Re-thinking “Non-retinal Literature”: Citation, “Radical Mimesis,” and Phenomenologies of Reading in Conceptual Writing (1)
May 18, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22, Number 1, September 2011 |
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Judith Goldman (bio)University of California, Berkeleyjudithgo@buffalo.edu Abstract This article discusses the self-characterizations of the contemporary North American school of Conceptual writing, arguing that certain exponents of Conceptualism disavow a relation to Language writing, claiming an alternate predecessor in Conceptual art. The article in turn posits that the appropriative technique of “reframing” used by Conceptualists has been […]
Getting the Make: Japanese Skateboarder Videography and the Entranced Ethnographic Lens
May 18, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22, Number 1, September 2011 |
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Dwayne Dixon (bio) Duke Universitydedixon@duke.edu Abstract Using Jean Rouch’s concept of the ciné-transe, this essay argues that the camera transforms the relations between the anthropologist and the field site through movement and the filmic encounter. Critical focus on the camera/body assemblage shifts attention from the fetish of the recorded image and onto the subject and […]
Flower Fisting
May 11, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22, Number 1, September 2011 |
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Anne-Lise François (bio) University of California, Berkeleyafrancoi@berkeley.edu Abstract This essay asks about the fate of flowers in an age of colony collapse disorder and market-driven industrial agriculture. From human hand-pollination to the genetic selection of self-pollinating crops, contemporary responses to CCD bring to ironic conclusion certain tropes of flowers as figures of deceit, mortality, […]
The Art of Everyday Life and Death: Throbbing Gristle and the Aesthetics of Neoliberalism
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Gregory Steirer University of Pennsylvania steirer@english.upenn.edu Abstract This essay examines the influence of Situationist thought on aesthetics in postwar Britain through a close analysis of Throbbing Gristle, a fine-arts-cum-pop group responsible for the invention of the dystopian subculture Industrial Culture. Framing the group’s work as a response to the politics of 1970s Social Art, the […]
Cage’s Mesostics and Saussure’s Paragrams as Love Letters
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Sean Braune (bio) York Universitysbraune@yorku.ca Abstract John Cage’s poetry is often analyzed in relation to conceptual writing and constraint, making Cage seem particularly absent. This essay argues that the conceptual writing found in “62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham” is not devoid of emotion. Quite the contrary, the mesostics become the equivalent of a love letter. By […]
From Stenotype to Tintype: C.D. Wright’s Technologies of “Type”
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Jennie Berner (bio)University of Illinois, Chicagojennieberner@hotmail.com Abstract C.D. Wright’s engagement with documentary technology—stenography in Deepstep Come Shining and tintype photography in One Big Self—reveals a contradictory impulse in her poetry: to document individualized data while abstracting this data into “type.” Wright uses this contradiction to underline the incommensurability of two literary discourses in Deepstep Come […]
The Most Dangerous Place: Pro-Life Politics and the Rhetoric of Slavery
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Lisa Guenther (bio)Vanderbilt Universitylisa.guenther@vanderbilt.edu Abstract In recent years, comparisons between abortion and slavery have become increasingly common in American pro-life politics. Some have compared the struggle to extinguish abortion rights to the struggle to end slavery. Others have claimed that Roe v Wade is the Dred Scott of our time. Still others have argued that […]
Curbside Quarantine: A Scene of Interspecies Mediality
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Max Cavitch (bio)University of Pennsylvaniacavitch@english.upenn.edu Fig. 1. Stills from “Pit Bull attacking little dog on streets of NYC.” MissWooHoo11. Youtube. 27 Jun. 2012. Web. 13 Dec. 2012. Blogs, news Web sites, and content aggregators of all kinds feed a vast stream of stories about domesticated animals ostensibly “gone wild.” The Huffington Post even has a […]
“Kenosha, WI”
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Rory Ferreira (bio)St. Norbert Collegerory.ferreira@snc.edu I started writing raps seriously when my friend Robert drowned buck naked in a public pool. Like any self-absorbed, depressed-for-no-reason 19 year old, I was reading Camus, and the absurdity he talks about became, rather suddenly, all too real. This happened a year ago and resulted in the creation of […]
2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (May 10-20 2012)
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Patty Ahn (bio)USC School of Cinematic Artspahn@usc.edu In May of 2012, Visual Communications hosted its 28th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), offering ten days filled with feature-length films, short programs, panels, and social events that formed a cross-section of the current state of Asian American media. Visual Communications (VC), a Los […]
Digital Theory, Inc.: Knowledge Work and Labor Economics
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Carol Colatrella (bio)Georgia Institute of Technologycarol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu Review of Katie King, Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell, Durham: Duke UP, 2011, Rob Wilkie, The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network, New York: Fordham UP, 2011. Over the past year, faculty members in my interdisciplinary department at Georgia Tech responded to the request by […]
Political Realism and the Cultural Imaginary
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Graham Hammill (bio)University at Buffalo, SUNYghammill@buffalo.edu Review of Filippo del Lucchese, Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza: Tumult and Indignation. New York: Continuum, 2009. Filippo del Lucchese’s Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza is a welcome addition to the growing collection of scholarly works that firmly place Spinoza in a […]
Moraru’s Cosmodernism
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Damjana Mraovic-O’Hare (bio)damjana.mraovic@case.edu Case Western Reserve University Review of Christian Moraru, Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2011. Print. The critical discourse about postmodernism has recently taken a turn toward declarations that postmodernism is dead, finished, past. The aftermath of 9/11 and the trend of […]
Notes on Contributors
April 7, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 22 - Number 2 - January 2012 |
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Patty Ahn is a Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Studies at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Her research interests include critical histories and theories of U.S. television, transnational media studies with a regional focus on the Pacific Rim, gender and sexuality, and sound and popular music. She has been published in Spectator, European Journal of Cultural […]
Secret Agency in Mainstream Postmodern Cinema
January 30, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Neal KingInterdisciplinary StudiesVirginia Polytechnic and Institute and State Universitynmking@vt.edu Among the most studied films of the last few decades are those that descend from the mid-century fiction of Philip Dick and his contemporaries, including Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). These authors wrote during the Cold War scandal of the apparent […]
The Steorn Exploit and its Spin Doktors, or “Synergie ist der name of das Spiel, my boy!”
January 23, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 18 - Number 3 - May 2008 |
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John Freeman Department of EnglishUniversity of Detroit Mercyfreemajc@udmercy.edu ex.ploit (ĕk´ sploit, ĭk-sploit´) n. An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat. tr.v. (ĭk-sploit´, ĕk´ sploit) ex.ploit.ed, ex.ploit.ing, ex.ploits To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one’s talents. To make use of selfishly or unethically: a country that exploited […]
Bomb Media, 1953-1964
January 17, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Tristan AbbottDepartment of English Language and LiteratureUniversity of Northern Iowatristan.abbott@uni.edu About halfway through Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street (1953), a stool pigeon named Moe (Thelma Ritter) is about to get shot. She knows it, too; she had been warned that the man who just forced his way into her room is a communist agent […]