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Un/Official Worlds

[…]mineral, artifact, idea) do not address first-order nature, they do align well with media studies descriptions of the status of humans in film representation (in Kracauer, for example). Nor is this second-order status any less important in the invention of electrate metaphysics. “Being” and the entire conceptual discourse around it is an emergent capability of alphabetic writing as technology, as Heidegger noted in his Introduction to Metaphysics (1953). In Blumenberg’s “reoccupation,” we can say that electracy throws out the literate answer to the Question of Being, but retains the question itself, now undertaken within the capabilities emerging through the digital […]

The Uses of Postmodernism

[…]This is a problem not just of history but also of discipline. We have institutions for modernist studies and jobs in modernist studies. But for literature since the mid-twentieth century, we are often stuck with one overarching “contemporary” that refers to texts produced from last week to decades before many of today’s scholars were born. This use of the term contemporary leaves those who work on the mid to late twentieth century in an institutional no man’s land – on the job market and in publishing – between modernist studies and the study of the latest trends in literature. Witness, […]

Nominalisms Ancient and Modern: Samuel Beckett, the Pre/Post/Modernist?

[…]David. “Introduction.” Medievalism and the Academy II: Cultural Studies. Ed. David Metzger. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998. 3-12. Nixon, Mark ed. Samuel Beckett’s German Dairies 1936–1937. London: Continuum, 2011. Pilling, John ed. Beckett’s Dream Notebook. Reading: Beckett International Foundation, 1999. Spade, Paul Vincent. Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Ockham. Cambridge: Hackett, 1994. Utz, Richard. “Medievalism as Modernism: Alfred Andersch’s Nominalist Littérature Engagée.” Studies in Medievalism 6 (1993): 76-91. Van Hulle, Dirk. “Words and Works: Transtextual Nominalism and Beckett’s ‘Missing Word.'” Text 15 (2003): 278-89. Walpole, Hugh. Judith Paris. New York: Doubleday, 1931. […]
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What is Metamodernism and Why Bother? Meditations on Metamodernism as a Period Term and as a Mode

[…]“Bootstrapping Finnegans Wake.” Hypermedia Joyce Studies 7.1 (2006). http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v7/main/essays.php?essay=dumitrescu —. “Foretelling Metamodernity: Realization of the Self in the Rosary of Philosophers, William Blake’s Jerusalem and Andrei Codrescu’s Messiah.” Constructions of Identity. Ed. Adrian Radu. Cluj: Napoca Star, 2006. 151-68. Print. —. Metamodernism – Towards a New Paradigm. Manuscript in the Codrescu Collection, University of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2005. Eco, Umberto. Reflections on The Name of the Rose. London: Secker and Warburg, 1985. Print. Edmond, Lauris. Late Song. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000. Elliott, Anthony. Critical Visions: New Directions in Social Theory. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Print. Feldman, […]
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Practicing Disappearance: A Postmodern Methodology

[…]and the methodologies employed within them, by introducing the notion of disappearance into critical practice. I turn, therefore, to Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and Tim Ingold’s anthropology, alongside Baudrillard’s theory of disappearance, to set up a methodology that places its faith in disappearance. I then move on to demonstrate how we can put this methodology into practice in the context of research into theatrical production and audience reception. To conclude, I return to postmodernism and reflect on the instructive traces that its disappearance has left for contemporary critical and methodological practices. The Vitality of Disappearance It seems paradoxical to attach vitality […]
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Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic Literature

[…]entirely new forms, institutions and aesthetics. In the early days of electronic literature’s critical self-consciousness, it was actually-existing hypertext that made these demands, and the fate (or destiny) of hypertext shows very clearly how new forms and institutions are hacked into the material cultural architectures of vectoralist regimes. If hypertext was not necessarily literary — as such, or with regard to literary art — its early history was intimately involved with literature as a name for documentary and archival practice (which of course includes literary practice). Arguably the first true architecture of network culture, the World Wide Web, established the […]
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Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity

[…]Author-God. Rather than pseudo-philosophical pontificating, Illegal Literature presents practical, critical, and thoughtful studies of the moments when law and economy come in to support the power of authorship. Noting that derivative use most frequently ends up encouraging the popularity—and often the sale—of the work being parodied, Roh plainly points out that these legal battles, more often than not, are born out of a desire for creative control or out of moral indignation. “The only conceivable reason an author or copyright holder might have for pursuing litigation,” he writes, “would be moral outrage; they might feel that their right to control […]
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Love Your Corporation

[…]group—results from a precise combination of several factors: the number of declarations of group value and group identity that circulate internally and by which members address one another; the number of declarations of group value and group identity that circulate publicly and by which members recognize their membership or are invited to affiliate; the magnitude or intensity of this public declaration: the “mark” or memory it leaves on members or on public consciousness; hence the duration of group identity in time—the longer any entity endures as a group, the more corporate it may be said to be. It would in […]

Ghostbusters 2.0

[…]and the growing gap between the rich and poor that has drastically affected an erstwhile white working class (and disproportionately affected other groups too, to be sure) that, in the loss of some of its once unassailable privilege, perceives (rightly, if shortsightedly) that it has been largely shunted aside by the New Economy and thus has lashed out in anger and disillusionment by helping to put Trump into office. Seen in this light, the new film’s ghosts are symbolic of the real danger that the Left-neoliberal fantasy wishes away when we recall the scene in the basement laboratory in which […]

An Ontological Turn

[…]“The New Cultural Geology,” Huehls proposes that an “exomodernist” strain of “post-critical’ and “posthumanist” contemporary literature has attempted to move beyond the “representational impasses” that impeded both postmodernism and post-postmodernism by accepting our neoliberal hybrid subject-object ontology. By doing so “exomodernism” ostensibly risks complicity with neoliberalism’s treatment of individuals as the “free ontology homo œconomicus, the simultaneous subject-objects of laissez-faire.” As neoliberalism is yet to codify all modes of being, however, Huehls postulates that authors can harness literature’s stylistic and formal attributes to produce new meanings and values. In chapter 1, Huehls analyses Uzodinma Iweala’s Beast of No Nation (2005) […]