TECHNE, EPISTEME, AND THE TROUBLE WITH SPEECH
AMODERN | CURRENTS | SCOTT POUND
Currents
Standalone articles published outside the issue structure.
SENSATE SOVEREIGNTY
A Dialogue on Dylan Robinson’sHungry Listening
Sadie Couture, Jonathan Sterne, Mehak Sawhney, Shirley Roburn, Andy Kelleher Stuhl, Burç Köstem, Hannah Tollefson, Randolph Jordan, Landon Morrison, Allyson Rogers, Michael Nardone
A Dialogue on Dylan Robinson’s Hungry Listening
THE UPGRADE OF THE WILLIAM BLAKE ARCHIVE
The Motivation I want to weave together three stories to form one larger story about the upgrade of The William Blake Archive. The first is a technical account of the new Archive. The second is a first-person report of my life as a student pursuing a Ph.D. in English while architecting and implementing the new Archive. And the third is a reflection of some of the ideas that impacted the... Read more...
THE AMODERNS: THINKING WITH ZOE
A Feature Interview with Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti is a force of nature-culture. Her work since Patterns of Difference and extending through her trilogy, which includes Nomadic Subjects, Metamorphosis and Transpositions, has been vital to a resurgence of feminist, anti-racist and materialist thought. Her incredibly prolific career – which spans multiple languages – engages with the material realities of politics within the frame of a feminist, Spinozist ethics. This is one of her many great contributions:... Read more...
UNESCO AND THE WORLD-LITERARY SYSTEM IN CRISIS
This article studies two features that characterize the contemporary form of what the Warwick Research Collective has described as the “world-literary system,” in which combined and uneven development of capitalist economic and affective relations results in marked discontinuities across and within literary worlds and across and within individual literary works.1 The first feature is a contraction in what Wendy Griswold has dubbed “the reading class” – a contraction which entails delimitation... Read more...
THE POETICS OF CELEBSPLOITATION
Celebrity Culture and Social Media in Recent American Poetry
Ben Fama: What do you think of celebrity culture? Vanessa Place: What other kind is there?1 American poets in the era of social media are obsessed with celebrity – and especially with celebrity misfortune. Consider some of the following books written just in the past few years: Tan Lin’s Heath, Lara Glenum’s Maximum Gaga, Kevin Killian’s Action Kylie, Julia Bloch’s Letters to Kelly Clarkson, Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and... Read more...
THE AMODERNS: WHAT WE USED TO CALL “MEDIA HISTORY”
A Feature Interview with Wolfgang Ernst
Ghislain Thibault, Wolfgang Ernst
Wolfgang Ernst is a leading voice in the field of media archaeology, a research area that has attracted interest for its theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of media. Ernst’s main contribution to media archaeology in the recent years has been a radical critique of history through a reflection on media temporalities. In this interview, Ernst proposes to understand media archaeology as an “exercise” for media studies scholars, a mode... Read more...
THE AMODERNS: THOUGHTS ON AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT
A Feature Interview with Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour is one of the most widely recognized intellectuals of our time. His work on modernity has influenced scholars in every field of the social sciences and humanities and has involved ongoing collaborations with scientists and artists. In his most recent project, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
EXTENDED TECHNIQUE
New Scholarship on the Uses of Media
Naomi Elena Ramirez, Choreography for Smartphone Gestures (2016), on Vimeo. Ideas are products of their environments. It’s no accident that when a new paradigm of media studies appeared on the scene going by the name of “media archaeology,” scholars were in the process of turning on their first smartphones and gawking at their friends’ new tablets.1 Media archaeology foregrounded the paths not taken, the dead ends and minor figures of... Read more...