Category: Volume 21 – Number 2 – January 2011
De Man Today: Unreassuring Help
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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Christopher D. Morris (bio)Norwich Universitycmorris@norwich.edu A review of Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, and J. Hillis Miller, Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin. With a manuscript by Paul de Man. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Print. The contributors to this volume, which includes a facsimile and transcription of Paul de […]
Junk Culture and the Post-Genomic Age
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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Allison Carruth (bio)Stanford University and University of Oregonacarruth@uoregon.edu Review of Thierry Bardini, Junkware. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2011. Print. In the spring of 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published a series of papers in Nature that led them to claim that DNA is “the molecular basis of the template needed for genetic […]
Technology Talks Back: On Communication, Contemporary Art, and the New Museum Exhibition
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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Ioana Literat (bio)University of Southern Californiailiterat@usc.edu A review of Talk to Me, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), July 24th to November 7th. Talk to Me, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, is a paradigmatic collection of new media artistic experiments and an open experimental […]
How To Be a Theory Dinosaur
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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Jordan Alexander Stein (bio)University of Colorado at Boulderjordan.a.stein@colorado.edu Since the 1990s, internet surfers have enjoyed a proliferation of online serial comics. Though similar in design to many print comics, webcomics are distinguished by their accessibility, as they are effectively free and updated regularly (often daily). As of 2007, the number of webcomics in production […]
Material Deviance: Theorizing Queer Objecthood
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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Scott Herring (bio)Indiana University, Bloomingtontsherrin@indiana.edu Abstract Using the cable television show Hoarders as its primary case study, this essay offers a theory of “material deviance” that fuses a primary interest of material culture studies—the social status of objects—with a central concern of queer studies—the roles that deviance and normalization play in social management. Placing these two […]
Under the Bus: A Rhetorical Reading of Barack Obama’s “More Perfect Union”
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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Laura Jones (bio)Louisiana State Universityljone82@lsu.edu Abstract Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech, delivered during the 2008 presidential campaign in response to controversy surrounding Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, responds to a split and often conflicting need both to reassure voters and to challenge conventional notions of identity. In doing so, the language of the speech simultaneously […]
Hospitality of the Mouth and the Homophonic Kiss: David Melnick’s Men in Aïda
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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Sean Reynolds (bio)SUNY Buffalostr8@buffalo.edu Abstract This essay explores the erotic and “perverse” undercurrents of homophonic translation by looking at David Melnick’s 1983 Men in Aida, a strict homophone of Homer’s Iliad into English. In order to build a foundational vocabulary for the homophonic as a translation, this essay turns to Walter Benjamin”s “The Task of […]
Listening to Nothing in Particular: Boredom and Contemporary Experimental Music
September 3, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 21, Number 2, January 2011 |
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eldritch Priest (bio)outremonk@gmail.com Abstract “Listening to Nothing in Particular” examines contemporary boredom through the lens of recent experimental composition. While boredom is typically treated in the arts as a conceit of transcendence or radical indifference, this essay argues that the mood in contemporary post-Cagean compositional practices articulate a much more ambivalent feeling of being unjustified, […]