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[…]Oprah’s Book Club any time soon, more critical attention is directed at him than ever before. Critical attention is not only directed at what is between the covers of his books, but also at what type and shape they are. A new DeLillo novel is an “event,” that fateful intersection of publishing hype, marketing strategies, and reader expectations. The book as object and event carries significance. Thus, much of the public reception of The Body Artist was geared toward the shape of the novel, that is to say, its length, a paltry 124 pages, with large print and generous margins. […]
[…]at last, the genuine thing: the cabala of my hate, of my irreconcilableness. (216) The voice is critical. With such a style, the character needs time to expand. Elkin’s short stories in Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers, are finely crafted, but his is a style that needs the breadth, the expansion of the novel for his abundant voice to stretch to its fullest. Ben Flesh, Jerry Goldkorn, and the multiple, fragile, doomed children of The Magic Kingdom can no more be contained in the short story than Elkin’s voice can be bounded by traditional notions of well-wrought sentences. He […]
[…]improve my clumsy rendering, sure that at every step, with the source text as my goal, I shall be working in native English. All I have to do is edit my own writing until I eventually reach a finished version. Think of the writer’s object of desire – vision, situation, whatever – as his source text. Like the translator, he learns everything he can about it. He then abandons it while he chooses a home ground. Home ground for him will be a mode of writing. He probably knows already if he should write a poem, a novel, or a […]
[…]code writers respond to the wishes of commerce, a power to control may well be the tilt that this code begins to take. (546) Furthermore: The code need not be balanced in the way that copyright law is…. Trusted systems, therefore, are forms of privatized law. They are architectures of control that displace the architectures of control effected by public law. (528) Lessig believes that “the law needs to protect intangible property only in order to create the incentive to produce” (“The Law of the Horse” 525). This principle might translate into a lower level of regulation and sanction than […]
[…]vanguard of postmodern geography. Soja’s 1989 Postmodern Geographies made a strong pitch that critical geography needed to look beyond the resources of Marxism, a central critical force at that time, to a social theory informed by postmodernism. (Whether this is an accurate portrayal of the state of social theory in geography is debatable). The chapter “It all comes together in L.A.” was the cornerstone, indicating how this postmodern city changed the critical landscape. Drawing from Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, and John Berger, Soja argues postmodern social science must abandon the “modernist myth of linear narratives” by emphasizing locality and particularity through […]
[…]sexual orientation is no doubt a complex phenomenon” (195), they repeatedly refer to case studies of female gulls nesting together and studies that have indicated that DES daughters “have higher rates of homosexuality and bisexuality than do their sisters who were not exposed to this synthetic estrogen before birth” (195). Nowhere are such abstract speculations more pernicious than around the book’s controversial claim that male infertility is increasing as a result of “feminizing” pollutants. As Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner note in The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present, despite the general cultural assumption that […]
[…]Paris, Munich, and Moscow) enabled modernism’s divergent impulses to coalesce into a formative critical mass. Marsden’s London comprises a rich field of intellectual currents – ranging from feminist and philosophical to scientific and popular discourses – from which her evolving thought draw substance and sustenance. The mosaic of Marsden’s thinking contains elements from Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edward Carpenter, and Otto Weininger, among many others, which she composes into a distinct intellectual trajectory of her own: beginning with an early feminist and suffragist phase, Marsden eventually developed a philosophy of egotism that subsumed her earlier concerns about gender and politics. […]
[…]still concerned to maintain the domination/resistance paradigm as a mark of old school cultural studies loyalty, for feminists in particular, this re-engineering has not just been a matter of theoretical innovation but also a task of massive urgency. When flesh is becoming increasingly protean, those who have historically been considered morphologically dubious share the doubled situation of facing both immense opportunity and of becoming increasingly subject to alteration and “improvement.” Given this urgency (one that can only be accelerated as those vectors of the cyborg condition such as genetic engineering and biotechnology, which appear below the level of general visibility, […]
[…]it is we want to know and learn. If I had one of these ultra-intelligent, hot and nasty slaves working for me right now, I would immediately send it out on a mission to locate all of the start-up web sites that are currently making money by regularly publishing innovative content that actively challenges the banal info-spam usually delivered to us by the Military-Industrial-Infotainment Complex. Like a scene from the Neuromancer trilogy or Snow Crash, I’d talk to my techno-appendage, perhaps a little friendlier and more colloquial than Case or Hiro, and I’d say ” Alt-X has been publishing all […]
[…]the point by the so-called Englit department in deference to the heady new world of Cultural Studies. Indeed, most assistant professors hired at even the top institutions like my own no longer have the slightest idea what literary analysis might entail. They’ve heard of an old-hat technique called “close-reading” — a technique they know they don’t want to use even though they have no idea what it might accomplish. The dirty word “formalism” is associated in their minds with the New Criticism even though the New Critics were not formalists at all but, by and large, moralists. I am always […]