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