Category: Volume 6 – Number 2 – January 1996
Rewiring the Culture
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Brian Evenson Department of English Oklahoma State University evenson@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu Marcus, Ben. The Age of Wire and String. New York: Knopf, 1995. Pierre Klossowski, in Sade, My Neighbor, offers two statements that might serve to introduce the startling, and often transgressive, vignettes of Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String. The first […]
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll?
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Jeff Schwartz American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University jeffs@bgsuvax.bgsu.edu Simon Reynolds and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock ‘n’ Roll.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995. The Sex Revolts, which appeared this past spring from Harvard University Press, is unquestionably a major publication in the field of popular music studies. […]
The First Amendment in an Age of Electronic Reproduction
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Daniel Barbiero barbiero@enigma.com Ronald K.L. Collins and David Skover. The Death of Discourse.Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. What, in an age of electronic mass communication, is the status of the First Amendment? Specifically, what is or should be the scope of First Amendment protection, given the seeming ubiquity electronic dissemination has afforded commercial […]
Theorizing Public/Pedagogic Space: Richard Serra’s Critique of Private Property
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Minette Estevez Hofstra University engmam@hofstra.edu Richard Serra. Writings/Interviews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. If artifacts do not accord with the consumerist ideology, if they do not submit to exploitation and marketing strategies, they are threatened or committed to oblivion. — Richard Serra Writings/Interviews, a collection which spans the 60’s […]
Biding Spectacular Time
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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A.H.S. Boy spud@nothingness.org “Guy Debord.” The Society of the Spectacle.trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1994. Numbers between brackets refer to numbered theses in the book. For decades, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle was only available in English in a so-called “pirate” edition published by Black & Red, and […]
Lacan Looks at Hill and Hears His Name Spoken: An Interpretive Review of Gary Hill through Lacan’s “I’s” and Gazes
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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S. Brent Plate Institute of the Liberal Arts Emory University splate@emory.edu Gary Hill. Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo. May 11 – August 20. Organized by Chris Bruce, Senior Curator, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. [D]esire, alienated, is perpetually reintegrated anew, reprojecting the Idealich outside. It is in this way that desire is […]
Radio Lessons for the Internet
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Martin Spinelli Department of English State University of New York at Buffalo martins@acsu.buffalo.edu For the first time in history, the media are making possible mass participation in a social and socialized productive process, the practical means of which are in the hands of the masses themselves. Such a use of them would bring the […]
“Early Spring” and “Equinox”
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Cory Brown Ithaca College cbrown@ithaca.edu Early Spring It is early evening of a spring late, very late in coming–so late, in mid-April the deep crescents and parabolas of snow in the yard, resisting even an imperceptible slide down the subtle slopes on a chilly gray evening, seem something new grass may simply latch […]
Hyper in 20th Century Culture: The Dialectics of Transition From Modernism to Postmodernism*
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Michael Epstein January 1994, Atlanta Emory University russmne@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu 1. The Modernist Premises of Postmodernism The first half of the 20th century evolved under the banner of numerous revolutions, such as the “social,” “cultural” and “sexual,” and revolutionary changes in physics, psychology, biology, philosophy, literature and the arts. In Russia, momentous changes took place […]
Deleuze, Sense and the Event of AIDS
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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C. Colwell Villanova University ccolwell@ucis.vill.edu . . . and the moral of that is — “Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.” –the Duchess.1 AIDS, like cancer, syphilis, cholera, leprosy and bubonic plague before it, has woven the threads of our biological, social and moral existence […]
“God has No Allergies”: Immanent Ethics and the Simulacra of the Immune System
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Adrian Mackenzie Sydney University adrian.mackenzie@philosophy.su.edu.au “[T]he science of life always accommodates a philosophy of life.”1 Conventional approaches to bioethics long for a purified set of principles in order to guide the application of scientific knowledges of the body — the life sciences — to individual “cases.” In the realm of bioethics, the possibility […]
Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Barbara Page Vassar College page@vassar.edu It was while reading my way into a number of recent fictions composed in hypertext that I began to think back on a tendency of women’s writing which aims not only at changing the themes of fiction but at altering the formal structure of the text itsel f. In […]
“The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare”
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 2, January 1996 |
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Paul Mann Department of English Pomona College pmann@pomona.claremont.edu Prediction (1994): We are about to witness a rise of “war studies” in the humanities. On your next plane trip the person beside you dozing over a copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of War might not be a corporate CEO but a professor of philosophy. […]