Postmodernism, Literary Criticism

Postmodernism:

Relevant Links

 

General Introd., Major Sites & Bibliographies	Individual Theorists
Hypertext -- Other Cultural Examples	Essays
Postmodern Theories on Space and Urban Design

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General Introduction
*Postmodernism(lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
*Some Poststructuralist Assumptions (John Lye, Brock U.)


  Important Collections of Relevant Links
*Everything Postmodern (a lively site, entertaining visually, with links to postmodernism-related Web sites, newsgroups, philosophers, etc.) (Gregory Broquard) )
Postmodern Thought Links from U. Colorado, Denver (Marin Ryder)
PMC: Related Readings: PMC's collection of related web sites, online periodicals and articles.

Bibliographies

• Mark/Space Postmodern Library: a bibliography
• Untimely Past - a bibliography and links at the intersection of historiographic practice and poststructuralism, postmodernism, and related varieties of theory/practice.
• An exhaustive bibliography of works by and about Fredric Jameson is available as part of the Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliograpies.
• An exhaustive bibliography of works by and aboutLyotard is available as part of the Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliograpies.

 
• XRE is the successor to the former  RE/Search Publications web site.  Online periodical.

 

*歧路花園;
Collection of Hypertext literature in English and Chinese
Hypertext Theories by George Landow from Brown Univ.
As We May Think
;網路源起與第一隻滑鼠
妙繆廟
網路詩特區 A Taiwanese Collection of Links.

 
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• Individual Theorists
 
Jean Baudrillard
• General Resources
1. *Baudrillard/Simulacra - an Introduction; part of a larger project on postmodern theory by Hyoejin Yoon.
2. *Implosion -- What does it Mean?
3. *Baudrillard on the Web (Alan Taylor): a list of links to works about and by Jean Baudrillard
4. Project Baudrillard--not a comprehensive introd, but this site has some interesting reflections of  some grad. students on a lot of Baudrillard's books.--interesting.
5. *S(t)imulacrum(b) (extensive Baudrillard page with annotated bibliography and text selections) (Ben Attias)
• Relevant Courses
1. "COLLAB-l: CyberWars" ("two seminars being offered at two different geographical sites")
• Cynthia A. Haynes (U. Texas, Dallas), "Baudrillard and the Problem of Simulation/Mimesis"
• Victor J. Vitanza (U. Texas, Arlington), "Baudrillard and the Problem of Simulation"
Frederic Jameson
• For Beginners
1. Synopsis of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
• Bibliographies
1. An exhaustive bibliography of works by and about Fredric Jameson is available as part of  the Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliograpies.
 
• Essays
1. "Theory in the Lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel: The Case of Fredric Jameson" (Re:WIRED; Workshop for the Invention and Research of Electronic Discourse, U. of Florida)
2. Frederic Jameson and the Limits of Postmodern Theory -- Sean Homer (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U ),. Sheffield
Linda Hutcheon
1. Irony, Nostalgia, and the Postmodern  online essay
  Jean-Francois Lyotard
1. Lyotard Auto-Differend Page (a technical experiment and theoretical allegory; makes extensive use of client-pull animation to create a universe of automatic page sequences organized around the philosophy of Lyotard; REQUIRES Netscape 1.1 or later to activate client-pull sequences; Netscape 1.2b3 or later recommended for best results with color backgrounds) (Alan Liu)
2. Jean Francois Lyotard's The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia - Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities)
3. Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
4. Lyotard: Bibliography-in-Progress (Spoon Collective Lyotard List)
5. Spoon Collective Lyotard List (Shawn P. Wilbur)
6. Literary Theory: A Literary Theory Project in the Dept. of English, Rice U. (currently centered on Lyotard's Just Gaming and performance theory)

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• Cultural Examples
Art
Postmodernism and Art History (articles "on over three years of exhibitions at museums and galleries"; browseable "by artist, period in art history, or postmodern ideas"; I link artists and ideas, because I write about artists that get me thinking") (John Haber)


Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman Online
Cindy Sherman _F R O M D R E A M G I R L T O N I G H T M A R E _A L L E Y

Collections of Web Sites on Contemporary Art
Andy Warhol  The Andy Warhol Museum
 

Popular Culture


Blade Runner Andrew Benjamin (U. Warwick), "At Home with Replicants: The Architecture of Blade Runner" (Basilisk)
 
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Essays
Melissa McMahon, "Beauty: Machinic Repetition in the Age of Art" (1996) (Globe E-Journal)
Keven McNeilly (U. British Columbia), "Ugly Beauty: John Zorn and the Politics of Postmodern Music"(PMC, 1995)
David Mertz (U. Massachusetts), "Cyborg Bodies Revisited: The Postructuralist Remedy to Postmodernism" (on Donna Haraway and Georges Bataille)
Peter Brooks (Yale U.), "Aesthetics & Ideology-- What Happened to Poetics?"
Barbara Christian: "The Race for Theory" (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
THE INTERNET AS A POST-MODERN CULTURE

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