POSTMODERN CULTURE

      PMC Reader’s Report on PMC 6.2   Like every other issue. People act before they think. the history of acrylic can be told in terms other than analysis: polymerization of substance is not a fictive lacquer but an immanent rechaining of actual potential. see the movie stalingrad. war indeed.   These comments […]

Mark Shadle Eastern Oregon State College mshadle@eosc.osshe.edu     Simon Schama. Landscape and Memory. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1995.   Mythology is the ghost of concrete meaning.   — Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction   Lithuanian Bison protected so they could be annihilated for “sport” by Goring as an incarnation of Tacitus’s transformed “wild man” of […]

Kelly Cresap University of Virginia kmc2f@virginia.edu     Marjorie Garber. Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.   Is it possible to conceive of bisexuality without resorting to binary logic? The very nomenclature of bisexual seems to declare faith in a certain form of dualism. Where, after […]

Anjali Arondekar Department of English University of Pennsylvania arondeka@dept.english.upenn.edu   Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest.New York: Routledge, 1995.   Strategy works through a persistent (de)constructive critique of the theoretical. “Strategy” is an embattled concept-metaphor and unlike “theory,” its antecedents are not disinterested and universal. “Usually, an artifice or […]

Joe Amato Lewis Department of Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology amato@charlie.cns.iit.edu   Jed Rasula. The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990.National Council of Teachers of English. 639 pp. ISBN 0-8141-0137-2. Hardcover $42.95.   Judging by its sheer heft, its blurbs, and its bulk of carefully-detailed appendices, one might expect that The American Poetry Wax […]

Kenneth Sherwood Department of English State Department of New York at Buffalo sherwood@acsu.buffalo.edu   Rothenberg, Jerome and Pierre Joris, eds. Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Volume one: From Fin-de Siècle to Negritude).Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1995. Pp.xxvii + 811; 35 illustrations. Paper, […]

James Berger George Mason University jberger@gmu.edu   Lee Quinby. Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism.Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1994.   Stephen D. O’Leary. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.   Richard Dellamora. Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending. New Brunswick: […]

Andrew McMurry Indiana University, Bloomington jmcmurry@mach1.wlu.ca   The startling calamity. What is the startling calamity? How will you comprehend what the startling calamity is?   — Al-Qur’än   Were you expecting the sun to wink out, the heavens to open, the beast loose upon the earth? Or maybe you imagined a Ragnarok of more cosmopolitan […]

Cory Brown Ithaca College cbrown@ithaca.edu My Name in Water The kids are in the bathtub screaming and splashing, my wife on the phone discussing a book on Australian aborigines, whether we should even bother reading literature anymore, and you would think by the way I’m scribbling in the corner I was trying to write my […]

Chris Semansky University of Missouri-Columbia writcks@showme.missouri.edu Ihit a kid. He’s about eight, and the better part of his right ear has been ripped off by the windshield. He’s lying in the road, moaning, his legs jerking like he’s underwater.A crisis becomes a wonderful moment to free oneself from ideas of “correctness,” “objectivity,” “acceptance,” and redesign, […]

      This is an experimental hypertext site using HTML.   It is an essay about what hypertext is, and it performs what it says.   While making use of various images it is text driven, and like all such projects is a combination of the personal, the contingent, and the theoretical.   It […]

        To: Dr. Shepherdson From: hescobar.datasys.com.mx (Hector Escobar Sotomayor) Subject: Comments on your paper in Internet about Foucault and Lacan   Dear Dr. Shepherdson:   I’m a Mexican student of Philosophy and now I’m working on my thesis devoted to an archaeological study of Psychology, considering the relation Foucault-Lacan so I’d like […]

Wes Chapman Illinois Wesleyan University wchapman@titan.iwu.edu     The title of Tania Modleski’s Feminism Without Women refers, Modleski explains, to a confluence of two political/intellectual trends: the subsumption of feminism within a “more comprehensive” field of gender studies, accompanied by the rise of a “male feminist perspective that excludes women,” and the dominance within feminist […]

Scott Schaffer Programme in Social and Political Thought York University sschaffe@yorku.ca   Recently, the Walt Disney Company abandoned its plans to develop an American history theme park near Manassas, Virginia, the site of a major battle during the American Civil War. Part of the reason for this decision, according to the company, was that the […]

Stephen A. Fredman Notre Dame stephen.a.fredman.1@nd.edu   I.   Reading the novels of Paul Auster over the years, I find myself drawn back again and again to his first prose text, The Invention of Solitude (1982), especially to its second half, “The Book of Memory,” a memoir-as-meditation, in which Auster confronts all of his central […]