Postmodern Culture

25/07/2024

Our latest issue is live online!

It's special, and it's a double: Afterlives of the Antisocial, with guest editors Austin Svedjan and John Paul Ricco, featuring 2 introductions, 5 articles, an interview with Lee Edelman, and an afterword by Tim Dean (plus 3 book reviews!).

Read it at: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52747/print

*Thanks to Austin for the great graphic below.

25/02/2024

Lyn Hejinian, 1941-2024. We were fortunate to publish Lyn Hejinian's translation of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and a conversation on Russian poetry with Hejinian, Jerome McGann, Vitaly Chernetsky, Dragomoshchenko, Mikhail Epshtein, Bob Perelman, and Marjorie Perloff in vol. 3 no. 2 (1993).

This symposium brought together several people working in the field of Russian Postmodernism. Discussions took place in the month of October 26–November 25, 1992.

22/08/2023

CFP for American Comparative Literature Association : "Speculative Fiction and Futurism in the Middle East and North Africa," co-organized by Hoda El Shakri and Oded Nir. Select presenters will be invited to submit papers for an upcoming special issue of PMC. Abstracts due September 30th!

Organizer: Hoda El Shakry Co-Organizer: Oded Nir Contact the Seminar Organizers In a 2015 multimedia manifesto titled “Towards Arabfuturism/s” the Jordanian artist Sulaïman Majali writes that “Arabfuturism/s, like most creative provocations, is born of counter-culture” in which “notions o...

11/01/2023

Postmodern Culture is pleased to announce that Rashmi Varma is joining our editorial team as Review Editor.

Dr. Varma is Reader/Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and Convenor of the Critical South Asia Group at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and its Subjects (2011) and has co-edited several books including Marxism, Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique: Critical Engagements with Benita Parry (2019) and Ends of the Global City: Disaffection, Displacement and the New Political Ecologies of the Urban (2023). She has also co-edited special issues of journals including Critical Sociology and Social Text, and is a founding member of the editorial collective of the journal Feminist Dissent. Rashmi Varma has published widely on postcolonial literatures and theory with a particular focus on South Asia, feminist theory and transnational feminism, Indigenous cultures, cities, and gender and citizenship.

In addition to reviews of recent books, Postmodern Culture also seeks to publish reviews of new book series, exhibitions, conferences, and events. Contact Rashmi Varma with review ideas and proposals at [email protected].

30/12/2022

PMC 32.3 has been published. The issue includes two essays on q***r theory in South America by Diego Falconí Travéz, translated by Robin Myers, and futurist fiction by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Rotimi Babatunde, Simon(e) van Saarloos, Lauren Bajek, Gaby Zabar, and TJ Benson, with an introduction by Malka Older. The issue is free to anyone.

One of the earliest journals on the Internet, Postmodern Culture (PMC) started as a groundbreaking experiment in scholarly publishing. It has become a leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures. PMC offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subject...

23/09/2022

PMC vol. 32 no. 2 has been published. In the issue:

Artifact Functionality and the Logic of Trash in Videogames
Erick Verran

Against Digital Worldlessness: Arendt, Narrative, and the Onto-Politics of Big Data/AI Technologies
Ewa Płonowska Ziarek

The Decline of Phatic Efficiency
Matthew J. Rigilano

Horrible Beauty: Robin Coste Lewis’s Black Aesthetic Practice
Matthew Scully

Climates of the Absurd in Chantal Peñalosa and José-Luis Moctezuma’s “CCTV”
Judith Goldman

“CCTV”: Visual Text
Chantal Peñalosa & Jose-Luis Moctezuma

Underground Fanon: A Review of Gavin Arnall, Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change
Anthony C. Alessandrini

Two, Three, Many Instituent Instances in Common: A review of Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century
Robert F. Carley

Challenging Theater in the Special Period: A review of Bretton White, Staging Discomfort: Performance and Q***rness in Contemporary Cuba.
Katherine Ford

Neither Optimism nor Pessimism: A review of David Marriott, Whither Fanon?
Geo Maher

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48686/print

12/09/2022

Afterlives of the Antisocial PMC conference: updated program. Join us at UCI!

29/12/2021

Issue 32.1 (September 2021) has been published. In the issue:

Resistance and Biopower: Shame, Cynicism, and Struggle in the Era of Neoliberalism and the Alt-Right, by A. Kiarina Kordela

The Impassable Dream, by John Mowitt

The Impossibility of Multiracial Democracy, by Christopher Chamberlin

Renewing Humanism Against the Anthropocene: Towards a Theory of the Hysterical Sublime, by Matthew Flisfeder

Dispossession, Property, and the Clash of Interests: Reflections on Early Marx and Late Bensaïd: A review of Daniel Bensaïd, The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on
Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor, by Bret Benjamin

Prowling Foucault: A review of Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Britton Edelen

Alone We Fall: A review of Jennifer Gaffney, Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding, by Shmuel Lederman

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47062/print

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One of the earliest journals on the Internet, Postmodern Culture (PMC) started as a groundbreaking experiment in scholarly publishing. It has become a leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures. PMC offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subject...

17/12/2021

Remembering the great bell hooks. Their essay on postmodern blackness appeared in vol. 1 no.1 of the journal. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/27283

Postmodernist discourses are often exclusionary even when, having been accused of lacking concrete relevance, they call attention to and appropriate the experience of “difference” and “otherness” in order to provide themselves with oppositional political meaning, legitimacy, and immediacy. V...

14/12/2021

We are excited to launch a new project: PMC Commons, a text-first site designed to facilitate collegial discussions of new work published in PMC and beyond: https://pmc-commons.com. PMC Commons offers a space where community members can share resources, run discussion groups, test-drive new projects, and workshop ideas in progress. PMC Commons values helpful interaction, spirited but collegial discussion, constructive feedback, and cooperative exploration of new ideas and avenues for research on contemporary cultures. Members of PMC Commons are invited to think with and alongside as opposed to against the ideas that authors and participants offer in this space. PMC Commons also warmly welcomes students and encourages the use of this space not just as a way for researchers to connect but also as a teaching resource. The founding architecture consists of five categories:

1. PMC Live (discussions of new work published in PMC)
2. PMC Replay (discussions of classic essays from the PMC archives)
3. Reading Groups
4. Workshop
5. Resources

PMC Live is designed to facilitate discussions of new work published in PMC. Every two weeks, we will post one of the essays from our most recent issue, available for free, and dedicate a discussion thread to it.

We begin with an essay on a topic on many people's mind at the moment: Miriam K. Posner’s "Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains": https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/46706.

Visit https://pmc-commons.com, create an account, read the essay, and let us know your thoughts.

The idea is to try and provide our authors with a wider readership and to create a forum that allows readers to offer feedback, ideas and suggestions, helpful comments, and to ask questions to which the authors are able to respond.

PMC Commons is also intended to serve as an opportunity to communally offer in particular graduate students and early-career researchers helpful feedback, tips, and suggestions that may be beneficial for the further development of their projects.

A place to discuss the journal Postmodern Culture

04/11/2021

PMC 31.3 has been published. You can see it at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/46706. Contents:

Alain Badiou's Age of the Poets: The Desacralizing of the Poem by Alberto Moreiras

Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains by Miriam Posner

Mediating Neo-Feudalism by Travis Workman

My Mother's Bones: The Photographic Bodies of Camera
Lucida and Halving the Bones by Chelsea Oei Kern

No Country for Old White Men: Living at the Boundary of Blackness: A review of Joshua Bennett, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Sharon P. Holland

Patterns within Grids: A review of Tom Roach, Screen Love: Q***r Intimacies in the Grindr Era. SUNY Press, 2021 by Susanna Paasonen

Pork to the Future: A review of João Florêncio, Ba****ck P**n, Porous Masculinities, Q***r Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig by Steven Ruszczycky

A Disordered Review of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos by Sean Yeager

One of the earliest journals on the Internet, Postmodern Culture (PMC) started as a groundbreaking experiment in scholarly publishing. It has become a leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures. PMC offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subject...

29/07/2021

We are happy to announce that Mathias Nilges is joining Postmodern Culture as Editor. Mathias is Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Among his many publications are two recent books: How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (2021), and Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism (2019). He has co-edited numerous books and journal issues, including for Postmodern Culture, on contemporary literature and culture, politics, and literary and critical theory.

We are also pleased to announce new Editorial Board members: Ericka Beckman (University of Pennsylvania), Ron Broglio (Arizona State University), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku), and Rachel Greenwald Smith (St. Louis University).

PMC Editors
[email protected]

28/07/2021

PMC Volume 31, Numbers 1 & 2 (September 2020 & January 2021) on indigeneity, convened by SA Smythe, has been published. Thanks to all contributors, editors, and reviewers. This issue is free now on MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/45153. In the issue:

Introduction: Unsettle the Struggle, Trouble the Grounds
By SA Smythe

Other Intimacies: Black Studies Notes on Native/Indigenous Studies
By Chad Infante, Sandra Harvey, Kelly Limes Taylor, Tiffany King

The Grounds of Encounter: Racial and Colonial Discourses of Place
By Sarah E.K. Fong

The Politics of Witchcraft and the Politics of Blood: Reading Sovereignty and Sociality in the Livingstone Museum
By Alírio Karina

Garifunizando Ambas Américas: Hemispheric Entanglements of Blackness/Indigeneity/AfroLatinidad
By Paul Joseph López Oro

Unsettling Diasporas: Blackness and the Specter of Indigeneity
By Sandra Harvey

Black is the Color of Solidarity: Art as Resistance in Melanesia
By Joy Enomoto

By Paradox of Recognition: Genocide and Colonialism
Zoé Samudzi

Afterword: Across Difference, Toward Freedom
By Keguro Macharia

Self-Reflexivity as Infra-Structure: A review of Karen Benezra, Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America
By Jens Andermann

Coming Down: A review of Ricardo Montez, Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire
By Tyler T. Schmidt

One of the earliest journals on the Internet, Postmodern Culture (PMC) started as a groundbreaking experiment in scholarly publishing. It has become a leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures. PMC offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subject...