Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'postmodernism'
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer ENTRYURL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477715/ viaName: viaURL: TIME: 09:02:42 //--> I was not expecting to write this post. Last night Pam, my mother, and I went to see This Is It at the...
Aphasia
I was going to wait to write something about David Foster Wallace’s death, but after reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s comment about him in the New York Times I understood that I have something to say now. She had said that DFW’s...
Project R
This entry contains spoilers.One of the problems I'm addressing in Zombie Nation is the way in which North American racial history is cinematically encoded into George Romero's Living Dead Series. There is little dispute that classic zombie cinema (prior to...
The Twilight of Capitalism
Introduction: Zombie NationIn the last decade, zombies have taken a place of cultural prominence that in some ways is incongruous with their low culture origins. Among other things, this essay accounts for this increase in scholarly interest by examining the...
Hat Trick
After images of fighters launching cruise missiles and ICBMs emerging from their silos, the onset of zombies is the Western world's prevailing vision of apocalypse....
Jean Baudrillard, 20 June 1929 — 6 March 2007
If being a nihilist, is carrying, to the unbearable limit of hegemonic systems, this radical trait of derision and of violence, this challenge that the system is summoned to answer through its own death, then I am a terrorist...
The Postmodern Challenge
Today I was challenged to define postmodernism in ten words or less. I offered, proudly and tautologically, “Postmodernism is what comes after Modernism.” Pride and tautologies aside, a succinct definition of postmodernity is something I was reluctant to provide...
The Two Cultures: A Flame War
Over at Slashdot a thread regarding the submission of a junk science fiction novel to a vanity publisher winds its way to the Sokal Affair, the Spring/Summer 1996 publication by Social Text of Alan Sokal’s “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward...
rictus
Sometimes a cigar . . . Discredited with good reason during the rise of feminism, Freudian psychoanalytic theory and psychological models nonetheless do have their uses and insights, whatever apologies must be given and counterbalancing achieved before citing work...
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