Category: Volume 4 – Number 1 – September 1993
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Selected Letters From Readers
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Paul Miers Department of English Towson State University e7e4mie@toe.towson.edu RE: Kip Canfield’s essay, “ The Microstructure of Logocentricism: Sign Models in Derrida and Smolensky,” in PMC v.3 n.3. A reply by Paul Miers, Department of English, Towson State University. Connectionism and Its Consequences Kip Canfield’s article in the last issue of Postmodern […]
The Sound of the Avant-Garde
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Timothy D. Taylor Music Department Denison University taylort@cc.denison.edu Kahn, Douglas, and Gregory Whitehead, eds. The Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. Co-editors Kahn and White describe their purpose in The Wireless Imagination as an attempt to compile a collection of “first utterances” rather than a Last Word on […]
Idioculture: De-Massifying the Popular Music Audience
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Marc Perlman Department of Music Tufts University perlman@pearl.tufts.edu Crafts, Susan D., Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil and the Music in Daily Life Project. My Music. Foreword by George Lipsitz. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1993. Cultural Studies frequently constructs popular music as a particularly disruptive sort of object, […]
Fear Of Music
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Andrew Herman Department of Sociology Drake University ah7301r@acad.drake.edu Goodwin, Andrew. Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Televison and Popular Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. I. Fear of Music: Postmodernism and Music Television The first time I heard the terms “postmodernism” and “the postmodern” was at the “Marxism and Interpretation of […]
Postmodernist Purity
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John McGowan Department of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jpm@unc.bitnet Owens, Craig. Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture. Ed. Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Craig Owens was a critic/theorist of contemporary art, best known for his essays in October and Art […]
Practice, Politique, Postmodernism
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J.L. Lemke Sociology Department City University of New York jllbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu Bourdieu, Pierre and Lois J.D. Wacquant. An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. I. The Text Invitation to Reflexive Sociology is a book that is not quite a text. Tiles in a genre mosaic abut one another: Fantasy […]
Postmodern Communities: The Politics of Oscillation
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Heesok Chang Department of English Vassar College hechang@vaxsar.vassar.edu Vattimo, Gianni. The Transparent Society. Trans. David Webb. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Agamben, Giorgio. The Coming Community. Trans. Michael Hardt. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. I. Philosophical Homelessness Readers of the young Georg Lukacs may recall this memorable citation from […]
‘Imagining The Unimaginable’: J.M. Coetzee, History, and Autobiography
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Rita Barnard English Department University of Pennsylvania rbarnard@mail.sas.upenn.edu Attwell, David. J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Perspectives on South Africa 48. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. Coetzee, J.M. Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews. Ed. David Attwell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. David Attwell’s important […]
Authorizing Memory, Remembering Authority
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Mark Fenster Department of Telecommunications Indiana University fenster@silver.ucs.indiana.edu Schudson, Michael. Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. New York: Basic Books, 1992. Zelizer, Barbie. Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1992. “Best Evidence is […]
If I Only Had a Brain
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Steven Shaviro Department of English University of Washington shaviro@u.washington.edu Burroughs writes: “in this life we have to take things as we find them as the torso murderer said when he discovered his victim was a quadruple amputee.” Good advice for the anatomically deranged, like Cliff Steele. He’s a character in the DC/Vertigo comic book […]
Dynamic and Thermodynamic Tropes of the Subject in Freud and in Deleuze and Guattari
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Martin Rosenberg Visiting Assistant Professor Department of English Texas A&M University mer1911@tamvm1.tamu.edu [O]rators and others who are in variance are mutually experiencing something that is bound to befall those who engage in senseless rivalry: believing that they are expressing opposite views, they fail to perceive that the theory of the opposite party is inherent […]
That Was Then: This Is Now: Ex-Changing the Phallus
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Lynda Hart Department of English The University of Pennsylvania In A Taste for Pain, Maria Marcus recounts an anecdote about a women’s studies conference in 1972. Germaine Greer, the keynote speaker, was interrupted by a young woman from the audience who suddenly cried out: “But how can we start a women’s movement when I […]
“Another Autumn Refrain” and “Two Thirds of a Second at the Center of the Universe”
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George Bradley Another Autumn Refrain He kept trying to get it right, trying to catch That wisp of melody, that snatch of sound, listening And trying, like a man playing music, practicing scales; He kept trying to remember, though it would not come, About the leaves and the ghosts hung in […]
Mapplethorpe’s Art: Playing with the Byronic Postmodern
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Elizabeth Fay Department of English University of Massachusetts at Boston EFAY@UMBSKY.CC.UMB.EDU The term “the Byronic postmodern” is coined here specifically for the purpose of uncovering and exploring a congruency in the works of those artists invested in some aspect of the Byronic hero. The Byronic, which was both encoded by Byron and beyond his […]
A Schizoanalytic Reading of Baudelaire: The Modernist as Postmodernist
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Eugene W. Holland Department of French Language and Literature The Ohio State University eugeneh@humanities1.cohums.ohio-state.edu Whether Deleuze and Guattari were actually “doing philosophy” in the Anti-Oedipus or not, their last collaborative work Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?) may shed some light on the status of the concepts operating in that early work.1 Unlike scientific concepts, which […]
On The Bull’s Horn with Peter Handke: Debates, Failures, Essays, and a Postmodern Livre de Moi
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Stephanie Hammer Department of Literature and Languages University of California, Riverside HAMM@ucrac2.ucr.edu The time is past when we can plant ourselves in front of a Vernet and sigh along with Diderot, “How beautiful, grand, varied, noble, wise, harmonious, rigorously colored this is!” (Lyotard, “Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity”) What a wise and […]
“It Dread Inna Inglan”: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity
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Peter Hitchcock Department of English Baruch College, CUNY Postmodern Culture Version1 it is noh mistri wi mekkin histri it is noh mistri wi winnin victri (“Mekkin Histri” LKJ) “The trouble with the English is that their history happened overseas, so they don’t know what it means” (The Satanic Verses, Salman […]