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1. In Praise of "In Praise of Overreading"

   Is ‘overinterpretation’ good or bad? Is it even possible, and is it ever enough? (Or are we reading too much into this?) Clint Burnham shadows Colin Davis as he traces the interventions of a “wild bunch” of critics, theorists, and philosophers, who grapple with the question of what counts as a reading of a literary text.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/overread) 

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:00

2. Writing the Paradigm

   An overview of Gregory Ulmer’s thought by Victor Vitanza.

   1. How do we not know we think, yet think?

   Gregory Ulmer (a.k.a. ‘Glue’) has been for some time developing a theory of invention that would be appropriate and productive for those cultural theorists who have an interest in electronic media. (Invention, classically defined in oral and print culture, is the art of recalling and discovering what it is that one would think or say about a given subject. In electronic culture, invention takes on new ramifications). In his Applied Grammatology (1985), Ulmer moves from Derridean deconstruction (a mode of analysis that concentrates on inventive reading) to grammatology (a mode of composition that concentrates on inventive writing); that is, he moves towards exploring “the nondiscursive levels - images and puns, or models and homophones - as an alternative mode of composition and thought applicable to academic work, or rather, play.

   tye042 - 26.09.2017 - 13:01

3. Between a Game and a Story?

   Illustrating Perlin’s “Can There Be a Form between a Game and a Story?”

   Andre Lund - 26.09.2017 - 13:02

4. Unworldly Reflections

   In this review of Robert Chodat’s Worldly Acts and Sentient Things, Stephen Dougherty argues that Chodat’s inquiry could have profited from a deeper engagement with posthumanist thought.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/unworldly)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:03

5. Cyberdrama

   Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce Cyberdrama, the first section of First Person.

   Andre Lund - 26.09.2017 - 13:23

6. Things They Wrote With: The Material Making of Modern Fiction

   In his new book, Michael Wutz examines how the work of four canonical novelists - Norris, Lowry, Doctorow, and Powers - register the revolutions in 20th century media technology. Such an analysis, reviewer Joseph Conte suggests, is an important extension of Kittlerian media theory to the field of American literature.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/enduring) 

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:24

7. Being Not Us

   John Bruni suggests that Cary Wolfe’s new essay collection explores the various cognitive fictions of humanism and carves out a functional role for systems-influenced theory and art.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/un-mapped)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:27

8. The Abdication of the Cultural Elite

   Andrew Reynolds reviews Stephen Schryer’s Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction, which argues for an instrumental form of intellectual labor in the service of broader social goals. Comparing novelists and sociologists representative of this new class, Schryer detects a self-defeating strategy in their rejection of collective instrumentalism in favor of individual dissemination of cultural education. Where Schryer closes by criticizing recent conceptions of an alternative economy of non-instrumental intellectual work within the university as a fantasy, Reynolds observes a “performative contradiction” at work in Schryer’s text and suggests that it is a good thing.

   (Source: EBR) 

   Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 13:31

9. Man Saved by Wolfe

   In this review of Cary Wolfe’s new essay collection, What is Posthumanism?, Neil Badmington reflects on the ebb and flow of “the posthuman” and ponders what Wolfe’s work suggests for the future of the field.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/savedbywolfe)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:32

10. Free Market Formalism: Reading Economics as Fiction

    “What would a history of postwar U.S. literature look like that did not take society as its major organizing principle?” Daniel Worden reviews Michael Clune’s American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000,which traces the emergence of the “economic fiction,” in which the market is neither a mystified form of social relations nor an expression of individual values, but a virtual economy that structures experience.

    (Source: EBR)

    Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 13:36

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