Category: Volume 5 – Number 2 – January 1995
A Turn Toward The Past
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Jon Thompson Department of English North Carolina State University jthompson@unity.ncsu.edu Forché, Carolyn. The Angel of History. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. The title of Carolyn Forché’s newest volume of poetry comes from a famous passage of Walter Benjamin’s essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” in which Benjamin considers history’s power to […]
Mapping the Dematerialized: Writing Postmodern Performance Theory
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Matthew Causey Department of Literature, Communication and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology matthew.causey@lcc.gatech.edu Kaye, Nick. Postmodernism and Performance. London: Macmillan, 1994. In Postmodernism and Performance, a title in the New Directions in Theatre series from Macmillan, author Nick Kaye questions the possibility of attaining an adequate definition of the postmodern performance. If the […]
The Desire Called Jameson
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Steven Helmling Department of English University of Delaware helmling@brahms.udel.edu Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xviii + 214 pages. $22.95. Fredric Jameson’s new book revisits problems treated in earlier work, with results suggested in the titles of its three chapters. The first, “The Antinomies of Postmodernism,” queries […]
The Gender of Geography
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Karen Morin Geography Department University of Nebraska-Lincoln kmorin@unlinfo.unl.edu Rose, Gillian. Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 205 pages. $44.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Geography is a notoriously male-dominated field. To cite just one recent statistic, a 1993 profile of the Association of American Geographers (the […]
A Disorder of Being: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Holocaust
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Alan G. Gross Department of Rhetoric University of Minnesota-Twin Cities agross@maroon.tc.umn.edu Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Young, James E. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Zuckerman, Yitzhak. A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of […]
Bring the Noise! William S. Burroughs and Music in the Expanded Field
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Brent Wood Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture Trent University bwood@trentu.ca Burroughs, William S. Dead City Radio. Island Records, 1990. —. Spare-Ass Annie and Other Tales. Island Records, 1993. Ministry, with William S. Burroughs. Just One Fix. Sire Records, 1992. Revolting Cocks. Beers, Steers and Queers. Waxtrax,1991. […]
Optical Allusions: Hysterical Memories and the Screening of Pregnant Sites
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Karen L. Carr English Department Colby College klcarr@colby.edu Since the seer is caught up in what he sees, it is still himself he sees: there is a fundamental narcissism of all vision. And thus, for the same reason, the vision he exercises, he also undergoes from the things, such that, as many painters […]
Evocations of Empire in A Transnational Corporate Age: Tracking the Sign of Saturn
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Dion Dennis Department of Criminal Justice, History, and Political Science Texas A&M International University diond@igc.apc.org I. Tales of Lost Glory In “American Tune,” Paul Simon gave an early if somewhat hazy voice to what is now a prolific and impassioned motif in premillennial American economic and political life. For many, “what’s gone wrong” […]
Waxing Kriger
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Jeffrey Yule Department of English Ohio State University jyule@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu After they waxed Kriger, he was supposed to stay dead. Kriger, that Kriger anyway, was a rare one. Wanted nothing to do with reconstitution. Reconstruction was okay, for light stuff. You lose an arm or some brain tissue, maybe even a whole lobe, of c […]
Images Without: Deleuzian Becoming, Science Fiction Cinema in the Eighties
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Hassan Melehy Dept. of French and Italian Vanderbilt University melehyh@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu To overturn Platonism: what philosophy has not tried? –Michel Foucault1 There are two things I would like to do in this paper: elaborate on some Deleuzian concepts and examine recent science fiction cinema from Hollywood and its periphery (Canada, Britain, and the […]
History and the Real: Foucault with Lacan
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Charles Shepherdson Department of English University of Missouri at Columbia The entrance into world by beings is primal history [Urgeschichte] pure and simple. From this primal history a region of problems must be developed which we today are beginning to approach with greater clarity, the region of the mythic. –Heidegger, The Metaphysical […]
Two Paintings
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Hank De Leo Get Change oil on linen, 31 3/4 x 48″, 1993 Collection of Drs. Marc and Livia Straus The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own oil on linen, 30 3/4 x 37″, 1993 Collection of the artist
The Uncanny Style of Kristeva’s Critique of Nationalism
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Ewa Ziarek Department of English University of Notre Dame Krzysztof.Ziarek.2@nd.edu Once again, politics must be conceived as a relationship of strangers who do not understand one another in a subjective and immediate sense, relating across time and distance. –Iris Marion Young A paradoxical community is emerging, made up of foreigners who […]
Re-: Re-flecting, Re-membering, Re-collecting, Re-selecting, Re-warding, Re-wording, Re-iterating, Re-et-cetra-ing,…(in) Hegel
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Arkady Plotnitsky Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Vanderbilt University Hegel’s philosophy and its impact can be mapped in a variety of ways, and they resist any unique or definitive mapping. One could argue, however, that the jucture of three concepts–consciousness, history, and economy–persists across, if not defines, Hegel’s work. Adam Smith’s political […]
Ugly Beauty: John Zorn and the Politics of Postmodern Music
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Kevin McNeilly Department of English University of British Columbia mcneilly@unixg.ubc.ca I wish to look at a particular postmodern achievement, the music of composer John Zorn, in order to assess both the nature of a political praxis and to “define” the postmodern pragmatically, in the practice of art rather than only in theory. Zorn’s music […]