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On Mitchell's Me++: The Cyborg Self And The Networked City, Davin Heckman
On Mitchell's Me++: The Cyborg Self And The Networked City, Davin Heckman
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
[First paragraph]
Reminiscent of books by other MIT luminaries like Neil Gershenfeld's When Things Start to Think (2000) and Rodney Brooks' Flesh and Machines (2002), William Mitchell's Me++ reminds me, yet again, of why it is so exciting to be alive in an age of wireless phones, high-speed data transmission, and cybernetic systems. Unfortunately, after a couple of years of reading Wired and developing a festering cynicism for high-tech solutions to social problems that have been caused by previous high-tech solutions (like titanic ships, combustion engines, splitting atoms, and all kinds of really horrible weapons), I am more interested in …
Review Of Art And Fear, By Paul Virilio, Davin Heckman
Review Of Art And Fear, By Paul Virilio, Davin Heckman
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Religion And Rationality, By Jurgen Habermas, Nicholas Ruiz Iii
Review Of Religion And Rationality, By Jurgen Habermas, Nicholas Ruiz Iii
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
On Misa, Brey, And Feenberg's Modernity And Technology, Davin Heckman
On Misa, Brey, And Feenberg's Modernity And Technology, Davin Heckman
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
[First paragraph]
In the course of my own research on culture and technology, I have marveled at the vast pool of valuable resources available in both Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies. And I have been equally amazed by the disciplinarity that seems to keep each of these approaches from interacting with each other, in spite of the fact that they share common ancestors like Marx, Heidegger, and Mumford. And so I found myself intrigued by the arrival of Misa, Brey, and Feenberg's edited volume, Modernity and Technology -- a deliberate effort to reconcile the theoretical question of Modernity …
On Aaron Baker's Contesting Identities: Sports In American Film And Stephen C. Wood And J. David Pincus's Reel Baseball: Essays And Interviews On The National Pastime, Hollywood And American Culture, Marc Ouellette
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
[First paragraph]
Aaron Baker's Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film is an indictment of the key American myth that anyone can succeed through self-reliance. Baker finds that sports films, in general, comprise a site in which the myth is represented and reproduced. Baker's focus, though presented from multiple analytical perspectives, is singular in its purpose. That said, Baker does concentrate on what he considers the four core American sports: football, baseball, basketball and boxing. Approximately ninety movies, from the silent era to the present day, provide the content of the analysis, but several are exemplary and are cited repeatedly in …
On Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Andrew Miles Jacobsen
On Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Andrew Miles Jacobsen
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
[First paragraph]
No book since American Psycho has created as much of a scandal. And few books have been as misunderstood. In 1990, months before it was set to be released, certain violent passages were leaked to the press that, taken out of context, made the book seem like a depth-less celebration of sexual violence. Right after Simon & Schuster canceled the book, an employee of the publishing house said, The most unfortunate thing about this whole controversy is that the book is a piece of shit. It's hard when something like this becomes an issue of censorship, because you …
Review Of Writing Back: Sylvia Plath And Cold War Politics, By Alan Clinton, Alan Clinton
Review Of Writing Back: Sylvia Plath And Cold War Politics, By Alan Clinton, Alan Clinton
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Mapping Tourism, By Stephen P. Hanna And Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr., Alexandra Ganser
Review Of Mapping Tourism, By Stephen P. Hanna And Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr., Alexandra Ganser
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Heredity, By Jenny Davidson, David C. Froemke
Review Of Heredity, By Jenny Davidson, David C. Froemke
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of How A Film Theory Got Lost And Other Mysteries In Cultural Studies, By Robert B. Ray, Alan Clinton
Review Of How A Film Theory Got Lost And Other Mysteries In Cultural Studies, By Robert B. Ray, Alan Clinton
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
On T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, R. Stewart Varner
On T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, R. Stewart Varner
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
[First paragraph]
Critical theory never died. It just assumed the façade of an academic discipline that is as spectacular as it is impotent. However, behind the façade there still lurk a few radical lunatics who, at times, may really be on to something. One such figure is Hakim Bey.
Review Of Time For Revolution, By Antonio Negri, John Conley
Review Of Time For Revolution, By Antonio Negri, John Conley
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Subject, Society, Culture, By Roy Boyne, Michael Ian Borer
Review Of Subject, Society, Culture, By Roy Boyne, Michael Ian Borer
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Mediums And Media: Review Of Ghostwriting Modernism, By Helen Sword, And Haunted Media, By Jeffrey Sconce, Alan Clinton
Mediums And Media: Review Of Ghostwriting Modernism, By Helen Sword, And Haunted Media, By Jeffrey Sconce, Alan Clinton
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Crepuscular Dawn, By Paul Virilio, Davin Heckman
Review Of Crepuscular Dawn, By Paul Virilio, Davin Heckman
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Marx For A Post-Communist Era, C. Jason Smith
Review Of Marx For A Post-Communist Era, C. Jason Smith
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Ruthless Democracy, By Timothy B. Powell, Matthew Wolf-Myer
Review Of Ruthless Democracy, By Timothy B. Powell, Matthew Wolf-Myer
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
No abstract provided.