postmodern poet Hsia Yü published a transparent book of bilingual poems generated mostly from weblogs (in English) and from a computer translation program (in Chinese). The book, Pink Noise (now available on Amazon), has ignited enthusiastic responses among Hsia Yü’s “lay readers” in Taiwan, but […]