Bhabha – The Location of Culture (selections)
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: New York, 1994. Print. (Only covering introduction, importance of theory, and mimicry/hybridity) Introduction: Locations of Culture In this introduction B. sketches the move from Modernism meta-narratives of “class” or “gender” toward the individual subject positions of the “post” era: individuations of race, gender, generation, geopolitical locale, sexual orientation,... Read More
Nealon – Nietzsche’s Money!
Nealon, Jeffrey T. “Nietzsche’s Money!” JAC 20 4 (2000): 825-37. Print. N. begins by drawing attention to the way that capital operates consistently as the “ultimate general equivalent” in both postmodernist and posthumanist discourses at the macro-level. N. wonders if we should be disgusted by the role of consumer capitalism (as those in the postmodern Frankfurt school argue) or amused by the role of capital in creating... Read More
Muckelbauer & Hawhee – Posthuman Rhetorics: ‘It’s the Future, Pikul.’
Muckelbauer, John and Debra Hawhee. “Posthuman Rhetorics: ‘It’s the Future, Pikul.” JAC 20 4 (2000): 767-74. Print. M&H begins by recalling how Cronenberg’s film eXistenZ confronts anxieties about the nature of a distributed self rather than a Modernist universal, complete, whole “I.” The film provides the authors with a way to conceptualize the work of posthuman: “we begin by considering posthumanism... Read More
Brooke – Forgetting to be (Post)Human: Media and Memory in a Kairotic Age
Brooke, Collin Gifford. “Forgetting to be (Post)Human: Media and Memory in a Kairotic Age.” JAC 20 4 (2000). 775-95. Print. Brooke begins the article by pointing out how postmodernism has eroded the hermeneutic depth of the modern episteme at the expense of passionate attachment; in other words, now that the unified, universal modernist subject is dead postmodernism offered nothing in its place. . . just a space of critique (775). Brooke... Read More
CCR711 – Fine – Examining the Ideas of Globalization and Development
Fine, Ben. “Examining the Ideas of Globalisation and Development Critically: What Role for Political Economy?” New Political Economy 9 2 (2004): 213-31. Print. Fine’s essay sets out to answer a question recently presented by social theorist and geographer David Harvey: “Globalization is now one of the most hegemonic concepts for understanding the political economy of international capitalism. And its uses extend far beyond the business... Read More
