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Mots D'Ordre
Meditations on disorder (defined as what comes into conflict or resists a prevailing order's sense of social advance and historical development) through a variety of voices, most associated with literary theory or, more broadly, with cultural critique. The meditations are shaped from both extraliterary (i.e. physics, biology, neuroscience, geometry, geography, psychoanalysis, politics, and history) and literary contexts. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Postmodern Journeys
Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to headline events and popular films help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us.
This Is a Picture and Not the World
In This Is a Picture and Not the World, Joseph Natoli employs the lingua franca of film itself—screenplay dialogue—as well as the more recent form of the political blog to present a hyperreal account of popular film as both a creator and a reflector of our post-9/11 mass psyche. Drawing on both classic and contemporary film examples, the book also offers a quasihistory of film genres, including science fiction, the western, film noir, and screwball comedy, emphasizing how these genres have been shaken up, recontextualized, recombined, turned self-reflexive, and parodied over the past couple of decades. Taken together, these satirical parodies of screenplays and blogs reveal and perform how our very gaze has shifted from modern to postmodern, from a direct view of the world to a filtered one.
Right Now, Carissima
Right Now, Carissima is one long elegy in many movements, some of love, loss, and grief, some of anger at every Celestial plan that requires Death. I mean plans that feature Death an essential part, even as far as leading to immortal bliss. The entire elegy is a disclosure from within the Everydayness of life of my love for Elaine and my deep sense of my life with her as an incomparable Heaven.
Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries
A story of self, braided to a story of American culture. Uniting personal history with cultural history, Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries tells a story of a mind, a time, and a culture. The vehicle or medium of this excursion is an overview and sampling of the authors work, and what is revealed are cautionary tales of a once-aspiring egalitarian democracy confronted with plutocracys gentrification; of analog history and off-line life superseded by a rush toward virtualized, robotic, AI transformation of the human life-world; of everything social and public giving way to everything personal and opinionated. The vagaries of a lifetime of paths taken are woven together by a narrative that ...
Hauntings
This book is about the way that popular film brings to a "sayable" level that which haunts us in the media headlines.
A Primer to Postmodernity
A Primer to Postmodernity introduces the general reader to an emerging 'postmodern' world order by giving us `just the facts` through contemporary cultural lenses.
Travels of a New Gulliver
A millennial descendant of Jonathan Swift's Lemuel Gulliver sets out on an itinerary that proves more accidental, confounding and troubling than anticipated. With unabated curiousity and implacable courage, the Millennial Gulliver survives a turbulent politiical Frontier, an entranced Cyberville, the skeptical village of Jumpback, the floating isle of Babel, the Brigands' Stronghold, The Academy, the Mountain Monastery of Mock, the country of Verbiage and other domains whose oddities multiply as the journey progresses.
Speeding to the Millennium
Intersperses headline events, popular film, postmodern theory, and fictional vignettes in order to capture the elusive cultural imaginary of our twentieth-century fin de siecle.
Between Dog & Wolf
Dark, comic novel; the second in a trilogy entitled The New Utrecht Avenue trilogy
