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1996

Postfeminist Fiction

Elisabeth Sheffield on the implications of the anthology that helped to put the term "postfeminsim" into circulation.

01-Sep-1996
01-Sep-1996
Stanley Fish and the Place of Criticism

Christopher Knight on Stanley Fish's Professional Correctness.

the glory of the liberal white teacher woman

Lidia Yukman describes the experience of teaching people of differing backgrounds.

"Thorowly" American: Susan Howe's Guide to Orienteering in the Adirondacks

Elisabeth Joyce reads Howe as a postfeminist Thoreau facing the dilemma that 'to inhabit a wilderness is to destroy it.'

What is chick-lit?

Diane Goodman on the anthology that helped put the term "postfeminism" into circulation.

Writing Postfeminism

The postfeminist issue of ebr was the first to use visual art as a means of navigation as well as illustration.

15-Apr-1996
Selling Out in a Buyer's Market

Michael Bérubé responds to the respondents in Selling Out (Spring 1996).

01-Apr-1996
Avant-PoPoMo Now

Ronald Sukenick turns hypercapitalism inside out, and finds no place to hide.

01-Apr-1996
Exterminate the Brutes: Fighting Back Against the Right

Should the Left pool its resources and buy CBS? Robert Markley offers strategies for avoiding Patrick Buchanan's jihad.

01-Apr-1996
Getting the Dirt on The Public Intellectual: A response to Michael Bérubé

Cary Wolfe lays bare the assumptions that define Bérubé's stance.

01-Apr-1996
Something Is Happening, Mr. Jones

Marjorie Perloff on the surprising viability of art and poetry - everywhere but in universities.

01-Apr-1996
Them, Meaning Us

Former FC2 Co-publisher Curtis White defends radical fiction against Left radical intellectuals.

01-Apr-1996
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.

01-Apr-1996
who is michael bérubé and why is he saying these terrible things about us?

Joe Amato muses on academic stardom, the poetics list, and the corporation that motors his university.

15-Mar-1996
A Project for a New Consultancy

Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discuss what intellectual work will be like in the new electracy.

15-Mar-1996
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?

15-Mar-1996
The Revolution May Not Be Computerized

Daniel Riess on Roger Chartier's media history.

15-Mar-1996
Writing the Paradigm

An overview of Gregory Ulmer's thought by Victor Vitanza.

01-Mar-1996
Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age - and Academy

Matt Kirschenbaum on Richard Coyne's philosophical treatment of technographics.