Category: Volume 27 – Number 3 – May 2017
Notes on Contributors
October 15, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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G Douglas BarrettG Douglas Barrett is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Salisbury University. He has enjoyed lives past and present as an artist, composer, writer, and tech worker. He has published in Mosaic, Tacet, and Contemporary Music Review and is the author of After Sound: Toward a Critical Music (Bloomsbury, 2016). The current article […]
Information Politics
October 15, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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David Parry (bio)Saint Joseph’s University As review of Jordan, Tim. Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society. Pluto Press, 2015. You can order the hardback of Tim Jordan’s Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society from Amazon.com for $60.19, or you can pay $21.98 for the paperback. That the two versions […]
Paradigm for a Romantic Metaphorology
October 15, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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Dorin Smith (bio)Brown A review of Weatherby, Leif. Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx. Fordham UP, 2016. The place of critique has, perhaps, been in question for too long; not that it was wrong to critique critique but that the activity has exhausted itself. While publications on the topic mount and […]
Reviving Formalism in the 21st Century
October 15, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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Herman Rapaport (bio)Wake Forest University A review of Eyers, Tom. Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present. Northwestern UP, 2017. Some ninety years ago, C.D. Broad argues in “Critical and Speculative Philosophy” that “the discursive form of cognition by means of general concepts” can never “be completely adequate to the concrete Reality which it […]
Recycling Apocalypse
October 15, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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Peter Paik (bio)Yonsei University A review of Hicks, Heather. The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Modernity Beyond Salvage. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Post-apocalyptic fiction has become arguably the defining genre of the contemporary period. A search on WorldCat reveals that Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake (2003) — which depicts the near-total extinction of the […]
Individuals Interpellable and Uninterpellable: Reflections on James R. Martel’s The Misinterpellated Subject
October 8, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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Warren Montag (bio)Occidental College A review of Martel, James R. The Misinterpellated Subject. Duke UP, 2017. James R. Martel’s The Misinterpellated Subject is a work of great interest, and not simply for those seeking to apply Althusser’s theory of interpellation beyond its sphere of origin. For those of us who, more cautiously (perhaps too cautiously), […]
Dying of Laughter?
October 8, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús (bio)University of Southern California A review of Bradatan, Costica. Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers. Bloomsbury, 2015. What kind of book is Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers? Although in Costica Bradatan characterizes his book its opening pages as “an exercise in an as yet uncharted […]
The Brain at Work: Cognitive Labor and the Posthuman Brain in Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer
October 8, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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G Douglas Barrett (bio)Salisbury University Abstract This essay examines cognitive labor and the posthuman brain in composer Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer (1965). Alongside a discussion of the historical relationships between cybernetics, posthumanism, and political economy, it contextualizes Lucier’s neurofeedback experiments in light of the expansion of the military-industrial complex and the large-scale labor […]
Extreme Hoards: Race, Reality Television & Real Estate Value During the 2008 Financial Crisis
September 30, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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Michelle Chihara (bio)Whittier College Two hit reality television shows, just before 2008 and in the foreclosure crisis just after, disciplined particular economic subjects and naturalized historically specific immanent power structures. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition re-imagined the leveraged construction of massive houses in the exurbs. Its sentimentality and its reliance on ethnic minorities dove-tailed with the […]
Between Empathy and Imagination: New Photographic Experiments in Memorial Aesthetics in Too Hard to Keep and The Birmingham Project
September 30, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 3, May 2017 |
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Alexander Hirsch (bio)University of Alaska Fairbanks The artist Jason Lazarus collects and displays photographs deemed “too hard to keep.” This essay contrasts Lazarus’s exhibitions with Dawoud Bey’s Birmingham Project, which commemorates the 1963 bombing of a Baptist Church in Alabama by exhibiting photographs of present-day residents of Birmingham. What contributions do these photo projects make […]