Category: Volume 8 – Number 1 – September 1997
Selected Letters from Readers
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The following responses were submitted by PMC readers using regular e-mail or the PMC Reader’s Report form. Not all letters received are published, and published letters may have been edited. Editors’ Note As promised in the last issue, this instalment of Letters contains a selection from the electronic mail we received in […]
Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Poetics of www.poets.org and wings.buffalo.edu/epc
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David Caplan Department of English University of Virginia dmc8u@virginia.edu The Academy of American Poets’ Web site and the Electronic Poetry Center “Friends?” If, as Blake would have us believe, opposition is true friendship, then some antagonists certainly hide their affection better than others. Consider how the Academy of American Poets introduces itself […]
CrossConnections: Literary Cultures in Cyberspace
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Rena Potok English Department University of Pennsylvania rnpotok@sas.upenn.edu On-line literary and university reviews. Search the Web for on-line creative writing, and you will find a burgeoning number of electronic literary reviews, or literary zines, ranging from the downright tacky and macabre to high quality poetry and fiction. Whatever their level of literary merit, […]
Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces
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Stefan Mattessich University of San Francisco hamglik@sirius.com Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997. We ought to have topographers… –Montaigne I, 31 If we are to believe Montaigne, what is near masks a foreignness. –Michel de Certeau1 Where am I? –Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon […]
From Freaks to Goddesses
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Charles D. Martin Department of English Florida State University cmartin@mailer.fsu.edu Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. In the last two decades, much critical attention has been focused upon the cultural importance of the sideshow freak, emphasizing the effect of the […]
Tuned In
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Matthew Roberson Department of English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee matthewr@csd.uwm.edu Larry McCaffery, Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. For two decades few critics have done more than Larry McCaffery to map the terrain of contemporary American fiction. His book The Metafictional Muse (1982) was one of […]
Renegotiating Culture and Society in a Global Context
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Stacy Takacs Department of English Indiana University stakacs@indiana.edu Anthony King, ed. Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci is credited with offering the first full-fledged analysis of Fordism as both an economic and a cultural system. His major […]
Structuralism’s Fortunate Fall
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David Herman Department of English North Carolina State University dherman@unity.ncsu.edu François Dosse, History of Structuralism, Vols. I (The Rising Sign, 1945-1966) and II (The Sign Sets, 1967-Present). Translated by Deborah Glassman. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1997. Believe it or not, this two-volume, 975-page history of French structuralism, originally published in French […]
First Communion, There Was a Time, Summer Questions, and Stars of Desire
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Cory Brown Ithaca College cbrown@ithaca.edu First Communion Another guest has departed and we are left with the backdrop of another day, left to carry out the remains of July. One or two days strung out before the clouds clear and we can begin to see the sun again in a new light; cicadas’ buzzes […]
A Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce
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Greg Ulmer Department of English University of Florida gulmer@english.ufl.edu Michael Joyce is well known as a theorist, teacher, and creator of hypertext fiction. His most recent composition, authored in StorySpace for presentation on the World Wide Web, may be found at http://www.eastgate.com/TwelveBlue. Twelve Blue thus demonstrates the strengths (but also some of the limitations) […]
Reality for Cybernauts
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Sergio Sismondo Department of Philosophy Queen’s University sismondo@post.queensu.ca Introduction: virtual reality as a metaphysical laboratory Virtual reality (VR) is a wonderfully successful misnomer. To the extent that VR is reality, there is little virtual about it. I should qualify those claims right away: virtual reality is virtual in the derivative sense in […]
Cyberbeing and ~space
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Alec McHoul School of Humanities Murdoch University mchoul@central.murdoch.edu.au Shipwreck in Cyberspace © 1997 John Richardson & Peter Stuart, used by permission Does cyberculture–along with its new forms of equipment and, consequently, its new modes of relating to equipment–constitute a distinct and different way of being in the world from ordinary everydayness? In […]
Notes on Mutopia
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Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Science Fiction Studies DePauw University icronay@depauw.edu Mutopia People move. We become refugees from violence, and exploitation, and poverty, and boredom. This has happened before. But before, we believed we would settle, or resettle, or die trying. Now we go around and around. We no longer believe there is settlement. Painful for […]
Charting the “Black Atlantic”
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Ian Baucom Department of English Duke University ibaucom@acpub.duke.edu The Sea is History Verandahs, where the pages of the sea are a book left open by an absent master in the middle of another life– I begin here again, begin until this ocean’s a shut book…. –Derek Walcott Whatever else it is, this is […]