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Still Here: Post-Millennial Metafiction and Crypto-Didacticism

In 1993, David Foster Wallace published an essay piece entitled “E Unibus Pluram” in which he outlined his belief that fiction should move away from the ‘critical and destructive’ postmodern irony that he saw as…

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Making Art in Dystopia

Adam Stock August 1, 2012 1 Comment Aldous Huxley bioart capitalism contemporary art dystopia Eduardo Kac George Orwell God's Gardeners Hannah Arendt Ionat Zurr Light Criticism logos Margaret Atwood Oron Catts Oryx and Crake Pig Wings Project Steve Lambert Year of the Flood

When contemporary artists work alongside scientists with “wet hands” in the bioscience laboratory, the results can test both scientific and moral imaginations. New uses of living material raise multiple ethical issues, and a concern for future…

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Authentic Violence: The Case for Autofiction

Heidi James-Dunbar August 1, 2012 No Comments Augusten Burroughs authenticity autofiction diarists Elfriede Jelinek Golem Italo Calvino Jean Genet Jewish folklore life writing Lionel Trilling Manic Street Preachers Marina Warner Michael Serres narrative Rachel Cusk Rick Moody Serge Doubrovsky testimony The Piano Teacher

The recent surge in the publication and study of Life-Writing in its varied forms has largely been supported by the academic community, spawning dedicated research centres in academic institutions, journals and conferences and it…

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On Nuclear Criticism

Christopher Daley July 1, 2012 2 Comments anti-Iraq protest apocalyptic literature Cold War contemporary literature Cormac McCarthy deterrent Diacritics Guide to Armageddon Jacques Derrida nuclear criticism Protect and Survive Riddley Walker Russell Hoban Threads

In 1984, the journal Diacritics set out to define what it labelled as the developing academic terrain of ‘nuclear criticism’. The opening section of the journal entitled…

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Backwards and Forwards with the Atomic Priesthood

Dennis Duncan July 1, 2012 2 Comments A Glasgow Bible atomic priesthood Bible biblical scholarship Communication Measures Jamie Stuart Japanese Bible Society Jizas - di Buk We Luuk Rait bout Im King King James Version Knut SelmerAlfred landscape of thorns language Luke's gospel in Jamaican patois Manga Bible New European Version Nordic nuclear safety body Nuclear semiotics nuclear waste Rob Lacey slang Bibles spike field Street Bible Thomas Sebeock translation

It’s always nice to present a challenge to that frustrating binarism that seeks to separate science from the humanities, and after last month’s…

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Transfixed: The Radical Feminist Body

Churnjeet Mahn July 1, 2012 1 Comment biological essentialism Calliope David Reimer case Detroit race riots 1967 feminism FWSA gender politics Jeffrey Eugenides Judith Butler Radfem radical feminist body Sheila Jeffreys transsexuality

Last month the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) listserv spilled into a public debate about the exclusion of women not biologically…