Category: Volume 7 – Number 1 – September 1996
Selected Letters from Readers
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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PMC Reader’s Report on Theoretical Obsolescence I enjoyed reading your post – I am an avid reader of DeLillo (tried unsuccessfully to finish Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, it seems like it’s time for another shot) – I wholeheartedly agree that DeLillo can be in no way considered a postmodernist. Postmodernism, “the corpulence, […]
Resistance in Rhyme
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Brent Wood Trent University bwood@trentu.ca Russell Potter. Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism. Albany: SUNY, 1995. Spectacular Vernaculars is the most recent book on hip-hop to appear on university library shelves, and the first to deal squarely with hip-hop as a specifically postmodern phenomenon. Did I say “phenomenon”? Russell Potter […]
Multiplicity: Una Vista de Nada
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Crystal Downing Messiah College cdowning@mcis.messiah.edu Multiplicity. Dir. Harold Ramis. Columbia Pictures, 1996. Multiplicity, a showcase containing entertaining displays of Michael Keaton’s acting range, is not a great film. The showcase itself, however, with its startling lack of depth, reflects off its slick surfaces the postmodern “transvaluation of values” that Fredric Jameson descried years […]
(Re)Presenting the Renaissance on a Post-Modern Stage
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Theresa Smalec University of Western Ontario tsmalec@julian.uwo.ca Susan Bennett, Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. To say that Susan Bennett merely extends the questions that prevalent scholarship asks about postmodern culture’s obsession with re-presenting the past is to neglect the keen conceptual shifts that her […]
Music and Noise: Marketing Hypertexts
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Thomas Swiss Drake University ts9911r@acad.drake.edu Eastgate Systems, Inc. Given that musical references are common in the critical literature about hypertext, I begin with Jacques Attali, 1 whose criticism poses a challenge not only for music and musicians but for other artists as well, including writers working in hypertextual mediums. Considering sound as a […]
Whose Opera Is This, Anyway?
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Jon Ippolito Guggenheim Museum, Soho ji@guggenheim.org Tod Machover & MIT Media Lab’s interactive Brain Opera, performed at Lincoln Center, NYC, July 23-August 3, 1996. Composer and MIT Media Lab Professor Tod Machover believes anyone can make music. At least that’s what it says on the cover of the glossy brochure for his Brain […]
“Head Out On The Highway”: Anthropological Encounters with the Supermodern
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Samuel Collins American University SCOLLIN@american.edu Marc Auge’s Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. New York: Verso, 1995. Does it matter that we spend substantial portions of our lives in a netherworld of highways, airports, supermarkets and shopping malls? Are these just liminal moments between other events and places that have more meaning […]
Confessions of a Net Surfer: Net Chick and Grrrls on the Web
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Carina Yervasi University of Michigan cly@umich.edu Carla Sinclair, Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired World. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. “An Ironic Dream of a Common Address” Not since reading Donna Haraway’s 1985 “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” have I thought so much about gender and machines, or more […]
Hypercapital
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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David Golumbia University of Pennsylvania dgolumbi@sas.upenn.edu Some of liberal democracy’s deepest convictions rest on assumptions about free (or nearly free) and complete access to information. These assumptions, tied to our dreams about liberal American democracy at least since the passage of the Bill of Rights, go something like this: more information is generally better […]
Poststructuralist Paraesthetics and the Phantasy of the Reversal of Generations
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Vadim Linetski I. What is wrong with the Oedipus complex?–The Oedipus complex and “the foundational fantasy of the ego’s era” (Brennan) These days it would certainly amount to a dare to propose that the Oedipus complex is the very core of patriarchal/logocentric discursivity. Every attempt to–consciously or unconsciously–(re)inforce Oedipus (Sprengnether […]
Saving Philosophy in Cultural Studies: The Case of Mother Wit
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Angelika Rauch Hobart and William Smith Colleges amr18@cornell.edu In an attempt to ground the metaphysical nature of humans in form, Immanuel Kant pursues the possibility of a framed image without content. He calls this postulated state or mental product “purposiveness of representation.” What he means by this is that when you are faced with […]
Guides to the Electropolis: Toward a Spectral Critique of the Media
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Allen Meek Massey University ameek@massey.ac.nz One of the most compelling sites in which the methodologies of psychoanalysis and marxian cultural theory intersect in contemporary critical writing is in the figure of the ghost. The political significance recently ascribed to this figure suggests a paradigmatic shift in cultural studies taking place where the poststructuralist death […]
Representation Represented: Foucault, Velázquez, Descartes
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Véronique M. Fóti The Pennsylvania State University In The Order of Things, René Descartes–the early Descartes of the Regulae ad Direcetionem Ingenii (1628/29)–is, for Michel Foucault, the privileged exponent of the Classical episteme of representation, as it initially defines itself over against the Renaissance episteme of similitude.1 The exemplary position accorded to Descartes (a […]
Jameson’s Lacan
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 07, Number 1, September 1996 |
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Steven Helmling University of Delaware helmling@brahms.udel.edu Fredric Jameson’s career-long engagement with Jacques Lacan begins in the pages on Lacan in The Prison-House of Language, with the declaration that Lacan’s work offers an “initiatory” experience rather than an expository account. It is in the spirit of that experiential or “dialectical” emphasis that Jameson proposes an […]