POSTMODERN CULTURE

      Volume 12, Number 3 May, 2002 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries 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. […]

Caroline Levine Department of English Rutgers University-Camden levinec@camden.rutgers.edu   Review of: Andreas Gursky. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 4 March – 15 May 2001. Exhibition Website   Peter Galassi. Andreas Gursky. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001.   The modernist avant-garde made a gesture of rejecting popular entertainment and the commodification […]

William B. Warner Digital Cultures Project Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara warner@english.ucsb.edu   Review of: Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media.Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2000.   Most scholars of modern media now agree that the shift of symbolic representation to a global digital information network is as systemic and pervasive a […]

Samuel Gerald Collins Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Towson University scollins@towson.edu   Review of: Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000.   Reacting against the Boasian study of myths for “historical data,” Claude Levi-Strauss urged anthropologists to look […]

Kelly Pender Rhetoric and Composition Program English Department Purdue University penderk@purdue.edu   Review of: Simon Critchley, Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought. London: Verso, 1999.   In his latest collection of essays, Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity, Simon Critchley extends and modifies the discussion of deconstruction and ethics that he put forward […]

Juan E. de Castro Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies Colorado School of Mines jdecastr@mines.edu   Review of: Jerry Hoeg, Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh UP, 2000.   During the electoral process of 1990, Alberto Fujimori, a little-known agricultural engineer and academic, stormed the Peruvian […]

Arkady Plotnitsky Theory and Cultural Studies Program Department of English Purdue University aplotnit@sla.purdue.edu   Review of: Bruno Latour, Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.   Scientists are becoming more attentive to and are addressing more openly the relationships between politics and science. (Many scientists have of course–at least […]

Joseph Tate Department of English University of Washington jtate@u.washington.edu I. Introduction: Test Specimens Figure 1   The blinking icon you see above is called a “test specimen.” Wide-eyed bears with murderous grins, drawn alternately as symmetrical, disembodied heads or frantically sketched, stiff-limbed figures, they punctuate the art of the music group Radiohead, from CD packaging […]

Carlos Rojas Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures University of Florida crojas@ufl.edu   One question that always stymies us–that is, why cannot people eat people?   Zhu Yu   Rumors of cannibalism began to circulate over the internet during the early months of last year (2001), typically accompanied by graphic photos of a […]

Dorothy Barenscott Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory University of British Columbia bridot@shaw.ca   In conflicts between civilizations, the question is “What are you?” That is a given that cannot be changed. And as we know, from Bosnia to the Caucasus to the Sudan, the wrong answer to that question can mean a […]

  Lars Iyer Philosophical Studies Centre for Knowledge, Science and Society University of Newcastle upon Tyne lars.iyer@ncl.ac.uk   Trust the tale, not the teller–but what if the identity of the teller is given in the articulation of the tale? What if there would be not only no tale without a teller, but no teller without […]

Rajeev S. Patke Department of English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellpatke@nus.edu.sg   “I searched around those ruins in vain and all I found was a face engraved on a potsherd and a fragment of a frieze. That is what my poems will be in a thousand years–shards, fragments, the detritus of a […]

      Volume 13, Number 3 May, 2003 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries 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. […]

Mimi Yiu English Department Cornell University msy4@cornell.edu   Review of: Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel. The Singular Objects of Architecture. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002.   Structured as two free-ranging dialogues, The Singular Objects of Architecture brings into conversation two of the most thought-provoking cultural innovators of our time: Jean Baudrillard […]

Martin Wallace English Department University of Manitoba kaplanrose@hotmail.com   Review of: Pierre Bourdieu, Masculine Domination. Trans. Richard Nice. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001.   Pierre Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination is the English translation of La Domination Masculine (1998), which was developed from an article of the same name published in 1990 in Actes de la Recherché en […]

Kevin Marzahl English Department Indiana University kmarzahl@indiana.edu   Review of: Jed Rasula, This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry.Athens: U of Georgia P, 2002.   I remember well the March 1984 cover of National Geographic because it seemed that I could look right into it at an iridescent eagle perched on a floating branch within […]

Matthew Hart English Department University of Pennsylvania matthart@english.upenn.edu   Review of: Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters. New York: Basic, 2002   Orwell Matters   Orwell’s relevance to contemporary political thought dominates recent treatments of his essays and fiction. In his introduction to a recent Penguin Modern Classics miscellany, Orwell and Politics (2001), Timothy Garton Ash […]

    Thomas Swiss University of Iowa Thomas-Swiss@uiowa.edu & George Shaw george@divinepenguin.com     ENTER: The Language of New Media