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Histories of the Present

[…]in larger rivers or split into deltas. (34) Cultural and technological convergence requires critical and theoretical convergence and the above passage is a kind of manifesto in miniature for Culture and Technology. Its supple and interlacing critique makes a decisive incursion into the philosophy of the contemporary. What at first appears to be a review of familiar debates, theorists, and ideas converges into applied analyses of the signature themes associated with cyberculture. But even here, discussions of digital art, virtuality, cyberspace, and the networked society extend previous and ongoing academic discussions to a broader, meta-critical space, in which cybercultural concepts […]

PMC editor Stuart Moulthrop responds

[…]let this pass. Commerce is commerce. From Adobe to Chank Diesel, most creators of typefaces were working in the commercial sector when last I looked. I fail to see how banner advertising protects the “free” status of electronic publishing. By this analysis, network television is “free.” Felix tasks me particularly for not providing “a specific economic framework for… new media paradigms.” This too is perplexing, since it seems that Felix’s entire critique stems from his objection to a very specific economic framework – access to electronic texts by subscription. To be sure, Felix does not like the model I advocate. […]

Shadow Dance

[…]and the journal will also be, in large part, a review of electronic books: CD-ROMS, hypertexts, critical art ensembles, archived talk lists – whatever comes to be written (and not just typed and slung around) in digital and electronic environments. So yes, this suggests that ebr, in title and in spirit, does like to have it both ways. In the contour essay, I can say that my attempt was to speak more as a contributor than as an editor. Regardless, these remarks by Tabbi constitute “the casting vote.” [For more on ebr ‘s evolution, in particular in contrast to that […]

Joel Felix posts a response

[…]resources over the long term. But there’s no need to suggest that PMC ‘s fate is the fate of critical content on the Internet, be that content peer-reviewed or not. I doubt that Moulthrop was intending the anti-advertising quote as an interdiction on would-be electronic-scholars, but extra care should be taken to ward off such an implication, especially from an editor at the very influential PMC. For the record, I too know the particular difficulties of editing hypertexts, contrary to Moulthrop’s suggestion. ebr 5, which I guest edited, includes two, one of which is authored by John Cayley, whom ebr […]

Academia, Inc.

[…]and choice dominate the inflated rhetoric of addiction that sells so many self-help books, groups, experts, and luxury rehab centers. Sedgwick’s Foucauldian subjects’ discursive genealogy has culminated in a postmodern consumer paradox; exhorted to muster moral fiber – “just say no” – the universe of addicts responds by accelerating their consumption of therapies. Incidentally, the subjectified revolving door of responsibility and compulsion protects producers like tobacco companies from misleading, obsolete, oversimplified reifications like “addictive substance.” Compulsion, a “force” that couples body with object, and in turn keeps alive the system of social flows that structures and supports this coupling, translates […]

The Revolution May Not Be Computerized

[…]the potential for radical change can go unrealized for centuries. The shift from parchment roll to codex form, for example, did not result immediately in the production of large codexes containing a large number of diverse texts; rather, “[d]uring the first centuries of existence, the codex remained of modest size, composed of fewer than one hundred fifty sheets.” In addition, among non-Christians, “mastery and use of the possibilities gained ground only slowly. It appears to have been adopted by readers who were not part of the educated elite…and initially it was texts outside the literary canon (such as scholarly texts, […]

Wild Ambitions

[…]unity. It falls victim to overambition, missing attainable goals in the pursuit of a new ecocritical understanding. The first section of the book examines the history and future of wilderness and features essays by R. Edward Grumbine, Denis Cosgrove, and Max Oelschlaeger. Each writer treats the dual concepts of “wilderness” and “wildness” but there is little common ground among them as to definitions or methodology. As a result, the authors’ collective efforts to illuminate these terms serves instead to obfuscate an already vexing issue of terminology. Differentiating between wilderness and wildness forms a crucial subtext throughout the book, but only […]

Avant-PoPoMo Now

[…]the zine buyer for Tower Records and Tower Books: “Barnes & Noble is now selling zines with bar codes.” So there it is in a few bytes. What once-upon-a-time used to be called “selling out” is, here in Cyberville, just a matter of selling. Or is it? A bit later in the article a zine publisher, described as “bursting to sell out,” is quoted as saying, “Capitalism is weird. I’m celebrating all the stuff we can purchase, but I’m extremely suspicious of it too.” Caveat hacker! The relations between cyberzinia and the so-called mainstream in Post-postmodern culture are a lot […]

Can’t We Just Call It Sex?

[…]like lava. I remember a detailed description of taking off a woman’s bra and an orgy where a group of college students were lying on the floor in a circle. Since I was so naive about the birds and the bees this didn’t strike me as kinky, merely as information. All sex was equally arousing and this book was great. Then I heard my mother’s key in the back door – I crammed the paperback in the bookcase and rushed to the living room, sprawled on the couch like nothing had happened. Dropping her purse on the coffee table my […]

Deleuze and Guattari, Cognitive Science, and Feminist Visual Arts: Kiki Smith’s Bodies Without Organs Without Bodies

[…]are always becoming, which are associated with the emanation of local cognitive processes, and coded female. This interpretive tactic raises important concerns: how can the “minortarian” philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (with Felix Guattari) be applied to feminist praxis? While in the writings by feminists about Kiki Smith one may find references to the works and writings of Alice Jardin, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, among others, there is no question that Gilles Deleuze in particular is practicing grand philosophy, attempting a philosophy of marginality applicable to a range of those politically marginal, including women. […]
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