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[…]one might ask Ferré to consider the concept with stringent logic, if only because materialist studies, Holocaust studies, and other theoretical conversations recently have raised serious and troubling issues concerning the conflation of the ethical with the aesthetic. Yet when Ferré outlines PMPO, he tends to slip from logical proof to the declarative. In the last three chapters, for example, where readers are led to expect a full working out of this ethical schema in the natural, technological, and political worlds, they get instead very general narrative summaries about space, social problems, and issues in cultural politics with statements about […]
[…]cultural analysis of the institution of literature. In the context of literature, Siegert joins a group of critics often lumped together under the dated and misleading term New Historicism, who examine the frequently forgotten material conditions under which modern concepts such as “novel,” “lyric,” “character,” or “literature” itself emerged. It is impossible to overestimate how radically such work has transformed literary studies. In the transmission of clay tablets in the sixth century B.C., Siegert observes the earliest manifestations of postal relays, but his study focuses on the transformation of this official system of information exchange into a system of exchange […]
[…]the mind’s self-knowing and their inter- penetration. If God had left off speaking, once code was stated, briefly, then Rhetoric should too. The tangible world intaken: intelligible. The fact of experience, a shadow of God: the act of cognition a moment of fusion in which a thing finds its concept – and is found. This is a mind of snow in Connecticut. This is a Snow Mind knowing as if None knew. Exhilarated. Brilliant. An eagle at the breast of the whitening world. (True North 53) The emotional reduction that Gibbs the Puritan made of his life, and the material […]
[…]of some “post-revolutionary” writing). History spares no one, and can hardly produce great critical minds that can distance themselves from events less than a decade past. This is not a place where Baudrillard’s dictum about the arrival of the end of history holds (not to speak of Nietzsche’s antecedent dictum of similar refrain). While shepherds continue to roam hilltops in an almost photographic semblance to the last century, history will continue, feverishly even. When these shepherds begin to chat with their local sheep cloner over satellite linked cellular phones we can in turn begin to look for and analyze a […]
[…]to investigate to what degree hypertext and democratization are linked or not (nowadays, it is uncritically assumed that hypertext automatically produces a more democratic functioning of writing and reading processes). Here, it is not completely useless to remember the very critical remarks an author such as Enzensberger made on the rapid spread of pocket books, which, mutatis mutandis, in the ’50s and ’60s meant a revolution of literary culture and habits not unlike the transformations which have resulted from putting literature on the web in the late ’90s, and which Enzensberger precisely called a pseudo-revolution, even a counterrevolution, since the […]
[…]cover which remains stubborn in signaling incongruities: printed in small type, adjacent to the barcode, is the word Fiction. In order to respond appropriately to these issues, the critical convention of rarely quoting from paratexts – references to dedications and epigraphs are the commonest exceptions – needs to be transgressed here. There is not the scope to do justice, unfortunately, to all the extensive paratextual cues in the novel. One might have dwelt, for instance, on the odd frontispiece in the novel, depicting a man, or deity, around whose body play the smaller bodies of animals which appear to have […]
[…]desires,” Miller writes, here echoing the long-standing complaint that scholars have created a critical language so specialized that it excludes “actual readers.” There is, of course, some truth to this. Most scholars acknowledge it, some regret it, but hardly anyone believes we can (or should) turn back the clock. The “old” critical language, after all, was a kind of jargon, too. And having largely devoted itself to exhalting (the same) favored authors time and again, it was exhausted or nearly so. Indeed, Miller’s criticism, which borrows its attitudes and language from this lexicon, is a case in point. At any […]
[…]years in anonymity and asceticism. During that time he “devoted” himself to beating carpets, working in a potter’s workshop, at a building site… Eventually, in 1981, he got involved in art again. According to the words of film director Dusan Makavejev, Miroslav Mandic is the “creator of new trends.” He is by all means one of the most influential figures for young artists. Working with film, the visual arts, and literature, he uses walking as his chief method of expression. Complete devotion, according to him, is the “everyday involvement in a perpetual present.” In reality, he seems to be weaving […]
[…]bumper-sticker and t-shirt narratives are easily monitored outlets for the otherwise silenced working-class. Without bumper stickers, fastfood, Super Bowls, televangelism, and the lottery, the working class might just recognize its chronically oppressed condition and strike and spit and refuse to shop. ménage-à-quatre online As bumper stickers and t-shirts are promoted for the under classes, the “information superhighway” with its websites, bulletin boards, chat groups, and online monickers, is obsessively promoted for the middle class. Minute by minute, the official online narrative, called virtual, is encroaching on real time. In that previously-suspended, increasingly hyperreal space, the airport terminal, for example, the […]
[…]and auditory – on the Internet. As such it might now be the object of a globalized “cultural studies” by scholars who are themselves more and more transformed, in part by their use of the computer and by their inhabitation of cyberspace, in their relation to the culture of the book. This is the case even though it is still a primary goal of literary history and literary criticism in the modern languages to understand and interpret that culture of the book. The electronic form of Ayala’s Angel in the Oxford Text Archive has one tremendous advantage over the printed […]