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False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters
Tom LeClair surveys six gargantuan texts—both hyper- and print—and finds that size is not all that matters.
Them, Meaning Us
Former FC2 Co-publisher Curtis White defends radical fiction against Left radical intellectuals.
Cultural Criticism and The Politics of Selling Out
In this feature essay from the spring of 1996, Michael Bérubé claimed that left intellectuals have little choice but to sell out, if they want to make a difference in the culture they critique. But which way is out? And who gets to go public?
Virtual Communities?: Public Spheres and Public Intellectuals on the Internet
Can electronic conversations reconstitute Bérubé's lost public sphere? A Marxist analysis by Jamie Daniel.
A Project for a New Consultancy
Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discuss what intellectual work will be like in the new electracy.