Category: Volume 3 – Number 3 – May 1993
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) _A Postmodern Reader_ 2) _Black Ice Books_ 3) _Black Sacred Music_ 4) […]
Women and Islam
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Lahoucine Ouzgane Dept. of English University of Alberta LOUZGANE@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1992. Pp. viii + 296. Cloth, $30.00 Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam centers on the conditions and lives of women in Middle Eastern […]
Cyfy Pomo?
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Eric Rabkin Dept. of English University of Michigan esrabkin@umich.edu Ketterer, David. Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Indiana University Press, 1992. ix + 206 pp. $27.50 cloth. McCaffery, Larry, ed. Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction. Duke University Press, 1991. xvii + 387 pp. $17.95 paper. . . […]
Risk and the New Modernity
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Simon Carter MRC Medical Sociology Unit Glasgow, United Kingdom isb002@lancaster.ac.uk Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage, 1992. At 0123 hours (Soviet European Time) on Saturday 26 of April 1986, reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded, rupturing the reaction vessel and causing major structural damage to […]
Playing With Clothes
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Debra Silverman Dept. of English University of Southern California dsilverm@scf.usc.edu Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge, 1992. In March, the women’s NCAA basketball championship was played in Atlanta, Georgia, and for the first time in many years the event was sold out. The sell-out warranted a lot of […]
Women and Television
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Leslie Regan Shade Graduate Program in Communications McGill University shade@Ice.CC.McGill.CA Spigel, Lynn. Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1992. Spigel, Lynn, and Denise Mann, eds. Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1992. In the past […]
Theorizing the Culture Wars
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J. Russell Perkin Department of English, Saint Mary’s University Halifax, N.S., Canada rperkin@science.stmarys.ca Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. Graff, Gerald. Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education. New York: Norton, 1992. Spanos, William V. The […]
Comrade Gramsci’s Progeny
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Tim Watson Columbia University tw22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks. Volume 1. Ed. Joseph Buttigieg. Trans. Buttigieg and Antonio Callari. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Harris, David. From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure: The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 1992. Holub, Renate. Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism […]
Can You Go Home Again? A Budapest Diary 1993
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Susan Suleiman Dept. of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature Harvard University Introductory Note: The excerpts that follow are from a diary I have been keeping since early February [1993], when I began a six- month residency at the Collegium Budapest, a new Institute for Advanced Study modeled on those in Berlin and Princeton. […]
The Microstructure of Logocentrism: Sign Models in Derrida and Smolensky
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Kip Canfield Dept. of Information Systems University of Maryland canfield@icarus.ifsm.umbc.edu I. On (Pure) Rhetoric Peirce (Buchler 99) says that the task of pure rhetoric is “to ascertain the laws by which, in every scientific intelligence, one sign gives birth to another, and especially one thought brings forth another.” Sign models are metaphors that evolve […]
Reading Beyond Meaning
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George Aichele Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, Adrian College 470-5237@mcimail.com The Theology of the Text [T]here will never be . . . any theology of the Text. (Derrida, Dissemination 258) If the text is an instance of what Jacques Derrida calls “differance,” the ineffable writing, then there can be no theology of […]
XL (Letters on Xenakis)
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Nathaniel Bobbitt Introduction and References Xenakis remains a musical figure whose methods have literary implications. To consider the personality of Xenakis, a musical and architectural thinker, becomes a means to extend literary tasks in favor of physical and sensory aspects of experience, behavior, and prerformance. Xenakis stands as a reference point on how to work […]
Talking and Thinking: David Antin in Conversation with Hazel Smith and Roger Dean
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Hazel Smith and Roger Dean H.Smith@unsw.edu.au David Antin is a “talk poet” who gives provocative talks which combine the genres of lecture, stand up comedy, story-telling and poetry. They juxtapose anecdote with poetic metaphor, philosophical and political debate with satirical comment. The talks are improvised, that is they are created during the performance and […]
“It Meant I Loved”: Louise Gluck’s Ararat
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Eric Selinger Dept. of English University of California at Los Angeles eselinger@aol.com Thanatos undercuts, overrides Eros, his sweet, belated sibling–so says Freud.1 And in Revolution in Poetic Language, her closely argued brief against paranoid Unity and culture as theology, Julia Kristeva more than agrees. Like the Accusing Angel that she calls “the text,” Kristeva […]
Marxist Pleasure: Jameson and Eagleton
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Steven Helmling Department of English University of Delaware As reading matter, contemporary Marxist criticism is pretty heavy going. First and most obviously because it inherits a long, rich and adventurous tradition not only of political and sociological but also of philosophical argument–the breadth of Marx’s own interests insured that: he aimed, and so have […]
The Excremental Sublime: The Postmodern Literature of Blockage and Release
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Roberto Maria Dainotto Dept. of Comparative Literature New York University DAINOTTR@acfcluster.nyu.edu Once a famous Hellenic philosopher, [Aesop’s] master in the dark days of his enslaved youth, had asked him why it was, when we shat, we so often turned around to examine our own turds, and he’d told that great sage the story […]