essays

1996

15-Apr-1996
Selling Out in a Buyer's Market

Michael Bérubé responds to the respondents in Selling Out (Spring 1996).

01-Apr-1996
Avant-PoPoMo Now

Ronald Sukenick turns hypercapitalism inside out, and finds no place to hide.

01-Apr-1996
Exterminate the Brutes: Fighting Back Against the Right

Should the Left pool its resources and buy CBS? Robert Markley offers strategies for avoiding Patrick Buchanan's jihad.

01-Apr-1996
Getting the Dirt on The Public Intellectual: A response to Michael Bérubé

Cary Wolfe lays bare the assumptions that define Bérubé's stance.

01-Apr-1996
Something Is Happening, Mr. Jones

Marjorie Perloff on the surprising viability of art and poetry - everywhere but in universities.

01-Apr-1996
Them, Meaning Us

Former FC2 Co-publisher Curtis White defends radical fiction against Left radical intellectuals.

01-Apr-1996
Virtual Communities?: Public Spheres and Public Intellectuals on the Internet

Can electronic conversations reconstitute Bérubé's lost public sphere? A Marxist analysis by Jamie Daniel.

01-Apr-1996
who is michael bérubé and why is he saying these terrible things about us?

Joe Amato muses on academic stardom, the poetics list, and the corporation that motors his university.

15-Mar-1996
A Project for a New Consultancy

Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discuss what intellectual work will be like in the new electracy.

15-Mar-1996
Cultural Criticism and The Politics of Selling Out

In this feature essay from the spring of 1996, Michael Bérubé claimed that left intellectuals have little choice but to sell out, if they want to make a difference in the culture they critique. But which way is out? And who gets to go public?

15-Mar-1996
The Revolution May Not Be Computerized

Daniel Riess on Roger Chartier's media history.

15-Mar-1996
Writing the Paradigm

An overview of Gregory Ulmer's thought by Victor Vitanza.

01-Mar-1996
Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age - and Academy

Matt Kirschenbaum on Richard Coyne's philosophical treatment of technographics.

1995

30-Dec-1995
Cyberinthian Ways

Linda Brigham hypercontextualizes contemporary philosophy.

30-Dec-1995
Engineering Cyborg Ideology

N. Katherine Hayles discusses what happens when postmodern writers theorize in a void.

30-Dec-1995
Hypertext Markets: a Report from Italy

Walter Vannini investigates the effects of hypertext publishing in Italy's marketplace.

30-Dec-1995
My Body the Library: Janet, Body art, and World Wide Web site

Michael Joyce looks at hypertext, body art, body piercing, and Web culture.

30-Dec-1995
Notes From the Digital Overground

Mark Amerika on establishing an electronic publishing network in the no-man's land between the commercial, the academic, and the underground.

30-Dec-1995
The Maul of America

Liquid architect Marcos Novak on William Mitchell's City of Bits.

20-Dec-1995
Sleepless in Seattle

Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies.