Gloss on Due Diligence
Ryan Brooks
October 25, 2011
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For an earlier consideration of the state of Pynchon studies, also appearing in ebr, see Joseph Tabbi’s “The Pyndustry in Warwick.”
Gloss on See the Strings: Watchmen and the Under-Language of Media
Davin Heckman
November 9, 2011
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With regards to Bizarro World, it is worth noting that the absurd inversions in the Bizarro Superman comics of the 1950s and 60s typically anchored themselves to middle class American norms and institutions in order to achieve their comic purposes. Imperfection is always registered in relationship to an implicitly perfect ideal, thus Bizarro Superman has a wife, a dog, children. They live in a suburban neighborhood. Bizarro Lois cleans the house by making it dirty.
Gloss on A New “Gospel of the Three Dimensions”: Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Literature in Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla’s Beyond the Screen
November 10, 2011
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For more on the Critical Code Studies Conference, co-organized by Mark Marino, see the series of essays and discussions posted under ebr’s First Person thread.
Gloss on See the Strings: Watchmen and the Under-Language of Media
Davin Heckman
October 25, 2011
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Moore’s Promethea, on the other hand, is something akin to a theoretical text which gives a great deal of attention to Moore’s metaphysical views. Promethea starts as a superhero story, but quickly turns into a meditation on the relationship between reality and representation. In a way, it reminds me of Yeats’ Golden Dawn years, but without the pretension… and it offers further insight into the meaning of an under language. In Promethea, the under langauge is not simply a technique that is available to the comic book writer, but it fits with some primordial sense of what language is and what… continue
Gloss on See the Strings: Watchmen and the Under-Language of Media
November 9, 2011
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The film version of Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder, was released in 2009.
Gloss on See the Strings: Watchmen and the Under-Language of Media
Davin Heckman
October 25, 2011
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Take a look at M. Wolf-Meyer’s “The World Ozymandias Made: Utopias in the Superhero Comic, Subculture, and the Conservation of Difference” in The Journal of Popular Culture 36.3 (Mar 2003). Wolf-Meyer discusses the restrained nature of the superhero relative to their superpowered abilities. In a way, I think this argument might resonate with some of the radical possibility that is open to us in the digital age. We have free reign to generate representations with great range, reach, and capacity, but they must subsist on some terrain of intelligibility. Wolf-Meyer discusses this from a Marxist… continue
Gloss on Free Market Formalism: Reading Economics as Fiction
Ryan Brooks
March 31, 2011
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In a recent response to Walter Benn Michaels’ “Neoliberal Aesthetics,” Michael Clune ponders the political consequences of the gap between actual economies and the “economic fictions” described in American Literature and the Free Market.
Gloss on Lost and Long-Term Television Narrative
Ryan Brooks
March 23, 2011
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Jason Mittell explores the cross-media hybridity of another long-term narrative, The Wire, in this Third Person essay.
Gloss on For Thee: A Response to Alice Bell
Ryan Brooks
January 21, 2011
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In “Cognition Against Narrative: Six Essays on Contemporary Cognitive Fiction,” Joseph Tabbi argues that narrativity does not comfortably inhabit electronic environs.
Gloss on Cognition Against Narrative: Six Essays on Contemporary Cognitive Fiction
Ryan Brooks
January 3, 2011
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The Cognitive Fictions cluster includes essays by D. Fox Harrell, John Bruni, Stephen Burn, James J. Pulizzi, Joseph McElroy, Kiki Benzon, and Eric Dean Rasmussen.