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[…]Shatner was otherwise engaged.) The greater problem is that all of the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) text is rendered in a jaggy, monospaced font – fine if you’re reading a paragraph but a killer if you’re trying to read the whole of von Helmholtz’s Ice and Glaciers. The fluidity of cut-and-paste, the immense time-saving of computer searches, the minute physical volume holding enough words to fill a library: great benefits of the computer age which provide little comfort to the person reading a screen while nursing a giant headache. If, in publishing on the computer, you aim […]
[…]reading Joyce’s Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions while working in Mt Isa for a few days, a mining town in western Queensland’s ruddy hued desert. Mt Isa’s technological scape is impressive with the scaffold and steel, smoke stacks and sulphur of the mine complex dominating the flat town’s gentle sprawl of suburbs. The technosphere of this place is at once industrial and informatic. It was hot as I lay in a motel room, watching cable television, endless video shows, and cartoons. Run by an Aboriginal media organisation, Imparja Television broadcasts throughout central Australia, a local voice in […]
[…]and law breaking. In an era of “electronically coordinated swarms” (209), movements of groups of people are coordinated on an ad hoc basis according to changing conditions; thus friends can rearrange group meetings and protestors can evade police barriers. Democracy can be a frightening thing for the authorities who have, in some instances, shut down networks to curtail citizens’ behavior. Sometimes the cornucopia of Mitchell’s examples makes it difficult to distinguish significant trends from fads. Me++ often has a rather techno-utopian tone. While the techno-utopianism can become a bit exhausting, it gives scope for Mitchell’s best rhetorical prose. At the […]
[…]three sections, which help to identify three dimensions of his work or rather three domains of critical intervention with it. In the first section “Aesthetics,” the essays engage with “formal” aspects, which in the case of Gombrowicz entails not merely the pre-existent concept of literary form but rather various critical approaches to Gombrowicz’s interrogation of form itself. Tomislav Longinović focuses on the strategies at play not in Gombrowicz’s literary works but in the series of interviews he did with Dominique De Roux towards the end of his life entitled A Kind of Testament. The intimate relations between Gombrowicz’s work and […]
Introduction by Joseph Tabbi Trace Reddell’s “Litmixer: The Literary Remediator” is what critical writing could look like once scholars and critics begin making use of the performative possibilities within networked environments. With his software groovebox, Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation. Jacques Derrida’s essay, “Plato’s Pharmakon,” becomes in Reddell’s hands not so much a master text as a set of recording masters, less a source of supporting citations than a sampling source to be played off against related discourses – on music, drugs, technology. And it’s all presented […]
[…]At the same time, I hope to give some indication of why we might do well to continue to turn our critical and creative attention to the ways in which the literary constitutes a valuable site through which to understand our works and days. Richard Powers is an accomplished novelist whose five (soon to be six) novels plumb the controversies, latent and teeming, inherent to our highly technological milieu. I daresay that, for most of my readers, Louis Zukofsky, though an equally accomplished poet, will be a somewhat less recognizable, and more inaccessible, figure. I hope to show why both […]
[…]with the field which it represents — even as the theory of the physicist might not include the workings of the brain or mind which conceives and commits itself to that theory and holds it to be true. The truth of the representation or judgment of the Universe is something additional to it, so that the One, and the representation of the One, add up to two. The point here is that acts of representation and of judgments are alienations. McElroy thinks about both the Earth, and Skylab, as “those self-renewing life-support systems,” and then suggests that self-renewing life-support will […]
[…]have to spend (and Schlictmann did) staggering amounts of money on expert witnesses, groundwater studies, medical examinations and other scientific investigations. Schlictmann gambled that the dead children and common sense circumstantial evidence would lead to a large jury verdict which would enable him to recoup his expenses. He did so against his better judgment and that of his partners. Their caution was well-founded. A Civil Action opens with the trial in its final stages and Schlictmann watching hopelessly as U.S. Marshals repossess his car. The defense, meanwhile, could fall back on the principles of pharmacokinetics. While toxicology measures the effect […]
[…]to maintain its organization by continuing to process communications according to this particular code; it sees the world according to that Manichean formula ó and that is all it sees. How a theory of social systems (such as the one adumbrated here, developed by the German social scientist Niklas Luhmann) can help us see the limitations of Livingstoneís call for dramatic forms of consciousness-raising is by forcing us to consider the relationship of individual to social system. What Livingstone despisesóeconomic, legal, political, and scientific blindness to the health of the environmentócannot be overcome simply by a renovation in conscious, individual […]
[…]Moretti, “the ambition of the narrator of Moby Dick is precisely this: to take the multifarious codes of nature and culture, and to demonstrate that they are all to be found in the moral super-code.” Or again, take Whitman, who declares “I am large, I contain multitudes,” and calls for a “rhetoric of inclusivity” that can encompass all creatures large and small. But “contain,” as Moretti notes, also implies “control and surveillance”; like the voice in Moby Dick, Whitman’s is a “monologism that is ashamed of itself, and dresses itself up as polyphony.” The failure is not the individual writer’s […]