Flood
poem: Thomas Swiss; photographs: David Henry;
design: Ingrid Ankerson. Done in a "classical mode."
using Micromedia's Flash.
Stuttering Screams and Beastly
Poetry
Allison Hunter
writes on Douglas Kahn, a modern musicologist who takes in the noise of
modern battle, recordings from the tops of trains and the interiors of
coalmines, and also the musicality of undigitized everyday noise. In
Primary Sounds
she applies academic Color Theory to the dominant sounds of her home.
When You Can't Believe Your Eyes:
Voice, Vision, And the Prosthetic Subject in Dancer in the Dark
Cary Wolfe investigates
why the reviewers were so rattled by the Lars von Trier film, and in the
process puts Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith
Butler into conversation.
New Beatle/Beach Boy Facts
David Greenberger on
the two titans of entertainment and enlightenment.
an MP3 compilation
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Network Voices
fifteen artists working along the blurry boundary of music, sound, and
noise launch Alt-X Audio. curator: Mark Amerika.
further reVIEWs
on critical ecologies: media/systems theory
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Further
Notes From the Prison-House of Language
Linda Brigham
works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.
Mindful
of Multiplicity
Linda Carroli reviews
Michael Joyce on networked culture, whose emergence changes our ideas
of change.
The Cybernetic
Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph Tabbi reviews
the essay collection Simulacrum America.
ebr12 reVIEWs
of general interest
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Duchamp
Through Shop Windows
Reviewing new scholarship by David
Joselit, Molly Nesbit, Thierry de Duve, and Linda Henderson, Hannah
Higgins proposes that writing about
Duchamp needs to be Duchampian in flavor.
What Lies
Beneath?
Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
finds the most well-publicized comic by one of America's most significant
cartoonists to be technically accomplished, challenging as narrative but
finally all too true to its title: the characters and situations in David
Boring are in fact boring.
Talking Back
to the Owners of the World
Steffen Hantke on
Tom LeClair's and Richard Powers's novelistic imaginations of terror.
America:
The Usable Cliché
Sue Im-Lee reviews Reciting America by
Christopher Douglas.
Reading the
L.A. Landscape
Claire Rasmussen on
geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and
Edward Soja.
Accretive Dreams,
Junk Narrativity, & Orphaned Excess in Moderation
Lance Olsen
reviews hypertext writing, past and present, by Robert Arellano.
Unraveling
the Tapestry of Califia
Jaishree K. Odin on
the hyperfiction of M.D. Coverley.
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