Category: Volume 2 – Number 3 – May 1992
Anouncements & Advertisements
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Every issue of Postmodern Culture will carry notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcments, up to 250 words, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. Send anouncements and advertisements to: pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Journal and Book Announcements: 1) _Contention_: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science 2) […]
The Pressures of Merely Sublimating
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Rei Terada Department of English University of Michigan, Ann Arbor <Rei.Terada@um.cc.umich.edu> Wilson, Rob. American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991. The American academy rediscovered the theoretical force of sublimity about fifteen years ago, mainly through three post-Freudian efforts–Thomas Weiskel’s The Romantic Sublime (1976), Harold Bloom’s “Emerson […]
Speaking in Tongues: Dead Elvis and the Greil Quest
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Linda Ray Pratt Department of English University of Nebraska-Lincoln <lpratt@unlcdc2> Marcus, Greil. Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession. New York: Doubleday, 1991. `You gotta learn how to speak in tongues.’ `I already know how,’ Elvis says. –Greil Marcus, Jungle Music the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire […]
BOOK REVIEW OF: Michel Foucault
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Mark Poster Department of History University of California at Irvine <mposter@orion.oac.uci.edu> Eribon, Didier. Michel Foucault. Trans. Betsy Wing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991. $27.95. 374 pp. Didier Eribon has written an excellent biography of Michel Foucault, one that will probably take its place as the standard for some time. Eribon has done thorough […]
BOOK REVIEW OF: Making Sex
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Meryl Altman and Keith Nightenhelser DePauw University <maltman@depauw> <k_night@depauw> Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1990. Making Sex is an ambitious investigation of Western scientific conceptions of sexual difference. A historian by profession, Laqueur locates the major conceptual divide in the late eighteenth […]
BOOK REVIEW OF: Thinking Across the American Grain
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Matthew Mancini Department of History Southwest Missouri State University <mjm225f@smsvma> Gunn, Giles. Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992. xii/272 pp. Giles Gunn has emerged as a major voice in that cacophonous semi-discipline known as American Studies. Every time the American Studies Association […]
The Text Is Dead; Long Live the Techst
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Edward M. Jennings Department of English State University of New York at Albany <emj69@albnyvms> Landow, George P. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Literary Theory and Technology. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992. [1] This is a review of George P. Landow’s book about a phenomenon almost as outlandish in a paper-based culture […]
Becoming Postmodern?
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Ursula K. Heise English Department Stanford University <uheise@leland.stanford.edu> Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds. Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1992. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth’s Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time addresses a problem that has been all too long neglected in studies of contemporary […]
BOOK REVIEW OF: Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
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Michael W. Foley Department of Politics The Catholic University of America <foley@cua> Rosenau, Pauline Marie. Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1992. On display in the New York Museum of Modern Art’s current exhibit of postmodernist drawing is a piece by Stephen Prima: 67 framed sheets, […]
The Vietnam War, Reascendant Conservatism, White Victims
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Terry Collins General College University of Minnesota <tcollins@gcmail.gen.umn.edu> Rowe, John Carlos, and Rick Berg, eds. The Vietnam War and American Culture. New York: Columbia UP, 1991. Jason, Philip K., ed. Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature. Iowa City: Iowa UP, 1991. The Bloom-D’Souza-NEA-NEH silencing of feminist and multiculturalist positions, trivialized […]
Lesbian Bodies in the Age Of (Post)Mechanical Reproduction
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Cathy Griggers Literary and Cultural Theory Carnegie Mellon University What signs mark the presence of a lesbian body? Writing the lesbian body has become more common of late, making reading it all the more difficult. Less hidden, and so more cryptic than ever, the lesbian body increasingly appears as an actual variability set […]
Postmodern Pleasure and Perversity: Scientism and Sadism
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Paul McCarthy Division of Commerce and Administration Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia I. Introduction This study traces the nature and consequences of the circulation of desire in a postmodern order of things (an order implicitly modelled on a repressed archetype of the new physics’ fluid particle flows), and it reveals a complicity between scientism, […]
Mainlining Postmodernism: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and the Art of Intervention
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Walter Kalaidjian Dept. of English St. Cloud State University <wkalaidj@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU> Midway through the Reagan era, the crossing of the Great Depression’s communal aesthetics and the contemporary avant-gardes was theorized from the conservative right as a stigma of neo-Stalinism. In “Turning Back the Clock: Art and Politics in 1984,” Hilton Kramer, the ideologue of painterly […]
Beyond The Orality/Literacy Dichotomy: James Joyce and the Pre-history of Cyberspace
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Donald F. Theall University Professor Trent University <dtheall@trentu.ca> The Gutenberg Galaxy, a book which redirected the way that artists, critics, scholars and communicators viewed the role of technological mediation in communication and expression, had its origin in Marshall McLuhan’s desire to write a book called “The Road to Finnegans Wake.” It has not been […]
“Drum and Whistle” And “Black Stems,” Two Poems from luca: Discourse on Life & Death
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Rochelle Owens Dept. of English University of Oklahoma at Norman Drum And Whistle into the vast heat of spirals because your whitish bones beating drum and whistle morning sun multiplying her fingers loosened her braids her long slow searching encased skull neck body skull neck body around roots yellow skin floating […]
Fucking (With Theory) for Money: Toward an Interrogation of Escort Prostitution
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Tessa Dora Addison and Audrey Extavasia Literary and Cultural Theory Carnegie Mellon University ta1a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Addison) wk11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Extavasia) This paper is intended as an introductory interrogation of the terrain of escort prostitution mobilizing terms from both The Telephone Book by Avital Ronell and A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. For the purposes […]
Revolting Yet Conserved: Family Noir in Blue Velvet and Terminator 2
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Fred Pfeil Center for the Humanities Oregon State University <centerfh@ccmail.orst.edu> When we think about film noir in the present, it is well to remember the categorical instability that has dogged its tracks from the moment French critics coined the term in the mid-1950s as a retrospective tag for a bunch of previously withheld American […]
Edward Schizohands: The Postmodern Gothic Body
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Russell A. Potter Dept. of English Colby College <rapotter@colby.edu> A schizophrenic out for a walk is a better model than a neurotic lying on the analyst’s couch. A breath of fresh air, a relationship with the outside world . . . while taking a stroll outdoors . . . he is in the mountains, […]