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[…]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 […]
[…]difference, and negotiation between competing petit recits. He also asserts a rather outdated critical narrative about what postmodernism is, reducing it not only to a marxist tributary but also limiting its appearance in literature pretty much to metafictional texts and specific kinds of political literature. The idea that postmodernism is a discourse that exists simply to knock things down without asserting anything – the mantra of “denaturalize,” “decenter,” “deligitimize” being now nearly a critical cliche – is not only a limited understanding of what postmodern critique does (Pynchon asserts values, as do Jameson and Baudrillard). It also ignores the past […]
[…]Electronic literature comprises a tiny percentage of texts that can lay claim to the close critical attention and careful reading that Montfort wants to gain for interactive fictions. Trying to kill off either parent, literary or computational, is more apt to result in infanticide rather than parricide. Literature and computer games are both doing very nicely these days; it is their hybrid offspring that is in danger. To see critics argue against either of this offspring’s parents reminds me of Freud’s analysis of the “narcissism of minor differences.” The phrase describes a common tragedy: a small group, infinitesimal compared to […]
[…]with the “link,” that this new organization “frees the new category from the chains of a critical-theory-influenced and essentially non-computational perspective.” And it is but a sheet-drop from there, it seems, to declaring that “the old collection called hypertext cannot continue to hold our interest as a critical category or as a category describing what literary efforts should be considered valid and worthy.” While I applaud the inclusion of more categories into whatever term we use to identify literature with a multilinear structure, I fail to see how that frees us from further consideration of Hypertext as “valid and worthy” […]
[…]by Ted Nelson. The platform seems similar to the type of interface that Apple computers has been working on for several years. (See Steven Johnson’s discussion of Apple’s Project X, now called HotSauce, in Interface Culture 94-98). Since Nelson’s Xanadu has pretty much fallen into obscurity, evidently others need to take up and concretize his causes. Indeed the authors conclude that the difficulties they face, those of expressing Nelson’s ideas accurately, are the same challenges that have plagued much of his work preventing its widespread circulation. In the spirit of the cyber-trait of recursivity, I return in closing to Yearbook […]
[…]to respond rather than contribute. Rita Raley (“Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework”) remarks about the political implications of radical codework writing, which hopes ìto awaken us to ñ also to comment upon and recompile ñ the varied and various data streams that we engage, filter, and disregard while multi-tasking.î Despite the radical goals she describes, Raley locates codework poetry in the artistic traditions of e.e. cummings and Dada, and suggests that codework is one in a long line of textual and art objects. We may do better, however, to think of making art in this medium as producing […]