avant-pop
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.
Narratological Amphibiousness, or: Invitation to the Covert History of Possibility
Lance Olsen continues the FC/2 authors' discussion of Carole Maso's AVA and adds some bits on Laird Hunt, Mark Z Danielewski, Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley, and other recent U.S. avant-gardists.
Notes From the Digital Overground
Mark Amerika on establishing an electronic publishing network in the no-man's land between the commercial, the academic, and the underground.
White Noise/White Heat, or Why the Postmodern Turn in Rock Music Led to Nothing but Road
Larry McCaffery reframes his 1989 essay on the "postmodern turn" in rock'n'roll music.