The competition between narrative and play in games resembles modernism’s attempt to exclude narrative from painting as described by Brian McHale in “What Was Postmodernism?”

McHale’s reference to R.E.M.’s angel imagery in the “Losing My Religion” video is spot on, but the band is a complicated touchstone in McHale’s discussion of the persistence of narrative in the postmodern period. Larry McCaffery in his essay for ebr, “White Noise/White Heat, or Why the Postmodern Turn in Rock Music Led to Nothing but Road,” argues that R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe [not to mention Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Captain Beefheart, and Brian Eno] takes a sculptural, as opposed to narrative, approach to songwriting.

Eugene Thacker, likewise, suggests that Kac’s work has little to do with biological life or the life sciences but is more about the practice of art as an emerging medium. Read the full review here. Eugene Thacker, likewise, suggests that Kac’s work has little to do with biological life or the life sciences but is more about the practice of art as an emerging medium. Read the full review here.

Derrida delves deeply into the concepts of readability and iterability in Limited Inc, and Bill Seaman thinks about how these ideas function in electronic environments in “Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics.” Derrida delves deeply into the concepts of readability and iterability in Limited Inc, and Bill Seaman thinks about how these ideas function in electronic environments in “Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics.”

Elsewhere Michaels has made the well-known argument that interpretation is the search for intention. See the “Against Theory” essays that Michaels coauthored with Steven Knapp; the essays appeared in Critical Inquiry in the early eighties. Elsewhere Michaels has made the well-known argument that interpretation is the search for intention. See the “Against Theory” essays that Michaels coauthored with Steven Knapp; the essays appeared in Critical Inquiry in the early eighties.