Author: boundary2

Check out the new issue edited by QS Tong in Hong Kong.  PDFs of the entire issue are here.

Includes essays by Arif Dirlik, Wang Hui, Wang Ban, Jiwei Ci, and many others.

Antin’s new book — his selected essays, includes his key boundary 2 essay “Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in Modern American Poetry”
from University of Chicago Press

Art Essays

Warhol: The Silver Tenement
Alex Katz and the Tactics of Representation
Jean Tinguely’s New Machine
Lead Kindly Blight
“It Reaches a Desert in which Nothing Can Be Perceived but Feeling”
Art and the Corporations
Video, the Distinctive Features of the Medium
Have Mind, Will Travel
the existential allegory of the rothko chapel
Duchamp: The Meal and the Remainder
Allan at Work

Literary Essays
Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in Modern American Poetry
Some Questions about Modernism
radical coherency
The Stranger at the Door
The Beggar and the King
“the death of the hired man”
FINE FURS
Wittgenstein among the Poets
john cage uncaged is still cagey

Professor Wang Hui, of Tsinghua University in Beijing, has joined  the Editorial Board of boundary 2.  Wang Hui is the leading literary humanistic scholar-critic in today’s China.  We are very grateful to him for joining our intellectual and political efforts and we wish to acknowledge his already substantial contributions at two b2 conferences in Nanjing and Hong Kong and in the pages of the journal.  Wang Hui’s presence substantially augments b2’s commitment to the study of China, to developing critical exchanges with Chinese intellectuals, and to critical study and political reflection about historical matters in our time and our histories.  Wang Hui is the author of among many other works The End of the Revolution (Verso), China’s New Order:  Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition (Harvard University Press), and The Politics of Imagining Asia (Harvard University Press).  His essays, “Scientific Worldview, Culture Debates, and the Reclassification of Knowledge in Twentieth-Century China,” and “Dead Fire Rekindled” appeared in b2 in 2007 and 2008.  His new work on Lu Xun, “The Voices of Good and Evil: What Is Enlightenment?  Rereading Lu Xun’s ‘Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices.’”  Forthcoming is an interview and discussion about recent events in Egypt and the Middle East between Wang Hui and Samir Amin.

Check out Hortense’s three appearances:  “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too,”; “Foreign Policies“; and the video discussion, “James Baldwin: Still So Much To Teach Us.”

Lindsay Waters on Daniel Bell, the Harvard Blog.

Epic Visions, Lyric Voices — edited by Dan O’Hara

A new paper by Arif Dirlik, “Civilization-Talk, Contemporary Global Relations, and the Humanities: Predicament and Promise”

Several boundary 2 colleagues had important interactions with Miriam and we all admired and learned from her work.  We sadly note her parting.