Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 18:16:21 PST Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (abg-n-ahzore) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0051] PMC: "Postmodern Culture" & review of Snow Crash Keywords: surfpunk, Stuart Moulthrop, Postmodern Culture, Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson + + Jesse Helms fears art because he still thinks it + can change the world; the NEA "Liberals" think + all art should be allowed, because, after all, + "It's only art!". + -- Hakim Bey + (at Komotion, san fran, 6feb93) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Michael J. Current" on FutureCulture recommends this essay: Stuart Moulthrop, "Deuteronomy Comix." A review of Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_. REVIEW-1 193 It's part of the Jan93 issue of the e-journal "Postmodern Culture" (PMC). Below I'm including the CONTENTS from this issue. It's available for anonymous ftp from "ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu". Talk gently to ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu -- it's not a unix machine. Log in as "anonymous", and don't put "@" in your password. Spell filenames with all caps. "cd" into "PMC", but don't use a slash. Be sure you use ASCII rather than BINARY transfer. Say things like "get REVIEW-1.193". The Jan93 files all end in ".193". It appears the authors do not want me to mail out PMC articles inside SURFPUNKs -- they want you to have to access the archives yourself. So I don't think they'll mind me mailing the contents and instructions. These instructions do tell how to get articles via email instead of ftp. Happy hacking... strick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3, Number 2 (January, 1993) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors: Eyal Amiran, Issue Editor John Unsworth Review Editor: Jim English Managing Editor: Nancy Cooke List Manager: Chris Barrett Editorial Assistant: Jonathan Beasley Editorial Board: Kathy Acker Chimalum Nwankwo Sharon Bassett Patrick O'Donnell Michael Berube Elaine Orr Marc Chenetier Marjorie Perloff Greg Dawes David Porush R. Serge Denisoff Mark Poster Robert Detweiler Carl Raschke Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mike Reynolds Joe Gomez Avital Ronell Robert Hodge Andrew Ross bell hooks Jorge Ruffinelli E. Ann Kaplan Susan M. Schultz Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett William Spanos Arthur Kroker Tony Stewart Neil Larsen Gary Lee Stonum Jerome J. McGann Chris Straayer Stuart Moulthrop Paul Trembath Larysa Mykyta Greg Ulmer Phil Novak ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AUTHOR & TITLE FN FT Masthead, Contents, and CONTENTS 193 Instructions for retrieving files Barrett Watten, "Post-Soviet Subjectivity" WATTEN 193 Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, from _Phosphor_. Tr. DRAGOMOS 193 Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova Jerome McGann, Vitaly Chernetsky, SYMPOS-1 193 Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Mikhail Epstein, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Marjorie Perloff, A Symposium on Russian Postmodernism, Oct. 26-Nov. 25, 1992 Marjorie Perloff, and Mikhail Epstein, two SYMPOS-2 193 draft essays circulated as part of Postmoder Culture's symposium on Russian Postmodernism Vladislav Todorov, "The Four Luxembourgs" TODOROV 193 (fiction) Wendy Wahl, "Bodies and Technologies: _Dora_, WAHL 193 _Neuromancer_, and Strategies of Resistance" Alan Aycock, "Derrida/Fort-da: Deconstructing AYCOCK 193 Play" Kathleen Burnett, "Towards a Theory of BURNETT 193 Hypertextual Design" POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN: Honoria, "Introducing Mail Art: A Karen Elliot interview with Crackerjack Kid and Honoria" POP-CULT 193 REVIEWS: Stuart Moulthrop, "Deuteronomy Comix." A review of Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_. REVIEW-1 193 Jon Thompson, "Consuming Megalopolis." A review of Celeste Olalquiaga's _Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities_. REVIEW-2 193 Philip E. Agre, "Sustainability and Critique." A review of Will Wright's _Wild Knowledge: Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment_. REVIEW-3 193 Susan J. Ritchie, "Constructing an Archipelago: Writing the Caribbean." A review of Antonio Benitez-Rojo's _The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective_. REVIEW-4 193 James Morrison, "Hitchcock: The Industry." A review of Robert E. Kapsis's _Hitchock: The Making of a Reputation_. REVIEW-5 193 Josephine Lee, "Cookbooks for Theory and Performance." A review of Case, Sue-Ellen and Janelle Reinelt, eds. _The Performance of Power: Theatrical Discourse and Politics_, and Reinelt, Janelle G. and Joseph R. Roach, eds. _Critical Theory and Performance_. REVIEW-6 193 Glen Scott Allen, "Baptismal Eulogies: Reconstructing Deconstruction from the Ashes." A review of Jacques Derrida's _Cinders_, tr. Ned Lukacher, and Jacques Derrida's _The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's Europe_, tr. Pascale-Anne Brault & Michael B. Naas. REVIEW-7 193 LETTERS: Vaillancourt-Rosenau and Foley, an exchange LETTERS 193 NOTICES: Announcements and Advertisements NOTICES 193 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACTS Barrett Watten, "Post-soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov" ABSTRACT: The break-up of official culture in the Soviet Union led to aesthetic developments characterized by an intense, utopian, and metaphysically speculative subjectivity. Identifying these "post-Soviet" developments with postmodernism would be to misunderstand them, however. Aspects of this subjectivity can be seen in the installations and texts of Ilya Kabakov, developing out of Moscow conceptual art originating in the 1970s and now being shown in museums in the West, and in the poetry of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, representative of the 1980s "meta" litera- ture from Moscow and Leningrad, now appearing in American translations. Both projects, while formally very different, dismantle Soviet authority in ways that are more culturally specific than generically postmodern. --BW Jerome McGann, Vitaly Chernetsky, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Mikhail Epstein, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, and Marjorie Perloff, "A Symposium on Russian Postmodernism" ABSTRACT: Jerome McGann moderates an email discussion among Vitaly Chernetsky, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Mikhail Epstein, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, and Marjorie Perloff about Russian Postmodernism. The discussions took place on Oct. 26-Nov. 25, 1992. The symposium includes poetry by Arkadii Dragomoschenko, from XENIA, and an essay by Dragomoschenko, "Eroticism of For-Getting, Eroticism of Beyond-Being" (translated by Vanessa Bittner with Arkadii Dragomoshchenko). A draft of an essay by Marjorie Perloff was circulated at the beginning to all participants; this essay, and also excerpts from an essay by Mikhail Epstein (sent during the symposium), are included the file SYMPOS-2 in this issue. Participants received an advance copy of Barrett Watten's essay, available in this issue as WATTEN 193. --EA Wendy Wahl, "Bodies and Technologies: _Dora_, _Neuromancer_, and Strategies of Resistance" ABSTRACT: A pragmatic warning for cyborgs seeking to resist the "gradual and willing accommodation of the machine," the author focuses on the ability of therapeutic and cybernetic networks to recuperate resistance. From Freudian clinical practice to the historicized future of William Gibson's _Neuromancer_, promising theoretical disruptions of oppositional pairs are reclaimed in practice, often with chilling results. This reclamation is often signaled by the material moment when gender oppositions break down; in a backlash against their inclusion with "the other," the nostalgic and paranoid reaction of male theorists excludes the object, locating interiority once again within their experience. Is there any space in a postnatural future for a female subject with interiority? Alan Aycock, "Derrida/Fort-da: Deconstructing Play" ABSTRACT: Although the writings of Jacques Derrida are notable for their playfulness, little attention has been given to the possibilities of a deconstructive approach to the study of play itself. Derrida's discussion of the "fort-da" game is presented to suggest some elements of such an approach, and five examples drawn from participant observation of the game of chess are analysed from a deconstructive viewpoint. Some implications of deconstruction are offered for further ethnographic investigation. --AA Kathleen Burnett, "Toward a Theory of Hypertextual Design" ABSTRACT: Commencing with a critique of Poster's modes of information, this article employs Deleuze & Guattari's metaphor of the rhizome to explicate electronically mediated exchange, of which hypertext is the apparent fulfillment. The "approximate characteristics of the rhizome"--principles of connection, heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, and cartography and decalcomania--are considered as principles of hypertextual design. --KB ---------------------------------------------------------------- TO RETRIEVE SINGLE ITEMS LISTED ABOVE, send a mail message to listserv@ncsuvm or listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu containing as its one and only line the command get [fn ft] pmc-list f=mail (replace [fn ft] with the filename and filetype, as listed in the table of contents, for the file you want to receive). There should be no blank lines, spaces, or other text preceding this line. TO RETRIEVE THE WHOLE ISSUE as a package, send a mail message to listserv@ncsuvm or listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu with the command get pmcv3n2 package pmc-list f=mail If you request the issue as a package, please make certain you have sufficient virtual disk space on your e-mail account to receive it (at least half a megabyte). 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