postmodern
Flatland in VAS
Lila Marz Harper shows the many dimensions of intertextuality between Edwin Abbott's Flatland and Steve Tomasula's VAS. From typography to narratology, Tomasula's "opera in flatland" follows Abbott, in a geometry of fiction that interrogates the biopolitics of today.
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection
What is chick-lit?
Diane Goodman on the anthology that helped put the term "postfeminism" into circulation.
Sleepless in Seattle
Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies.
White Noise/White Heat, or Why the Postmodern Turn in Rock Music Led to Nothing but Road
Larry McCaffery reframes his 1989 essay on the "postmodern turn" in rock'n'roll music.