postmodern
Flatland in VAS
Lila Marz Harper shows the many dimensions of intertextuality between Edwin Abbott's Flatland and Steve Tomasula's VAS. From typography to narratology, Tomasula's "opera in flatland" follows Abbott, in a geometry of fiction that interrogates the biopolitics of today.
Sleepless in Seattle
Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies.
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.
A Third Culture
De Witt Douglas Kilgore reviews Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsons, and Micahael Menser's Technoscience and Cyberculture (1996).
Confronting Chaos
Joseph Tabbi reviews Joe Conte's Design and Debris and gauges the argument for chaotics-as-aesthetics across media.