Archives for April 2006
Chapter 2: Machine
Published on 12 Apr 2006 at 11:20 am.
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Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.
—Donna Haraway
At an early moment in Thomas Pynchon’s V., the reader is introduced to the members of the Whole Sick Crew, a loose coalition of alienated youth cavorting about 1955 Manhattan. As the narration emphasizes, each member of the Crew participates in an “exhausted […]
Chapter 1: Three Discourses on the Age of Television
Published on 12 Apr 2006 at 11:19 am.
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Ending is a way to proceed.
—Paul Mann
“The death of the novel is here again,” writes Natasha Walter in a 1996 report on the state of the British publishing industry. “It’s a standing joke among newspapers’ literary editors trying to find a story. Shall we commission the ‘books are out’ piece, or shall we commission the […]
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Introduction: The Anxiety of Obsolescence
Published on 10 Apr 2006 at 8:43 pm.
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Print is undead.
—Stuart Moulthrop
The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and has been since the invention of television.
So, at least, seems to be the argument made by a range of cultural critics, both from the Right and from the Left, both academics and public intellectuals, both those who publish in highbrow venues […]
