Category: Volume 8 – Number 3 – May 1998
Notices
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Every issue of Postmodern Culture carries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. Publication Announcements Year Zero One Forum, […]
The Cosmic Internet
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Arkady Plotnitsky Literature Program Duke University aplotnit@acpub.duke.edu Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos.New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Lee Smolin’s The Life of the Cosmos (hereafter LC) offers its readers ideas, scientific and philosophical, and a vision (based on these ideas) of a possible future physics. These ideas and this vision stem from […]
Hybrid Bound
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Scott Michaelsen Department of English Michigan State University smichael@pilot.msu.edu José David Saldívar, Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies.Berkeley: U of California P, 1997. It was not colorless, nor was it of any one uniform color–presenting to the eye, as it flowed, every possible shade of purple, like the hues of a changeable silk… […]
Culture on Vacation
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Mark Goble Department of English Stanford University m.goble@leland.stanford.edu James Clifford’s Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997. Why is it not surprising that the Oxford English Dictionary locates the word “vacationer” as a term used chiefly in the United States? Across the whole complicated spectrum of U.S. […]
Too Far In to Be “Out”
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Thomas Lavazzi Department of Humanities/English Savannah State University lavazzit@tigerpaw.ssc.peachnet.edu Mark Russell, ed. Out of Character: Rants, Raves, and Monologues from Today’s Top Performance Artists.New York: Bantam, 1997. Out of Character anthologizes the work of thirty-one contemporary performance artists in ten times as many pages, from high poptech artists like Laurie Anderson and big-ticket […]
Eve, Not Edie: The Queering of Andy Warhol
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Christopher Sieving Department of Communication Arts University of Wisconsin at Madison csieving@students.wisc.edu Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, and José Esteban Muñoz, eds., Pop Out: Queer Warhol. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996. In a year that marks the eleventh anniversary of his death, Andy Warhol–artist, filmmaker, icon–continues as a cultural force to be reckoned […]
“Note on My Writing”: Poetics as Exegesis
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Nicky Marsh Department of English University of Southampton, UK ebpd0@central.susx.ac.uk Susan Howe, Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979. New York: New Directions, 1996. and Leslie Scalapino, Green and Black: Selected Writings.Jersey City: Talisman, 1996. Frame Structures and Green and Black are single-author collections written by two poets associated with the Language movement in American […]
Postmodern Spacings
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Mark Nunes et al. Department of English DeKalb College mnunes@dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu In February of 1997, a dozen individuals began working on a collaborative on-line project entitled “Postmodern Spacings.” We came from various academic and professional fields in North America, Europe, and Australia. Our only initial “guiding principle” was that we were to discuss a […]
Welcome to Basementwood: Computer Generated Special Effects and Wired Magazine
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Michele Pierson Department of English and Cultural Studies University of Melbourne m.pierson@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au The November 1997 issue of Wired magazine featured a special report on the future of Hollywood filmmaking (“Hollywood 2.0 Special Report: The People Who Are Reinventing Entertainment”). In the Hollywood of the future there will be no film. Theatres will not be […]
Ekphrasis, Escape, and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
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Stefan Mattessich Literature Board University of California, Santa Cruz hamglik@sirius.com Remedios Varo, “Bordando el Manto Terrestre,” 1961. Reprinted by permission.1 Always follow the rhizome by rupture; lengthen, prolong, and relay the line of flight; make it vary, until you have produced the most abstract and tortuous of lines…. –Deleuze and Guattari, A […]
Sylvia Plath, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Aesthetics of Pathos
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Scott DeShong Department of English Quinebaug Valley Community-Technical College spdes@conncoll.edu In the following essay, I will read certain poems by Sylvia Plath to demonstrate a way of reading that derives from the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. According to Levinas, ethics requires one to face others in such a way that the incommensurable weight of […]
On the Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life: Gilles Deleuze and the Literary Clinic
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Gregg Lambert Department of English and Textual Studies Syracuse University glambert@syr.edu One day, perhaps, there will no longer be any such thing as Art, only Medicine. –Le Clézio Introduction to the Literary Clinic The title of this essay recalls an earlier question from Nietszche’s famous “On the Uses and Abuses of […]
Ordering the New World: Violence and its Re/Presentation in the Gulf War and Beyond
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Simon Chesterman Magdalen College–Oxford University simon.chesterman@magdalen.oxford.ac.uk Overture: The Gulf War Did Not Take Place Since this war was won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like had it existed. We will never know what an Iraqi taking part with a chance of fighting would have been like. We will […]