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Cultural Criticism and The Politics of Selling Out
In this feature essay from the spring of 1996, Michael Bérubé claimed that left intellectuals have little choice but to sell out, if they want to make a difference in the culture they critique. But which way is out? And who gets to go public?
The Question of the Animal
On a posthumanism potentially worthy of the name.
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.
Hope for Empowerment, Fear of Control
Jan van Looy reviews Silvio Gaggi on hypertext fiction up to the early '90s.
Reading the L.A. Landscape
Claire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.
Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and The Poverty of Humanism
Cary Wolfe reviews Luc Ferry's The New Ecological Order.
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection
Them, Meaning Us
Former FC2 Co-publisher Curtis White defends radical fiction against Left radical intellectuals.