Tag: cold war

2011-10-12

See the Strings: Watchmen and the Under-Language of Media

Engaged in his own kind of structured play, Stuart Moulthrop uses the concept of "under-language" to explore the boundaries, gutters, masked intentions, and hidden meanings of Moore and Gibbons' Watchmen while he simultaneously uses the graphic novel to provide an equally complex, over-determined rendering of the term.

2004-11-08

Past Futures, Future's Past

The second in a series of two essays developing the parallels between Iraq and the Peloponnesian Wars, between classical Empire and postmodern Imperialism.

2005-11-05

On Materialities, Meanings, and The Shape of Things

Lori Emerson reviews The Shape of the Signifier by Walter Benn Michaels.

2003-07-31

Delete the Border!

A first-person narrative of Hactivism, Performance, and growing up at the U.S./Mexico Border from Fran Ilich.

1999-12-30

Conspiracy and the Populist Imagination

Timothy Melley reviews Mark Fenster on conspiracies in fact and fiction and finds evidence against the assumption that only nonexistent conspiracies produce conspiracy theories.

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