According to Amy Elias, Paul Maltby’s negation of the mystical Other forecloses ‘the most interesting conversation’: between a critic who does not believe in visionary moments and those writers and critics who do believe in them.
Chris Messenger achieves a rare convergence of elite and popular cultural criticism by doing for The Godfather (and its spinoffs) what previous critics have done for Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Aaron Pease reviews Manual DeLanda’s philosophy of the virtual.
On posthumanism potentially worthy of the name.
Regarding a monumental work on race, time, and classical music that does not lose sight of individual, localized lives.
Sven Philipp on Cosmopolis and what seems to be a new stage in the critical reception of DeLillo.
Darren Tofts reviews a popularization by Marie O’Mahony and an auto-critique of cyberculture by Andrew Murphie and John Potts.
Anthony Enns juxtaposes two models of German media theory in reviewing new works by Oliver Grau and Friedrich Kittler.
Alex Reid examines a cross-section of essays in Prefiguring Cyberculture, a work that historicizes the future as neither alarmist nor utopian.
Ian Demsky on Joseph McElroy’s Ancient History and welcome interruptions.