Category: Volume 9 – Number 3 – May 1999
If You Build It, They Will Come
November 30, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Brian Morris Department of English with Cultural Studies University of Melbourne b.morris@english.unimelb.edu.au John Hannigan, Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis. London: Routledge, 1998. Last year I found myself staggering down the very long sidewalk of the Las Vegas Strip in a somewhat disoriented state, an Antipodean on his first trip […]
Bibliography of Postmodernism and Critical Theory
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Poetry at the Millennium: “Open on its Forward Side”
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Richard Quinn Department of English The University of Iowa Richard-A-Quinn@uiowa.edu Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, eds. Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry. Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998. Talk-poet David Antin got it right when he argued that “it […]
Derac(e)inated Jews
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Julian Levinson Department of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University jal15@columbia.edu Karen Brodkin, How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race In America. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998. During the summer of 1986, when Hip-Hop music was just becoming a fixture in the panorama of American pop culture, I sat […]
Watching Los Angeles Burn
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Stephen Nardi Department of English Princeton University snardi@princeton.edu Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books – Henry Holt & Company, 1998. Mike Davis’s City of Quartz (1990) has been recognized as a modern classic. Davis’s analysis of the impact of an ideology of urban […]
Writing the Body: Problematizing Cultural Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminism’s Relevance
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Mahmut Mutman Department of Design and Communication Bilkent University mutman@bilkent.edu.tr Vicki Kirby, Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal. New York & London: Routledge, 1997. As the newly branded Cultural Studies makes its way into Western academia, it seems as though we have left a number of dogmas behind. A strange, hybrid blend […]
Pernicious Couplings and Living in the Splice
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Graham J. Murphy Department of English University of Alberta gjmurphy@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999. The collection of essays forming the text of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics is the most recent […]
Prophecy and the Figure of the Reader in Susan Howe’s Articulation of Sound Forms in Time
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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James McCorkle mccorkle@epix.net The work of the contemporary experimental poet Susan Howe undertakes the formation as well as retrieval of a prophetic poetics. By shifting the attention from writer to reader there is a similar shift from prophet to prophesy, from the one who prophesies to the oracle’s graphesis–its condition for reading. Howe’s […]
Textual Indigence in the Archive
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Jed Rasula Department of English Queen’s University rasulaj@post.queensu.ca The adjective “encyclopedic” is equivocal: as an enticement to comprehensiveness and mastery, it is awkwardly shadowed by its Enlightenment provenance and tainted by its association with master narratives. Yet the sort of narratives associated with encyclopedism are the very ones most insistently cited for their burlesque […]
Automating Feminism: The Case of Joanna Russ’s The Female Man
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Heather Hicks Department of English Villanova University hhicks@email.vill.edu In his historical review of various American theories of “postindustrialism,” Howard Brick makes the point that “[t]he historical reconstruction of the concept… helps to place the idea of postindustrial society in a new relation with the idea of postmodern culture. Rather than being regarded as corresponding […]
Violence and Reason on the Shoals of Vietnam
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Anthony Burke jetzone@ozemail.com.au “Tell me, pray,” said I, “who is this Mr Kurtz?” “The chief of the Inner Station,” he answered in a short tone, looking away. “He is a prodigy…. He is an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and devil knows what else. We want… for the guidance of the […]
Publicizing the President’s Privates
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999 |
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Loren Glass Center for the Humanities Oregon State University loren.glass@orst.edu For me an audience interminable. –Walt Whitman And I will make a song for the ears of the President. –Walt Whitman On Monday, August 17, 1998, a day that seemed to have gone down in history before it even arrived, […]