item: #1 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-acker-dead author: Acker title: Dead Doll Humility date: 1990-09 words: 5190 flesch: 73 summary: Letter stated: According to the various documents and texts which the feminist publisher had supplied, the writer should apologize to Mr. Harold Robbins. Feminist publisher then informed writer that the Boss and Harold Robbins' publisher had decided, due to her plagiarism, to withdraw the book from publication and to have her sign an apology to Harold Robbins which they had written. keywords: capitol; dead; doll; feminist; harold; language; publisher; robbins; texts; voice; writer; writing cache: pmc-v1n1-acker-dead.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-acker-dead.txt item: #2 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-beverley-ideology author: Beverley title: Ideology Of Postmodern Music And Left Politics date: 1990-09 words: 8221 flesch: 58 summary: Cadillac by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Heavy Metal--or Springsteen--, Country (what kind of Country: Zydeco, Appalachian, Bluegrass, Dolly Parton, trucker, New Folk, etc.?), jazz, blues, spirituals, soul, rap, hip hop, fusion, college rock (Grateful Dead, REM, Talking Heads), SST rock (Meat Puppets etc.), Holly Near, _Hymnen_, _salsa_, reggae, World Beat, _norteno_ music, _cumbias_, Laurie Anderson, 46 different recorded versions of _ What I will be arguing, in part with Adorno, in part against him, is that music is coming to represent for the Left something like a key sector. keywords: adorno; aesthetic; american; art; capitalist; commodity; cultural; culture; effect; form; ideology; jazz; left; life; moment; music; nausea; new; postmodern; production; punk; relation; rock; sense; social; time; way; work; world cache: pmc-v1n1-beverley-ideology.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-beverley-ideology.txt item: #3 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-editor-notices author: Editor title: Notices date: 1990-09 words: 1419 flesch: 44 summary: Among the topics included will be: magazine editorial trends and practices; journalistic and management norms in magazine publishing; evolving magazine technologies (those currently in use and new ones envisioned); the economics of magazine publishing, including the economic factors influencing magazine content; the history of magazines; the role of magazines in social development; educational issues related to teaching magazine journalism; laboratory magazine-project concepts and resources; and studies and research exploring the issues above. Magazine publishing professionals, magazine journalism educators, scholars and students, and other individuals interested in magazine issues are encouraged to participate. keywords: issues; magazine; new; teaching; university; women; | | cache: pmc-v1n1-editor-notices.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-editor-notices.txt item: #4 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-editor-postface author: Editor title: Postface: Positions On Postmodernism date: 1990-09 words: 1463 flesch: 49 summary: John: I'd agree that Kipnis is making a connection between particular male bodies and particular female bodies as tablets for cultural text, but I'm not sure the movement between particulars amounts to the projection of a governing ideal, a hidden ground that Eyal sees here. Verse_--that the difference between Language writing, properly so called and language-centered writing appears to be a matter of big names vs. lesser knowns-- raises the issue of politics within academic writing (a criticism that may be relevant to the project of creating this journal). keywords: body; culture; hooks; language; writers cache: pmc-v1n1-editor-postface.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-editor-postface.txt item: #5 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-editor-preface author: Editor title: Preface date: 1990-09 words: 407 flesch: 43 summary: To do that, send a mail message to LISTSERV@NCSUVM (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@NCSUVM.NCSU.EDU (Internet), containing the commands Get Listserv Memo Get Listfile Memo These two files contain general information about using the Listserv program (Listserv Memo) and information about using the Filelist functions of the program (Listfile Memo). _Postmodern Culture_ can accommodate, and will include, different kinds of writing, from traditional analytical essays and reviews to video scripts and other new literary forms. keywords: culture; postmodern cache: pmc-v1n1-editor-preface.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-editor-preface.txt item: #6 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-english-vacation author: English title: Vacation Notes: Haute-Tech In The Hautes-Montagnes date: 1990-09 words: 2080 flesch: 59 summary: For diehard Tour fans, the only spectacle that matters is that of the body in pain. But this determination simply to be there at all costs is not really what Tour organizers desire in a spectator, and the fans who made the trek up to Luz- Ardiden--variously French, Bearnaise-French, Basque, and Spanish, but overwhelmingly low-income farmers and laborers--do not represent an ideal mix from the standpoint of prospective sponsors. keywords: fans; france; new; race; rider; stage; tour; year cache: pmc-v1n1-english-vacation.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-english-vacation.txt item: #7 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-hooks-postmodern author: Hooks title: Postmodern Blackness date: 1990-09 words: 3576 flesch: 41 summary: Speaking in the presence of a group of white onlookers, staring at us as though this encounter was staged for their benefit, we engaged in a passionate discussion about black experience. The idea that there is no meaningful connection between black experience and critical thinking about aesthetics or culture must be continually interrogated. keywords: black; critical; critique; culture; discourse; experience; identity; postmodernism; radical; work; writing cache: pmc-v1n1-hooks-postmodern.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-hooks-postmodern.txt item: #8 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-kipnis-marx author: Kipnis title: Marx: The Video date: 1990-09 words: 5332 flesch: 75 summary: KIPNIS, 'MARX: THE VIDEO', Postmodern Culture v1n1 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v1n1-kipnis-marx.txt MARX: THE VIDEO (A POLITICS OF REVOLTING BODIES) by LAURA KIPNIS University of Wisconsin, Madison Copyright (c) 1990 by Laura Kipnis, all rights reserved. In looming supers of addition, we now know what Stalin, Lenin role stupidity plays in revolutions and how they are exploited by Stalin looms over body scoundrels...Let us hope that this time the lava Mao looms over body pours from East to West and not vice versa. keywords: biographer; body; class; dear; drag; helene; keyed; marx; new; queen; room; social; time; title; working; writing cache: pmc-v1n1-kipnis-marx.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-kipnis-marx.txt item: #9 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-larsen-postmodernism author: Larsen title: Postmodernism And Imperialism: Theory And Politics In Latin America date: 1990-09 words: 8206 flesch: 40 summary: Those super- exploited and oppressed at the periphery thus become pegged with a sort of sub-political consciousness, as if they couldn't or needn't see beyond the sheer fact of survival. We are saying, then, that postmodern philosophy and political theory becomes objectively, albeit perhaps obliquely, a variation of anti-communism. keywords: america; anti; class; critique; cultural; enlightenment; fact; hegemony; jameson; laclau; latin; left; liberation; marxism; philosophy; political; politics; postmodern; postmodernism; radical; reason; social; strategy; theoretical; theory; world cache: pmc-v1n1-larsen-postmodernism.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-larsen-postmodernism.txt item: #10 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-ross-hacking author: Ross title: Hacking Away At The Counterculture date: 1990-09 words: 11249 flesch: 38 summary: See Alice Bach's _Phreakers_ series, in which two teenage girls enjoy adventures through the use of computer technology. Moreover, most corporate managers of computer systems and networks know that by far the great majority of their intentional security losses are a result of insider sabotage and monkeywrenching. keywords: access; class; computer; control; cultural; culture; data; different; ethics; example; hacker; hacking; high; information; knowledge; like; meaning; media; morris; new; order; political; popular; power; public; result; security; social; software; surveillance; systems; technological; technologies; technology; use; values; virus; viruses; way; work; workers; world; worm; years cache: pmc-v1n1-ross-hacking.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-ross-hacking.txt item: #11 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-schultz-voicing author: Schultz title: Voicing The Neonew date: 1990-09 words: 2450 flesch: 62 summary: Perelman's limited text is also an open one, because it eschews poetic voice in favor of writing (like Derrida, Language poets reverse the traditional narrative, according to which voice precedes writing). The shepherd for this latest assault is Jerome McGann, long a lobbyist (or apologist, depending on your sympathies) for Language poetry. keywords: bernstein; history; language; mcgann; poetry; poets; postmodern; writing cache: pmc-v1n1-schultz-voicing.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-schultz-voicing.txt item: #12 of 305 id: pmc-v1n1-yudice-feeding author: Yudice title: Feeding The Transcendent Body date: 1990-09 words: 8571 flesch: 55 summary: The struggle of women against what Kim Chernin has called the tyranny of slenderness is a good example of how some bodies and not others are made to incarnate certain social contradictions on the basis of gender.^26^ Obesity and anorexia, then, do not correlate so much with the self-replication of information but rather with the *control* of bodies. As head of a small TV station in search for seductive programming, he views a pirated snuff movie which, unbeknownst to him, inoculates him with electronic frequencies that produce a brain tumor that takes control of body and mind. keywords: anorectic; baudrillard; body; control; culture; eating; experience; factors; fat; flesh; food; image; kristeva; life; like; loss; max; mystic; new; obese; saint; social; struggle; teresa; transcendence; video; way; world; york cache: pmc-v1n1-yudice-feeding.txt plain text: pmc-v1n1-yudice-feeding.txt item: #13 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-bernstein-second author: Bernstein title: Second War And Postmodern Memory date: 1991-01 words: 6426 flesch: 63 summary: While the effect of World War 2 on the United States has been far-reaching, and not only for those who fought in the war and their families, the Lagers may well have been a distant issue for most Americans. When the world was wars and wars, according To cause breaking out from the conditions for events And their obsessed leaders. keywords: american; charles; cultural; death; different; extermination; language; new; poems; poetry; process; radical; rothenberg; second; second war; self; strikeout; time; values; war; way; western; world cache: pmc-v1n2-bernstein-second.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-bernstein-second.txt item: #14 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-dolan-crisis author: Dolan title: Crisis In The Gul date: 1991-01 words: 4736 flesch: 54 summary: President Bush hopes to convince us that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait offers an opportunity to step outside the everyday administrative concerns of politics and business as usual, and renew our commitment to the principles that make us who we are; it is in this sense that, in Bush's words, the Gulf crisis calls us to define who we are and what we believe. The article moved quickly to frame the issue in terms of the appropriate allegorical reading: On explaining the motives for American action, President Bush has stopped emphasizing the need to protect oil supplies, an issue he once cited along with the need to resist aggression. keywords: american; bush; crisis; gulf; irony; man; new; president; public; times; vietnam; war; world; york cache: pmc-v1n2-dolan-crisis.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-dolan-crisis.txt item: #15 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1991-01 words: 6085 flesch: 49 summary: Please send essays for review, and inquiries, to ejournal@albnyvms.bitnet ejournal@rachel.albany.edu Ted Jennings, Editor, _EJournal_ Department of English University at Albany, State University of New York Ron Bangel, Managing Editor (acting) University at Albany, SUNY Board of Advisors: Dick Lanham, University of California at Los Angeles Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries Joe Raben, City University of New York Bob Scholes, Brown University Harry Whitaker, University of Quebec at Montreal ----------------------------------------------------------------- Magazine journalism educators, scholars and students, magazine publishing professionals and other individuals interested in magazine issues are encouraged to participate. keywords: address; bitnet; college; computers; cultural; david; editor; editorial; eff; electronic; english; essays; high; hispanic; information; institute; interested; issues; language; literary; literature; magazine; mail; new; publishing; science; state; technology; texas; theory; university; vol; writing cache: pmc-v1n2-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-editor-announcements.txt item: #16 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-editor-postface author: Editor title: Postface date: 1991-01 words: 889 flesch: 51 summary: For O'Donnell voice becomes body: he singles out the Frigicom process proposed as an invention in _JR_ whereby voice is frozen, made portable. There's Howe's project of understanding how the past structures the present, which is the sort of project Bernstein; then there's the activity of restructuring the manner in which we appropriate the past, which is a large part of what Ulmer wants us to do; there's also a sort of reconstruction in bad faith (Dolan discusses this) where the present is justified with reference to a past reconstituted to suit the purposes of the moment; and finally, there's the sense that one can never really adapt to disjunction. keywords: body; issue; past cache: pmc-v1n2-editor-postface.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-editor-postface.txt item: #17 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-hart-graven author: Hart title: Graven Images date: 1991-01 words: 2009 flesch: 48 summary: Through her bifocal lenses she examines representative texts from the beginning of what she would call, with Derrida, the logocentric tradition of western culture, and proceeds to map a gradual disillusionment with the capacity of the logos to embody or present intended meanings. In short, poetic language is Derridean as well as Heideggerean. keywords: ashbery; book; courts; derrida; eliot; language; mills; poetry cache: pmc-v1n2-hart-graven.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-hart-graven.txt item: #18 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-hashmi-poem author: Hashmi title: Poem date: 1991-01 words: 359 flesch: 76 summary: I hear now that across the Chunnel one side tells the other it's French I wrote; the other side calls it English, or by other appelatives; such as would divide the protestant cake in catholic portions and make for a nice debate in the Parliament of European Foules. I was lecteur d'anglais in that place, teaching Doublin' English and writing like Thom A. Becket what no one, except J. J. in some arseholy state or other, would attempt-- in a language of my own. keywords: hashmi; paris cache: pmc-v1n2-hashmi-poem.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-hashmi-poem.txt item: #19 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-howe-incloser author: Howe title: Incloser date: 1991-01 words: 9467 flesch: 78 summary: McGiffert decided the financial transactions on side %S% were of no autobiographical importance. Side %S% ends abruptly with afflictions sent by God to scourge the author. keywords: author; book; brother; church; cotton; england; english; god; hearing; heart; life; lord; manuscript; men; minister; new; place; shepard; thomas; thomas shepard; thought; time; wife; word cache: pmc-v1n2-howe-incloser.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-howe-incloser.txt item: #20 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-mccorkle-two author: Mccorkle title: Two Poems date: 1991-01 words: 1111 flesch: 66 summary: Momentary grace or seduction?--no one knows Your reasons for taking up with us, perhaps the loneliness Of watching cities turn more fatal and rapturous Each epoch slides into the next and claims its dead: What is the cost of all this, what has been put aside To keep the body tandem to the sulphur-lit city. Sorting things out, nothing really fits: The puzzle of mountains with pieces from a regatta, We have pieces from other lives, The difficulty is to remember them, hoping Caligula or Curie do not figure As the locking piece, the keyhole, the knob. keywords: city; left; mccorkle; past; stage cache: pmc-v1n2-mccorkle-two.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-mccorkle-two.txt item: #21 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-o'donnell-his author: O'Donnell title: His Master'S Voice: On William Gaddis'S Jr date: 1991-01 words: 10305 flesch: 57 summary: In _JR_ the illusion of voice as the vehicle or medium of interiority is thoroughly dissolved; rather, voice, like everything in the novel, becomes a commodity. It is curious that the author casts this redemption in terms of a small voice, a hard gem-like flame not so different, imagistically at least, from the noise shards of the Frigicom process: like the Frigicom process, in the writing of _JR_ Gaddis takes noise and voice from the welter of everyday life, freezes it into inscription, then dumps it into the separated confines of the book where it dispersed to the reader. keywords: american; bast; bodies; body; contemporary; conversations; culture; discourse; discursive; end; figure; gaddis; gibbs; human; identity; language; like; noise; novel; parody; postmodern; process; small; speech; subject; telephone; voice; william; writing cache: pmc-v1n2-o'donnell-his.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-o'donnell-his.txt item: #22 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-o'sullivan-satanism author: O'Sullivan title: Satanism Scare date: 1991-01 words: 1503 flesch: 49 summary: But its analyses remain mired in conspiracy thinking, racism, eschatological anticipation, and the displacement of what are primarily familial ills (child abuse and incest) onto highly secretive and hooded outsiders. Preschools have been emptied of children by parents fearful that teachers were ritually abusing their charges. keywords: children; devil; o'sullivan; occult; satanic; satanism; satanists; scare cache: pmc-v1n2-o'sullivan-satanism.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-o'sullivan-satanism.txt item: #23 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-trembath-sartre author: Trembath title: Sartre And Local Aesthetics: Rethinking Sartre As An Oppositional Pragmatist date: 1991-01 words: 7549 flesch: 40 summary: And despite Rajchman's claim to the contrary, Sartre _does_ have charismatic authority, or at least more than Foucault, even if like Foucault he makes no _claims_ to having such authority.^12^ [19] Enter Sartre the pragmatist. [17] The major difference between Sartre's aesthetics of revolt and Beuys's social sculpture--at least as Benjamin inspires automatic criticism of the latter--is that Sartre's work pursues _political_ ends whereas Beuys's work pursues predominantly _aesthetic_ ends. keywords: aesthetics; baader; benjamin; beuys; fact; foucault; freedom; germer; intellectual; local; militant; new; oppositional; political; politics; power; rajchman; revolt; sartre; social; specific; world cache: pmc-v1n2-trembath-sartre.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-trembath-sartre.txt item: #24 of 305 id: pmc-v1n2-ulmer-grammatology author: Ulmer title: Grammatology Hypermedia date: 1991-01 words: 3706 flesch: 45 summary: The idea was to expose the ideological quality of the research drive, the will to power in knowledge, by calling attention to the implications of designing hypermedia programs in terms of the frontiers of knowledge, knowledge as a territory to be established. Articles published in computer magazines declare that the ultimate goal of computer technology is to make the computer disappear, that the technology should be so transparent, so invisible to the user, that for practical purposes the computer does not exist. keywords: apparatus; computer; critique; culture; electronic; experiment; form; grammatology; hypermedia; information; knowledge; memory; new; research; rhetoric cache: pmc-v1n2-ulmer-grammatology.txt plain text: pmc-v1n2-ulmer-grammatology.txt item: #25 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-anderson-review author: Anderson title: Review Of The Many Lives Of The Batman date: 1991-05 words: 3077 flesch: 39 summary: [11] As a result, it is Medhurst's essay and perhaps Meehan's that are most searchingly _critical_ of the recent resurgence in Batman paraphenalia. Different audiences practice different interpretations and manipulations of the signs bearing the label Batman. keywords: audiences; batman; character; collection; comics; cultural; culture; different; essays; medhurst; narrative; popular cache: pmc-v1n3-anderson-review.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-anderson-review.txt item: #26 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-dawes-critique author: Dawes title: Critique Of The Post-Althusserian Conception Of Ideology In Latin American Cultural Studies date: 1991-05 words: 4963 flesch: 42 summary: Before turning to this section, I would note that another problem with this discussion of Central American literature and revolutions is that Beverley and Zimmerman fervently adhere to postmodernist interpretations of the unfixity of social class (i.e.--pluralism) and of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's notion of radical democracy. Ideology will always appear as secondary; superimposed in fundamental, timeless struggles between sexes and generations, or strictly divorced from actual, material struggles. keywords: aesthetic; althusser; althusserian; american; beverley; class; cultural; economic; ideology; literature; place; political; politics; post; production; revolutionary; social; theory; zimmerman cache: pmc-v1n3-dawes-critique.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-dawes-critique.txt item: #27 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-duyfhuizen-suspension author: Duyfhuizen title: Suspension Forever At The Hinge Of Doubt": The Reader-Trap Of Bianca In Gravity'S Rainbow date: 1991-05 words: 10405 flesch: 63 summary: The text's focalization through Slothrop codes Bianca as a fetish, a Lolita if you will, and we later learn these heels are spiked (466), and the %silk% stockings are connected to a tiny black corset with Satin straps, adorned with intricately pornographic needlework (469). Slothrop %will think% he sees her, %think% he has found Bianca again--dark eyelashes plastered shut and face running with rain, he will see her lose her footing on the slimy deck, just as the _Anubis_ starts a hard roll to port, and even at this stage of things--even in his distance--he will lunge after her without thinking much, %slip himself as she vanishes under the chalky lifelines% and gone, stagger trying to get back but be hit too soon in the kidneys and be flipped that easy over the side. keywords: bianca; child; dream; gravity; ilse; image; like; margherita; moment; mother; narrative; passage; pokler; pynchon; rainbow; reader; reading; representation; scene; sexual; slothrop; text; textual; thanatz; trap cache: pmc-v1n3-duyfhuizen-suspension.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-duyfhuizen-suspension.txt item: #28 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1991-05 words: 3866 flesch: 45 summary: Chair: Otmar Foelsche, Dartmouth College (Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@MAC.DARTMOUTH.EDU) Director, Language Resource Center, DC, Hanover NH A. Daniel Brink, Arizona State University and Donald Ross, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Planning a Conference by e-Mail: Plusses and Pitfalls (ATDXB@ASUACAD.BITNET) and (UMCOMP@UX.ACS.UMN.EDU) DB, Associate Dean for Technology Integration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287 DR, English and Composition, U of M, Minneapolis, MN 55455 B. John Unsworth, Eyal Amiran, and Elaine Orr, editors, _Postmodern Culture_: Patterned Responses to the Electronic Journal (PMC@NCSCUVM.BITNET) Box 8105, Department of English, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 C. Elaine Brennan, Brown University, co-editor, HUMANIST: The HUMANIST Bulletin Board (ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU) Women Writers Project, Box 1841, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Speakers will treat the history of their projects, current status, and future plans. Editor of the journals/newsletters section is Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa. keywords: address; conference; directory; discussion; electronic; files; group; hypertext; information; issue; journal; list; mail; new; papers; research; screen; subscribe; university; wmst; women cache: pmc-v1n3-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-editor-announcements.txt item: #29 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-editor-postface author: Editor title: Postface date: 1991-05 words: 1511 flesch: 61 summary: It seems that the essays we have published share certain structures of thinking, ways of being essays, however innovative and interesting their subject matter. That was what forced us to stipulate that we wouldn't consider essays on computer hardware/software unless they raised significant aesthetic or theoretical issues. keywords: essays; issues; time; way cache: pmc-v1n3-editor-postface.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-editor-postface.txt item: #30 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-english-jamesons author: English title: Jameson'S Postmodernism date: 1991-05 words: 1410 flesch: 37 summary: Jameson's political analysis of contemporary theoretical discourse is here extended to address the paralyzing nominalism of both Theory (deconstruction) and anti-Theory (new historicism) in a substantial chapter that also includes, to my knowledge, his first extended statement on the de Man affair. But while it is true that six of the ten chapters here have been reprinted from elsewhere, only the first two (the NLR article and a contemporaneous Politics of Theory piece from _New German Critique_) will be familiar to most readers. keywords: capitalism; culture; jameson; new; postmodernism; sentence cache: pmc-v1n3-english-jamesons.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-english-jamesons.txt item: #31 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-fraiberg-of author: Fraiberg title: Of Aid date: 1991-05 words: 6081 flesch: 49 summary: Randy Shilts provides a journalistic history of AIDS in _And the Band Played On_, but his account is both voyeuristic--awkwardly, he scrutinizes the life of Gaetan Dugas, alleged patient zero-- and morbid--he keeps a running tab on AIDS cases, deaths, and projected deaths. This position, like Baudrillard's, can find its correlative in AIDS discourse: the Jamesonian view would be reminiscent of the mainstream position that asserts the general public can contract HIV as well. keywords: aids; baudrillard; body; boundaries; crimp; cultural; cyborg; discretion; field; general; jameson; mainstream; networks; new; postmodern; public; risk; sex; subject cache: pmc-v1n3-fraiberg-of.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-fraiberg-of.txt item: #32 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-ian-from author: Ian title: From Abject To Object: Women'S Bodybuilding date: 1991-05 words: 3814 flesch: 56 summary: [2] At least this is how it seems to this author, who is: a forty-year old, divorced, atheistic Jewish mother of two teenaged girls; an assistant professor of British and American Literature at a the state univerity of New Jersey; a specialist in modernism, psychoanalysis and gender; and a dedicated gym rat who has trained hard and heavy without cease (knock on wood) for about eight years now and during graduate school even entered bodybuilding competitions. This laboratory, this haven, this republic, however, remains a utopic and private space, a delusion in effect, because what goes on in the gym, as in bodybuilding competition, remains the violent re-inscription of gender binarism, of difference even where there is none. keywords: bodybuilding; contest; female; femininity; gender; iron; judges; male; mclish; murray; muscle; sport; women cache: pmc-v1n3-ian-from.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-ian-from.txt item: #33 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-joyce-notes author: Joyce title: Notes Toward An Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Tex date: 1991-05 words: 4916 flesch: 66 summary: [32] While this may seem the same urge toward a novel which changes each time it is read, what has changed in the interim between novelist-at-word-processor and hyperfiction writer is that computer tools to accomplish these sorts of multiple texts have been built. Fully a year after Sony first showed Discman, a portable, mini-CD the size of a Walkman, capable of holding 100,000 pages of text, a discussion on the Gutenberg computer network wanted to move the last ditch a little further. keywords: age; book; computer; constructive; electronic; hypertext; moulthrop; multiple; network; new; print; reader; reading; text; time; writer; writing cache: pmc-v1n3-joyce-notes.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-joyce-notes.txt item: #34 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-katz-three author: Katz title: Three Poems date: 1991-05 words: 1492 flesch: 71 summary: #Warning: System error in sector E95. #Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help. :Help! keywords: errors; god; march; run cache: pmc-v1n3-katz-three.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-katz-three.txt item: #35 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-maier-two author: Maier title: Two Moroccan Storytellers In Paul Bowles' Five Eyes: Larbi Layachi And Ahmed Yacoubi date: 1991-05 words: 9597 flesch: 68 summary: Now that an anthropologist, Clifford Geertz, is drawing on Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault to understand the anthropologist as author (_Works and Lives_ 18-20), and Geertz himself is being drawn into a newer, more complex understanding of the authorship of literary works (Hernadi 757), it is becoming increasingly useful to look at texts produced by unusual authors. MAIER, 'TWO MOROCCAN STORYTELLERS IN PAUL BOWLES' _FIVE EYES_: LARBI LAYACHI AND AHMED YACOUBI', Postmodern Culture v1n3 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v1n3-maier-two.txt TWO MOROCCAN STORYTELLERS IN PAUL BOWLES' _FIVE EYES_: LARBI LAYACHI AND AHMED YACOUBI by JOHN R. MAIER State University of New York, College at Brockport _Postmodern Culture_ v.1 n.3 (May, 1991) keywords: american; arabic; bowles; boy; family; fiction; larbi; like; literature; modern; moroccan; morocco; new; oral; paul; self; society; stories; story; storytellers; time; way; western; work; world; yacoubi; york cache: pmc-v1n3-maier-two.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-maier-two.txt item: #36 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-matibag-selfconsuming author: Matibag title: Self-Consuming Fictions: The Dialectics Of Cannibalism In Modern Caribbean Narratives date: 1991-05 words: 9170 flesch: 53 summary: ^3^ For an overview of postmodern perspectives on the subject and a theory of the subject's persistent efficacy despite its deconstruction, see Ihab Hassan, _Selves At Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters_, especially the chapter on The Subject of Quest: Self, Other, Difference (32-45). Selves At Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters_. keywords: african; american; caliban; cannibalism; caribbean; caribs; carpentier; cesaire; colonial; columbus; cultural; culture; desire; discourse; european; harris; history; identity; language; lidia; los; new; process; prospero; que; self; sergio; social; subject; synthesis; trans; world; writers; york cache: pmc-v1n3-matibag-selfconsuming.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-matibag-selfconsuming.txt item: #37 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-mikics-postmodernism author: Mikics title: Postmodernis date: 1991-05 words: 10854 flesch: 48 summary: The Terrible Twos_ (1982), which I will focus on in the remainder of this essay, Reed centers his analysis on a mass-produced and mass-marketed image of general import in American culture, that of Santa Claus. Maya Deren, _Divine Horsemen_^23^ [17] In his career as a novelist, Ishmael Reed has frequently occupied himself with the images produced by American mass culture. keywords: aesthetic; african; american; art; authenticity; baraka; black; christmas; claus; critical; cultural; culture; delillo; habermas; individual; lifeworld; macy; mass; modernization; mumbo; new; nicholas; peter; political; postmodernism; pynchon; reed; santa; self; snead; terrible; tradition; twos; vodoun; work; world; york cache: pmc-v1n3-mikics-postmodernism.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-mikics-postmodernism.txt item: #38 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-moulthrop-you author: Moulthrop title: You Say You Want A Revolution? Hypertext And The Laws Of Media date: 1991-05 words: 8473 flesch: 55 summary: Surrounded by filaments and tendrils of a network, the sojourner in Xanadu or other hypertext systems will always be reminded of her situation in a fabric of power arrangements. In hypertext systems, this ethos of connection is realized in technics: users do not passively rehearse or receive discourse, they explore and construct links (Joyce 12). keywords: change; cultural; culture; electronic; fact; hypertext; information; interactive; literacy; mcluhan; media; medium; nelson; networks; new; order; postmodern; print; revolution; sense; social; space; stoll; system; vision; way; world; writing; xanadu; york cache: pmc-v1n3-moulthrop-you.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-moulthrop-you.txt item: #39 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-porush-commentary author: Porush title: Commentary date: 1991-05 words: 3328 flesch: 54 summary: Porush, 'COMMENTARY', Postmodern Culture v1n3 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v1n3-porush-commentary.txt COMMENTARY _Postmodern Culture_ v.1 n.3 (May, 1991) David Porush responds to Allison Fraiberg's essay, Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions, _Postmodern Culture_ v.1 n.3 (May, 1991): [1] Allison Fraiberg uses the discourses of AIDS to read large oppositions and tendencies at work in our culture. As such, AIDS is one more battlefield between right thinking and wrong thinking. keywords: = =; aids; body; culture; cyborg; discourses; discrete; essay; fraiberg; porush cache: pmc-v1n3-porush-commentary.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-porush-commentary.txt item: #40 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-sokolik-review author: Sokolik title: Review Of Forked Tongues date: 1991-05 words: 1368 flesch: 53 summary: Thus, the choice of _Forked Tongues_ as a title for this volume is particularly apt, as the author examines the Native American voice as it is represented and misrepresented in various texts. Murray here examines the various analyses done by Boas, Levi-Strauss, Hymes, and so forth, and how they fit into a model of cultural and interpretive totality, and of rhetorical strategies in the making of ethnographic texts (4). keywords: american; author; chapter; indian; murray; native cache: pmc-v1n3-sokolik-review.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-sokolik-review.txt item: #41 of 305 id: pmc-v1n3-wheeler-bulldozing author: Wheeler title: Bulldozing The Subject date: 1991-05 words: 6910 flesch: 65 summary: George Lipsitz is quite right in commenting that pop music leads high art in the use of postmodern forms: It is on the level of commodified mass culture that the most popular, and often the most profound, acts of cultural %bricolage% take place. [17] How can it be said that the palest icon, the smallest neon-Victorian curlicue, enables and justifies the displacement of real people? keywords: angeles; architecture; art; baudrillard; critique; cultural; culture; experience; los; lyotard; music; new; people; postmodern; postmodernism; power; real; reality; subject; theory; use; white; work; world; york cache: pmc-v1n3-wheeler-bulldozing.txt plain text: pmc-v1n3-wheeler-bulldozing.txt item: #42 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-bernstein-play author: Bernstein title: Play It Agai date: 1991-08 words: 5763 flesch: 61 summary: [6] A surprising amount of the literature on video games has concerned the social context of the games: arcade culture, troubled youth, vocational training for tomorrow's _Top Gun_. [9] Like the story boards of the games, the narratives that surround video games seem to promise a very American ending: Redemption though the technology of perseverance and the perseverance of technology. keywords: action; alien; arcade; computer; control; data; economy; games; genre; man; medium; new; play; social; time; video; video games; way; world cache: pmc-v2n1-bernstein-play.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-bernstein-play.txt item: #43 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-duyfhuizen-a author: Duyfhuizen title: "A Suspension Forever At The Hinge Of Doubt": The Reader-Trap Of Bianca In Gravity'S Rainbow date: 1991-08 words: 10406 flesch: 63 summary: The text's focalization through Slothrop codes Bianca as a fetish, a Lolita if you will, and we later learn these heels are spiked (466), and the %silk% stockings are connected to a tiny black corset with Satin straps, adorned with intricately pornographic needlework (469). Slothrop %will think% he sees her, %think% he has found Bianca again--dark eyelashes plastered shut and face running with rain, he will see her lose her footing on the slimy deck, just as the _Anubis_ starts a hard roll to port, and even at this stage of things--even in his distance--he will lunge after her without thinking much, %slip himself as she vanishes under the chalky lifelines% and gone, stagger trying to get back but be hit too soon in the kidneys and be flipped that easy over the side. keywords: bianca; child; dream; gravity; ilse; image; like; margherita; moment; mother; narrative; passage; pokler; pynchon; rainbow; reader; reading; representation; scene; sexual; slothrop; text; textual; thanatz; trap cache: pmc-v2n1-duyfhuizen-a.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-duyfhuizen-a.txt item: #44 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1991-08 words: 5098 flesch: 45 summary: The journal is edited by Dr. Charles McClure (Syracuse University) in association with Ann Bishop (University of Illinois) and Phillip Doty (University of Texas/Austin). Content editor of the journals/newsletters section is Michael Strangelove, Network Research Facilitator, University of Ottawa. keywords: available; college; communication; cultural; directory; editor; electronic; hypertext; information; issue; journal; networking; networks; new; overseas; papers; press; pynchon; research; review; special; studies; texas; u.s; university; year cache: pmc-v2n1-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-editor-announcements.txt item: #45 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-hsu-spew author: Hsu title: Spew: The Queer Punk Convention date: 1991-08 words: 1073 flesch: 72 summary: Queer punks were ostracized by both the mainstream gay communities (for being punks) and the mainstream hardcore communities (for being queer). The original plan was to devote a full issue to queer punks, but apparently lip service is all the hardcore establishment is willing to give. keywords: convention; gay; hardcore; punk; queer; spew cache: pmc-v2n1-hsu-spew.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-hsu-spew.txt item: #46 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-joyce-notes author: Joyce title: Notes Toward An Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Tex date: 1991-08 words: 4916 flesch: 66 summary: [32] While this may seem the same urge toward a novel which changes each time it is read, what has changed in the interim between novelist-at-word-processor and hyperfiction writer is that computer tools to accomplish these sorts of multiple texts have been built. Fully a year after Sony first showed Discman, a portable, mini-CD the size of a Walkman, capable of holding 100,000 pages of text, a discussion on the Gutenberg computer network wanted to move the last ditch a little further. keywords: age; book; computer; constructive; electronic; hypertext; moulthrop; multiple; network; new; print; reader; reading; text; time; writer; writing cache: pmc-v2n1-joyce-notes.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-joyce-notes.txt item: #47 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-mannejc-dialogue author: Mannejc title: Dialogue On Dialogue date: 1991-08 words: 7945 flesch: 76 summary: Dialogue is less a carnival than a critical exchange in which the errors and limits of different ideas are exposed by their conflict with each other. You may %say% you're not trying to conceal yourself, but you let us go on arguing and discussing different ideas and we begin to forget all about you. keywords: dialogue; different; interesting; interpretation; jerome; jjr; masquerade; mcgann; poem; poetry; shop; talk; texts; thought; truth; work cache: pmc-v2n1-mannejc-dialogue.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-mannejc-dialogue.txt item: #48 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-miller-privacy author: Miller title: Privacy And Pleasure: Edward Said On Music date: 1991-08 words: 2657 flesch: 43 summary: As a result, the argument of _Musical Elaborations_ is strangely, powerfully at odds with itself: it wants to hold that classical music is a fully social enterprise, but it cannot help celebrating music in solitude. He recounts how hearing Alfred Brendel play Brahms' Theme with Variations for Piano led him, through a complex, apparently private and idiosyncratic course of associations, to other music (theme-and-variation pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Elgar), to other performances and versions of the same music (including part of a Louis Malle film score), to comparable musical effects (in Schumann, Wagner, Strauss), finally to the voice and even the pianistic gestures of an old teacher, Ignace Tiegerman, a Polish Jew who had come to Egypt (which is where I met him in the 1950s), after he had discovered the impending portent of fascism for him as a European musician and performer during the 1930s, to his playing of a Brahms concerto, and then to a whole tradition of teaching and playing that entered into and formed my relationship with Tiegerman, as it must have between him and his colleagues and friends in Europe (90-91). keywords: cultural; elaborations; experience; music; musical; performance; private; public; said; social cache: pmc-v2n1-miller-privacy.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-miller-privacy.txt item: #49 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-o'sullivan-confronting author: O'Sullivan title: Confronting Heidegger date: 1991-08 words: 3097 flesch: 34 summary: In such a situation, the ills and evils of modernity--associated in Heidegger's mind with the industrialism and rootlessness of Bolshevism (and, concomitantly, cosmopolitan Judaism) and the inauthentic freedoms of the liberal welfare state--would be forever swept away by the power of authentic art and authentic technology to disclose new worlds and possibilities. Both Hitler and Heidegger stressed the importance of Greek art as a model for a restored and authentic aesthetic practice. keywords: art; heidegger; history; junger; power; production; technology; work; world; writings; zimmerman cache: pmc-v2n1-o'sullivan-confronting.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-o'sullivan-confronting.txt item: #50 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-perelman-marginalization author: Perelman title: Marginalization Of Poetry date: 1991-08 words: 1607 flesch: 54 summary: The Marginalization of Poetry: the words themselves display the dominant _lingua franca_ of the academic disciplines and, conversely, the abject object status of poetry: it's hard to think of any poem where the word marginalization occurs. The Closing of the American Mind_, Walter Jackson Bate's biography of Keats, and _Anti-Oedipus_ together keywords: critical; marginalization; margins; page; poems; poetry; writing cache: pmc-v2n1-perelman-marginalization.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-perelman-marginalization.txt item: #51 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-stivale-marketing author: Stivale title: Marketing / Reading Males date: 1991-08 words: 3499 flesch: 40 summary: However, some uneasy tensions arise in the editors', and especially Boone's, introductory essays regarding the field (male feminist criticism) that they hope in some way to delineate. In fact, they state that this essay serves as an overview of the _whole phenomenon_ of 'male feminist criticism' as it has evolved at conventions and in anthologies over the last few years (4, my emphasis). keywords: boone; collection; criticism; editors; essay; feminist; gender; lentricchia; male; men; volume; writers cache: pmc-v2n1-stivale-marketing.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-stivale-marketing.txt item: #52 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-terada-derek author: Terada title: Derek Walcott And The Poetics Of "Transport" date: 1991-08 words: 5599 flesch: 62 summary: Kaya also functions, like poetic transport, as a vehicle toward the destination of simultaneous heightened elevation and oblivion. Yet this very appreciation of the orthodox values of Walcott's work--its learning, assurance, and metrical proficiency--has obstructed consideration of Walcott's place in the postmodern era. keywords: beauty; earth; language; life; light; new; poem; poet; poetic; poetry; postmodern; transport; walcott; woman; world cache: pmc-v2n1-terada-derek.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-terada-derek.txt item: #53 of 305 id: pmc-v2n1-white-literary author: White title: Literary Ecology And Postmodernity In Thomas Sanchez'S Mile Zero And Thomas Pynchon'S Vineland date: 1991-08 words: 12423 flesch: 57 summary: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism_, and ecological feminism, the most recent scholarship in which appears in a special issue of _Hypatia_, 6.1, Spring 1991. Sontag, _On Photography_ (180) keywords: bateson; brock; cloud; computer; culture; earth; ecological; ecology; eddins; frenesi; gravity; great; human; images; john; like; literary; literary ecology; mind; narrative; nature; new; order; play; postmodern; power; pynchon; rainbow; sanchez; self; sense; social; subject; system; terms; thomas; traditional; transcendence; vineland; world; zoyd cache: pmc-v2n1-white-literary.txt plain text: pmc-v2n1-white-literary.txt item: #54 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-bassett-recovering author: Bassett title: Recovering The Mask Of Ordinary Life: Encounters With Nihilism And Deconstruction date: 1992-01 words: 6182 flesch: 55 summary: Desmond reads Hopkins, Yeats, Shakespeare _and_ Hegel; Derrida reads Mallarme, Valery, Genet _and_ Hegel. [4] Metaxological in-between-ness substitutes for the edgy life on the edge that Desmond sees as the corrosive outcome of deconstruction, which was itself an outcome of Heidegger's [deliberate?] misunderstanding of Hegel. keywords: absolute; art; community; deconstruction; derrida; desire; desmond; dialectic; hegel; otherness; philosophy; self; thought; way; world cache: pmc-v2n2-bassett-recovering.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-bassett-recovering.txt item: #55 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-batali-power author: Batali title: Power And The Story date: 1992-01 words: 4775 flesch: 60 summary: Certain facts about language and about language use are well illustrated when sentences of mathematical logic are used to gloss certain of their semantic properties. [1] Andrea Nye begins her reading of the history of logic by recounting how the 6th century BC philosopher Parmenides describes a poetic journey past the towns of knowing men in search of ultimate reality. keywords: argument; claims; gross; history; logic; nye; power; rhetorical; science; society; thought; truth cache: pmc-v2n2-batali-power.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-batali-power.txt item: #56 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-berger-review author: Berger title: Review Of Past The Last Post date: 1992-01 words: 2927 flesch: 34 summary: He does admit to some fundamental problems with the connection between post-modernism and post- colonialism--among them the tendency of Western post-modernist readings to so overvalue the anti-referential or deconstructive energetics of post-colonial texts that they efface the important recuperative work that is also going on within them (7) and the universalizing, assimilative impulse . . In many of the essays, theorists admit the problematic nature of the project--the fundamental incompatibility of post-modernist textuality and the lived realities of the post-colonial (or really, neo-colonial) experience. keywords: colonial; colonialism; cultural; culture; essays; literature; modernism; political; post; project; western cache: pmc-v2n2-berger-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-berger-review.txt item: #57 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-connery-china author: Connery title: China Difference date: 1992-01 words: 6165 flesch: 41 summary: Sinology, with its fetishization of Chineseness, conspires to deny the materiality of modern China, which, since Westernized, cannot be Chinese. [15] The hegemony of social sciences in the China field, particularly in studies of modern China, is another instance for Chow of Western discursive dominance. keywords: book; china; chinese; chow; colonial; culture; history; hong; kong; literature; modern; popular; reading; revolution; self; social; studies; subject; theory; western; woman cache: pmc-v2n2-connery-china.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-connery-china.txt item: #58 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-davis-belling author: Davis title: Belling Helene date: 1992-01 words: 1649 flesch: 73 summary: Even though I was only a meager anonymous mouse, I knew vividly the awful jolt that galvanizes the prophet, wakened in mid-life by an order from above [9-10]), no recognizable North African Arab appears on her mental stage, only a glimpse of what might be shadow, as little H.C. lures a remembered little French girl into a corner of Algiers' Officers' Park: I beat up children. _Coming to writing and other essays_. keywords: cixous; dora; freud; h.c; lispector; writing cache: pmc-v2n2-davis-belling.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-davis-belling.txt item: #59 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-dumit-technoculture author: Dumit title: Technoculture: Anothe date: 1992-01 words: 3115 flesch: 41 summary: Sal Restivo has most vigorously challenged science studies and cultural studies by reintroducing C. Wright Mills's sociological imagination and calling for a revisioning of the relations of science and society, for seeing science as a social problem and thinking towards what Sandra Harding calls successor science. The contents of _Technoculture_ range from traditional American cultural studies (reading texts and commenting on culture), literary genre criticism, and ethnography, to historical and practical activist manuals. keywords: aids; books; critics; cultural; media; new; penley; postmodern; science; studies; technoculture; technology; women; world cache: pmc-v2n2-dumit-technoculture.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-dumit-technoculture.txt item: #60 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1992-01 words: 11364 flesch: 44 summary: Made checks payable to RD. Individuals who have access to e-mail can receive electronic versions of the journal free of charge by sending their name, status (student, faculty, other) and e-mail address to the editors. Interested contributors should write to: M.H.Short Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language University of Lancaster LANCASTER LA1 4YT U.K. e-mail enquiries to Tony Bex, University of Kent at Canterbury: arb1@ukc.ac.uk 12)------------------------------------------------------------------------ *************CALL FOR PAPERS************* An International Conference On The Sociology and Anthropology of Performance: Public and Private, May 29-31, 1992, Ottawa Submissions are invited for an international symposium which explores performance with reference to both public and private domains as well as the links between the two. Scholars with an interest in the performing arts (e.g. dance, music, media etc.) as well as those with interest in private performance (e.g. ritual, meditation, shamanism etc.) are invited to attend a three-day symposium at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. keywords: = =; acadlist; address; american; arts; available; book; computer; conference; congress; contact; cultural; culture; directory; discussion; education; electronic; folklore; forum; group; information; interested; issues; journal; list; literature; mail; message; new; papers; philosophy; research; review; science; social; society; studies; submissions; systems; technology; text; theory; university; work; | | cache: pmc-v2n2-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-editor-announcements.txt item: #61 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-heilbronn-sliding author: Heilbronn title: Sliding Signifiers And Transmedia Texts: Marsha Kinder'S Playing With Power date: 1992-01 words: 1863 flesch: 45 summary: Although Kinder states her belief that within our postmodernist culture and at various developmental stages of this ongoing generational struggle between parents and child, other media situated in the home such as television and video games substitute for the parents (22) the book needs far more evidence before it can support this claim. These dimensions are raised by Kinder earlier in the book when she introduces the concern that if video games do contribute to an acceleration of certain stages of cognitive development, the middle class who are better able to afford Nintendo systems and other computer systems in the home, will be differently advantaged. keywords: children; cognitive; kinder; media; subject; television; theory; video cache: pmc-v2n2-heilbronn-sliding.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-heilbronn-sliding.txt item: #62 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-holub-_nietzsche author: Holub title: Nietzsche As Postmodernist date: 1992-01 words: 2707 flesch: 36 summary: And in responding to this query with greater historical sensitivity than has traditionally been the case in American Nietzsche criticism, we could then disregard Koelb's other question--What is `postmodernism'?--as an irrelevance that is itself the product of a misguided effort in scholarship. _Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra_. keywords: essay; foucault; genealogy; language; man; nietzsche; perspectivism; postmodern; postmodernism cache: pmc-v2n2-holub-_nietzsche.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-holub-_nietzsche.txt item: #63 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-holub-constructive author: Holub title: Constructive Turn: Christopher Norris And The New Origins Of Historical Theory date: 1992-01 words: 2667 flesch: 40 summary: What is then remarkable about this shift is that Norris appears %nolens volens% as a conscious historical agent, so dear to the marxist and idealist tradition, one who intentionally intervenes in or makes history (history of critical theory) as he is writing about it. Simultaneously, the tracing of Spinoza's role in the formative pre-history of critical theory, and the historical reconstruction of Spinoza's arguments, amounts to nothing less than Norris's equally strikingly non-postmodern turn towards explicitly constructionist practices. keywords: critical; hegel; historical; history; knowledge; norris; political; relation; spinoza; theory cache: pmc-v2n2-holub-constructive.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-holub-constructive.txt item: #64 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-holub-review author: Holub title: Review Of What'S Wrong With Postmodernism? date: 1992-01 words: 3035 flesch: 44 summary: More difficult to locate in a tradition of enlightened reason are Derrida and de Man. Derrida and de Man are for Norris rigorous philosophical minds who question traditional philosophemes and point out their limits. keywords: aesthetic; derrida; heidegger; ideology; man; norris; police; political; searle; theory cache: pmc-v2n2-holub-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-holub-review.txt item: #65 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-huskey-peewee author: Huskey title: Pee-Wee Herman And The Postmodern Picaresque date: 1992-01 words: 2125 flesch: 70 summary: [5] But for the Real Thing, the rich substance of Pee-Wee's amorous being, we must leave the liminal world of the Playhouse and examine Pee-Wee's everyday life, the life dramatized in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Big Top Pee-Wee, in comparison, is an embarrassment--hardly worth a mention. keywords: adventure; big; bike; boy; herman; pee; playhouse; postmodern; wee cache: pmc-v2n2-huskey-peewee.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-huskey-peewee.txt item: #66 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-larsen-metadorno author: Larsen title: Metadorno date: 1992-01 words: 1744 flesch: 49 summary: Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic_. [2] It is against this rather special standard of expectation that Jameson's 1990 work, _Late Marxism_, seems both disconcerting and somewhat disappointing. keywords: adorno; critical; jameson; late; marxism; metacommentary cache: pmc-v2n2-larsen-metadorno.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-larsen-metadorno.txt item: #67 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-morrison-review author: Morrison title: Review Of Comedy/Cinema/Theory date: 1992-01 words: 2449 flesch: 45 summary: [5] The first half of the book consists of broad surveys of issues in film comedy: Here the figure of Bakhtin emerges as crucial, for well over half the contributors draw upon Bakhtin's ideas to illuminate film comedy. keywords: bakhtin; book; cinema; comedy; essay; film; fischer; horton; tashlin; text cache: pmc-v2n2-morrison-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-morrison-review.txt item: #68 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-norman-review author: Norman title: Review Of What Can She Know? date: 1992-01 words: 2414 flesch: 46 summary: Men define the norm for defining knowledge. Her critique establishes this common ground chiefly by articulating key feminist theories that challenge widely held beliefs about the procedures for defining and attaining knowledge. keywords: code; epistemology; feminist; knowing; knowledge; thinking; ways; women cache: pmc-v2n2-norman-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-norman-review.txt item: #69 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-ross-fragmented author: Ross title: Fragmented Thinking date: 1992-01 words: 1449 flesch: 46 summary: Flax also understands and reminds us of the tension of the postmodern writing task: the tendency, in the process of presenting theoretical constructs, of reifying them in the very way postmodernist thinking encourages us not to. [8] In these exciting times of theoretical upheaval, a book like Flax's should take advantage of its multidisciplinary grounding and move beyond the level of explication of theoretical bases, particularly since her explanations are not clear-cut enough to serve the beginning user (she isn't strong on definition of terms, for instance) and are too stream-of-consciousness to be of much use to seasoned fans of postmodernist thinking. keywords: book; feminism; flax; postmodern; postmodernism; thinking cache: pmc-v2n2-ross-fragmented.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-ross-fragmented.txt item: #70 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-schultz-impossible author: Schultz title: Impossible Music date: 1992-01 words: 2920 flesch: 71 summary: [13] The poet's prime temptation, according to Ashbery, is not language, but careerism; Ashbery %is% [9] So much, also, for Ashbery's harshest critics, whose calls to arms Ashbery answers in _Flow Chart_. keywords: ashbery; bronk; chart; flow; john; language; poetry; work; world cache: pmc-v2n2-schultz-impossible.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-schultz-impossible.txt item: #71 of 305 id: pmc-v2n2-staples-white author: Staples title: White Male Ways Of Knowing date: 1992-01 words: 4692 flesch: 66 summary: This was going to be an in-your-face slam-dunk film about black people doing black stuff in black ways made by that bad black guy Spike Lee. Thus, while I was interested and impressed by her description of the way that her family critiqued white representations of black people on TV in the 1950s (3), I was also left with the impression that she has always been as militant as she is now, and that she (among other black women) has always been in the place that everyone else is just now discovering. keywords: black; blackness; culture; film; hooks; people; postmodern; reading; self; white; work cache: pmc-v2n2-staples-white.txt plain text: pmc-v2n2-staples-white.txt item: #72 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-altman-review author: Altman title: Review Of Making Sex date: 1992-05 words: 2959 flesch: 48 summary: Making Sex_ is an ambitious investigation of Western scientific conceptions of sexual difference. [11] We might well lose the title of the book, of course, which plays on the equivocation between sexual difference and sexual activity, and (coupled with the naked women on the cover) gives a rather false impression of forthcoming titillation, since the subject of _Making Sex_ is actually quite a sober one. keywords: body; female; gender; history; laqueur; making; sex; sexual; social; women cache: pmc-v2n3-altman-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-altman-review.txt item: #73 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-collins-vietnam author: Collins title: Vietnam Wa date: 1992-05 words: 2417 flesch: 48 summary: It is all well and good to turn Vietnam vets into heroes, but not at the expense of their children and their history. Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature_. keywords: american; berg; essays; history; individual; literature; rowe; vietnam; vietnam war; war; white cache: pmc-v2n3-collins-vietnam.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-collins-vietnam.txt item: #74 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1992-05 words: 10316 flesch: 53 summary: For further information contact: Wendell Harris Department of English Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 Telephone: 814-863-2343 or 814-865-9243 30)------------------------------------------------------------- The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition July 8-11, 1992 Although there is no rigid theme to the exhibition, we would particularly like to encourage you to produce new work that addresses the issues that are documented above. keywords: = =; address; art; arts; artwork; available; communication; computer; conference; contact; cultural; culture; discussion; english; fax; history; information; international; issues; journal; literature; mail; new; papers; phone; popular; science; social; society; special; spring; state; studies; subscription; symposium; systems; theory; u.s; university; volume; work; writing cache: pmc-v2n3-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-editor-announcements.txt item: #75 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-extavasia-fucking author: Extavasia title: Fucking (With Theory) For Money: Toward An Interrogation Of Escort Prostitution date: 1992-05 words: 6403 flesch: 63 summary: Baudrillard, Jean. The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech_ (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1989), 2. ^8^ Jean Baudrillard, _ keywords: agency; body; bwo; client; cyborg; d&g; desire; exchange; model; object; space; system; telephone; time; value cache: pmc-v2n3-extavasia-fucking.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-extavasia-fucking.txt item: #76 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-foley-review author: Foley title: Review Of Post-Modernism And The Social Sciences date: 1992-05 words: 2397 flesch: 49 summary: More generally, though, she is inclined to pit postmodernism against social science. American social scientists have no further to go than Robert K. Merton, whose definition of social science as the investigation of the unintended consequences of human action justly characterizes the mainstream of social scientific research since the nineteenth century. keywords: book; claims; contemporary; foucault; new; post; postmodernism; rosenau; science; social cache: pmc-v2n3-foley-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-foley-review.txt item: #77 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-griggers-lesbian author: Griggers title: Lesbian Bodies In The Age Of (Post)Mechanical Reproduction date: 1992-05 words: 3236 flesch: 43 summary: [15] Lesbian identities have always presented a challenge to essentialist notions of feminine identity, and never more so than when lesbian bodies are set in the historical context of postmodernity. Let's face it; lesbian bodies in postmodernity are going broadcast, they're going techno-culture, and they're going mainstream. keywords: bodies; body; cultural; culture; identity; lesbian; postmodernity; reproduction; sex; signs; straight; technologies; women cache: pmc-v2n3-griggers-lesbian.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-griggers-lesbian.txt item: #78 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-heise-becoming author: Heise title: Becoming Postmodern? date: 1992-05 words: 3073 flesch: 42 summary: How do we get, for example, from the discursive formation that grounds historical time to the one that opens up the possibility of rhythmic time? Ermarth does not quote Roland Barthes's critique of narrative time as a purely representational convention, or Thomas Docherty's recent concept of a postmodern chrono-politics, both sources that are highly relevant to many of her considerations; neither does she mention Philippe Le Touze's claim that in the %nouveau roman%, temporality has shifted from story to discourse, a hypothesis that anticipates her own claim that in the postmodern novel, time becomes a function of language. keywords: concept; ermarth; historical; language; narrative; postmodern; postmodernism; rhythmic; temporality; time cache: pmc-v2n3-heise-becoming.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-heise-becoming.txt item: #79 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-jennings-text author: Jennings title: Text Is Dead; Long Live The Techst date: 1992-05 words: 5216 flesch: 55 summary: [31] As Landow himself says, hypertext technology lets us start testing questions and assumptions. To that extent, at least, hypertext technology resembles network technology: sharing, abundance, even the dreaded overload are its hallmarks, rather than the sort of de-centering that implies reduction or diminishment. keywords: author; book; control; culture; hypertext; landow; literary; narrative; new; power; reader; review; space; technology; theory; writer; writing cache: pmc-v2n3-jennings-text.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-jennings-text.txt item: #80 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-kalaidjian-mainlining author: Kalaidjian title: Mainlining Postmodernism: Jenny Holze date: 1992-05 words: 9357 flesch: 40 summary: Negotiating the official spaces of New York advertising demanded a reconsideration of the artwork beyond the limits of intrinsic form. In Turning Back the Clock: Art and Politics in 1984, Hilton Kramer, the ideologue of painterly formalism, sought to discredit a number of gallery exhibitions mounted in resistance to the rapid gentrification of the New York art market. keywords: advertising; aesthetic; art; avant; baudrillard; benjamin; city; class; contemporary; critique; cultural; culture; everyday; gallery; greenberg; holzer; image; kramer; kruger; l.e.d; life; mass; media; medium; new; new york; people; political; politics; popular; postmodern; press; public; signs; social; spectacle; text; truisms; work; world; york cache: pmc-v2n3-kalaidjian-mainlining.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-kalaidjian-mainlining.txt item: #81 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-mancini-review author: Mancini title: Review Of Thinking Across The American Grain date: 1992-05 words: 2190 flesch: 47 summary: These influences, maturing in the nineteenth rather than the eighteenth century, and in the United States rather than Europe, worked toward a dismantling of virtually all of the religious assumptions on which American literary culture was then based (138). Chief among them is Jurgen Habermas, whose _The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity_ (MIT Press, 1987) is a narrative of the history of Enlightenment philosophy and its deconstruction by postmodernists. keywords: american; culture; enlightenment; grain; gunn; new; postmodern; rorty; thought cache: pmc-v2n3-mancini-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-mancini-review.txt item: #82 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-mccarthy-postmodern author: Mccarthy title: Postmodern Pleasure And Perversity: Scientism And Sadism date: 1992-05 words: 11685 flesch: 49 summary: In addition, it stylistically underpins the electrodynamics of the global image making systems which channel postmodern desire. MCCARTHY, 'POSTMODERN PLEASURE AND PERVERSITY: SCIENTISM AND SADISM', Postmodern Culture v2n3 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v2n3-mccarthy-postmodern.txt POSTMODERN PLEASURE AND PERVERSITY: SCIENTISM AND SADISM by PAUL MCCARTHY Division of Commerce and Administration Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia _Postmodern Culture_ v.2 n.3 (May, 1992) keywords: capital; culture; deconstruction; deleuze; desire; difference; form; guattari; human; juliette; lyotard; nature; number; particles; physics; play; pleasure; postmodern; postmodernism; quantum; relations; sade; signifiers; social; space; subject; terms; thought; weil cache: pmc-v2n3-mccarthy-postmodern.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-mccarthy-postmodern.txt item: #83 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-owens-drum author: Owens title: "Drum And Whistle" And "Black Stems," Two Poems From Luca: Discourse On Life & Death date: 1992-05 words: 2437 flesch: -149 summary: you stare down into heat she falls backwards mistrusts holes in the hands and feet used nails every inch death patterns circles spirals cross recross every inch nearer and nearer into heat his neck stretches Ahalpuh he who he who makes pus every name shadows on the walls wind spirals into heat spills sand gravel you ride up close nearer and nearer you use ropes to pull the head and torso held her whitish bones high in air near a forked tree broken rocks a mile of black dust whose names are gouged letters angled white-edged your fingers through sand clay through sand clay silt your fingers tracing slant of wall every inch mistrusts deviates Tell me who assures you that this work ever was black stems sticking out letters planted shape a headless idol crust ash then you ride up close loosen your braids hoof-beats swerving shadowed on walls you heard crows their claws searching black coals clumps of deep-pink rot fissures death patterns backflow crossed left to right you are drawing raw thongs image of a whipped and crucified woman your saliva pools behind your teeth you lower your wrist plagued by doubt angled letters gouged into walls nearer and nearer smoke from a burning cross smoke from a burning cross spreads over you looked at a photograph miles of cracked clay walls of a circular house spilling blows sand on carcass near a forked tree near a forked tree pointed tracks broken rocks stained with blood strips calculated weight and night air measured outlines counted counted one for crow one for cutworm through woodland smoke from a burning cross mistrusts you ride up close right right to left of corpse staring down analyzing death patterns jaw crushed pus from slit ears deep-pink marrow deep-pink marrow exposed blue haze through woodland you heard crows their claws searching horses passing near a forked tree hooves pointed tracks death patterns bones black horns curve out sand mud hooves crushing entrails bright red bright red stems red wild corn slowly ash crust soaking Ahalpuh he who makes pus you ride up close stare down on horseback pursing pursing your lips measuring claws your neck stretches left to right nearer and nearer I mesmerize intoned snake winding covered their heads with blankets black horns curve out sand mud blue haze through woodland a forked tree you ride up close squeezing a staff a staff with a skull splashes black urine Ahalpuh he who makes pus then hip shoulder elbow and in heel of cadavre stomach stomach and bones stretched out he stares down on horseback pursing their lips measuring strips of soil strips soil riddled invades bright bright red stems circles slowly calculating strips walls in aluminum analyzing death patterns blood segmented cell by cell deep-pink plague slicing bright-red stems their neck stretching left to right their lips measuring ransacking measuring ransacking entrails glistening ash crust soaking one for the cutworm one for the crow dissected correctly counting plastic plastic tubes filling plastic tubes glowing in sunlight you angled your face analyzing death patterns one light amber stone red wild corn dark ridge gouged gouged configurations ripped two halves two halves of parchment multiplying death patterns you put slashes in through which water through which water runs spreads over America through silt ash silt clay death patterns plague crossed I heard crows their claws searching riddled bright red stems one gouged exposed your whitish bones exhausted outlines gravel sand skull neck your wrists arch backwards crushing backwards crushing seeds she wraps a blanket through which blood slowly such great decay she stares down plagued by doubt pus from slit ears horse and rider in darkness tubes counted one for squirrel one for crow entrails walls freezing paint stained circles on the stomach and bones you ride up close begin searching my painting two halves cut into side deep-pink crust heat from a burning log internal and external burns glowing in sunlight burns glowing in sunlight widening a pair of jaws long slow counting teeth burnt in fire knife in one hand a blanket in the other one hand a blanket in the other gray hands stretched measured bones up close ends cleaved deep-pink marrow exposed sections you analyze the assemblage death patterns outlines of a new country then Mona looked at a circular house under the trees she fasted scattered cremains scattered cremains in the morning sun ash blood black clay glowing in sunlight death patterns floating like props backwards one by one upside down image of a whipped and crucified woman her saliva pools behind her teeth then an old Osage woman crushing seeds her palms shadowed Quicxic bloody wind Quicrixcac bloody claw notched stick end lower three long strokes strokes from end to end Flora waves her arm offering yellows from plants from the stick toward toward the sun her image crossed lines paint congeals you ride up close after each stroke upper torso shadowed skull neck body Salia details holes in the hands and feet north of the fire peculiar forms red stems splitting Leo n a rdo makes a circular mark passing his hands measuring skull scalp parchment Spaniards wearing braided silk belts ropes used to pull the head and torso elbows knees necks alternating floating like props looking she heard crows their claws searching image of a whipped and crucified woman her iron-gray braids hanging end to end toward the sun following crossed lines of paint lines cross recross the center freezing hard roots no sound no sound of hoof-beats you ride up close searching when you looked the heel of the cadavre segmented cell by cell encased roots upper torso of the little man multiplying seethed and probed palms arch resin sap jets saturates behind walls Salia's sketch of smoke lines cross recross tendons veins clutches bright red stems measuring two halves of a circular house sides of aluminum walls you stare down on horseback you suppose she reveals peculiar forms groups of forms groups of the first Spaniards in America Leo n a rdo paints child & Mona as leaves sweeten lip-synced Sigmund Quicrixcac bloody claw Quicxic bloody bloody wind no sound no sound scattered cremains in the morning sun crossed lines of paint circles congeals image of a whipped and crucified woman her iron-gray braids hanging ----------------------------------------------------------- BLACK STEMS scattered cremains through a woodland near a forked near a forked tree patterns seeding and yellow blossoms hydrogen green You scattered delicate blossoms my forearm tightens spreads over right to left red stems counted one for crow one for cutworm the first skull showing lines crossed recrossed yellow skin raw keywords: black; clay; death; forked; neck; red; sand; stems; walls cache: pmc-v2n3-owens-drum.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-owens-drum.txt item: #84 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-pfeil-revolting author: Pfeil title: Revolting Yet Conserved: Family %Noir% In Blue Velvet And Terminator 2 date: 1992-05 words: 13914 flesch: 47 summary: Does %film noir% constitute its own genre; a style which can be deployed across generic boundaries; a movement within Hollywood cinema, limited to its place in space and time? [5] For starters, moreover, we would do well to resist the very notion of straightforward repetition or return to explain such films as _Body Heat_ (1981) and the remakes of _ keywords: arnold; blue; blue velvet; boy; contemporary; course; cultural; culture; desire; family; father; film; image; jeffrey; john; like; lynch; male; man; moment; narrative; new; noir%; non; particular; past; plot; post; power; present; sarah; sense; shot; social; system; t-1000; terminator; time; velvet; way; white; work; york cache: pmc-v2n3-pfeil-revolting.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-pfeil-revolting.txt item: #85 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-poster-review author: Poster title: Review Of Michel Foucault date: 1992-05 words: 995 flesch: 52 summary: [6] The incident illustrates the seriousness of Foucault's dedication to intellectual work. Foucault_. keywords: book; eribon; foucault; michel; work cache: pmc-v2n3-poster-review.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-poster-review.txt item: #86 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-potter-edward author: Potter title: Edward Schizohands: The Postmodern Gothic Body date: 1992-05 words: 6359 flesch: 65 summary: When she takes Edward home, she unwittingly opens a crisis within the unreal reality of her neighborhood; having brought the real (Gothic Edward, whose schizo hands will make the %unheimlich% out of the %allzuheimlich%) within the capitalist machine, all other values come into question--or rather, the absence of value as such is disclosed, as soon becomes evident in the dinner-table moralizing of Peg's husband Bill. The drama of _Edward Scissorhands_, consequently, is not the persecution and destruction of the monster, but rather the implosion of the Oedipal family, which is disclosed as monstrous--the drama, in short of Anti-Oedipus. keywords: anti; body; dead; desire; edward; family; film; frankenstein; gothic; guattari; hands; inventor; jim; kim; like; machines; oedipal; postmodern; schizo; scissorhands cache: pmc-v2n3-potter-edward.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-potter-edward.txt item: #87 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-pratt-speaking author: Pratt title: Speaking In Tongues: Dead Elvis And The Greil Quest date: 1992-05 words: 1967 flesch: 68 summary: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession_, _Dead Elvis_ collects Marcus's writings on Elvis from 1977 to 1990, but they are inspired by the wide range of representations that make this book more of a cultural conversation than a chronicle. _Dead Elvis_ serves the art project well, mystifying further what it cannot really want to strip away, rewriting a funny ending to an absurd tragedy in which the king died in his bathroom before the town was saved. keywords: book; cultural; culture; dead; elvis; marcus; sexual cache: pmc-v2n3-pratt-speaking.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-pratt-speaking.txt item: #88 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-terada-pressures author: Terada title: Pressures Of Merely Sublimating date: 1992-05 words: 2544 flesch: 46 summary: American Sublime_ comes down to its synthetic atmosphere: The American landscape, as site of collective sublimity, has transported poets from Bradstreet to Bryant and beyond into whit-manic tropes of expanded power and higher energy. American Sublime_ thus substitutes a declarative decreation of canonicity--%fiat multiplicitas%--for the reconfiguration of American poetic genealogy it announces. keywords: american; bloom; emerson; poetry; postmodern; power; stevens; sublime; whitman; wilson cache: pmc-v2n3-terada-pressures.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-terada-pressures.txt item: #89 of 305 id: pmc-v2n3-theall-beyond author: Theall title: Beyond The Orality/Literacy Dichotomy: James Joyce And The Pre-History Of Cyberspace date: 1992-05 words: 8652 flesch: 47 summary: (_Ulysses_ also involves such an encounter, but at an earlier stage in the historic development of mediated communication.) From this perspective, the semic units of the _Wake_ (integrated complexes constructed from the interaction of speech and print involving, rhythm, orthography as sign and gesture and visual image) assume the role of dialogue with other modes of mediated communication, exploiting their limitations and differences. keywords: body; book; communication; complex; cyberspace; development; gesture; history; james; joyce; language; like; mcluhan; media; modes; new; orality; poetic; print; reality; role; sense; speech; transformation; virtual; wake; word; work; writing cache: pmc-v2n3-theall-beyond.txt plain text: pmc-v2n3-theall-beyond.txt item: #90 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-aycock-postliteracy author: Aycock title: Post-Literacy date: 1992-09 words: 1696 flesch: 40 summary: Some argue that hypertext is politically neutral; Victor Raskin, for instance, states that [a]ll hypertext does is to present a format, a methodology, a tool for recording the already-established links. [6] More contentious, however, are the political implications of hypertext. keywords: bourdieu; culture; hypertext; literacy; new; online; postmodern; tuman cache: pmc-v3n1-aycock-postliteracy.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-aycock-postliteracy.txt item: #91 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-coover-titles author: Coover title: Titles Sequence From The Adventures Of Lucky Pierre date: 1992-09 words: 2677 flesch: 75 summary: After you! --Thank you, Mr. Peters! --Morning, sir! Thank you, sir! Ah, damn it, is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? o o o o o He walks through winter like that, wheezing and whistling, feeling sorry for himself, aching with cold, sick of keeping it up anymore, but scared to die, picking them up, putting them down, hup two three, attaboy, yes, there he goes, a living legend, who knows, maybe the last of his kind, seen through a whirl of blowing snow, through a scrim of messages, an unfocused word-filter, lamenting the world's glacial entropy and the snow down his neck, bobbing along in this cold sea of pathetic mourners, this isocephalic compaction of misery and affliction, the dying city and he in it, whimpering: piss on it! keywords: candle; city; cold; crump; end; light; like; man; old; snow; wind cache: pmc-v3n1-coover-titles.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-coover-titles.txt item: #92 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-cruz-five author: Cruz title: Five Days Of Bleeding date: 1992-09 words: 13521 flesch: 99 summary: I'm dying by the hour, said Zu-Zu. She's gotta have it, I told Chops. I am the laughing woman with the black black face, said Zu-Zu. Lighten up, honey, I said. keywords: big; black; blue; bottle; chops; face; flukie; girl; good; gun; head; johnson; love; man; monk; mouth; niggahs; park; silver; spat; sterling; sterling silver; time; way; woman; zu spat cache: pmc-v3n1-cruz-five.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-cruz-five.txt item: #93 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-ducornet-from author: Ducornet title: From Birdland date: 1992-09 words: 7365 flesch: 73 summary: Fogginius--who eagerly took down testimony from whoever would give it--and more testimony from schoolboys than one would think possible--explained the phenomena thus: heathens cannot enter heaven and must remain behind to haunt their former homes, whereas the Old Fantasmas were all Christian and had been _seized by heaven whole_. Having napped now, rolled into a ball and blinking, Nuno was startled to see a projected image of the room's one lopsided window and of Fogginius suspended before it _upside down_. keywords: birdland; eyes; fantasma; fogginius; island; little; man; moon; night; nuno; old; picotazo; poet; pope; publius; saint; scholar; sea; sky; thought; world; years cache: pmc-v3n1-ducornet-from.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-ducornet-from.txt item: #94 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1992-09 words: 9043 flesch: 42 summary: Dr. Michael Neuman Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 DEADLINES Proposals for papers and sessions November 1, 1992 Notification of acceptance February 1, 1993 Nancy Ide, Vassar College (ACH) Randall Jones, Brigham Young University (ACH) Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa (ALLC) Local organizer: Michael Neuman, Georgetown University (ACH) keywords: address; american; art; available; center; college; conference; cultural; culture; david; discussion; electronic; feminist; fiction; humanities; hypertext; information; international; issue; journal; list; literary; literature; mail; major; new; november; papers; postmodern; program; public; publication; pynchon; research; robert; society; special; studies; submissions; technology; theory; university; year cache: pmc-v3n1-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-editor-announcements.txt item: #95 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-kemeny-attempts author: Kemeny title: Attempts On Life date: 1992-09 words: 5725 flesch: 90 summary: That each time she made the epic journey from bed to some forever she traveled light on the aura of first love? And the door slamming the wall of the foyer and grandmother squeezing momma so close that the down in the pillow cracks and the orders for the swine to move and the gun to the spine and momma's whimpering into grandmother's belly and grandmother's dark lips in a line with the horizon and the words ghetto and lager and grandfather's rages melting through his knees--we are poor got nothing but a wife and kid and trouble on the way spare us you are good men--rifle butt between the ribs and the trembling sullen bargain-begging silent sobbing unbroken procession of yellow stars down the stone corridor and the fresh blood seeping into my floorcrack from the grooves of a stolen shoe. keywords: good; grandmother; kemeny; life; light; line; little; love; momma; mother; old; real; red; time; wall; war; woman; words; world; writing cache: pmc-v3n1-kemeny-attempts.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-kemeny-attempts.txt item: #96 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-kiernan-condition author: Kiernan title: Condition Mcgann date: 1992-09 words: 3149 flesch: 47 summary: [7] In The Socialization of Texts McGann further develops his argument that texts are transmogrified by new productions with new receptions. [4] Although his scholarly focus is on texts written during the past two centuries, McGann is aware that the textual condition of premodern literature, and the textual methods of studying it, provide some useful models for these postmodern perceptions. keywords: bibliographical; book; codes; condition; literary; mcgann; new; pound; reading; texts; textual cache: pmc-v3n1-kiernan-condition.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-kiernan-condition.txt item: #97 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-laidlaw-great author: Laidlaw title: Great Breakthroughs In Darkness (Bein date: 1992-09 words: 6079 flesch: 65 summary: Alas! That this speculation is somewhat too refined to be introduced into a modern novel or romance; for what a %denouement% we should have, if we could suppose the secrets of the darkened chamber to be revealed by the testimony of the imprinted paper! -- William Henry Fox Talbot -A- AANSCHULTZ, CONREID (c. 1820 - October 12, 1888) Inventor of the praxiscope technology (%which see%), Professor Aanschultz believed that close observation of physiology and similar superficial phenomena could lead to direct revelation of the inner or secret processes of nature. For poor Aanschultz, time was compressed from line to point. keywords: aanschultz; abat; acetylene; black; bottles; corner; darkness; eyes; friend; girl; glass; hands; laboratory; light; like; professor; room; thought; way; work cache: pmc-v3n1-laidlaw-great.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-laidlaw-great.txt item: #98 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-mccaffery-remarks author: Mccaffery title: Remark date: 1992-09 words: 8236 flesch: 38 summary: ================================= VI. Without belaboring the point, and admitting the fact that having spent a lot of time and energy over the past several years putting together fiction anthologies devoted to various topics (see the Contributors' Notes), let me just suggest that now is the appropriate time for someone (thought the time is definitely not appropriate for _me_) to develop a serious discussion exploring the aesthetic of anthologies generally--and of the fiction anthology as a literary genre in particular. keywords: = =; acker; aesthetic; anthologies; anthology; authors; coover; culture; different; editor; editorial; features; fiction; introduction; issue; life; literary; new; pop; postmodern; process; readers; selections; vollmann; work; writing cache: pmc-v3n1-mccaffery-remarks.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-mccaffery-remarks.txt item: #99 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-millard-bargaincounterculturalcapitalism author: Millard title: Bargaincounterculturalcapitalism: Gear And Writhing At The New Music Seminar date: 1992-09 words: 6369 flesch: 40 summary: ^8^ See O'Sullivan for a detailed account and interpretation of the ongoing moral panic over alleged Satanism in rock music. If the NMS, like the new music it claims as its province, is inconceivable without the historical eruptions of punk and rap into popular music during the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively, it may be instructive to apply to it a few terms of historical analysis that were also generated in 1977. keywords: activity; american; artists; attali; audience; discourse; exchange; industry; like; music; musical; new; new music; nms; panel; plugs; police; pop; practice; rap; record; rock; seminar; social; song; time; warner; year; york cache: pmc-v3n1-millard-bargaincounterculturalcapitalism.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-millard-bargaincounterculturalcapitalism.txt item: #100 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-potter-black author: Potter title: Black (W)Hole Of Bataille: A Genealogy Of Postmodernism? date: 1992-09 words: 4898 flesch: 49 summary: Robert Hurley's text preserves (as have his previous translations of Bataille) both the unrelenting care and the reckless audacity of Bataille's prose, and Bruce Mau's impeccable design--as always with _Zone_ books--renders the physicality of the volume a delight to hand and eye. ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES ^1^ The full citations for these are as follows: _Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939_, ed. It is not the subjectivity of the bourgeois that Bataille calls into question--it is a given for him that it is *already* questionable--but rather that subject's relation to society, which is not obliterated but *secured* through the experience of limits. keywords: bataille; baudrillard; end; excess; lyotard; nietzsche; pefanis; question; share; society; sovereign; subject; text; volume cache: pmc-v3n1-potter-black.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-potter-black.txt item: #101 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-schultz-postmodern author: Schultz title: Postmodern Promos date: 1992-09 words: 3087 flesch: 57 summary: As Bernstein says it (he, too, sounding a lot like someone who has found the original Waldo amid a crowd of faces): %Poetry is aversion of conformity% in the pursuit of new forms, or can be (1); and I care most about poetry that disrupts business as usual, including literary business: I care most for poetry as dissent, including formal dissent; poetry that makes sounds possible to be heard that are not otherwise articulated (2). Free verse = freedom; open form = open mind, open heart: for almost half a century, writes Perloff, these equations have been accepted as axiomatic, the corollary of what has come to be called, with respect to poetic language, the 'natural look.' keywords: advertising; artifice; bernstein; image; language; perloff; poetry; verse; way; writing cache: pmc-v3n1-schultz-postmodern.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-schultz-postmodern.txt item: #102 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-stephens-postmodern author: Stephens title: Postmodern Woolf date: 1992-09 words: 2262 flesch: 48 summary: [2] For Caughie the insistence upon choosing between dualisms--fact/fiction, surface/depth, form/content, art/politics, for example--has brought Woolf scholarship to a critical impasse. The problem is not simply a matter of Caughie's lapse into dualism, although it is curious that her broad conception of postmodern narrative relations cannot gain even a toehold upon _ keywords: art; caughie; critical; narrative; postmodern; reader; reading; woolf cache: pmc-v3n1-stephens-postmodern.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-stephens-postmodern.txt item: #103 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-tranter-mr author: Tranter title: Mr. Rubenking'S "Brekdown" date: 1992-09 words: 2555 flesch: 69 summary: The program continues generating characters, words, and lines of text until you ask it to stop. [13] Then the chunk is shifted one character to the right, and the process is repeated--that is, the chunk's first character is dropped, the current next character is tacked onto the end, and the index and the frequency table is updated for the character that follows that chunk of characters. keywords: brekdown; character; chunk; end; frequency; john; like; magazine; poetry; program; rubenking; text cache: pmc-v3n1-tranter-mr.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-tranter-mr.txt item: #104 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-various-pmctalk author: Various title: Pmc-Talk date: 1992-09 words: 14772 flesch: 61 summary: These include evolutionary trees, trees of language history (showing, for example, the descent of the Indo-European languages), 'stemmata' of manuscripts that show how an ancient text was copied and altered over time, and so on. As naturalists came to accept evolution, the tree came to be the principal model of the natural system, and evolutionary trees came to be published with some regularity beginning in the late 1800s. keywords: 1992; = =; analysis; aug; biology; book; cladistic; classification; culture; cut; date; diagrams; discussion; evolutionary; general; historical; history; language; like; linguistics; list; method; new; phylogenetic; pmc; point; postmodern; press; robert; science; society; state; subject; systematics; talk; text; theoretical; theory; tree; university; war; works cache: pmc-v3n1-various-pmctalk.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-various-pmctalk.txt item: #105 of 305 id: pmc-v3n1-vollmann-incarnations author: Vollmann title: Incarnations Of The Murderer date: 1992-09 words: 4171 flesch: 89 summary: On the komatik, whose slats had been partly covered by a caribou skin (now frozen into iron wrinkles), he lay comfortably on his side, gripping two slat-ends with his fishy-smelling sealskin mitts which were already getting ice-granules behind the liner (an old bedsheet) because every time he wiped his nose with the skintight capilene gloves the snot was soaked up by the old bedsheet which then began to freeze; and as the komatik rattled along at the end of its leash, making firm tracks in the snow- covered ice, the wind froze the snot around his nose and mouth into white rings, but not immediately because it was not cold enough yet to make breath-frost into instant whiskers; however, it was certainly cold enough to make his cheek ache from contact with the crust of snot-ice on the ski mask; meanwhile the smoothness of the sea began to be interrupted by hard white shards where competing currents had gashed the ice open and then the wound had scarred; sometimes the ice-plates had forced each other's edges into uprising splinters that melded and massed into strange shapes; the Inuk wended the skidoo between these when he could, going slowly so that the komatik did not lurch too badly; his back was erect, almost stern, the rifle at a ready diagonal, and he steered south toward a thick horizon-band that seemed to be fog or blowing snow; in fact it was the steam of open water. Jet black water became black and green there as it descended into bubbling pools close enough to the entrance to reflect the jungle, from the branches of which the black and orange-tailed birds hung like seedpods. keywords: bird; black; blood; girls; green; grey; long; man; mouth; souls; taste; tree; water; white cache: pmc-v3n1-vollmann-incarnations.txt plain text: pmc-v3n1-vollmann-incarnations.txt item: #106 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-agre-sustainability author: Agre title: Sustainability And Critique date: 1993-01 words: 4251 flesch: 40 summary: Nonetheless, Wright's book is important and challenging, and required reading for anybody with a conceptual interest in environmentalism as social practice. It seems implausible, however, that a conception of truth and reality could itself determine whether a system of social practices is sustainable. keywords: formal; human; institutions; knowledge; language; legitimation; mathematical; natural; nature; particular; scientific; social; sustainability; theory; wright cache: pmc-v3n2-agre-sustainability.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-agre-sustainability.txt item: #107 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-allen-baptismal author: Allen title: Baptismal Eulogies: Reconstructing Deconstruction From The Ashes date: 1993-01 words: 7328 flesch: 53 summary: The Other Heading_, Derrida offers compelling evidence that, whatever the result of the urge toward memorialization currently underway in the American academy, *Derridean* deconstruction is alive and well and quite up to the challenges of the new century. ___________________________________________________________ NOTES ^1^ The Premature Burial, in _The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe_, New York: Derrida, Jacques. keywords: american; burial; capital; cinders; criticism; cultural; deconstruction; derrida; derridean; europe; example; fact; heading; identity; lehman; meaning; new; past; premature; text; word; works cache: pmc-v3n2-allen-baptismal.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-allen-baptismal.txt item: #108 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-aycock-derridafort-da author: Aycock title: Derrida/Fort-Da: Deconstructing Play date: 1993-01 words: 12539 flesch: 57 summary: Chess as Fort-da: Five Examples [10] To apply my reading of Derrida's approach to fort-da, I adduce five examples of different forms of chess: casual play, tournament play, correspondence play, computer play, and skittles. [46] How is computer play structured, and where is that structure brought into question? keywords: aycock; board; chess; clock; computer; correspondence; derrida; fort; freud; game; man; moves; new; older; pieces; play; players; playing; presence; rules; sense; situation; skittles; talk; time; tournament; writing; younger cache: pmc-v3n2-aycock-derridafort-da.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-aycock-derridafort-da.txt item: #109 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-burnett-toward author: Burnett title: Toward A Theory Of Hypertextual Design date: 1993-01 words: 5476 flesch: 47 summary: Information may be structured hierarchically within a hypermedia system, but only to the extent that such a structure exists in a coterminous relationship with other structures. An examination of the influence of the mode of information on social structure can only be enriched by the recognition of the impact of mass-production, in the form of the mechanized reproduction of written language, on that structure. keywords: book; communication; exchange; hypermedia; hypertext; individual; information; language; media; mode; poster; press; production; rhizome; root; structure; user cache: pmc-v3n2-burnett-toward.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-burnett-toward.txt item: #110 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-dragomoshchenko-from author: Dragomoshchenko title: From Phosphor date: 1993-01 words: 1805 flesch: 73 summary: Moreover, the people involved in a narrative, in other words the characters, don't in themselves represent much of anything, except in the case of a woman who takes an important role in the action (and there is such a portrait: a familiarly shaped mouth, wide lips, a habit of adjusting the shoulders of her dress, etc.--and another, intimate portrait, more transparent: her brownish pubic hair cut short, an imponderable scar on her waist, wide pale aureoles around her nipples, the trace of a tattoo between them), whose son died a few years ago. But they waved sunflowers after us, which had turned gold like their eyes, withered by grief and yet also by consciousness of the happiness which had befallen them; or rather, of course, first by one and then by the other; but they simply hadn't managed to figure out that they had been happier in other times when other models of happiness had been offered them. keywords: glass; like; moment; places; question; second; time cache: pmc-v3n2-dragomoshchenko-from.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-dragomoshchenko-from.txt item: #111 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1993-01 words: 8051 flesch: 50 summary: Full names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses (if available) 2. Please e-mail your feedback to the editor, Luigi-Bob Drake, at: au462@cleveland.freenet.edu Requests for e-mail subscriptions should be sent to the same address--they are free. keywords: + +; art; articles; artists; arts; available; culture; discussion; editor; electronic; f.a.s.t; forum; information; international; issues; journal; list; literature; mail; new; news; papers; program; review; science; subscribe; technology; theory; time; university; usa; video; work; year cache: pmc-v3n2-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-editor-announcements.txt item: #112 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-honoria-introducing author: Honoria title: Introducing Mail Art: A Karen Elliot Interview With Crackerjack Kid And Honoria date: 1993-01 words: 4580 flesch: 65 summary: Crackerjack Kid has been active in mail art since 1978 and is the editor of _Eternal Network_, an illustrated mail art anthology scheduled for publication in 1993 by University of Calgary Press. Well, Crackerjack Kid, they say you compare mail art to Crackerjack candy--that you like putting a surprise in everybody's mailbox. keywords: art; artists; cjk; congress; crackerjack; fluxus; honoria; johnson; karen; kid; maciunas; mail; mail art; networker; new; project; ray; telematic; telenetlink cache: pmc-v3n2-honoria-introducing.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-honoria-introducing.txt item: #113 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-lee-cookbooks author: Lee title: Cookbooks For Theory And Performance date: 1993-01 words: 3171 flesch: 46 summary: Joe Roach's work on the artificial eye of Augustan theater, Spencer Golub's on the iconization of Chaplin in postrevolutionary Russia, and Tracy Davis's readings of Annie Oakley in particular show the exciting results of critical theory, meticulous scholarship, and intelligent writing. Eliminating this final section would also help avoid the troubling implication that well-known critics such as Case and Blau deserve their own special section and the last word on as well as in critical theory and performance. keywords: academic; books; critical; essays; new; performance; power; section; theater; theatrical; theoretical; theory cache: pmc-v3n2-lee-cookbooks.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-lee-cookbooks.txt item: #114 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-mcgann-symposium author: Mcgann title: Symposium On Russian Postmodernism date: 1993-01 words: 12438 flesch: 56 summary: If anything, this urge to expose (inaugurated in Russian culture by Vissarion Belinsky [1811-1848]) is something quite alien to the works in question; they do notexpose--they deconstruct. Finally, Third Wave is not, as it claims to be, the first anthology of new Russian poetry to be published in English. keywords: arkadii; certain; chernetsky; cultural; culture; date; dear; english; essay; history; language; like; lyn; marjorie; meaning; means; memory; new; object; perloff; poetry; poets; point; postmodernism; question; russian; soviet; subject; symposium; time; vitaly; wave; western; word; writing cache: pmc-v3n2-mcgann-symposium.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-mcgann-symposium.txt item: #115 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-morrison-hitchcock author: Morrison title: Hitchcock: The Industry date: 1993-01 words: 3280 flesch: 52 summary: Even if we dismiss those books that are patently popular, like Donald Spoto's biography, or those that give Hitchcock only a sustained sidelong glance, like Slavoj Zizek's _Looking Awry_, we are still left to contend with some two dozen ample volumes--this in the field of film studies that is itself barely twenty years old. Perhaps assuming (wrongly, if so) that the implications of auteur theory have been played out fully in film studies, Kapsis treats the topic at its basic level by implication, and his references to it are dispersed broadly across the text. keywords: auteur; auteurism; critics; cultural; film; hitchcock; kapsis; reception; reputation; studies; wood; work cache: pmc-v3n2-morrison-hitchcock.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-morrison-hitchcock.txt item: #116 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-moulthrop-deuteronomy author: Moulthrop title: Deuteronomy Comix date: 1993-01 words: 5000 flesch: 59 summary: The Difference Engine_ represents the fruition of the cyberspace/cyberpunk enterprise, then _Snow Crash_ may represent a limit case. Which brings us to the most important aspects of _Snow Crash_: its plot, its medium, and the interaction between the two. keywords: bob; book; crash; culture; cyberpunk; cyberspace; difference; fiction; gibson; hiro; metaverse; new; novel; snow; snow crash; stephenson; street; world; york cache: pmc-v3n2-moulthrop-deuteronomy.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-moulthrop-deuteronomy.txt item: #117 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-perloff-russian author: Perloff title: Russian Postmodernism: An Oxymoron? date: 1993-01 words: 8682 flesch: 49 summary: Reality itself disappeared, yielding to the most refined and provocative theories of realities and, next, to the practical modes of the production of reality. It is true that the postmodernist self- awareness of Soviet reality emerged later than parallel philosophical developments in the West. keywords: art; civilization; communist; conceptualism; culture; dust; epstein; form; ideas; ideological; ideology; late; like; marxism; modernist; new; palmer; parshchikov; phenomenon; poetry; poets; postmodernism; realism; reality; russian; self; socialist; soviet; union; wave; western cache: pmc-v3n2-perloff-russian.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-perloff-russian.txt item: #118 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-ritchie-constructing author: Ritchie title: Constructing An Archipelago: Writing The Caribbean date: 1993-01 words: 3055 flesch: 41 summary: [11] Being more suspicious than Benitez-Rojo about the essential character of difference, I am nervous about the practice of once again using a Western science as a means of understanding the history of the colonized world; I worry about how his specific examination of Caribbean texts is sandwiched between discussions of chaos theory as if the Caribbean were some kind of real-world manifestation of Western empirical predictions. One can accept his basic stance on Caribbean literary texts, which, he says, propose themselves as vehicles to drive the reader and the text to the marginal and ritually initiating territory of the absence of violence (25). keywords: benitez; caribbean; chaos; cultural; culture; plantation; postmodern; rojo; text; theory; way cache: pmc-v3n2-ritchie-constructing.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-ritchie-constructing.txt item: #119 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-thompson-consuming author: Thompson title: Consuming Megalopolis date: 1993-01 words: 2201 flesch: 37 summary: Between a future in ruins and a past that is but a costume for another personification, writes Olalquiaga, contemporary culture is stuck in an allegorical present, unable to return nostalgically to the past or advance hopefully into the future (35). To my mind, Olalquiaga uncovers the questions crucial to any serious analysis of contemporary culture, but she doesn't always answer them. keywords: consumption; contemporary; cultural; culture; megalopolis; olalquiaga; postmodern; postmodernism; world cache: pmc-v3n2-thompson-consuming.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-thompson-consuming.txt item: #120 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-todorov-four author: Todorov title: Four Luxembourgs Civitas Peregrina date: 1993-01 words: 2868 flesch: 68 summary: Once the people had grown defiant and started erecting a Tower City in order to reach God. They tried to look upwards and see God. keywords: bull; city; god; labyrinth; order; people; space; sun; temple cache: pmc-v3n2-todorov-four.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-todorov-four.txt item: #121 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-various-letters author: Various title: Letters date: 1993-01 words: 1610 flesch: 56 summary: In a similar fashion on a number of occasions Foley takes the questions I pose for post-modern inquiry and answers for me, only to then turn around, attribute his constructions to me, and criticize his own self-fabricated answers (paragraph 6). Perhaps this is why I made no effort to eliminate certain post-modern currents from it or, for example, to deny Derrida's defense of Paul deMan's early Nazi affiliations. keywords: foley; modernism; post; rosenau; social; vaillancourt cache: pmc-v3n2-various-letters.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-various-letters.txt item: #122 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-wahl-bodies author: Wahl title: Bodies And Technologies: Dora date: 1993-01 words: 5897 flesch: 59 summary: Her cyberspace is blank and her access to the matrix doesn't disconnect her body from other bodies (witness Case). WAHL, 'BODIES AND TECHNOLOGIES: _DORA_, _NEUROMANCER_, AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE', Postmodern Culture v3n2 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v3n2-wahl-bodies.txt BODIES AND TECHNOLOGIES: _DORA_, _NEUROMANCER_, AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE by WENDY WAHL Department of English University of Vermont w_wahl@uvmvax.bitnet _Postmodern Culture_ v.3 n.2 (January, 1993) keywords: body; case; dora; freud; matrix; mind; molly; new; patient; power; resistance; schreber; technologies; technology; therapist cache: pmc-v3n2-wahl-bodies.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-wahl-bodies.txt item: #123 of 305 id: pmc-v3n2-watten-postsoviet author: Watten title: Post-Soviet Subjectivity In Arkadii Dragomoshchenko And Ilya Kabakov date: 1993-01 words: 7454 flesch: 47 summary: WATTEN, 'POST-SOVIET SUBJECTIVITY IN ARKADII DRAGOMOSHCHENKO AND ILYA KABAKOV', Postmodern Culture v3n2 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v3n2-watten-postsoviet.txt POST-SOVIET SUBJECTIVITY IN ARKADII DRAGOMOSHCHENKO AND ILYA KABAKOV by BARRETT WATTEN University of California, San Diego _Postmodern Culture_ [15] Two aspects of post-Soviet subjectivity are evident in the examples of Dragomoshchenko and Kabakov. keywords: art; artist; collective; cultural; culture; description; dragomoshchenko; horizons; kabakov; knowledge; language; life; memory; nasturtium; new; poem; poetics; post; reality; soviet; space; subjectivity; way; work; world cache: pmc-v3n2-watten-postsoviet.txt plain text: pmc-v3n2-watten-postsoviet.txt item: #124 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-aichele-reading author: Aichele title: Reading Beyond Meaning date: 1993-05 words: 7833 flesch: 61 summary: The invisible, underlying stratum which allows us to posit the identity of texts is their meaning, the spiritual essence which binds many varying physical copies into unity. [4] Corresponding closely to the theology of the text is a complex economy of the text, which allows texts to be owned in three distinct but interrelated ways. keywords: barthes; belo; book; concrete; irnerio; language; mark; meaning; non; physical; reader; reading; text; theology; traditional; translation; understanding; word; work cache: pmc-v3n3-aichele-reading.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-aichele-reading.txt item: #125 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-bobbitt-xl author: Bobbitt title: Xl (Letters On Xenakis) date: 1993-05 words: 1687 flesch: 56 summary: To consider the personality of Xenakis, a musical and architectural thinker, becomes a means to extend literary tasks in favor of physical and sensory aspects of experience, behavior, and prerformance. *** I. B.F. Skinner & Xenakis as models for the commentator's (the friends') consideration of behavior as quantifiable: -Skinner...item...collection -Xenaxis...group...manipulation -Use of memory as heuristic module within the sensorial practice: F(x, y)...sensorial F (x',y')...memorial -Skinner...behavior ( keywords: behavior; form; good; gridlock; letters; means; xenakis cache: pmc-v3n3-bobbitt-xl.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-bobbitt-xl.txt item: #126 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-canfield-microstructure author: Canfield title: Microstructure Of Logocentrism: Sign Models In Derrida And Smolensky date: 1993-05 words: 6615 flesch: 49 summary: Any critique of current ideas dealing with human cognition and symbolic behavior must therefore address the metaphoricity of sign models. Both authors note a semantic problem for sign models that requires a mysterious semantic shift from the unconscious to the conscious. keywords: cognitive; derrida; dynamic; grammatology; language; level; model; science; semantics; sign; smolensky; state; structuralism; structure; symbolic; system; trace cache: pmc-v3n3-canfield-microstructure.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-canfield-microstructure.txt item: #127 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-carter-risk author: Carter title: Risk And The New Modernity date: 1993-05 words: 3184 flesch: 56 summary: But, as we saw above, the externalisation of risk knowledge, into the hands of risk experts, is a social process thwarted by public disputes and disagreements between experts and public and among the experts themselves. Risk societies contain within themselves a grass-roots developmental dynamics that destroys boundaries (47). keywords: beck; industrial; knowledge; modernisation; modernity; new; nuclear; process; reflexive; risk; social; society cache: pmc-v3n3-carter-risk.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-carter-risk.txt item: #128 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-dainotto-excremental author: Dainotto title: Excremental Sublime: The Postmodern Literature Of Blockage And Release date: 1993-05 words: 13170 flesch: 62 summary: Also Tony Tanner: [postmodern writers suggest that] the plots men see may be their own inventions (_City of Words_ 156). Marcuse emphasizes the primacy of consciousness in social changes: the subject must be conscious of his/her own projections; s/he must recognize, in other words, that power is nothing else than the re-presentation of an Oedipal complex (_Eros_ viii ff.). keywords: aesop; american; anal; author; blockage; body; character; consciousness; contemporary; coover; culture; death; excremental; fiction; forest; freud; life; like; literature; man; narrative; new; new york; order; politics; postmodern; postmodernism; power; process; radical; self; social; strategy; structures; subject; sublime; survival; words; york cache: pmc-v3n3-dainotto-excremental.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-dainotto-excremental.txt item: #129 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1993-05 words: 9026 flesch: 53 summary: Every issue of _Postmodern Culture_ carries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. PMC-MOO will also provide access to texts generated by _Postmodern Culture_ and by PMC-TALK, and it will provide the opportunity to experience (or help to design) programs which simulate object-lessons in postmodern theory. keywords: + +; art; arts; association; available; computer; cultural; culture; editor; electronic; fiction; history; information; institutions; international; internet; issues; journal; lesbian; list; literature; mail; new; papers; postage; postmodern; postmodernism; press; psyche; reader; research; review; salon; science; series; social; studies; theory; university; work; world cache: pmc-v3n3-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-editor-announcements.txt item: #130 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-helmling-marxist author: Helmling title: Marxist Pleasure: Jameson And Eagleton date: 1993-05 words: 7439 flesch: 55 summary: ^11^ This hermeneutic despair, surprisingly, lightens in work Jameson has published since _Postmodernism_. [4] A convenient place to begin, as it happens, is with Eagleton's essay, Fredric Jameson: The Politics of Style (1982), in which Eagleton avows the profound pleasure he experiences reading Jameson. keywords: barthes; benjamin; criticism; eagleton; effect; essay; grain; history; jameson; jouissance%; like; marxism; pleasure; political; prose; reading; style; sublime; terms; text; walter cache: pmc-v3n3-helmling-marxist.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-helmling-marxist.txt item: #131 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-ouzgane-women author: Ouzgane title: Women And Islam date: 1993-05 words: 2990 flesch: 49 summary: [14] As no other general survey of women and gender in Islam exists, _Women and Gender in Islam_ is a welcome contribution to the subject and particularly to the current debates about the inherently misogynist nature of Islam. [6] From Ahmed's point of view, Muslim women suffered the worst excesses of the pragmatic teachings of Islam under the Abbasid dynasty ruling at Baghdad (749-1258). keywords: ahmed; culture; european; islam; islamic; middle; muslim; practices; veil; western; women cache: pmc-v3n3-ouzgane-women.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-ouzgane-women.txt item: #132 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-perkin-theorizing author: Perkin title: Theorizing The Culture Wars date: 1993-05 words: 5240 flesch: 47 summary: The right was first off the press with a series of books such as those by Allan Bloom, Roger Kimball, David Lehman, and Dinesh D'Souza. In fairness, I should note that it is possible that he adopted the strategy of employing some of the rhetoric of crisis simply in order to try to secure an audience for the book, which considering the sales of books from the right would be an understandable strategy. keywords: american; book; critique; cultural; culture; education; gates; graff; left; liberal; political; spanos; studies; university; wars; way cache: pmc-v3n3-perkin-theorizing.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-perkin-theorizing.txt item: #133 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-rabkin-cyfy author: Rabkin title: Cyfy Pomo? date: 1993-05 words: 2367 flesch: 70 summary: [10] [A] the challenge of finding a suitable means to examine the 'postmodern condition' has produced a vigorous and highly energized response from a new breed of SF authors who combine scientific know-how with aesthetic innovation . . . The new breed of SF writers with technical know-how typically doesn't write cyberpunk or anything remotely like it: David Brin, Robert Forward, James Hogan. keywords: book; canadian; cyberpunk; f&sf; fiction; gibson; ketterer; know; mccaffery; postmodern cache: pmc-v3n3-rabkin-cyfy.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-rabkin-cyfy.txt item: #134 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-selinger-it author: Selinger title: "It Meant I Loved": Louise Gluck'S Ararat date: 1993-05 words: 10759 flesch: 73 summary: _Black Sun_. The poet is trapped in this sort of bitterness, unable to blur her own borders, to metaphorize, to reach out in amorous idealizing identification to mother or sister, let alone to the dead hero or imaginary loving father she needs (_Tales_ 378). keywords: ararat; black; book; child; death; end; family; father; gluck; identification; imaginary; kristeva; life; love; mother; new; poem; poet; sister; speaker; sun; tales; time; way cache: pmc-v3n3-selinger-it.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-selinger-it.txt item: #135 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-shade-women author: Shade title: Women And Television date: 1993-05 words: 3100 flesch: 42 summary: As well, William Lafferty has compiled a guide to alternative sources of television programming for research, including video dealers and the collectors market. [1] In the past few years there has been a flurry of published work on women and television. keywords: audiences; cultural; domestic; family; historical; history; home; magazines; material; new; spigel; television; women cache: pmc-v3n3-shade-women.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-shade-women.txt item: #136 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-silverman-playing author: Silverman title: Playing With Clothes date: 1993-05 words: 3249 flesch: 56 summary: Entitled Lesbian Issue Stirs Discussion (April 16, 1992), the article engages the all too familiar conflation of discussions of women athletes with discussions of sexual preference. Julie Cart, _Times_ staff writer, sets out to investigate the history of this mandate and the problematic relationship between women athletes and their perceived (homo)sexuality. Cart concludes that, being perceived as a lesbian in the women's sports world often carries the same stigma as %being% a lesbian. keywords: book; cross; cultural; culture; dressing; female; garber; gender; male; transvestite; women cache: pmc-v3n3-silverman-playing.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-silverman-playing.txt item: #137 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-smith-talking author: Smith title: Talking And Thinking: David Antin In Conversation With Hazel Smith And Roger Dean date: 1993-05 words: 8881 flesch: 72 summary: That is, in some ways narrative and images seem less discursive so that you can reach towards images or towards semantics that are more governed by other ways of arranging things in your mind than merely what is taught to people as linguistics. Coltrane was constantly working over scales and examining other musical manoeuvres, to keep his hands on a lot of things that he could do; he was listening to timbres of different mouthpieces and playing with different ways of making music, so it is not as if he went in as a blank slate. keywords: audience; different; grammar; kind; like; people; performance; sense; talks; things; thinking; thought; time; way; ways cache: pmc-v3n3-smith-talking.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-smith-talking.txt item: #138 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-suleiman-can author: Suleiman title: Can You Go Home Again? A Budapest Diary 1993 date: 1993-05 words: 8683 flesch: 76 summary: When I was invited last year to come to Budapest during this inaugural year of the Collegium, I accepted immediately. Reminded me of the time I recited Petofi's poem about hanging all the kings, on Prize Day in 1949 at the end of fourth grade, my last year here. keywords: american; budapest; csurka; february; good; home; hungarian; hungary; left; life; like; magyar; men; old; people; things; thought; time; war; way; woman; years; young cache: pmc-v3n3-suleiman-can.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-suleiman-can.txt item: #139 of 305 id: pmc-v3n3-watson-comrade author: Watson title: Comrade Gramsci'S Progeny date: 1993-05 words: 4545 flesch: 51 summary: [4] The subtitle to Renate Holub's book, _Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism_ (in the Routledge Critics of the Twentieth Century series), indicates some of the reasons why Gramsci has so much political and cultural purchase in the contemporary academy. It also reveals some of the ideological choices involved in the business of reading Gramsci: the book would undoubtedly not have made it this far if it had been called Antonio Gramsci: Dead Sardinian Communist Militant, for instance. keywords: academic; antonio; book; critical; cultural; gramsci; harris; holub; new; political; prison; studies; text; work; writings cache: pmc-v3n3-watson-comrade.txt plain text: pmc-v3n3-watson-comrade.txt item: #140 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-barnard-imagining author: Barnard title: `Imagining The Unimaginable': J.M. Coetze date: 1993-08 words: 4388 flesch: 55 summary: [6] In fact, however, the main impulse in _J.M. Coetzee: Politics and Writing in South Africa_ is not to evade, but to challenge and complicate such a polarization of history and fictionality, by exploring the ways in which Coetzee's novels are themselves contextualized. J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing_. keywords: africa; attwell; body; coetzee; essay; fiction; history; j.m; novel; point; political; position; south; writing cache: pmc-v4n1-barnard-imagining.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-barnard-imagining.txt item: #141 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-bradley-another author: Bradley title: Another Autumn Refrain And Two Thirds Of A Second At The Center Of The Universe date: 1993-08 words: 658 flesch: 34 summary: ============================================================ TWO THIRDS OF A SECOND Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author and the notification of the publisher, Oxford University Press. ANOTHER AUTUMN REFRAIN He kept trying to get it right, trying to catch That wisp of melody, that snatch of sound, listening And trying, like a man playing music, practicing scales; He kept trying to remember, though it would not come, About the leaves and the ghosts hung in the trees, Trying to recall the closing cadences of a song That started in his head again, again, again, About the light that came to him on autumn afternoons, About the weak sun that peeked around the branches; He kept trying to remember or trying to forget, Though that insistent tune returned when he would That it would not, revolved, rephrased, a sibilance Like the heavy wash of seashores in the distance, Like blood that rushes in the inner ear all night; He kept trying to get it right, though there was no right, About the wind that whistled through the dry dead grass, The sap that sank below a brittle crust of frost, About the earth that spun and came again undone. keywords: = =; second cache: pmc-v4n1-bradley-another.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-bradley-another.txt item: #142 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-chang-postmodern author: Chang title: Postmodern Communities: The Politics Of Oscillation date: 1993-08 words: 5232 flesch: 52 summary: [7] Nancy's appeal to rethink community could not really be characterized as nostalgic (quite the contrary). is the testimony of the dissolution, the dislocation, or the conflagration of community. keywords: agamben; belonging; book; common; community; face; human; identity; modernity; nancy; oscillation; philosophy; postmodern; singularity; society; transparent; vattimo; world cache: pmc-v4n1-chang-postmodern.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-chang-postmodern.txt item: #143 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1993-08 words: 9212 flesch: 50 summary: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Every issue of _Postmodern Culture_ carries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. PMC-MOO will also provide access to texts generated by _Postmodern Culture_ and by PMC-TALK, and it will provide the opportunity to experience (or help to design) programs which simulate object- lessons in postmodern theory. keywords: + +; articles; available; computer; cultural; culture; editor; ejvc; electronic; history; information; institutions; international; issues; journal; line; list; literature; mail; message; new; pmc; politics; popular; postage; postmodern; psyche; research; review; services; social; special; studies; subscribe; theory; university; women; work; year cache: pmc-v4n1-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-editor-announcements.txt item: #144 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-fay-mapplethorpes author: Fay title: Mapplethorpe'S Art: Playing With The Byronic Postmodern date: 1993-08 words: 7147 flesch: 56 summary: Byron puts on Albanian dress, Mapplethorpe dons that of the Nazi secret police; both bespeak a sign system associated with homosocial fantasy life and self. [10] Manfred (1974) provocatively speaks to Byron's closet drama, as well as his closeted drama of self, presenting the Faustian man as a multiply-framed modernist who assumes his capacity to redesign the architecture that contains him. keywords: artist; aura; byron; byronic; closet; death; eye; face; hamlet; like; love; manfred; mapplethorpe; mask; new; play; postmodern; postmodernism; romantic; self; sexual; viewer; women cache: pmc-v4n1-fay-mapplethorpes.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-fay-mapplethorpes.txt item: #145 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-fenster-authorizing author: Fenster title: Authorizing Memor date: 1993-08 words: 3394 flesch: 37 summary: To remember Watergate is to remember Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Ervin committee hearings, and Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman--thus illustrating the continuing importance of popular narratives and memories in understanding contemporary political events and crises. As powerful historical events that took place at crucial conjunctures in recent American history, Watergate and the Kennedy assassination can tell us much about such diverse topics as the function of memory and the practice of journalism; however, as such, these events can and often do exceed such attempts to use them. keywords: american; assassination; authority; event; historical; kennedy; media; memory; political; schudson; watergate; zelizer cache: pmc-v4n1-fenster-authorizing.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-fenster-authorizing.txt item: #146 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-hart-that author: Hart title: That Was Then: This Is Now: Ex-Changing The Phallus date: 1993-08 words: 4667 flesch: 54 summary: For male masochism, which presumably relinquishes the phallus by occupying the being of woman, would necessarily assume that she is the one who does not have it. Germaine Greer, the keynote speaker, was interrupted by a young woman from the audience who suddenly cried out: But how can we start a women's movement when I bet three-quarters of us sitting in this room are masochists? Greer replied: Yes, we know women are masochists--that's what it's all about!^1^ keywords: bersani; feminine; gay; imaginary; lesbian; male; man; masochism; phallus; real; sexual; straight; women cache: pmc-v4n1-hart-that.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-hart-that.txt item: #147 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-herman-fear author: Herman title: Fear Of Music date: 1993-08 words: 3786 flesch: 47 summary: Due to their narrow emphasis on the visual text of music video, both arguments ignore two *con*-textual dimensions of music television that are central to Goodwin's own analysis. Secondly, the hermeneutical valences of music video can be understood only by taking into account the phenomenology of synaesthesia, or the complex relationship between sound and image that was central to the production of the pleasure and meaning of songs long before music television. keywords: audience; cultural; culture; goodwin; meaning; music; new; politics; postmodern; television; terms; video cache: pmc-v4n1-herman-fear.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-herman-fear.txt item: #148 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-hitchcock-it author: Hitchcock title: "It Dread Inna Inglan": Linton Kwesi Johnso date: 1993-08 words: 9066 flesch: 56 summary: To understand why this notion is *not* a mystery (the History, for instance, of imperialist certitude) but a problematic, one must understand what *makes* this history: one must come to terms with the history of the voice, what Kamau Brathwaite calls the invitation and challenge,^2^ or what Edouard Glissant defines as literature and oraliture (the fragmented and therefore shared histories and voices of peoples).^3^ One can read this history as an introduction in LKJ's sonorous beat, and one can see this history in a dissidence of voice, in all its synesthesia and dislocation. [21] Thus, Bakhtin's assertion that cultural voice always exceeds the personal, the individual, has a particular resonance in the dub poet's community address--and for Black Britain at present, this voice is constructed at the margin where it (dialogically) confounds the centripetal logic of a little englander mentality. keywords: bakhtin; bass; beat; black; brathwaite; caribbean; community; cultural; culture; dread; dub; english; glissant; history; identity; inglan; language; lkj; london; nation; new; poetry; press; reggae; sense; sound; university; version; voice cache: pmc-v4n1-hitchcock-it.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-hitchcock-it.txt item: #149 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-holland-schizoanalytic author: Holland title: Schizoanalytic Reading Of Baudelaire: The Modernist As Postmodernist date: 1993-08 words: 8800 flesch: 39 summary: In schizoanalytic terms, then, masochism is not the name of a psychological category, but a historical strategy for de-coding social authority while transforming romantic idealism into the disillusioned cynicism of modernism. What Benjamin didn't see is that cycles of protective re-coding alternate with cycles of exhilarated de-coding in the verse collection, as the poet alternately seeks out and then withdraws from contact with the Real. keywords: anti; baudelaire; beauty; coding; concepts; deleuze; freud; guattari; historical; market; metaphor; metonymic; modernism; narrator; new; oedipus; order; poem; poetics; prose; romantic; schizoanalysis; social; symbolic; terms; value cache: pmc-v4n1-holland-schizoanalytic.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-holland-schizoanalytic.txt item: #150 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-lemke-practice author: Lemke title: Practic date: 1993-08 words: 3364 flesch: 53 summary: Know-what and Know-who compete with Have-bucks for power in every field of social practice for Bourdieu. [8] The project of Bourdieu's desire is a grand sociology which realizes in part the modernist dream of a scientific objectivity hard won through its own reflexivity: Sociology can escape to a degree [from its necessarily socially determined point of view on the social world] by drawing on its knowledge of the social universe in which social science is produced to control the effects of the determinisms that operate in this universe and, at the same time, bear on sociologists themselves (67). keywords: bourdieu; invitation; power; practice; press; reality; science; scientific; social; text; university cache: pmc-v4n1-lemke-practice.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-lemke-practice.txt item: #151 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-mcgowan-postmodernist author: Mcgowan title: Postmodernist Purity date: 1993-08 words: 2051 flesch: 52 summary: By rejecting a conflict within the social over different representations with the assertion that every positive image is a phallacy, Owens places the artist on the path of pure negation that has been a modernist treadmill since at least Flaubert's desire to write a novel about nothing. [2] The thread that runs through these various sub-periods in Owens's work is the problematic of representation. keywords: art; avant; desire; garde; owens; representation; work cache: pmc-v4n1-mcgowan-postmodernist.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-mcgowan-postmodernist.txt item: #152 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-perlman-idioculture author: Perlman title: Idioculture: De-Massifying The Popular Music Audience date: 1993-08 words: 2781 flesch: 60 summary: [1] Cultural Studies frequently constructs popular music as a particularly *disruptive* sort of object, a form of resistance (Frith: 179). [2] The book under review features 'active' consumption as resistance, though in a way not limited to popular music. keywords: book; cultural; culture; interviews; keil; music; musical; people; popular; radio; study; taste cache: pmc-v4n1-perlman-idioculture.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-perlman-idioculture.txt item: #153 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-rosenberg-dynamic author: Rosenberg title: Dynamic And Thermodynamic Tropes Of The Subject In Freud And In Deleuze And Guattari date: 1993-08 words: 8369 flesch: 51 summary: In _Nietzsche and Philosophy_ (1962, 83), Deleuze describes Nietzsche's Eternal Return as the return to difference, not sameness, an analysis of the contingent dimension of cultural systems and human consciousness affirming for any physical system, and, by implication, any human subjective or cultural system, the always-already contingency of past and future as it is reformulated in every present moment. These concepts refer respectively to the initial conditions necessary for thermodynamic processes (contingency as a condition of freedom), and to one possible behavior for physical systems governed by those processes (prairie grassroots as a collectivity of blades of grass; slime mold as an aggregation of unicellular nomads). keywords: chaos; cultural; deleuze; desire; equilibrium; freud; guattari; human; laws; new; order; physical; physics; press; processes; science; subject; system; theory; thermodynamics; time; tropes; university; work cache: pmc-v4n1-rosenberg-dynamic.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-rosenberg-dynamic.txt item: #154 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-shaviro-if author: Shaviro title: If I Only Had A Brain date: 1993-08 words: 4819 flesch: 67 summary: Good advice for the anatomically deranged, like Cliff Steele. [6] But such logic and such consolations are of little help to Cliff Steele, trapped as he is in all that heavy metal--except for the even worse times when his naked brain is actually left to stew and hallucinate in a vat. keywords: batman; body; brain; case; cliff; descartes; joker; life; like; mind; new; old; point; postmodern; self; sense; time; world cache: pmc-v4n1-shaviro-if.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-shaviro-if.txt item: #155 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-taylor-sound author: Taylor title: Sound Of The Avant-Garde date: 1993-08 words: 2429 flesch: 60 summary: The Wireless Imagination_ as an attempt to compile a collection of first utterances rather than a Last Word on the subject of abstract sound. The aestheticization of abstract sounds seems to have led the creators of these sounds, and their chroniclers in this volume, to overlook politics, or real people on the ground. keywords: abstract; bell; culture; example; grivel; music; noise; radio; sound; wireless cache: pmc-v4n1-taylor-sound.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-taylor-sound.txt item: #156 of 305 id: pmc-v4n1-various-letters author: Various title: Letters date: 1993-08 words: 1531 flesch: 50 summary: It might appear at first glance that this postmodernism would be vindicated by the triumph of strong connectionism since strong connectionism undercuts classical representation. The real issue then is not a simplistic opposition between atomic and distributed elements or between arbitrary and motivated symbols; it is, rather, the problem of explaining how the brain produces the apparent formalism of symbolic representation from the non- classical structure of neural networks. keywords: classical; connectionism; language; representation; strong; theory cache: pmc-v4n1-various-letters.txt plain text: pmc-v4n1-various-letters.txt item: #157 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-allen-raids author: Allen title: Raids On The Conscious: Pynchon'S Legacy Of Paranoia And The Terrorism Of Uncertainty In Don Delillo'S Ratner'S Star date: 1994-01 words: 8679 flesch: 53 summary: But first I want to pursue the ways in which DeLillo re-structures Pynchon's legacy of paranoia, and the relationship in _Ratner's Star_ between paranoia and what DeLillo presents as the new, improved version of postmodern terrorism. _Mao II_ hardly endorses Gray's self-willed abdication of self, his devout wish to be forgotten, as any sort of positive solution to the problem of postmodern terrorism and paranoia. keywords: billy; characters; delillo; don; fact; farnen; fiction; gravity; gray; individual; language; media; new; novel; paranoia; postmodern; pynchon; rainbow; ratner; reader; slothrop; star; subject; terrorism; violence; world cache: pmc-v4n2-allen-raids.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-allen-raids.txt item: #158 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-baker-terrorist author: Baker title: Terrorist As Interpreter: Mao Ii In Postmodern Context date: 1994-01 words: 11523 flesch: 59 summary: Mao is the embodiment of the revolution whose writings are memorized by the faithful millions, particularly around the time of the Cultural Revolution, and he is the mass-produced silk-screen image hanging in the MOMA and reproduced on the cover of _Mao II_. This same sacred quality permeates Elie Wiesel's (one would think at least somewhat fictionalized) account in _Dawn_ of a Jewish terrorist, as a member of a group in Palestine, holding hostage and finally shooting a British army officer. keywords: abu; american; bill; bill gray; context; cultural; culture; death; delillo; figure; film; gray; hostage; imperialism; kind; liberal; life; like; mao; new; novelist; political; postmodern; pynchon; role; rorty; said; terrorist; view; war; work; world; york cache: pmc-v4n2-baker-terrorist.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-baker-terrorist.txt item: #159 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-bernstein-_libra_ author: Bernstein title: Libra And The Historical Sublime date: 1994-01 words: 5652 flesch: 64 summary: finally unavailable for perception (Rev. 122), but in a slight departure from his model I would like to suggest that DeLillo's most important sublime occasions in _Libra_ go *beyond* configurations of economic and social institutions and the totalized world to become attempts at the comprehension of history itself. Cain, William E. Making Meaningful Worlds: Self and History in _Libra_, Rev. of _Libra_, by Don DeLillo. keywords: american; beard; delillo; don; ferrie; frank; historical; history; kant; lentricchia; libra; novel; oswald; postmodern; sublime; sublimity; terror; weird; world cache: pmc-v4n2-bernstein-_libra_.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-bernstein-_libra_.txt item: #160 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-crocker-'to author: Crocker title: "'To H date: 1994-01 words: 2470 flesch: 64 summary: [2] The situation of the characters remains unchanged over the course of the strip's run from 1913 to 1944: Ignatz Mouse hates Krazy Kat with a violent obsession that causes him to throw bricks at Krazy's head; Krazy loves Ignatz with a singleminded passion that causes him to interpret the projectiles as signs of Ignatz' love; Offissa Bull Pupp loves Krazy Kat and hates Ignatz Mouse, and uses his lawful authority--as well as his billy club--to protect Krazy from the bricks. Panel 16 Krazy often sings this hymn when he is heppy, and it serves frequently as a coda, as it does here, after order is restored. --------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, July 14, 1918 Roles in love play do not define the only parameters of gender construction in _Krazy Kat_. keywords: brick; gender; herriman; ignatz; kat; krazy; love; panel; pupp cache: pmc-v4n2-crocker-'to.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-crocker-'to.txt item: #161 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1994-01 words: 16998 flesch: 47 summary: Mail art is a paradox in the way it reverses traditional definitions of art; the mailbox and computer replace the museum, the address becomes the art, and the mailman brings home the avant-garde to mail artists in the form of correspondence art, e-mail art, artistamps, postcards, conceptual projects, and collaborations. Cary Nelson My sense is that _College Literature_ will have substantial influence in the field of literacy and cultural studies. keywords: + +; access; address; april; art; articles; arts; authors; available; banff; canada; college; computer; conference; contact; copy; cultural; culture; cyberspace; department; discussion; editor; electronic; fax; history; hull; humanities; information; international; issues; journal; libraries; library; line; list; literature; mail; march; message; network; new; october; papers; participants; popular; postmodern; program; projects; quebec; registration; research; review; science; society; studies; submissions; subscribe; technology; texts; university; virtual; year cache: pmc-v4n2-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-editor-announcements.txt item: #162 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-gizzi-four author: Gizzi title: Four Poems date: 1994-01 words: 1144 flesch: 52 summary: Family trees May insert any name one chooses for the pedigree of love Let the foreign woman come ashore, what as the talkers say You'll never see at home lost in the delicate rays of folklore Its minutes recorded with his feet by the Armless Wonder Thuggees with allergies film greenhouses, hold shining steam To treebuds, prehensile eyes out stalking vim as if vision Were a concubine, a rinse cycle lashed to the belly of a Raj With a buckle of swash, Flora Danica waiting in the wings Professor Pretzel Wolf buttons the suit on his portrait Of trees, an ornamental hombre in a speculum of preen Asks, Who's the forest of them all? Why - Woody Strode! REMOVING THE OBELISK >From immediate dictation and against my will Is the most embarrassing character in the world a deflector from antiquity pretending to be italic Just another mook on Hungry Hill I wanna got to collage I want sun on the phone to talk me down from here Nice embalmer. keywords: culture; gizzi; poems; postmodern; postmodern culture; text; trees; woody cache: pmc-v4n2-gizzi-four.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-gizzi-four.txt item: #163 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-goldman-two author: Goldman title: Two Poems date: 1994-01 words: 335 flesch: 67 summary: A mere formality of Dutch, a merely formal vocabulary, to be used in company of Dutch transmissions. Transitional generation in company of a muddy mere formality: or was it going Dutch, in transmission to transition? keywords: company; dutch cache: pmc-v4n2-goldman-two.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-goldman-two.txt item: #164 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-goldstein-queer author: Goldstein title: Queer Bodies Of Knowledge: Constructing Lesbian And Gay Studies date: 1994-01 words: 3357 flesch: 37 summary: That is, it embodies an attempt to reorganize sexuality studies from an oppositional stance that comes dangerously close to solidifying the epistemology of polarity. If as Fuss writes, any outside is formulated as a consequence of a lack *internal* to the system it supplements (3), then we might suppose that the outside status of lesbian and gay studies has everything to do with the constitutive lack of sexuality studies within the academy. keywords: cultural; culture; essays; gay; gay studies; identity; knowledge; lesbian; politics; queer; reader; sexuality; studies; work cache: pmc-v4n2-goldstein-queer.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-goldstein-queer.txt item: #165 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-harley-grownups author: Harley title: Grown-Ups And Fanboys date: 1994-01 words: 2810 flesch: 59 summary: He shows that whilst women have served as a primary satiric butt for comics at least since the late nineteenth century (in, for example, _Ally Sloper's Half Holiday_), they were always recognised as an audience and, in fact, have always constituted at least a small fraction of the creators of adult comics. [5] One can readily set this whole debate over adult comics during the mid-80s in the general context of a series of debates over what constitutes culture. keywords: adult; book; comics; cultural; culture; history; media; novel; sabin; superhero; women cache: pmc-v4n2-harley-grownups.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-harley-grownups.txt item: #166 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-hooper-three author: Hooper title: Three Poems date: 1994-01 words: 1209 flesch: 70 summary: To mingle and combine So as to obscure or harmonize the varying components, The concerns, they called them, compulsions pushing through The soil until a garden emerged, organized And flowered new responsibilities -- life, they said -- Kept me awake all night. ------------------------------------------------------------ TEMPLES AND FOLLIES Small temples and follies in the woods, The feeling soon passes Into extinction, or was it merely the fact We reconsidered the labor of love -- the rapture Of reaching journey's end when respite Can't be sought through an intricate network Of hedged corridors, or on summer nights it took us through, Sudden views of the vanished lake. keywords: cards; cord; hooper; old; pattern cache: pmc-v4n2-hooper-three.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-hooper-three.txt item: #167 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-kutzer-_malice_ author: Kutzer title: Malice: The New American Hero date: 1994-01 words: 2867 flesch: 79 summary: Jed is for compromise--he says give Andy half and be done with it. Before long Andy asks Jed to rent the upper floor of his run-down Victorian house. keywords: andy; bitch; film; fuck; hero; jed; malice; man; tracy cache: pmc-v4n2-kutzer-_malice_.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-kutzer-_malice_.txt item: #168 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-lin-one author: Lin title: One Or Two Ghosts For One Or Two Lines date: 1994-01 words: 306 flesch: 82 summary: But no ox sniffled to an owl or stockinged box strum through bedroom. ------------------------------ LIN, 'ONE OR TWO GHOSTS FOR ONE OR TWO LINES', Postmodern Culture v4n2 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v4n2-lin-one.txt Archive PMC-LIST, file lin.194. keywords: box; like cache: pmc-v4n2-lin-one.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-lin-one.txt item: #169 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-millard-fable author: Millard title: Fable Of The Ants: Myopic Interactions In Delillo'S Libra date: 1994-01 words: 7395 flesch: 51 summary: Post_ commentators are sniffishly dismissive of the political implications of _Libra_, but Will also makes an explicit case for historical disjunctivism: It takes a steady adult nerve to stare unblinkingly at the fact that history can be jarred sideways by an act that signifies nothing but an addled individual's inner turmoil (qtd. Bruckstein does not use the term myopic interactions in his _Mathematical Intelligencer_ article, but the phrase is attributed to him in a brief description of this article in _Science_ keywords: baudrillard; behavior; branch; bruckstein; conspiracy; control; culture; delillo; events; everett; feynman; individual; information; intelligence; interactions; language; libra; men; myopic; new; oswald; paradigm; plot; political; public; social; state; true; work; world cache: pmc-v4n2-millard-fable.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-millard-fable.txt item: #170 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-mobilio-geographics author: Mobilio title: Geographics: Step Five date: 1994-01 words: 719 flesch: 88 summary: The fair and chiseled marble remains visible in the way she conjugates her nerves like Henry James. I titled her the same way she authored me -- with bitten facts dealt like marked cards. keywords: cha; dark; geographics cache: pmc-v4n2-mobilio-geographics.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-mobilio-geographics.txt item: #171 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-olsen-virtual author: Olsen title: Virtual Light date: 1994-01 words: 3213 flesch: 60 summary: If _Neuromancer_ has all the comic hoopla of the dark prophet himself administering late rites to late capitalist culture, then _Virtual Light_, virtually light, frequently evinces the bright cartoonish mischief of Pynchon. The break-in plot of _Neuromancer_ devolves into a backwards break-in, or familiar heist plot. keywords: art; bridge; culture; cyberpunk; fiction; future; gibson; light; neuromancer; novel; people; techno; virtual; way; world cache: pmc-v4n2-olsen-virtual.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-olsen-virtual.txt item: #172 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-pratt-postmodern author: Pratt title: Postmodern Foundation For Political Practice? date: 1994-01 words: 2113 flesch: 43 summary: The list of principles which constitutes his summary and a final appeal is as sound a set of assumptions as we are likely to find in anything resembling a rationale for the feasibility of social action. Such collective decisions, in which philosophy is submitted to the political through democratic procedures, return us to positive power which can combat the tyrannical exercise of power or the domination of decision making by elite groups (269). keywords: democracy; mcgowan; political; positive; postmodernism; power; self; social cache: pmc-v4n2-pratt-postmodern.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-pratt-postmodern.txt item: #173 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-schultz-exaggerated author: Schultz title: Exaggerated History date: 1994-01 words: 4345 flesch: 62 summary: [9] For better or for worse, then, Howe is less a historical poet than a religious one; like the Puritans with whom she identifies, she sees American history running parallel to a religious text. [17] The strongest poem in the book, and the one that argues most passionately for the kind of poetry Howe writes, is The Nonconformist's Memorial, part Biblical rewrite, part examination of the relationship between typology and typography, and partial autobiography. keywords: american; book; dickinson; history; howe; melville; new; poem; poetry; silence; wilderness; words; work cache: pmc-v4n2-schultz-exaggerated.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-schultz-exaggerated.txt item: #174 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-unsworth-editors author: Unsworth title: Editor'S Introduction date: 1994-01 words: 1298 flesch: 49 summary: At present, something on the order of a quarter of a million documents are provided over the Web; the increase in use of Web clients is on the order of 2000% a month. At the moment, Web traffic is growing much faster than gopher traffic--341,634% per annum vs. a mere 997% per annum, according to one estimate^1^--but its relatively slow start was due in part to the lack of an adequate client program. keywords: issue; journal; new; pmc; web; wide cache: pmc-v4n2-unsworth-editors.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-unsworth-editors.txt item: #175 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-various-from author: Various title: From: Pmc-Talk date: 1994-01 words: 8168 flesch: 62 summary: And in what ways is dance therapy a threat to the powers that be? ======================================================================== PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-4-93. ======================================================================== PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-7-93. keywords: = =; academic; boston; digest; faculty; intellectual; jay; jhhes.mvax.cc.conncoll.edu =; kessler =; lemke; local; pmc; political; politics; silber; social; strauss; subject; system; talk; university cache: pmc-v4n2-various-from.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-various-from.txt item: #176 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-wald-anna author: Wald title: Anna Deveare Smith'S Voices At Twilight date: 1994-01 words: 3404 flesch: 56 summary: [7] On stage Smith, a light-skinned African American woman, performs barefoot, wearing a plain white shirt and loose, dark pants; in addition to changes in voice, posture and affect, she signifies the feel of characters with simple costume changes: a hat taken on or off, the addition of earrings or a string of pearls, a cigarette hanging loosely from the side of the mouth, a man's striped tie and blazer. In contrast to the outside social realities that furnish white voices their immediacy and authority, the defining power of the soundbite, in the safe space of the theater, Smith gives all the voices in Twilight equal representation. keywords: american; characters; l.a; language; mimicry; new; people; performance; smith; twilight; voices; white; work cache: pmc-v4n2-wald-anna.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-wald-anna.txt item: #177 of 305 id: pmc-v4n2-yau-buffalo author: Yau title: Buffalo And Marshmallows date: 1994-01 words: 346 flesch: 49 summary: It's an old glory when a toenail crocodile named Greta Gabo boasts that any tall thumb tucking pimple popper still in touch with the bottom of his atavistic roots will soon be rented out to the King of pencil Toads and his last iron caravan Dairy wolves howl at empty spoon while I sleep in black mall lily padded trailer park answer the second second I'm stalled in a parallel stupor squeezed between red hurt of a fall potato and blue stones of a part-time seed shifter I'm one of the jilted eager to bite the crust I plead with what's left of the steam engine because I know it's soft pajamas being one of the flies A free sample sniffing around the tattered drums of the effluvial honey You get to count creamy blots and carpet burns transmit grains of junked passion to the weekend handwarmers west of Sandusky, Ohio adopted home of tormented petal pushers one charm boxers and retired log nuts the whole glad parking lot of idle fun seekers You even score the church fire and pray to the invisible camera You get down on your full grown knees and you begin to stay In better times, I lived on a bingo farm ate off a checkerboard Each morning, I baked out the stains and flicked drivel into the yard ------------------------------ YAU, 'BUFFALO AND MARSHMALLOWS', Postmodern Culture v4n2 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v4n2-yau-buffalo.txt Archive PMC-LIST, file yau.194. keywords: buffalo; marshmallows; yau cache: pmc-v4n2-yau-buffalo.txt plain text: pmc-v4n2-yau-buffalo.txt item: #178 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-beller-cinema author: Beller title: Cinem date: 1994-05 words: 18344 flesch: 52 summary: Although such unrepresentability of experience occurs in the film via specific instantiations of race (Jewishness), gender (the wife who has written all of her alcoholic husband's books), sex (the homoerotic tensions in the hotel room scenes) and class (the inner life of the encyclopedia salesman), it is perhaps even more interesting to think about invisibility as a general case in capital cinema--a predicament of disenfranchised elements in others and in ourselves. Inside the frame the film set is burnt, while outside the frame in the space beyond the film the very edges of the frame burst and flame--the medium literally self-destructs as the reality principle of the film is destroyed in the confrontation of its limits.^1^ As a film steeped in the protocols of profit, the particular experiences of Goodman's mad encyclopedia salesman, that is, the myriad experiences of failure in capitalism, fall below the threshold of knowing possible in capital cinema and are precipitated only as effects. keywords: aura; benjamin; body; capital; capital cinema; capitalism; certain; cinema; cinema books; cinematic; circulation; commodity; concepts; consciousness; deleuze; economic; economy; film; form; historical; human; image; labor; like; media; mode; money; movement; new; object; philosophy; political; process; production; system; thought; time; value; visual; work; world cache: pmc-v4n3-beller-cinema.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-beller-cinema.txt item: #179 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-chernetsky-late author: Chernetsky title: Late Soviet Culture: A Parallax For Postmodernism date: 1994-05 words: 4393 flesch: 40 summary: He emphatically asserts the legitimacy of talking about a Russian postmodernism (even taking into consideration the aborted history of modernism in Russia), noting the domination of simulacra, the propensity for quotation, and the deconstructive impulse as the defining features of contemporary Russian texts (284-285). However, the book in its entirety (being as it is a very heterogeneous collection--which is typical of the genre of post-conference volumes to which it belongs) is an excellent contribution to cultural studies: it offers a slice across the many aspects of late Soviet culture (to be exact, Russian Soviet, for the cultural condition of other former Soviet republics is never addressed, with the one possible exception of Evgeny Dobrenko's essay). keywords: bakhtin; contemporary; cultural; culture; epstein; essay; history; holquist; late; literature; postmodernism; russian; situation; soviet; soviet culture; texts; union; western cache: pmc-v4n3-chernetsky-late.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-chernetsky-late.txt item: #180 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1994-05 words: 16060 flesch: 49 summary: Mail art is a paradox in the way it reverses traditional definitions of art; the mailbox and computer replace the museum, the address becomes the art, and the mailman brings home the avant-garde to mail artists in the form of correspondence art, e-mail art, artistamps, postcards, conceptual projects, and collaborations. Viet Nam War Film/Drama II Decentering Genre: Vietnam War Films and Portrayal of Reality, Catherine E. Richardson, Chattanooga, TN; The Death of the Sixties: Easy Rider & and Deliverance, Margie Burns, Cheverly, MD;Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino, Dave DeRose, Yale Univ 5:00-6:30pm Panel 15: Music Folkore of the Viet Nam War, Lydia Fish, SUNY-Buffalo; In Country Songs, Chuck Rosenberg; Pilot Songs of the Viet Nam War, Chip Dockery 7:30pm Concert & Reception O.V. Hirsch Chip Dockery Chuck Rosenberg 42)------------------------------------------------------------- _splinter_ _splinter_ is a new electronic publication that seeks texts in various states of unfinish prose poetry neither both your scraps your scrytch your fragments your language doodles unfinished stories unfinished scenes unfinished sentences experiments freewriting drafts of drafts outlines bits of dialogue directionless musings stanzas that never found their way into poems flashes that dead-ended scribbled down and never became no length guidelines / authors keep all rights rolling submission, no deadlines the contact address at this point is send your submissions, subscription requests, questions, and comments (put SPLINTER somewhere in the subject line) e-mail subscriptions are free and encouraged thanks 43)------------------------------------------------------------- Special issue of _Style_ on Possible Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Postmodern Fiction Deadline for submission: November 30, 1994. keywords: + +; access; address; american; art; articles; arts; available; computer; contact; copy; cultural; culture; discussion; disk; editor; electronic; fiction; humanities; individual; information; interested; international; internet; issues; john; journal; kbytes; libraries; line; list; literature; mail; march; message; mit; network; new; number; october; popular; postmodern; press; print; program; projects; publication; research; review; science; set; special; state; studies; submissions; subscribe; subscription; technology; theory; university; virtual; world; writing; year cache: pmc-v4n3-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-editor-announcements.txt item: #181 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-fulton-other author: Fulton title: Other Frontier: Voyaging West With Mark Twain And Star Trek'S Imperial Subject date: 1994-05 words: 8613 flesch: 49 summary: [24] But it is also important to realize the extent to which dominant managerial positions can retain their power even though they learn to sell marginal representations, a point that becomes apparent when the discussion moves from naturalized gender roles on the first _Star Trek_ series to naturalized versions of the imperial self on _ [16] In fact, the first part of Time's Arrow features Data as a type of the man with no name persona Clint Eastwood has popularized in westerns like _High Plains Drifter_. keywords: american; century; clemens; crew; cultural; culture; data; enterprise; extent; fact; federation; fleet; form; frontier; future; human; life; members; new; position; power; program; self; star; star trek; surveillance; time; trek; work; york cache: pmc-v4n3-fulton-other.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-fulton-other.txt item: #182 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-fulton-three author: Fulton title: Three Poems date: 1994-05 words: 1086 flesch: 82 summary: Thus wed == the sentence cannot tell whether it will end or melt or give way to the fabulous == the snow that is the mortar between winter's bricks == the wick that is the white between the ink [--------------------------------------------------] Southbound In A Northbound Lane It's a seam made to show, the deckle edge == constructivist touch. keywords: birds; body; day; fulton cache: pmc-v4n3-fulton-three.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-fulton-three.txt item: #183 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-helmling-historicizing author: Helmling title: Historicizing Derrida date: 1994-05 words: 10296 flesch: 47 summary: Granted, Foucault makes a fiercer Covering Cherub than Bataille, who, both as intellect and as writer, is a much smaller figure than either Foucault *or* Derrida (a fuller discussion would need to take up Foucault's own homage to Bataille, and Derrida's relation to it). I want in this essay to initiate such an account, and my gambit will be to confront early Derrida with late (or later), which, for my purposes here, means Derrida before 1968 and after. keywords: bataille; chicago; closure; deconstruction; derrida; economy; end; escape; foucault; future; ideological; later; mauss; meaning; new; outside; philosophy; point; political; postmodern; press; system; text; university; work; writing cache: pmc-v4n3-helmling-historicizing.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-helmling-historicizing.txt item: #184 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-hicks-forward author: Hicks title: Forward Into The Past date: 1994-05 words: 4050 flesch: 57 summary: We Have Never Been Modern_ is explicitly a work which elaborates such translations (between the emerging field of science studies and the literate public Latour's analysis also displays the vices of its virtues; on occasion he retains the metalanguage of modern science as a ground for his investigations (e.g., [modernity] is much more than an illusion and much less than an essence. keywords: book; culture; hugh; hybrids; illich; latour; modern; nature; new; postmodern; present; reading; science; text cache: pmc-v4n3-hicks-forward.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-hicks-forward.txt item: #185 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-hood-laurie author: Hood title: Laurie Anderson And The Politics Of Performance date: 1994-05 words: 2385 flesch: 64 summary: (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), 6. ^2^ Laurie Anderson, _Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Retrospective 1972-1992 (New York: Harper Perennial, 1994)_, 6. ^3^ Anderson, _Nerve Bible_, 281. ^4^ John Howell, _Laurie Anderson_ (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992), 12. ^5^ Auslander, 1. ^6^ [9] In this regard, Anderson's career is consistent with the broader trajectory of American performance art from the 1970s to the present. keywords: anderson; art; bible; laurie; nerve; new; performance; political; work cache: pmc-v4n3-hood-laurie.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-hood-laurie.txt item: #186 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-larabee-remembering author: Larabee title: Remembering The Shuttl date: 1994-05 words: 7826 flesch: 46 summary: The use of systems theory in critiques of post-Challenger NASA was disputed by G. Richard Holt and Anthony W. Morris using Yrjo Engestrom's activity theory, acknowledging that human activity is 'messy,' disorganized, seemingly chaotic, and hence endlessly fascinating. [13] The fundamental question in the decades-long argument over manned space flight is whether bodies need to be present at all. keywords: bodies; body; challenger; challenger disaster; commission; complex; crew; culture; disaster; harris; human; information; life; living; machine; manned; nasa; national; new; organizational; perrow; post; report; rogers; self; shuttle; space; space shuttle; systems; technological; technology; testimony; theory; world; york cache: pmc-v4n3-larabee-remembering.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-larabee-remembering.txt item: #187 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-lightman-coalitions author: Lightman title: Coalitions And Coterie date: 1994-05 words: 2673 flesch: 49 summary: [2] The feud at issue here is that between feminists who have written critically about pederasty, pornography, and sexist attitudes among gay men, and gay men who have responded to these attacks by writing critically about feminists' too-sweeping (and hence homophobic, heterosexist) generalisations about gay sexuality. This kind of feminist critique locates the abusive dimension, the *insult*, of a sexual practice within a straight sexual relationship, in terms of the institutionalized misogyny and oppression of women within patriarchy, and then extends the analysis without pausing to consider the quite different forms of oppression patriarchy exercises over gay men. keywords: childhood; edwards; feminist; gay; men; sexual; sexuality; straight; way cache: pmc-v4n3-lightman-coalitions.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-lightman-coalitions.txt item: #188 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-selinger-important author: Selinger title: Important Pleasures And Others: Michael Palme date: 1994-05 words: 13506 flesch: 69 summary: In this essay, therefore, I explore two texts, Michael Palmer's _Sun_ (1988) and Ronald Johnson's long poem _ARK_ (c. 1970-1990), which have not only given me pleasure, but also brought me to reflect on the sources and the implications of that enjoyment, the degree to which it comes from reading against the poet's grain. Like the work of so many other poets in the 1980s, _Sun_ evinces a return to history, politics, and the social as vital concerns for American verse after the well-mannered domestic epiphanies of the Ford and Carter years (Gilbert 247-8). keywords: ark; art; beam; beauty; book; contemporary; dear; discourse; experience; experimental; human; johnson; language; lexicon; like; man; michael; new; order; palmer; pleasure; poem; poetry; political; reading; reference; self; sense; social; sublime; sun; text; things; way; words; work; world; york cache: pmc-v4n3-selinger-important.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-selinger-important.txt item: #189 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-sharpless-clockwork author: Sharpless title: Clockwork Education: The Persistence Of The Arnoldian Ideal date: 1994-05 words: 6239 flesch: 63 summary: Thus, when Alex recalls his fight scene with Billyboy, he remembers that his droogs looked marvelous; Alex proudly observes that his droogs were dressed in the heighth of fashion (_ACO_, 2). Both versions of _ACO_ and _TBS_ are significantly structured by their concern, as Matthew Arnold put it, that faith in machinery is . . . keywords: aco; alex; arnoldian; blood; body; brown; burgess; clockwork; culture; dim; droogs; hughes; like; moral; novel; orange; physical; public; rugby; school; tom; violence cache: pmc-v4n3-sharpless-clockwork.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-sharpless-clockwork.txt item: #190 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-ulmer-metaphoric author: Ulmer title: Metaphoric Rocks: A Psychogeography Of Tourism And Monumentality date: 1994-05 words: 6982 flesch: 62 summary: Heeding this prophesy, associated in the poem with a classic feature of karst topography (a river that appears and disappears, as does the Santa Fe River at O'Leno State Park, in Alachua County), FRE proposes to add a school of monumentality to the pleasure-dome of Florida tourism. Solonism as Social Sculpture [16] The purpose of Florida Rushmore is to introduce the tourist to solonism. keywords: america; city; electronic; florida; freud; history; idea; identity; karst; landscape; map; monument; national; new; place; rushmore; sinkhole; solonism; state; theoria; tourism; tourists; university; use; york cache: pmc-v4n3-ulmer-metaphoric.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-ulmer-metaphoric.txt item: #191 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-ulmer-unthinkable author: Ulmer title: Unthinkable Writing date: 1994-05 words: 2868 flesch: 48 summary: This boundary writing makes possible a new level of experience (just as alphabetic literacy made possible the experience of selfhood, as Eric Havelock has argued)--an experience that is not without risks. Their Kiosk project-in-progress (demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 93) will be a series of interactive hypermedia stations as alternative public sites for displaying electronic arts. keywords: apparatus; deleuze; dreams; effect; electronic; experience; genetis; kit; perforations; public; smyth cache: pmc-v4n3-ulmer-unthinkable.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-ulmer-unthinkable.txt item: #192 of 305 id: pmc-v4n3-wood-from author: Wood title: From Technology To Machinism date: 1994-05 words: 3370 flesch: 49 summary: Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author and the notification of the publisher, Oxford University Press. Review of: Conley, Verena Andermatt, ed., on behalf of Miami Theory Collective. Rethinking Technologies_ as an attempt to go both through and beyond Heidegger, a move required primarily by two late twentieth-century developments: global ecological crisis and the transformation of subjectivities (xiii) brought about by the proliferation of communication technologies. keywords: control; cyberspace; durham; essay; guattari; heidegger; ronell; technologies; technology; terms; virtual cache: pmc-v4n3-wood-from.txt plain text: pmc-v4n3-wood-from.txt item: #193 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-bahri-disembodying author: Bahri title: Disembodying The Corpus: Postcolonial Pathology In Tsitsi Dangarembga'S 'Nervous Conditions' date: 1994-09 words: 10248 flesch: 53 summary: The novel, narrated in the first person by Nyasha's cousin Tambu, catalogues the struggles of the latter to escape the impoverished and stifling atmosphere of the homestead in search of education and a better life, as well the efforts of other women in her family to negotiate their circumstances, offering the while a scathing critique of the confused and corrupt social structure they are a part of. to consider questions that had to do with survival of the spirit, the creation of consciousness, rather than mere sustenance of the body, the latter having been a considerable preoccupation for homestead women (59). keywords: babamukuru; body; colonial; colonialism; control; cultural; dangarembga; education; female; feminist; food; good; homestead; labor; maiguru; native; nervous; new; novel; nyasha; patriarchy; postcolonial; self; social; tambu; text; western; women; world cache: pmc-v5n1-bahri-disembodying.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-bahri-disembodying.txt item: #194 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-bell-response author: Bell title: Response To Jonathan Beller'S Essa date: 1994-09 words: 2617 flesch: 51 summary: From what we have said above, we can see that this does not mean that new values, in particular new values associated with cinema, must be produced in isolation from capital and capitalism, but only that these values always entail a process of deterritorialization, and this occurs apart from, and at odds with, the reterritorializing conspiracy of capital and capitalism. In other words, the pursuit of surplus value hinges upon creating new markets, new values, needs, etc. (i.e., the new and improved syndrome of capitalism); and yet to do this requires decoding or deterritorializing existing markets, existing values, needs, etc. keywords: beller; capitalism; cinema; deleuze; film; new cache: pmc-v5n1-bell-response.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-bell-response.txt item: #195 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-benson-permanence author: Benson title: Permanence And Change In The Global Village date: 1994-09 words: 1581 flesch: 38 summary: On the one hand, Garry appeals to a description of the press as it existed in late 18th-century America, where entry to the arena was relatively cheap for a printer-publisher, making for a crowded and diverse marketplace of ideas; where most of the content of a newspaper was partisan political argument submitted by readers; and where local interests played a strong role in defining press content. The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights addresses issues of freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. keywords: clause; garry; media; political; press; speech cache: pmc-v5n1-benson-permanence.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-benson-permanence.txt item: #196 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-bernstein-three author: Bernstein title: Three Poems date: 1994-09 words: 1029 flesch: 77 summary: Veils that part to darker veils. [Audio files available from jefferson.village.virginia.edu by anonymous ftp, in /pub/pubs/pmc/issue.994/sounds] Soapy Water From The Absent Father in Dumbo (Tenerife: Zasterle Press, 1991 -- out of print). keywords: bernstein; end; plum; sounds; time cache: pmc-v5n1-bernstein-three.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-bernstein-three.txt item: #197 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-boros-cheered author: Boros title: Cheered By Battleship date: 1994-09 words: 1564 flesch: 65 summary: The picayune inertia so often associated with wobbly plowshares stood between middle-wing smilers and their raving shorelines; ask not what time cannot do for you, but then again, why? Kind of false hairline: connotes temporal gist apparatuses capable of withholding dregs as they blossom forth and back within a minute crevice perturbed by nautilus recession. Blathering pastiness was responsible for only 27% of xylem lossage, seeing as how everybody clapped like beetle sycophants while the remaining ingot lost gravity in a wilderness to the left of etiolated plane musculature. keywords: battleship; boros; copyright; culture; james; left; like; postmodern; text; time cache: pmc-v5n1-boros-cheered.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-boros-cheered.txt item: #198 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-dettmar-postmodern author: Dettmar title: Postmodern Jeremiads: Kruger On Popular Culture date: 1994-09 words: 3025 flesch: 66 summary: ^1^ A great many of Kruger's images are conveniently reproduced in Kate Linker's _Love For Sale: The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger_ (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990). [2] Of course Kruger *is* a postmodern artist, being, along with Jenny Holzer, a major supplier of those po-mo slogans that grace so many t-shirts and trendy greeting cards: Your gaze hits the side of my face, Your body is a battleground, I shop therefore I am. keywords: control; culture; images; kruger; postmodern; remote; texts; way; white; world cache: pmc-v5n1-dettmar-postmodern.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-dettmar-postmodern.txt item: #199 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1994-09 words: 23202 flesch: 47 summary: Mail art is a paradox in the way it reverses traditional definitions of art; the mailbox and computer replace the museum, the address becomes the art, and the mailman brings home the avant-garde to mail artists in the form of correspondence art, e-mail art, artistamps, postcards, conceptual projects, and collaborations. The book include snail mail and e-mail addresses, fax, and telephone numbers for many active mail artists. keywords: access; address; american; art; articles; arts; available; center; computer; conference; contact; contemporary; contributions; copy; cultural; culture; department; discussion; disk; editor; electronic; electronic journal; english; fax; fiction; following; gopher; history; information; interdisciplinary; interested; international; internet; issues; journal; kant; kbytes; leonardo; line; list; literature; mail; manuscripts; media; message; mit; network; new; notices.994.html#1; papers; philosophy; poetry; politics; popular; possible; postmodern; press; publication; queer; reading; reality; research; reviews; science; set; social; society; special; studies; subject; submissions; subscribe; subscription; technology; text; theory; university; virtual; work; world; writing; year cache: pmc-v5n1-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-editor-announcements.txt item: #200 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-evans-two author: Evans title: Two Poems date: 1994-09 words: 742 flesch: 75 summary: This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that the editors are notified and no fee is charged for access. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author and the notification of the publisher, Oxford University Press. keywords: body; eye cache: pmc-v5n1-evans-two.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-evans-two.txt item: #201 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-kolker-moving author: Kolker title: Moving Image Reclaimed date: 1994-09 words: 1860 flesch: 67 summary: With relatively inexpensive video-capture hardware and software, it's now possible to digitize film images from a videocassette or laserdisc and put them to critical use, making the film as quotable as a novel or poem. We now see what the critic is talking about and, hopefully, understand how deeply films grow out of other films. keywords: cape; clip; fear; film; hitchcock; images; scorsese cache: pmc-v5n1-kolker-moving.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-kolker-moving.txt item: #202 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-markovitz-blurring author: Markovitz title: Blurring The Lines: Art On The Border date: 1994-09 words: 2168 flesch: 58 summary: In the process of appropriation, Martinez has posed a serious challenge to the notion of borders. The original donkey cart now provides the occasion for a whole series of discussions that problematize U. S. /Mexican borders, public/private distinctions, and individual/government relations. keywords: avalos; border; culture; exhibit; martinez; piece; racism; work cache: pmc-v5n1-markovitz-blurring.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-markovitz-blurring.txt item: #203 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-nealon-theory author: Nealon title: Theory That Matters date: 1994-09 words: 4298 flesch: 40 summary: (8) The upshot of Butler's notion of performativity, in other words, is *not* that everything is structur*ed*, but rather that everything is dependent on struct*ures*--linguistic, institutional, political--that are cited and recited in any specific case; and, she argues, it is precisely an attention to the material specificity of the constitutive 'outside' in any particular case that would allow us to respond to and reinscribe the multiple exclusions that make an identity possible or livable, while making other identities impossible or unlivable. As she writes, thinking the body as constructed demands a rethinking of the meaning of construction itself (xi), and such a rethinking entails accounting not only for the production of normative identities, but the simultaneous production of unlivable, abject identities--though such sites may turn out, in a painful paradox, to be primary among the potential sites for normative identity's subversion. keywords: bodies; butler; gender; identity; lacan; law; matter; normative; question; resistance; subject; words cache: pmc-v5n1-nealon-theory.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-nealon-theory.txt item: #204 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-potter-black author: Potter title: Black Modernisms / Black Postmodernisms date: 1994-09 words: 7910 flesch: 41 summary: West, as one of the leading black philosophers of our time, saw both the parochial and ludic elements of postmodernism as signs of its insufficient engagement with black culture, even as he gestured toward a potentially enabling yet resisting postmodernism. Black culture, he argues, need not answer the call to (mis)represent itself as wholly unified and ethnically absolute, nor need it disperse to the four winds of assimilation, appropriation, commodification, and reification. keywords: academic; analysis; black; book; chapter; critical; critics; cultural; culture; dubois; gilroy; hip; histories; hop; kind; music; offers; postmodernism; questions; rap; rose; slavery; social; studies; time; work; wright cache: pmc-v5n1-potter-black.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-potter-black.txt item: #205 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-pyle-superhero author: Pyle title: Superhero Meets The Culture Critic date: 1994-09 words: 2165 flesch: 59 summary: While this process does not exactly abolish history from superhero comics, it does divorce the superheroes [sic] lives from their historical context (44). Another example is his discussion of the superhero costume as a fetish, which runs along lines very similar to those of Gillian Freeman's argument in her study of pornography (the last chapter of which is devoted to superhero comics). keywords: book; comics; culture; genre; heroes; reynolds; study; superhero; superman cache: pmc-v5n1-pyle-superhero.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-pyle-superhero.txt item: #206 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-ryan-immersion author: Ryan title: Immersion Vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality And Literary date: 1994-09 words: 8372 flesch: 53 summary: [13] The literary devices which create a sense of participation in fictional worlds present many parallelisms with the factors leading to telepresence. The mobility of the sensors that apprehend fictional worlds allow a degree of intimacy between the reader and the textual world that remain unparalleled in nonfiction. keywords: computer; environment; experience; fictional; fictional world; freedom; immersion; interactivity; like; narrative; possible; reader; reality; signs; system; text; user; virtual; virtual reality; virtual world; world cache: pmc-v5n1-ryan-immersion.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-ryan-immersion.txt item: #207 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-stoekl-round author: Stoekl title: 'Round Dusk: Kojeve At "The End" date: 1994-09 words: 8373 flesch: 59 summary: It is here that one recognizes with a start the perfect transformation of a Hegelian modernism into an anti-Hegelian, but soft, postmodernism: at the End of History History is replaced with a heterogeneous collection of lifestyle choices. Yet not to do so would consign all of human History--and Absolute Knowledge--to a kind of Absolute Forgetting. keywords: book; dead; death; end; hegel; history; human; ilh; knowledge; kojeve; man; posthistorical; postmodern; reading; recognition; state; time; words cache: pmc-v5n1-stoekl-round.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-stoekl-round.txt item: #208 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-walker-seizing author: Walker title: Seizing Power: Decadence And Transgression In Foucault And Paglia date: 1994-09 words: 9299 flesch: 60 summary: James Miller's _The Passion of Michel Foucault_, for instance, a meticulously researched and well considered book, calls into question North American Foucauldian scholarship, which he feels enshrined Foucault as a . . . My positive Paglian reading of Foucault will suggest that, contrary to what Paglia herself has said, Michel Foucault's work and life are the %epitome% of the aesthetic propounded in _Sexual Personae_, an aesthetic which finds its culmination in *dandyism*: rather than opponents, they are actually comrades in transgression and decadence, fighting what is forever fated to be a losing battle against nature. keywords: apollonian; art; author; baudelaire; culture; decadence; dionysian; dionysus; enlightenment; experience; foucault; language; life; man; miller; nature; new; nietzsche; order; paglia; power; sade; self; sexual; subject; transgression; work; york cache: pmc-v5n1-walker-seizing.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-walker-seizing.txt item: #209 of 305 id: pmc-v5n1-yuknavitch-differentia author: Yuknavitch title: Differentia date: 1994-09 words: 5363 flesch: 80 summary: Dead horses. The words, dead horses, shrinking and blurring into distance and light. keywords: beautiful; black; car; dead; hands; horses; like; love; man; white; words; writing cache: pmc-v5n1-yuknavitch-differentia.txt plain text: pmc-v5n1-yuknavitch-differentia.txt item: #210 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-burke-response author: Burke title: Response To Deepika Bahri'S Essa date: 1995-01 words: 1105 flesch: 34 summary: [3] The other problem here is not one that Bahri alone struggles with, but something that haunts a great deal of analysis (and I include myself) when it attempts to describe what seem like common features in the making of colonial subjectivities and colonial cultures--Bahri cites Mohanty's critique of the Third World woman construction approvingly, but in parts of this article, the analysis reads out Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions in fairly sweeping or generalized terms as being about a colonial and female subject. Bahri tends to portray processes like commodification as essentially completed and unambiguous forms of colonial domination and argues that Nyasha (and by extension, the female subjects she designates) struggle to resist, however partially or problematically, these coherently hegemonic forces or institutions. keywords: bahri; colonial; dangarembga; postcolonial; response cache: pmc-v5n2-burke-response.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-burke-response.txt item: #211 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-carr-optical author: Carr title: Optical Allusions: Hysterical Memories And The Screening Of Pregnant Sites date: 1995-01 words: 5770 flesch: 61 summary: In other words, the woman who fails to be her own cop fails because she refuses to conflate pregnant body with mother by participating in the social mandate that the fetus become subject well before birth. On the one hand, pregnant bodies are patted and stroked by random strangers on buses, on streets, in classrooms, yet on the other hand, their sexuality is a contained one--sexuality with a reason. keywords: baby; body; choice; fetus; image; life; like; pregnancy; pregnant; pregnant body; private; real; screen; subjectivity; ultrasound; women cache: pmc-v5n2-carr-optical.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-carr-optical.txt item: #212 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-causey-mapping author: Causey title: Mapping The Dematerialized: Writing Postmodern Performance Theory date: 1995-01 words: 3167 flesch: 43 summary: [9] The value of _Postmodernism and Performance_ lies not in Kaye's attempt to theorize postmodern performance as the perfect counter-project to high Modernism, but in his discussion of individual performance and dance works. The Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde_ that theory facilitates the undoing of the avant-garde, that cultural criticism enacts a theory-death on the object of its discourse, Kaye notes criticism's collusion in the construction of postmodern performance. keywords: art; dance; fried; greenberg; kaye; modernist; object; performance; postmodern; postmodernism; theory; work cache: pmc-v5n2-causey-mapping.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-causey-mapping.txt item: #213 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-dennis-evocations author: Dennis title: Evocations Of Empire In A Transnational Corporate Age: Tracking The Sign Of Saturn date: 1995-01 words: 9576 flesch: 53 summary: And it is in the context of confronting an external threat (the rising sun of Japanese economic power as signified by automotive imports) with a deteriorating base of productive power (the setting sun of U.S. economic power as signified by GM) that the sign of Saturn surfaced. The contemporary function of the scientific and ideological success of the Saturn rocket in the early '60s was to serve as a symbolic center for a remembrance of a still reclaimable politics of dominance and a restoration of economic security. keywords: age; american; bush; capital; capitalism; complex; corporate; early; economic; education; fields; global; information; king; mobility; new; nostalgia; order; political; practices; press; project; public; saturn; school; security; self; series; sign; social; technological; text; time; u.s; university; war; way; world; york cache: pmc-v5n2-dennis-evocations.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-dennis-evocations.txt item: #214 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1995-01 words: 18624 flesch: 46 summary: The central role of the new technologies ============================================== The new technologies will by definition be at the heart of this publication, both for the possibilities they represent and the questions they raise. yfak0073@vm1.yorku.ca * * Fax: (to Canada): (416) 736-5986 * * -> Please re-post to relevant network sites <- * * ( A Distributed Knowledge Project Undertaking ) * ******************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 53) _splinter_ splinter is a new electronic publication that seeks texts in various states of unfinish prose poetry neither both your scraps your scrytch your fragments your language doodles unfinished stories unfinished scenes unfinished sentences experiments freewriting drafts of drafts outlines bits of dialogue directionless musings stanzas that never found their way into poems flashes that dead-ended scribbled down and never became no length guidelines / authors keep all rights rolling submission, no deadlines the contact address at this point is dave1@gibbs.oit.unc.edu send your submissions, subscription requests, questions, and comments (put SPLINTER somewhere in the subject line) e-mail subscriptions are free and encouraged. keywords: = =; access; address; articles; arts; author; available; center; computer; conference; contact; cultural; culture; department; discussion; editor; electronic; english; essays; fax; fiction; following; forum; information; interested; international; internet; issues; journal; kant; leonardo; line; list; literary; literature; mail; manuscripts; media; message; music; new; papers; philosophy; poetry; politics; popular; postmodern; press; project; publication; queer; reality; research; review; science; social; society; studies; subject; submissions; subscribe; subscription; technologies; technology; texts; theory; university; virtual; work; world; writing; year cache: pmc-v5n2-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-editor-announcements.txt item: #215 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-gross-disorder author: Gross title: Disorder Of Being: Heroe date: 1995-01 words: 4553 flesch: 70 summary: Of foreknowledge of the Holocaust, he says: We read in _Mein Kampf_ that Hitler would destroy the Jews; we read his speech in the Reichstag. [13] In his brilliant allegorical novel, _Badenheim 1939_, Aharon Appelfeld dramatizes the gradual descent into passivity that leads the Jews to their destruction. keywords: holocaust; jewish; jews; meaning; memory; monument; mother; people; schindler; story; time; war; world; young; zuckerman cache: pmc-v5n2-gross-disorder.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-gross-disorder.txt item: #216 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-helmling-desire author: Helmling title: Desire Called Jameson date: 1995-01 words: 3572 flesch: 42 summary: The Political Unconscious_ calls The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology: the Eros-and-Thanatos agon of Utopian desire in its fated conflict with the reality principle, or (to use a vocabulary Jameson favors) with that Lacanian Real which Jameson has glossed as simply [!] Once again, what the overhastily zealous would dismiss as an incorrect *desire* called totalization, Jameson stages as an inescapable *anxiety* of totalization. keywords: anxiety; book; desire; jameson; political; postmodernism; prose; sense; text; time; unconscious; world cache: pmc-v5n2-helmling-desire.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-helmling-desire.txt item: #217 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-mcneilly-ugly author: Mcneilly title: Ugly Beauty: John Zorn And The Politics Of Postmodern Music date: 1995-01 words: 5830 flesch: 55 summary: [14] The use of genre within the context of a mass consumer audience thus gives Zorn's music a socio-political character which the music of Cage can only attain, as Attali has indicated, negatively, by forcing the listener away from music %per se% (as an organ of institutional power) and toward the individual, to a new order of music. Music, that is, as Attali understands it, can provide a viable, fully realized conjunction of the theoretical and the practical, a form of theorizing which coincides with a formal practice.^1^ To grasp the practice of music, then, within a postmodern context, is in some sense to arrive at a theoretical position %vis-a-vis% the postmodern, especially--as the aesthetic delimitation of music as a sphere of cultural activity is broadened to encompass the theoretical--toward a decidedly political praxis (cf. keywords: attali; blocks; cage; composition; form; genre; john; listener; music; musical; new; noise; players; postmodern; recording; sense; sound; work; zorn cache: pmc-v5n2-mcneilly-ugly.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-mcneilly-ugly.txt item: #218 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-melehy-images author: Melehy title: Images Without: Deleuzian Becomin date: 1995-01 words: 10668 flesch: 55 summary: In this type of image time is no longer subordinate to movement: that is, it is not in sequential segments of movement that time is viewed. Melehy, 'Images Without: Deleuzian Becoming, Science Fiction Cinema in the Eighties', Postmodern Culture v5n2 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v5n2-melehy-images.txt Archive PMC-LIST, file melehy.195. keywords: assemblage; body; cinema; cinematic; concepts; cyborg; deleuze; fiction; film; human; image; machinery; machinic; movement; movie; organs; past; philosophy; present; production; relation; science; sequence; simulacrum; time; transformation; way; world cache: pmc-v5n2-melehy-images.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-melehy-images.txt item: #219 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-morin-gender author: Morin title: Gender Of Geography date: 1995-01 words: 1803 flesch: 51 summary: Whereas geographic studies of women's work, women's status in less developed countries, women's relationship to imperialism, and women and the land have broadly taken off within the field, few attempts have been made to discuss feminist geography theory, at length, within the context of the history of geographic thought. Though Rose brings together some of the substantive works in feminist geography, her primary concern is with the way geographers think and produce work, and she therefore focuses more on the gender of geography than the geography of gender. keywords: book; feminist; geography; masculinism; rose; women; work cache: pmc-v5n2-morin-gender.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-morin-gender.txt item: #220 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-plotnitsky-re author: Plotnitsky title: Re-: Re-Flectin date: 1995-01 words: 10462 flesch: 41 summary: Hegel, Derrida says in _Of Grammatology_, is the last philosopher of *the book* and the first thinker of *writing*--two very different forms of economy and of collecting.^4^ [4] I consider this economic configuration and the transformation of the key concepts involved in it via Bataille's concept of general economy, which may be seen both, and often simultaneously, as the most radical extension and the most radical dislocation of the Hegelian economy. Bataille's whole meditation on general economy may be seen as that on this passage, leading him, however, to realization that the energy of thought at stake there, or that (excessive) energy which should be at stake there--cannot be meaningfully utilized. keywords: bataille; classical; collection; concept; derrida; economic; economies; economy; expenditure; general; general economy; hegel; hegelian; hegelian economy; historical; history; negative; phenomenology; political; sense; spirit cache: pmc-v5n2-plotnitsky-re.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-plotnitsky-re.txt item: #221 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-shepherdson-history author: Shepherdson title: History And The Real: Foucault With Lacan date: 1995-01 words: 17954 flesch: 53 summary: Foucault points out that madness and reason are not distinguished by natural necessity or by right, but only by the contingency of a certain formation of knowledge, and that history itself can be understood as occurring precisely because of the inevitability (the law) of such contingent formations, and not as the unfolding of a fundamental truth of culture or human nature (teleological or merely sequentially continuous). The question is whether psychoanalysis indeed remains trapped within the modern discourses of liberation that were born alongside what Foucault regards as the monarchical theories of power (what he also speaks of as the repressive hypothesis), or whether, as Foucault sometimes suggests, psychoanalysis in fact amounts to a disruption of that paradigm, just as genealogy does. ^28^ Michel Foucault, _Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison_ keywords: discourse; fact; fiction; form; foucault; freud; genealogy; historical; history; image; knowledge; lacan; language; law; level; madness; natural; new; order; origin; past; point; power; present; question; reality; relation; symbolic; things; thought; transgression; truth; work; world cache: pmc-v5n2-shepherdson-history.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-shepherdson-history.txt item: #222 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-thompson-turn author: Thompson title: Turn Toward The Past date: 1995-01 words: 2120 flesch: 63 summary: The Angel of History_ Forche sees history as a catastrophe, particularly twentieth-century history. [1] The title of Carolyn Forche's newest volume of poetry comes from a famous passage of Walter Benjamin's essay Theses on the Philosophy of History, in which Benjamin considers history's power to dishevel human order and any human understanding of the past. keywords: angel; benjamin; forche; history; past; poems; poetry; world cache: pmc-v5n2-thompson-turn.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-thompson-turn.txt item: #223 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-wood-bring author: Wood title: Bring The Noise! William S. Burroughs And Music In The Expanded Field date: 1995-01 words: 5893 flesch: 62 summary: What follows here is an attempt to read the various takes on William Burroughs texts that have surfaced in the expanded field. These recordings include Burroughs's own _Dead City Radio_ (1990) and _Spare-Ass Annie_ (1993); the Revolting Cocks' _Beers Steers and Queers_ (1991) and _Linger keywords: american; ass; black; burroughs; city; cocks; culture; dead; field; like; ministry; music; musical; new; noise; piece; radio; sound; text; william; work; york cache: pmc-v5n2-wood-bring.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-wood-bring.txt item: #224 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-yule-waxing author: Yule title: Waxing Kriger date: 1995-01 words: 5279 flesch: 87 summary: [1] After they waxed Kriger, he was supposed to stay dead. Kriger, that Kriger anyway, was a rare one. Wanted nothing to do with reconstitution. keywords: guy; hit; job; kriger; lot; people; right; sure; team; time cache: pmc-v5n2-yule-waxing.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-yule-waxing.txt item: #225 of 305 id: pmc-v5n2-ziarek-uncanny author: Ziarek title: Uncanny Style Of Kristeva'S Critique Of Nationalism date: 1995-01 words: 9011 flesch: 38 summary: [26] Although in _The Tales of Love_ Kristeva argues that abjection has to be offset by identification in order to demarcate an archaic narcissistic space, she nonetheless ends her discussion once again with the figure of an exile, which anticipates the predicament of the foreigner in _Strangers to Ourselves_. For a detailed discussion of the role of this incident as a background for Kristeva's text, see Moruzzi, National Abjects, 136-142. ^9^ Julia Kristeva, _Nations without Nationalism_, trans. keywords: aesthetics; affect; alterity; community; ethics; foreigner; freud; identification; imaginary; kristeva; national; nationalism; new; order; otherness; political; politics; psychoanalysis; self; social; space; time; uncanny cache: pmc-v5n2-ziarek-uncanny.txt plain text: pmc-v5n2-ziarek-uncanny.txt item: #226 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-anson-intermedia author: Anson title: Intermedia '95 date: 1995-05 words: 2096 flesch: 63 summary: The item's patina opened entire worlds surrounding the object (including period, region, craftsmanship, former ownership [Benjamin, 60]) to its possessor. They'll want to own things as opposed to access things. keywords: allwood; benjamin; conference; exposition; international; new; rom; technology; world cache: pmc-v5n3-anson-intermedia.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-anson-intermedia.txt item: #227 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-arsenault-toward author: Arsenault title: Toward An Indexical Criticism date: 1995-05 words: 12355 flesch: 69 summary: (like the German %legen%), as %lying% (like the German %liegen%), and as %arranging%, or %gathering together% (like the German %lesen%). [%das innerhalb der Welt begegnende Seiende%], and which are taken as an example for the interpretation of Being [%ihrer Seinauslegung%], presuppose that the Being of beings can be grasped in a distinctive kind of LEGEIN keywords: das; der; die; dike; heidegger; historical; index; interpretant; interpretation; language; legein; order; picture; presencing; present; reading; reference; saying; semantics; sign; specific; time; trans; translation; turn; university cache: pmc-v5n3-arsenault-toward.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-arsenault-toward.txt item: #228 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-benson-new author: Benson title: New Political Journalism date: 1995-05 words: 1881 flesch: 55 summary: It is not even possible, given this technique, to determine which scenes Cramer himself observed and which were reported to him by informants, or who those informants were. What It Takes: The Way to the White House_. keywords: book; campaign; cramer; narrative; press; private; public cache: pmc-v5n3-benson-new.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-benson-new.txt item: #229 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-berger-cultural author: Berger title: Cultural Trauma And The "Timeless Burst": Pynchon'S Revision Of Nostalgia In Vineland date: 1995-05 words: 10216 flesch: 62 summary: It is in this symptomatic sense that ghosts play such important roles in _Vineland_, and ghosts are, indeed, ideal figures to portray the return of historical traumas. And we should note in Hector's ridicule of 60s nostalgia the repeated presence of Pynchon's favorite recurring consonant, perhaps a parodic nostalgia for his own productions from the 60s. keywords: 1960s; 60s; american; brock; cultural; forms; frenesi; historical; history; karmic; new; nostalgia; novel; past; political; politics; prairie; present; pynchon; right; sexual; social; takeshi; time; trauma; traumatic; utopian; vineland; york; zoyd cache: pmc-v5n3-berger-cultural.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-berger-cultural.txt item: #230 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-cass-cyberspace author: Cass title: Cyberspac date: 1995-05 words: 3131 flesch: 49 summary: Theme Park_ embodies this brilliance, richness, and pliability by permitting capitalism to reterritorialize space, to recast it into more profitable, but less terrifying shapes. Implicitly, however, such a distinction does much more, for the easy temptations of _Theme Park_ falsely promise that we can indeed escape the poverty of reality through cyberspatial hyperreality, false promises which the iconography of _Theme Park_ reiterates. keywords: adam; capitalism; consumers; cyberspace; desire; eve; information; new; park; theme; theme park; world cache: pmc-v5n3-cass-cyberspace.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-cass-cyberspace.txt item: #231 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-chung-rethinking author: Chung title: Rethinking Agency date: 1995-05 words: 2049 flesch: 40 summary: _Micropolitics_ reproduces a presumptive white bourgeois heterosexuality by focusing almost exclusively on social issues significant to women intimate with (white) men: the double duty syndrome, abortion, pornography. Yet it will remain difficult to appreciate or to act upon that potential so long as we continue to assume modernist visions of change and political agency. keywords: agency; book; contemporary; mann; micropolitics; philosophical; postmodern; social; women cache: pmc-v5n3-chung-rethinking.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-chung-rethinking.txt item: #232 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1995-05 words: 8513 flesch: 45 summary: Music histories 12. Language Machines 13) TinFish 14) Centennial Review 15) Questions of Identity 16) Crossroads in Cultural Studies 17) Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition 18) Toposthesia 19) Hellas 20) Critical Mass 21) (Post)Colonialism and Culture in an American Context 22) Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Traffic 23) Texts and Images 24) Patheticism 25) SIGIR '95 26) Drake University Conference on Popular Music and Culture 27) Capitalism and the Postmodern 28) CATH '95 III. keywords: available; canada; conference; contact; contemporary; critical; cultural; culture; electronic; english; essays; feminist; fiction; history; humanities; information; interest; international; issue; journal; literary; mail; music; papers; poetry; postmodern; project; queer; ref; studies; submissions; text; topics; university; wide; work; world; writing cache: pmc-v5n3-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-editor-announcements.txt item: #233 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-frost-signifying author: Frost title: Signifyin(G) On Stein: The Revisionist Poetics Of Harryette Mullen And Leslie Scalapino date: 1995-05 words: 14844 flesch: 63 summary: The entries in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book's Readings section--all appreciations of _Tender Buttons_ and all written by men--bear witness to Stein's importance to this particular movement. A number of recent feminist avant-garde poets linked to L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing owe a debt to _Tender Buttons_, and Stein's work in general remains a subject of homage. keywords: = g; = n; = u; american; avant; black; body; buttons; culture; erotic; experience; feminist; form; language; like; mullen; new; poetry; poets; press; private; public; scalapino; sexual; sexuality; social; stein; tender; text; trimmings; way; white; women; words; work; writing; york cache: pmc-v5n3-frost-signifying.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-frost-signifying.txt item: #234 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-hooper-lamentation author: Hooper title: Lamentation date: 1995-05 words: 7229 flesch: 75 summary: To utter the loud, mournful wail of a dog, wolf, or other animal. Forgive me this inconvenience, but it's my instruction to inform you that other worlds request your company. keywords: change; clam; course; direction; effect; form; hand; house; mind; place; point; sea; second; sense; shape; things; time; water; way; wind; window cache: pmc-v5n3-hooper-lamentation.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-hooper-lamentation.txt item: #235 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-mackey-song author: Mackey title: Song Of The Andoumboulou: 23 date: 1995-05 words: 682 flesch: 70 summary: %Audio clips are provided here in .au format and .wav format. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author and the notification of the publisher, Oxford University Press.
keywords: book; mackey; sophic cache: pmc-v5n3-mackey-song.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-mackey-song.txt item: #236 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-mann-stupid author: Mann title: Stupid Undergrounds date: 1995-05 words: 26279 flesch: 51 summary: Why this stupid fascination with stupid undergrounds? Masocriticism is stupid criticism, guilty by association with its worthless objects of attention, collapsing its distance from everything it purports to analyze, throwing itself into the arms of anyone who promises to unmask it. keywords: art; avant; body; capital; certain; claim; control; critical; criticism; critique; cultural; culture; day; death; distance; economy; end; fact; fantasy; figure; force; form; fun; general; guru; history; image; instance; intelligence; job; kind; life; line; matter; means; model; moment; new; order; place; plagiarism; point; political; power; press; real; recuperation; repetition; secret; self; sense; sign; social; sort; space; spectacle; stupid; stupid underground; stupidity; symbolic; terms; theory; thing; time; truth; value; way; work; world cache: pmc-v5n3-mann-stupid.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-mann-stupid.txt item: #237 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-naylor-mired author: Naylor title: "Mired Sublime" Of Nathaniel Mackey'S Song Of The Andoumboulou date: 1995-05 words: 8137 flesch: 60 summary: Read this way, Mackey's poem enacts the kind of questioning of the source of inspiration that he finds in Duncan's poetry--a questioning that becomes increasingly prominent in the sections of _Song of the Andoumboulou_ that appear in Mackey's most recent book of poetry, _School of Udhra_. [7] In _Gassire's Lute,_ Mackey describes the world-poem in light of Duncan's understanding of Pound's, H.D.'s, and Charles Olson's initial attempts to produce such a poem. keywords: american; andoumboulou; cross; cultural; dogon; duncan; engagement; gassire; lute; mackey; moment; noise; poem; poetry; possibility; song; transcendence; udhra; way; world cache: pmc-v5n3-naylor-mired.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-naylor-mired.txt item: #238 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-pavlovic-demystifying author: Pavlovic title: Demystifying Nationalism: Dubravka Ugresic And The Situation Of The Writer In (Ex-) Yugoslavia date: 1995-05 words: 2598 flesch: 55 summary: For his part, the Czech writer, Jan Zdrazila, is tormented by guilt as he works for years on his lengthy and unpublishable masterpiece, while earning his living by censoring the works of other writers. Flagus, however, is later revealed to be an international scammer and forger working in so-called literary espionage; in revenge for his own feelings of literary incompetence and mediocrity he manipulates the lives of other writers at the conference as if they were themselves characters in a novel. keywords: conference; culture; dubravka; fording; life; literary; literature; novel; stream; ugresic; writers; yugoslavia cache: pmc-v5n3-pavlovic-demystifying.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-pavlovic-demystifying.txt item: #239 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-poster-technocommunities author: Poster title: Techno-Communities date: 1995-05 words: 974 flesch: 44 summary: [3] Nancy Baym's The Emergence of Community in Computer-Mediated Communication explores the formation of social relations in a Usenet group on soap operas (rec.arts.tv.soaps or r.a.t.s.). Judging by the studies included here, however, it is possible to see lines of social formation emerging in this electronic space, to begin to delineate its characteristics, and to draw comparisons with other forms of human interaction. keywords: communication; community; computer; social; usenet cache: pmc-v5n3-poster-technocommunities.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-poster-technocommunities.txt item: #240 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-readers-selected author: Readers title: Selected Letters From Readers date: 1995-05 words: 1034 flesch: 54 summary: I hope that Valerie Fulton pursues her interest in Star Trek, and that this interest leads her to watch many more episodes, and also to look at the rich and exciting culture of Star Trek fandom. The many discussions relating to the show on the Internet and in fanzines, at Star Trek conventions and in front of the TV ensure that Star Trek is never passively accepted but is discussed, analysed, and critiqued, endlessly. keywords: federation; fulton; star; trek cache: pmc-v5n3-readers-selected.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-readers-selected.txt item: #241 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-sengers-madness author: Sengers title: Madness And Automation: On Institutionalization date: 1995-05 words: 8413 flesch: 65 summary: This stratification is different in that it has no legal backing and this is what brings about the fear in other patients. [7] As the soon-to-be-patients stand on the threshold of entering the institution, they are immediately confronted with its first moment of breakdown. keywords: analysis; hospital; individual; insane; institution; institutionalization; law; machines; mental; moment; new; patient; point; project; psychiatric; social; status; ward; york cache: pmc-v5n3-sengers-madness.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-sengers-madness.txt item: #242 of 305 id: pmc-v5n3-strenski-ethics author: Strenski title: Ethics Of Ethnocentrism date: 1995-05 words: 2346 flesch: 50 summary: [1] Intellectual historian-cum-literary critic Tzvetan Todorov has given us a series of thoughtful essays on a cluster of issues of wide current concern: ethnocentrism, humanism, scientism, racism, nationalism, universalism, cultural relativism, exoticism, and the like. [7] Todorov argues further that universalism is not the only villain in perpetuating colonialism. keywords: book; culture; ethnocentrism; french; human; humanity; todorov; universalism; way cache: pmc-v5n3-strenski-ethics.txt plain text: pmc-v5n3-strenski-ethics.txt item: #243 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-barker-nietzschederrida author: Barker title: Nietzsche/Derrid date: 1995-09 words: 10423 flesch: 53 summary: These opening fragments of _Beyond Good and Evil_ have come to fascinate Derrida more and more in recent years, with their implicit questions not only of truth and value but of the transgressive desire for %untruth% that transparently shines through the cruder truth-questions with which we seem to occupy ourselves. But the collapse of the abyssal operation, described in such vertiginous language by Derrida (as both a fall and %releve%) does not and cannot occur, as Derrida shows, because of the laws of formalization beyond which the law, and the articulation of the law, cannot go, and which must therefore remain the nameless name. keywords: aphorism; art; beckett; blanchot; death; derrida; fragment; fragmentary; impossible; language; law; nietzsche; paramodern; presence; self; space; subject; text; tightrope; transgression; truth; unnamable; work; world; writing cache: pmc-v6n1-barker-nietzschederrida.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-barker-nietzschederrida.txt item: #244 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-bartolovich-have author: Bartolovich title: Have Theory; Will Travel: Constructions Of "Cultural Geography" date: 1995-09 words: 5061 flesch: 50 summary: Given these conditions, the common gesture of traditional disciplines looking to cultural theory to revitalise themselves without in any way questioning their own disciplinary integrity can be seen as destructive to cultural studies. But the traffic has not been in one direction: there is now at least the potential for repaying this debt by informing cultural studies with some of the insights of social and cultural geography. keywords: book; constructions; critical; cultural; cultural studies; disciplinary; geography; jackson; nation; new; place; race; social; studies; theory; university cache: pmc-v6n1-bartolovich-have.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-bartolovich-have.txt item: #245 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-butler-bordering author: Butler title: Bordering On Fiction: Chantal Akerman'S %D'Est% date: 1995-09 words: 2335 flesch: 47 summary: They are the lowest in the hierarchy of film images. [3] Bordering on Fiction: Chantal Akerman's _D'Est_, now enjoying a ten-week run at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis before it moves to the Jeu de Paume in Paris, is in many ways a conceptual continuation of her earlier work in films such as _Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles_ (1975), _ keywords: akerman; art; chantal; cinematic; d'est; fiction; film; installation; sound; work cache: pmc-v6n1-butler-bordering.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-butler-bordering.txt item: #246 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-consenstein-memory author: Consenstein title: Memory And Oulipian Constraints date: 1995-09 words: 15706 flesch: 58 summary: The constraint in _La Boucle_, an interior adventure depicting Roubaud's abstract understanding of memory, confirms that a life occurred, secures it, and inscribes that life in literary memory. These themes, not truly themes but possibilities of further permutations within the mechanics of the construction, were termed faux and manque which Magne has translated as gap and wrong; these further permutations underline the role of the clinamen, another important component in the theory of oulipian constraints. keywords: act; author; bartlebooth; book; boucle; calvino; chapter; clinamen; constraint; des; different; fact; life; like; literary; literature; memory; narration; new; night; novel; order; oulipian; oulipo; paris; past; perec; potential; present; project; reader; roubaud; text; une; vie; winter; work; world cache: pmc-v6n1-consenstein-memory.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-consenstein-memory.txt item: #247 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1995-09 words: 24844 flesch: 48 summary: o open 3,1-June1995. o keywords: access; address; american; architecture; art; available; body; book; century; children; college; companies; computer; conference; contact; cultural; culture; cybernetics; david; dialectical; different; digital; editor; electronic; english; fiction; files; history; human; imagination; information; interested; internet; issue; journal; knowledge; language; life; list; literature; look; magazine; mail; materialism; media; meeting; new; non; november; october; organizer; page; panel; papers; people; philosophy; poetry; politics; post; postmodern; project; proposals; public; queer; research; review; science; serials; session; site; social; society; state; studies; submissions; systems; technologies; technology; text; theory; time; tobacco; university; use; virtual; visual; way; web; wide; women; work; world; writing cache: pmc-v6n1-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-editor-announcements.txt item: #248 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-garelick-outrageous author: Garelick title: Outrageous Dieting: The Camp Performance Of Richard Simmons date: 1995-09 words: 4961 flesch: 64 summary: Notes on Camp, it has been argued, allowed camp culture to shade off into Pop culture. One obvious and important departure point for my argument will be the marginalized space shared by obese woman and gay men -- the space Eve Sedgwick has aptly called the glass closet, a prison with transparent walls. keywords: camp; cards; confession; credit; culture; deal; fat; meal; meyer; obese; performance; queer; richard; shopping; simmons; soap; system; women cache: pmc-v6n1-garelick-outrageous.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-garelick-outrageous.txt item: #249 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-hammer-just author: Hammer title: "Just Like Eddie," Or As Far As A Boy Can Go: Vedde date: 1995-09 words: 8624 flesch: 64 summary: She is a complete cipher, as mothers of the Western tradition generally are, her motivations for telling are unfathomable (guilt, cruelty, warning?), although they resonate with distant meaning. This apparently triumphant telling, performed before the adult son in his bedroom is an outrage, charged with a sexual resonance familiar to other bedroom encounters between mothers and sons -- Oedipus, Hamlet, Proust's Marcel. keywords: -the; autobiography; barthes; body; culture; eddie; father; feminine; handke; language; like; love; man; masculine; mother; pain; play; pleasure; postmodern; rage; rock; roland; self; son; text; vedder; work; writing cache: pmc-v6n1-hammer-just.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-hammer-just.txt item: #250 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-kirschenbaum-cult author: Kirschenbaum title: Cult Of Print date: 1995-09 words: 3541 flesch: 59 summary: [6] It is clear that this Reader is a Romantic Reader, and while I would not wish to deny Birkerts any of the pleasures of reading that way, his model of our engagement with the written word -- a model that occupies the first half of his book and is the basis for the all-out assault on electronic media that follows -- is badly weakened by its uncritical and unselfconscious presentation of a highly stylized and idealized reading self. Birkerts need not be impressed by any of this, but he ought to at least be cognizant of it when he writes, with regard to the development of electronic media, that every lateral achievement is purchased with a sacrifice of depth (138). keywords: birkerts; book; culture; electronic; elegies; experience; gutenberg; media; new; reading; time; word; work cache: pmc-v6n1-kirschenbaum-cult.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-kirschenbaum-cult.txt item: #251 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-martinot-spectors author: Martinot title: Spectors Of Sartre; Nancy'S Romance With Ontological Freedom date: 1995-09 words: 3667 flesch: 62 summary: The Experience of Freedom_, Nancy maneuvers between two languages, that of Heidegger -- of being, presencing, withdrawing, and the ontological difference -- and that of Sartre -- of freedom, nothingness, precedence, and transcendence. That is, inseparable from ontological freedom, there is what could be called situational freedom, reflected in the strategies and tactics by which one realizes one's project. keywords: difference; evil; existence; experience; freedom; nancy; ontological; sartre; structure cache: pmc-v6n1-martinot-spectors.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-martinot-spectors.txt item: #252 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-nealon-junk author: Nealon title: 'Junk' And The Other: Burroughs And Levinas On Drugs date: 1995-09 words: 10905 flesch: 55 summary: Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author and the notification of the publisher, Oxford University Press. But when Levinas argues that one is subjected solely by other humans in the face-to-face encounter, he elides any number of important ethical considerations. keywords: addiction; alterity; anonymous; burroughs; desire; ethical; face; human; identity; junk; levinas; need; question; response; saying; subject; subjectivity; substitution; terms cache: pmc-v6n1-nealon-junk.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-nealon-junk.txt item: #253 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-pazderic-hard author: Pazderic title: Hard Bodies date: 1995-09 words: 1529 flesch: 48 summary: [2] Jeffords's interpretive reading of Reagan era films chronicles the stunning confluence of cinematic representations of the masculine hard body and the official ideologies of the Reagan administration. [4] The return of the 'physical king' in the guise of Ronald Reagan was both prefigured in the writings of people such as Richard Nixon and Robert Bly and reinscribed through such films as the _Back to the Future_ trilogy (1985, 1989, 1991). keywords: films; hard; jeffords; lehman; reagan; representations cache: pmc-v6n1-pazderic-hard.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-pazderic-hard.txt item: #254 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-pelt-queering author: Pelt title: Queering Freud In Freiburg date: 1995-09 words: 1916 flesch: 41 summary: Pelt, 'Queering Freud in Freiburg', Postmodern Culture v6n1 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v6n1-pelt-queering.txt Archive PMC-LIST, file review-2.995. Another alternative view of psychoanalytic gender -- a view of gender as space -- was provided by Virginia Blum (Kentucky) who drew on feminist geography to critique Lacan's parable of the train station where gender is 'entered' via the doors marked 'Ladies' and 'Gentlemen', reading Lacan's story in connetion with Klein's case study of Little Dick's train therapy and Freud's writings on Hans's traumatic childhood train ride. keywords: annual; conference; freiburg; freud; freudian; gender; lacan; postmodern; psychology; twelfth; university cache: pmc-v6n1-pelt-queering.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-pelt-queering.txt item: #255 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-readers-selected author: Readers title: Selected Letters From Readers date: 1995-09 words: 1060 flesch: 59 summary: Last, Zorn treats the genres upon which whole undergrounds and cultures exist (hardcore punk, dub reggae) as pop culture chunks with all the depth of soundbites. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on Kevin McNeilly, Ugly Beauty: John Zorn and the Politics of Postmodern Music: I think a problem arises when defining postmodernity as the appropriations of pop culture as a sort of social critique -- I think that, rather, Attali is right on when he stakes the claim that it is indicative of its environment as well as discursive to it. keywords: culture; pop; postmodern; readers; zorn cache: pmc-v6n1-readers-selected.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-readers-selected.txt item: #256 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-thwaites-facing author: Thwaites title: Facing Pages: On Respons date: 1995-09 words: 5234 flesch: 47 summary: See, for example, Christopher Norris, _Derrida_ (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987), or Rodolphe Gasche, _ [1] Steven Helmling's Historicizing Derrida^1^ reads Derrida's writings, and particularly the huge corpus of other writings which have grown up around them, as lacking an essential historically informed awareness (1) which he proposes in part to supply. keywords: argument; derrida; different; future; hand; helmling; historical; historicizing; history; moment; philosophy; political; texts; way; writing cache: pmc-v6n1-thwaites-facing.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-thwaites-facing.txt item: #257 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-white-nietzsche author: White title: Nietzsche At The Altar: Situating The Devotee date: 1995-09 words: 15213 flesch: 63 summary: [6] Our argument, in a nutshell (that infinite space over which Hamlet would have been king if it were not for those embarrassing bubbles of primary process, his dreams -- _Hamlet_ II, ii), is that the works of Nietzsche, Bateson, Cixous, Bataille and others provide a cross-disciplinary language which may provide, upon analysis, a substantive (apologies to Nietzsche's critique of our faith in grammar) strategy for cultural politics: critically to situate and creatively to rewrite the combination of Christian devotionalism and capitalism with science that characterizes modernity. [13] Cixous, in whom we see an uncanny resemblance to that radical gangstress of comic book and recent film, Tank Girl, appears here interposed first amidst the text of Derrida contemplating Nietzsche on women (_Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles_), as the cybernaut who steers the ship of %l'ecriture feminine% on a differential course, riding the whirlpool that forms at the interface of entropy and information, Dionysus and Apollo. keywords: -the; aristotle; bataille; bateson; body; christian; church; cixous; cultural; culture; death; difference; discourse; forms; god; good; human; information; language; laughter; life; like; little; living; mind; narrator; nbcbn; new; nietzsche; order; play; power; religion; science; sec; self; stage; steps; subject; terms; trans; truth; war; way; work; world; york cache: pmc-v6n1-white-nietzsche.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-white-nietzsche.txt item: #258 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-wilkie-postmodernism author: Wilkie title: Postmodernism As Usual: "Theory" In The American Academy Today date: 1995-09 words: 2952 flesch: 32 summary: [1] By opening up a field of inquiry into the production and reproduction of subjectivities, postmodern theory offered the potential to radically transform the object of literary studies. The focus of Zavarzadeh's and Morton's argument is on those uses of postmodern theory which firmly separate the local from the global, and attempt to forestall any rearticulation of the two by associating systemic conceptualization with authoritarian politics. keywords: academy; capitalism; change; fiction; humanities; morton; postmodern; theory; workshop; zavarzadeh cache: pmc-v6n1-wilkie-postmodernism.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-wilkie-postmodernism.txt item: #259 of 305 id: pmc-v6n1-woodman-plunder author: Woodman title: Plunder Squad date: 1995-09 words: 440 flesch: 58 summary: The horizontal left to right movement of text across the screen mimics the reading process and the reader's rush to narrative closure while the shifting fields of video image and aural noise mock this attempt at coherence. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author and the notification of the publisher, Oxford University Press. keywords: elements; narrative; plunder cache: pmc-v6n1-woodman-plunder.txt plain text: pmc-v6n1-woodman-plunder.txt item: #260 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-barbiero-first author: Barbiero title: First Amendment In An Age Of Electronic Reproduction date: 1996-01 words: 3479 flesch: 51 summary: Specifically, what is or should be the scope of First Amendment protection, given the seeming ubiquity electronic dissemination has afforded commercial speech and entertainment? To this end, they construct a fantasy anti-utopia they call Pornutopia, which is presented as the logical culmination of the intersection of commercialism, the electronic mass media, and indiscriminate First Amendment protection. keywords: amendment; authors; book; collins; culture; discourse; expression; protection; self; skover; speech cache: pmc-v6n2-barbiero-first.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-barbiero-first.txt item: #261 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-boy-biding author: Boy title: Biding Spectacular Time date: 1996-01 words: 2532 flesch: 46 summary: The first chapter, Separation Perfected, contains the fundamental assertions on which much of Debord's influence rests, and the very first thesis, that the whole of life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Debord's intention was to provide a comprehensive critique of the social and political manifestations of modern forms of production, and the analysis he offered in 1967 is as authoritative now as it was then. keywords: critique; debord; life; modern; political; situationist; social; society; spectacle; spectacular; time cache: pmc-v6n2-boy-biding.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-boy-biding.txt item: #262 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-brown-early author: Brown title: "Early Spring" And "Equinox" date: 1996-01 words: 522 flesch: 69 summary: Early Spring It is early evening of a spring late, very late in coming--so late, in mid-April the deep crescents and parabolas of snow in the yard, resisting even an imperceptible slide down the subtle slopes on a chilly gray evening, seem something new grass may simply latch onto to grow on and carpet right over. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author and the notification of the publisher, Oxford University Press. keywords: early; spring cache: pmc-v6n2-brown-early.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-brown-early.txt item: #263 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-colwell-deleuze author: Colwell title: "Deleuz date: 1996-01 words: 8079 flesch: 57 summary: Sense functions as the condition of the possibility of denotation, manifestation and signification (and thus of truth value -- but also of paradox), as the linkage between propositions and events and, as such, between ideas and objects. Colwell, 'Deleuze, Sense and the Event of AIDS', Postmodern Culture v6n2 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v6n2-colwell-deleuze.txt Archive PMC-LIST, file colwell.196. keywords: actualization; aids; body; deleuze; disease; event; foucault; frege; hiv; meaning; model; new; propositions; relation; sense; social; things; york cache: pmc-v6n2-colwell-deleuze.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-colwell-deleuze.txt item: #264 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1996-01 words: 7997 flesch: 55 summary: Cultch o Interview with Russell Berman o Review essay by Arnold Farr: Theory and rationality: extending the Habermas/Foucault debate POSTSCRIPT: Poetry by Michael Caufiend: I was just getting started when o ARTWORK BY CHRIS HEUSTIS, Richard Pennell ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- What makes an expert system? o Essay by Thomas Strong: Plastic heart, black box, iron cage: instrumental reason and the Artificial Heart Experiment o Poetry by Michael Caufield: keywords: address; announcements; available; blast; conference; cultural; culture; cyberspace; electronic; english; essay; history; information; international; internet; issue; journal; library; line; list; literature; mail; new; newjour; papers; poetry; poverty; review; studies; submissions; university; world cache: pmc-v6n2-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-editor-announcements.txt item: #265 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-epstein-hyper author: Epstein title: %Hyper% In 20Th Century Culture: The Dialectics Of Transition From Modernism To Postmodernism date: 1996-01 words: 9465 flesch: 41 summary: The transition from the super to the pseudo, from the ecstatic illusions of pure reality to the ironic realization of this reality as a pure illusion, accounts for the historical transformation of European and Russian culture in the 20th century which can also be described as the movement from modernism to postmodernism. [17] In the same way, the more perfect instruments for the observation of physical reality are used, the less can it be detected as reality in a proper sense, as something different from the very conditions of its observation. keywords: 20th; abstract; abstraction; century; consciousness; criticism; culture; existence; form; hyper; literature; matter; modernist; new; physical; postmodernism; pseudo; pure; reality; revolution; revolutionary; russian; self; sexual; social; super; text; world cache: pmc-v6n2-epstein-hyper.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-epstein-hyper.txt item: #266 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-estevez-theorizing author: Estevez title: Theorizing Public/Pedagogic Space: Richard Serra'S Critique Of Private Property date: 1996-01 words: 3058 flesch: 44 summary: For example, _Tilted Arc_ is the central art work discussed in _Critical Inquiry_'s special issue on public art. [10] In a similar vein, John Hallmark Neff uses _Tilted Arc_ as evidence that public art has failed because of the absence of shared beliefs and common interests between artists and the public. keywords: arc; art; kramer; political; private; property; public; rights; serra; space; tilted; work cache: pmc-v6n2-estevez-theorizing.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-estevez-theorizing.txt item: #267 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-evenson-rewiring author: Evenson title: Rewiring The Culture date: 1996-01 words: 2030 flesch: 60 summary: This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that the editors are notified and no fee is charged for access. By bringing together accepted forms of discourse with unexpected content (in the attempt, for instance, to scientifically define a dog as a mode of heat transference, or in the offering of a prayer meant to preserve the wires of the house) the devices that allow for a form's power of seduction are revealed and neutralized. keywords: culture; forms; house; marcus; new; string; wire; world cache: pmc-v6n2-evenson-rewiring.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-evenson-rewiring.txt item: #268 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-mackenzie-god author: Mackenzie title: "God Has No Allergies": Immanent Ethics And The Simulacra Of The Immune System date: 1996-01 words: 6515 flesch: 45 summary: The %network theory% describes a regulation of immune response in which Clonal Selection would be undercut by the incessant reverberations of internal differences. [T]he immune system fundamentally does not (cannot) discriminate between self and nonself.% The normal function of the network can only be perturbed or modulated by incoming antigens, responding only to what is similar to what is already present.^33^ An epitope would normally attract the response of a number of antibodies (an antibody acting as antibody in the network is called a paratope) because only part of it is imaged by a particular idiotope, and conversely, a specific paratope would most likely not be the only possible response to the epitope. keywords: biomedical; bodies; body; deleuze; differences; ethical; ethics; golub; haraway; identity; immune; immune system; immunology; internal; power; response; selection; self; system; trans cache: pmc-v6n2-mackenzie-god.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-mackenzie-god.txt item: #269 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-mann-the author: Mann title: "The Nine Grounds Of Intellectual Warfare" date: 1996-01 words: 14152 flesch: 53 summary: Sun Tzu's own grounds are, of course, quite different; it would be interesting to develop the grounds he stipulates as grounds for intellectual war as well. The sublime of war study is one of theory's recuperated figures of its own imaginary abyss, an abyss in which it seeks its deepest reflection. keywords: clausewitz; conflict; critical; criticism; death; deleuze; discourse; discursive; force; form; ground; idea; intellectual; intellectual warfare; knowledge; logistical; machine; means; military; new; order; politics; position; space; state; strategic; studies; sublime; tactical; theory; thought; time; trans; truth; virilio; war; war machine; warfare; york cache: pmc-v6n2-mann-the.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-mann-the.txt item: #270 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-page-women author: Page title: Women Writers And The Restive Text: Feminis date: 1996-01 words: 8720 flesch: 63 summary: In _Izme Pass_, words linked to other texts can also signify in the passage on-screen. You will have literary texts that tolerate all kinds of freedom -- unlike the more classical texts -- which are not texts that delimit themselves, are not texts of territory with neat borders, with chapters, with beginnings, endings, etc., and which will be a little disquieting because you do not feel the Border. keywords: ava; eastgate; example; feminine; fiction; forms; guyer; hypertext; izme; language; malloy; maso; narrative; new; notes; pass; reader; reading; self; space; story; text; women; words; work; writers; writing cache: pmc-v6n2-page-women.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-page-women.txt item: #271 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-plate-lacan author: Plate title: Lacan Looks At Hill And Hears His Name Spoken: An Interpretive Review Of Gary Hill Through Lacan'S "I'S" And Gazes date: 1996-01 words: 4401 flesch: 69 summary: It is a space between text and image (between spoken words and projected images) and between the symbolic and the imaginary (between others in a room and one's own bodily negotiation to remain out of the light). Hill investigates the relationships %between% bodies, words, images, and technology. keywords: desire; hill; image; imaginary; installation; lacan; light; point; subject; viewer cache: pmc-v6n2-plate-lacan.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-plate-lacan.txt item: #272 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-readers-selected author: Readers title: Selected Letters From Readers date: 1996-01 words: 1164 flesch: 64 summary: The following responses were submitted by PMC readers using regular email or the PMC Reader's Report form. These comments are from: L. Achimovich The email address for L. Achimovich is: achimova@cleo.murdoch.edu.au.h.edu.au ------------------END OF LETTERS.196 FOR PMC 6.2----------------- ------------------------------ keywords: article; eddie; email; mueller; oulipo cache: pmc-v6n2-readers-selected.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-readers-selected.txt item: #273 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-schwartz-its author: Schwartz title: It'S Only Rock 'N' Roll? date: 1996-01 words: 1707 flesch: 60 summary: [6] The lack of rigor in popular music scholarship is due to the failure of popular music to be accepted in the academy as anything other than a (more or less transparent) social symptom. The basic tools needed for serious analysis of music are monopolized by a musicology which has little interest in popular music or or in the socio-political concerns of cultural studies. keywords: book; cultural; music; popular; press; reynolds; rock; studies cache: pmc-v6n2-schwartz-its.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-schwartz-its.txt item: #274 of 305 id: pmc-v6n2-spinelli-radio author: Spinelli title: Radio Lessons For The Internet date: 1996-01 words: 7984 flesch: 52 summary: ^3^ This letter, notably empty of ideas of public service, concludes with a generally overlooked table of projected radio sales which figures that $75 million can be made selling radio sets in the first three years they are put on the market.^4^ This document of the seminal moment in American radio shows only a profit motive driving the production of radio. [1] These words were not written in celebration of the Internet, as one might expect, but were were written about radio decades ago by German broadcaster and poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger.^2^ Enzensberger critiques mono-directional media and argues for a democratizing and empowering media rife with promise for the masses in a language that has recently found new currency with the net's rise in popularity. keywords: access; agenda; arnheim; buffalo; community; democracy; emergent; emergent medium; house; information; internet; local; media; medium; national; net; new; people; potential; public; radio; real; rhetoric; social; space; virtual cache: pmc-v6n2-spinelli-radio.txt plain text: pmc-v6n2-spinelli-radio.txt item: #275 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-amato-personal author: Amato title: Personal Effect date: 1996-05 words: 5387 flesch: 38 summary: Though I found the opening salvo a bit mechanical and digressive in places, Rasula's modus operandi is comprised of equal parts erudition and rhetorical aplomb, and a penchant for mordant observation: in accord with the NCTE series title, he %refigures% American poetry anthologies as museums of wax simulations whose carceral condition is such that each talking head is forced to speak courtesy of the wonders of voice-over technologies (yes, Baudrillard looms large in all of this, as do the lesser known Philip Fisher and Neil Harris). The American Poetry Wax Museum_ represents a major intervention in the ongoing struggles over American poetry. keywords: american; american poetry; anthologies; book; chapter; critical; effects; historical; language; literary; new; poetic; poetry; poets; political; practice; public; rasula; self; studies; war; work; writing cache: pmc-v6n3-amato-personal.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-amato-personal.txt item: #276 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-arondekar-problem author: Arondekar title: Problem Of Strategy: How To Read Rac date: 1996-05 words: 3003 flesch: 42 summary: The native is not encouraged to aspire to the public status of an Englishman, but only to adopt his private habits and accoutrements; to buy, but never to participate in the trading of such commodities. The past few years have seen a prolific and rich widening of critiques in the area of colonial discourse analysis. keywords: analysis; class; colonial; critical; cullwick; empire; gender; history; imperial; mcclintock; race; strategy cache: pmc-v6n3-arondekar-problem.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-arondekar-problem.txt item: #277 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-berger-ends author: Berger title: Ends And Means: Theorizing Apocalypse In The 1990'S date: 1996-05 words: 6089 flesch: 51 summary: And responses to genuine historical disasters need not take apocalyptic forms, as Alan Mintz and David Roskies have shown with regard to Jewish history. [7] Quinby claims that apocalyptic thinking is a primary technology of power/knowledge in America today, and that in its combined religious, technological, and ironic forms it authorizes economic, political, and cultural repressions and perpetuates a repressive status quo. keywords: american; apocalypse; apocalyptic; catastrophe; culture; dellamora; derrida; end; foucault; genealogy; historical; history; new; o'leary; political; power; quinby; right; sense; social; thinking; world cache: pmc-v6n3-berger-ends.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-berger-ends.txt item: #278 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-brown-my author: Brown title: "My Name In Water," "Adumbration," "Offering," And "Depth Perception" date: 1996-05 words: 960 flesch: 74 summary: Which reminds me of a poem I heard had been found on the desk of a college professor killed in a car accident a few days before the last days of school, when the forsythia are in full bloom and tulips no longer purse their lips for the kiss of spring. Let me give you another instance: it is a different day now and spring is in full bloom; the tulips on the side of the house have all been picked by my four-year-old, little purple and white-striped tulips plucked in the innocence of youth, and the sun is out now after a brief storm this morning and there's a lull in the day. keywords: brown; perception; water cache: pmc-v6n3-brown-my.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-brown-my.txt item: #279 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-chapman-male author: Chapman title: Male Pro-Feminism And The Masculinist Gigantism Of Gravity'S Rainbow date: 1996-05 words: 9143 flesch: 59 summary: The masculinist gigantism of _Gravity's Rainbow_ serves this end well, writing out in extra large letters the cultural codes that form male gender identities. On the other hand, male anxiety about gender can encourage an anti-essentialist viewpoint, both because anti-essentialism appears to offers hope that positive changes in gender identity are possible and because anti-essentialism can diffuse personal responsibility by shifting the object of critique from the self to social codes which have always already constructed the self. keywords: anti; beal; death; discourses; drawing; feminism; gender; gravity; identity; male; masculinist; men; new; novel; political; pro; pynchon; rainbow; rocket; self; sexual; social; structures; women; york cache: pmc-v6n3-chapman-male.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-chapman-male.txt item: #280 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-cresap-bisexuals author: Cresap title: Bisexual date: 1996-05 words: 3868 flesch: 44 summary: The species of bisexuality Haraway refers to here is in fact one from which both she and Garber take pains to distance themselves. Yet it must also be argued that bisexuality %is% an unusually volatile and productive site of present contestation, and it is not Garber's duty to undersell the potential of a movement whose parameters are still manifestly in flux. keywords: bisexuality; book; butler; chaos; cultural; cyborg; garber; gay; gender; haraway; hayles; human; identity; new; postmodern; vice; york cache: pmc-v6n3-cresap-bisexuals.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-cresap-bisexuals.txt item: #281 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1996-05 words: 10137 flesch: 48 summary: Send orders to: journals-orders@mit.edu Please include full mailing address and account number, VISA/MC/AMEX information, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The Epiphany Institute Announcing The Epiphany Institute: Mapping New Rhetorical Spaces and Building Bridges from Current to New Technologies June 9 - 14, 1996 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA ================ INSTITUTE GOAL: To develop a plan with specific strategies for change at the participants' institutions in an atmosphere of collaboration and shared knowledge-building. keywords: = =; address; american; announcements; conference; cultural; culture; cyberspace; days; department; electronic; english; epiphany; fax; group; iass; information; issue; journal; literary; literature; mail; media; new; overseas; papers; postmodern; press; projects; registration; site; studies; submissions; teaching; technologies; technology; theory; university; web; wide; works; world; year cache: pmc-v6n3-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-editor-announcements.txt item: #282 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-fredman-how author: Fredman title: "How To Get Out Of The Room That Is The Book?" Paul Auster And The Consequences Of Confinement date: 1996-05 words: 15993 flesch: 67 summary: [19] As in _Ghosts_, Auster creates a scene of writing that is both book and room, and for which the question of identity is inseparable from the writing of the book. The room and the book are thematized in many ways in The Book of Memory: A. describes the room in which he lives and writes (as well as a number of significant rooms in his past) in obsessive detail; as in the old art of memory, he portrays memory in architectural terms, comprised of rooms in which contiguous impressions are stored; in addition, A. explores the principles that determine such contiguity -- chance, coincidence, free association. keywords: anne; auster; black; blue; book; death; father; frank; holocaust; inside; jabes; life; memory; moment; new; past; poetry; present; prose; room; solitude; son; space; story; time; way; words; world; writer; writing cache: pmc-v6n3-fredman-how.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-fredman-how.txt item: #283 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-mcmurry-slow author: Mcmurry title: Slow Apocalypse: A Gradualistic Theory Of The World'S Demise date: 1996-05 words: 8986 flesch: 63 summary: A Canticle for Leibowitz_ and _ After_; the lust of overpopulation in _Soylent Green_ and _Stand on Zanzibar_; coveting nature's power in _ keywords: apocalypse; apocalyptic; baudrillard; day; decline; earth; economic; end; environmental; fact; future; global; history; hope; human; new; nuclear; people; point; robert; slow; social; society; state; theory; things; think; time; war; way; world; york cache: pmc-v6n3-mcmurry-slow.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-mcmurry-slow.txt item: #284 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-miles-hyperweb author: Miles title: Hyperweb date: 1996-05 words: 609 flesch: 63 summary: All work has been done on a Macintosh Quadra 630 (20MB RAM, 500MB drive) and a Macintosh Duo 250 (12MB RAM +RamDoubler, 200MB drive). The web pages that make up this site use the HTML tag to provide a client side pull where pages are loaded serially. keywords: hyperweb; pages cache: pmc-v6n3-miles-hyperweb.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-miles-hyperweb.txt item: #285 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-readers-selected author: Readers title: Selected Letters From Readers date: 1996-05 words: 3473 flesch: 55 summary: Or to highlight the complex musical forms located within various genres of popular music, everyday music-making, and to attempt to represent the subjective listening experience so highly prized among popular music affecionados. In PMC 6.2, Jeff Schwartz raises a particular problematic that is continually grappled with at conferences on popular music and in examining books featuring popular music studies -- the serious examination of the music itself. keywords: --------------------------------------------------------------pmc; address; comments; email; internet; letters; music; musical; popular; reader; report; schwartz; topic cache: pmc-v6n3-readers-selected.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-readers-selected.txt item: #286 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-schaffer-disney author: Schaffer title: Disney And The Imagineering Of Histories date: 1996-05 words: 11070 flesch: 51 summary: The Three Caballeros_ ends up becoming what I see as the standard pattern of Disney animated features^3^ -- a legitimation, or the Distorifying (taking off from Fjellman's concept of Distory, or Disney's history), of the political, economic, and cultural hegemony of the United States. [or Walt Disney World, or Tokyo Disneyland or EuroDisney]. keywords: aladdin; american; animated; company; cultural; disney; disney world; disneyland; films; history; jungle; local; new; order; parks; political; products; social; states; stories; theme; time; united; walt; walt disney; way; wdc; world cache: pmc-v6n3-schaffer-disney.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-schaffer-disney.txt item: #287 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-semansky-youngest author: Semansky title: Youngest Brother Of Brothers date: 1996-05 words: 1090 flesch: 68 summary: It may even be necessary to consider the observer as a distribution of events located in many different places. --- Other things I don't have to look at but of whose existence I have been informed and whose symptoms I have been taught to read: 1. lesions of the parietal lobe posterior to the somnesthetic area 2. a T-cell count of 160 3. proprioceptive agnosia 4. keywords: discursive; intentions; look; realm; semansky cache: pmc-v6n3-semansky-youngest.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-semansky-youngest.txt item: #288 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-shadle-schama author: Shadle title: Schama And The New Histories Of Landscape date: 1996-05 words: 3325 flesch: 53 summary: The tension between his philosophy of history and his practice of history escalates in his accounts of visiting the sites of his Jewish heritage in Poland, or his American in-laws in the redwoods of the American West. But beyond its appetizing details, this book is an intriguing example of the increasingly problematic process of writing history in postmodern times. keywords: america; book; culture; historical; history; landscape; nature; new; olson; place; postmodern; schama; way; world cache: pmc-v6n3-shadle-schama.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-shadle-schama.txt item: #289 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-shepherdson-intimate author: Shepherdson title: Intimate Alterity Of The Real A Response To Reader Commentary On "History And The Real" (Pmc V.5 N.2) date: 1996-05 words: 23543 flesch: 52 summary: Others (the positivists) say that in spite of these symbolic codes, there is a reality that asserts itself, or presents itself to us: we may try to ignore it, or refuse to give it any symbolic importance, or we may construct certain fantasies that seek to circumvent reality, or highlight only certain features of reality, but it is still the case that symbolic systems have a more or less adequate purchase on reality, and that some discourses are more true than others. Some (the postmodernists) say that everything is symbolic: we have no access to reality in itself, for reality is always given %through% some historically specific discursive formation; it is not a question of reality, but only of different symbolic systems, different representations which compete with each other, and which succeed in becoming true either because they are persuasive (rhetoric), or because they are formulated by those in power (politics), or because they have the authority of tradition (history), or for some other reason -- in short, there is no metalanguage, no discourse that can ground itself in a non-discursive external reality, since the only thing outside discourse is . . . keywords: account; body; certain; concept; desire; discourse; effect; fact; freud; imaginary; lacan; lack; language; law; object; order; outside; point; psychoanalysis; question; real; reality; relation; representation; return; sexuality; structure; subject; symbolic; symbolic order; system; theory; unconscious; way cache: pmc-v6n3-shepherdson-intimate.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-shepherdson-intimate.txt item: #290 of 305 id: pmc-v6n3-sherwood-millennial author: Sherwood title: Millennial Poetics date: 1996-05 words: 2578 flesch: 46 summary: Rather, Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris reveal the experimental modernism at modernism's core via an anthology which, through its form and range, exhibits the continuity of poetries that wouldn't so much describe the world as remake it, through a vital act of language (189). This first of two volumes embraces poetry from Fin-de Siecle to Negritude, crossing more than twenty national borders and nearly as many languages. keywords: anthologies; anthology; book; century; language; modernism; negritude; poems; poetry; rothenberg; visual; work cache: pmc-v6n3-sherwood-millennial.txt plain text: pmc-v6n3-sherwood-millennial.txt item: #291 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-collins-head author: Collins title: "Head Out On The Highway": Anthropological Encounters With The Supermodern date: 1996-09 words: 2772 flesch: 52 summary: [13] The biggest difference between *place* and *non-place* is not so much that one is relational and historical while the other is not, but that *non-place* continues the relations and identities of *anthropological place* in highly commodified forms. While *non-place* may reduce history and social life to a passing road-sign, it does this in highly temporary and unstable ways. keywords: anthropological; anthropology; auge; culture; identity; modern; non; people; place; space cache: pmc-v7n1-collins-head.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-collins-head.txt item: #292 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-downing-_multiplicity_ author: Downing title: Multiplicity: %Una Vista De Nada% date: 1996-09 words: 2189 flesch: 57 summary: Indeed, even the original and authentic Doug Kinney is an identical copy for which no original has ever existed since he is merely a fictional character (even if obliquely named after one of Ramis' late friends, Doug Kenney). Doug's multiplicity of stressful responsibilities leave him no time to finish remodelling his own home, to help out with the kids so Laura can return to work, or to engage in any leisure activity whatsoever. keywords: clone; doug; film; jameson; like; multiplicity; nada%; original; postmodern cache: pmc-v7n1-downing-_multiplicity_.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-downing-_multiplicity_.txt item: #293 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-editor-announcements author: Editor title: Announcements And Advertisements date: 1996-09 words: 12204 flesch: 44 summary: Toward a Multicultural Feminist Critique Ella Shohat, City University of New York-Graduate Center 4:00 pm Emerging Global Perspectives in the Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies Dina Iordanova, University of Chicago Panivong Norindr, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Andrew Wernick, Trent University, Canada 5:30-7:00 Reception SATURDAY October 26, 1996 1:00 pm Bodies Electric: or, The Modern Scholarly Prometheus (Our Hideous Progeny) Jerome McGann, University of Virginia 2:00 pm Virtual Collections Martin Meuller, Northwestern University Robert Morrissey, University of Chicago Robert Bruegmann and Peter Bacan Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago 3:30 pm Virtual Communities Wendy Plotkin, Univerity of Illinois at Chicaog Janet Smarr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign James Sosnoski, University of Illinois at Chicago Cosponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago with support from Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University; Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Chicago Humanties Institute, University of Chicago; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago. Papers from Conference on Group Relations and Organizational Behaviour, New Bulgarian University, 14 May 1995: keywords: address; art; blast; center; conference; culture; cyberspace; editor; electronic; fax; group; history; human; information; international; issues; journal; leonardo; life; mail; nature; new; orange; papers; postmodern; project; psychology; reality; red; registration; relations; research; robert; science; site; social; studies; technology; theory; time; universidad; university; valencia; virtual; web; work; world cache: pmc-v7n1-editor-announcements.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-editor-announcements.txt item: #294 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-foti-representation author: Foti title: Representation Represented: Foucaul date: 1996-09 words: 7175 flesch: 44 summary: (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1986) 257. ^19^ Svetlana Alpers, Interpretation Without Representation; or the Viewing of _Las Meninas_, _Representations_, I:1 (February, 1983) 31-57. ^20^ Madlyn Millner Kahr, _Velazquez: Since the place of man, his announced and imminent disappearance, and the character of a thought that can situate itself in the space of this disappearance (the space of language or %ecriture%) are the crucial concerns of _The Order of Things_, the discussion of _Las Meninas_ is both inaugural and recurrent; the painting is not placed on a par with the two works of literature, Cervantes's _Don Quixote_ and Sade's _Justine_, which problematize, respectively, the Renaissance and Modern epistemic orders. keywords: analysis; canvas; classical; descartes; foucault; las; las meninas; light; meninas; merleau; mirror; model; order; painter; painting; representation; represented; space; thought; velazquez; vision cache: pmc-v7n1-foti-representation.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-foti-representation.txt item: #295 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-golumbia-hypercapital author: Golumbia title: Hypercapital date: 1996-09 words: 8407 flesch: 52 summary: To the degree that every interpretation is another text, every additional text advances the implicit belief that more information can contribute, in some minor way at least, to a better world. This essay is meant to suggest that solutions to these problems will not become any more straightforward as information access and production become more universally networked. keywords: access; capital; capitalist; computer; control; culture; development; dream; example; exchange; hypertext; information; internet; like; media; new; packets; process; social; system; technology; theory; web; western; wide; world cache: pmc-v7n1-golumbia-hypercapital.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-golumbia-hypercapital.txt item: #296 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-helmling-jamesons author: Helmling title: Jameson'S Lacan date: 1996-09 words: 5484 flesch: 47 summary: Helmling, 'Jameson's Lacan', Postmodern Culture v7n1 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v7n1-helmling-jamesons.txt Archive PMC-LIST, file helmling.996. It is in the spirit of that experiential or dialectical emphasis that Jameson proposes an off-standard response to what (he says) most people receive as Lacan's programmatic slogan, that %L'inconscient, c'est le discours de l'autre%: This seems to me a sentence rather than an idea, by which I mean that it marks out the place of a meditation and offers itself as an object of exegesis, instead of serving as the expression of a single concept. keywords: closure; critical; critique; desire; escape; ideological; ideology; imaginary; it1; jameson; lacan; lacanian; narrative; prose; symbolic cache: pmc-v7n1-helmling-jamesons.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-helmling-jamesons.txt item: #297 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-ippolito-whose author: Ippolito title: Whose Opera Is Thi date: 1996-09 words: 1990 flesch: 49 summary: To be sure, Minsky's society of mind, the model invoked in the _Brain Opera_ brochure, places a greater emphasis on cooperation and competition among agents than does Cage's ensemble of autonomous musicians; if Cage's society is anarchic, Minsky's is more of a representative democracy, albeit a tangled heterarchy with agents at lower levels influencing the outcome at the levels above. The alternative approach is to give the responsibility for making interesting sounds to the machine, as exemplified by the _Brain Opera_'s hyperinstruments, which respond to visitors' gestures with entire phrases rather than individual notes. keywords: audience; brain; brain opera; hand; machover; music; opera; sound cache: pmc-v7n1-ippolito-whose.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-ippolito-whose.txt item: #298 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-linetski-poststructuralist author: Linetski title: Poststructuralist Paraesthetics And The Phantasy Of The Reversal Of Generations date: 1996-09 words: 26727 flesch: 54 summary: _Libidinal Economy_. The most lucid example is certainly Derrida's _La carte postale_ (1980). keywords: aphanisis; author; bakhtin; brennan; castration; child; deconstruction; derrida; desire; discourse; effect; ego; fact; fantasy; far; father; freud; heidegger; infantile; interpretation; james; jones; knowledge; lacan; law; libidinal; logocentric; maisie; means; model; new; notion; oedipal; oedipus; paradox; point; poststructuralist; psychoanalysis; question; reader; repression; result; reversal; sexuality; structure; subject; sublimation; text; theory; time; tradition; view cache: pmc-v7n1-linetski-poststructuralist.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-linetski-poststructuralist.txt item: #299 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-meek-guides author: Meek title: Guides To The Electropolis: Toward A Spectral Critique Of The Media date: 1996-09 words: 6037 flesch: 45 summary: The tasks of redefining a new international in a post-communist world would include the invention of such an historiographic practice that would contend with the ways that data banks, information networks, and electronic communication technologies are transforming collective memory. In _Specters of Marx_ Derrida pursues a *politics* of memory, of inheritance, and of generations (xix) arising out of a sense of responsibility toward the ghosts of our collective histories: the victims of war, imperialism, totalitarianism, and political, social, and psychological oppression in all of its forms. keywords: benjamin; cohen; critical; critique; cultural; derrida; film; friedberg; gothic; history; lukacher; marx; marxism; media; memory; new; paris; postmodern; psychoanalysis; social; spectral cache: pmc-v7n1-meek-guides.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-meek-guides.txt item: #300 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-rauch-saving author: Rauch title: Saving Philosophy In Cultural Studies: The Case Of Mother Wit date: 1996-09 words: 9734 flesch: 45 summary: We might conclude that the capacity for wit in general develops through the use of mother wit, the correlation between feeling and intuition in aesthetic representation or judgment. Wit thus proves indispensable for imagination as a cognitive power in aesthetic representation. keywords: aesthetic; affect; beautiful; body; der; experience; feeling; form; imagination; judgment; kant; mental; mind; mother; nature; object; past; pleasure; power; process; representation; subject; taste; unconscious; wit cache: pmc-v7n1-rauch-saving.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-rauch-saving.txt item: #301 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-readers-selected author: Readers title: Selected Letters From Readers date: 1996-09 words: 415 flesch: 48 summary: Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the authors and the notification of the publisher, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. These comments are from: Joshua Jones The email address for Joshua Jones is: Twilligon@aol.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on Cyborgs: I have an article soon to be published in the journal for the American Academy of Religion that explores the history of cyborg discourse, and examines some possible reasons for the dearth of participation by traditional religious voices in it. keywords: letters; readers cache: pmc-v7n1-readers-selected.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-readers-selected.txt item: #302 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-smalec-re)presenting author: Smalec title: (Re)Presenting The Renaissance On A Post-Modern Stage date: 1996-09 words: 2784 flesch: 48 summary: _Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past_. [2] To reconceptualize how Shakespeare's authority both figures and fails to appear in postmodern experience, _Performing Nostalgia_ unsettles the power that literary culture ascribes to the written word. keywords: bennett; body; king; lear; nostalgia; performance; post; power; production; shakespeare; text; theatre cache: pmc-v7n1-smalec-re)presenting.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-smalec-re)presenting.txt item: #303 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-swiss-music author: Swiss title: Music And Noise: Marketing Hypertexts date: 1996-09 words: 3167 flesch: 53 summary: In their critical writing Eastgate authors are sometimes constructivists; at other times they are cognitivists. Landow's two ground-breaking books from Johns Hopkins, _Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory_ and his edited volume _Hyper/Text/Theory_, are good examples of this model at work--Eastgate authors are routinely cited; their work is praised, explained, and theorized for a readership presumed to be just developing an interest in hypertext. keywords: authors; eastgate; hypertext; hypertextual; joyce; literary; music; noise; software; storyspace; work; writers cache: pmc-v7n1-swiss-music.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-swiss-music.txt item: #304 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-wood-resistance author: Wood title: Resistance In Rhyme date: 1996-09 words: 1987 flesch: 60 summary: Unlike Richard Shusterman's 1991 essay The Fine Art of Rap, which discussed the postmodern aesthetics of hip-hop music, _Spectacular Vernaculars_ is concerned with hip-hop's political dimension. Rather, Potter accomplishes much the same thing that Tricia Rose accomplished with _Black Noise_ in clearing up the prejudices toward rap music and hip-hop in general that exist in the academy. keywords: black; book; culture; hip; hop; potter; spectacular; vernaculars cache: pmc-v7n1-wood-resistance.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-wood-resistance.txt item: #305 of 305 id: pmc-v7n1-yervasi-confessions author: Yervasi title: Confessions Of A Net Surfer: Net Chick And Grrrls On The Web date: 1996-09 words: 3080 flesch: 61 summary: Taking up the challenge to see where technology and gender intersect on the Web, Sinclair offers an abundantly informative (and by no means exhaustive, as she herself acknowledges) Internet guide and e-dress book for cyberchicks. Or, this is at least one image of women and the Net evoked by Web Guide guru Carla Sinclair in _Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired World_. keywords: book; chick; grrrl; guide; internet; net; new; online; sinclair; web; women; world cache: pmc-v7n1-yervasi-confessions.txt plain text: pmc-v7n1-yervasi-confessions.txt