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  • Bruce Robbins Writes on Secularism and Reviews Charles Taylor

    Charles Taylor, philosopher
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    Bruce Robbins writes that while Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is "inconsistent and unpersuasive," it benefits by contrast with the writings of prominent academic anti-secularists.  Part of b2‘s sustained engagement with issues of secularism and religion, this essay launches the journal’s online presence as an extension of its printed form. 

  • Rob Wilson, "Spectral City: San Francisco as Pacific Rim City and Counter-Cultural Contago

    ABSTRACT San Francisco, since its global takeoff in the Gold Rush Days and long-standing trafficking in Bohemian, socialist, queer, and left-leaning energies in and beyond the Beat era of the 1960s, has a complicated global/local history of trying to disentangle its city-space and urban imaginary from the Greco-Roman will-to-supremacy that would turn California into a frontier settlement of Asian/Pacific domination and US-framed empire. Forces of social becoming like the Beats and post-Beat hippies as well as more experimental authors like Jack Spicer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and Bob Kaufman helped to forge a different literary-social vision of San Francisco and the Pacific Rim city as a porous community of transnational innovation and outer-national becoming.  This paper will invoke some literary and film texts from Howl and Tripmaster Monkey to Vertigo to Margaret Cho stand-up performances as well as some geopolitical studies, such as Gray Brechin’s Imperial San Francisco  and City Light Press’s Reclaiming San Francisco  to substantiate this double vision of San Francisco as global/local US site of (a) imperial ratification and (b) counter-orientalist deformation. Link

    Taylor and Francis RIAC_A_338817.sgm 10.1080/14649370802386503
    Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 1464-9373 (print)/1469-8447 (online)
    Original Article 2008 Taylor & Francis 9 4 000000December 2008
    RobWilson rwilson@ucsc.edu

  • WORLDING SPACE, WORLDING TIME: On the Making of “The Worlding Project”

    Rob Wilson and Chris Connery have posted the lecture they gave on October 23 2008 to the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  This was part of the celebration of their 20th anniversary.  Here is the talk.

  • The American Novel

    We have just posted a call for papers on the American Novel.

  • Fall 2008 Volume 35, Number 3

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    Eli Friedlander

    The Measure of the Contingent: Walter Benjamin’s Dialectical Image

    boundary 2 35(3): 1-26 (2008); 

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    Leland de la Durantaye

    Homo profanus: Giorgio Agamben’s Profane Philosophy
    boundary 2 35(3): 27-62 (2008); 

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    Harry Harootunian and Sabu Kohso

    Messages in a Bottle: An Interview with Filmmaker Masao Adachi

    boundary 2 35(3): 63-97 (2008); 

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    Marcia Landy

    Gramsci, Passive Revolution, and Media
    boundary 2 35(3): 99-131 (2008); 

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    Li Huibin and Arif Dirlik

    Dialogue on Post-capitalism

    boundary 2 35(3): 133-187 (2008); 

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    Corey D. B. Walker

    The Infinite Rehearsals of the Critique of Religion: Theological Thinking After Humanism

    boundary 2 35(3): 189-212 (2008); 

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    Ben Lerner

    Of Accumulation: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley

    boundary 2 35(3): 251-262 (2008); 

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    Contributors 

    boundary 2 35(3): 263-265 (2008); 

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    Interventions
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    Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

    Reading for the Stimmung? About the Ontology of Literature Today

    boundary 2 35(3): 213-221 (2008); 

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    Leo Ou-fan Lee

    Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution and Its Reception

    boundary 2 35(3): 223-238 (2008); 

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    Anustup Basu

    Hindutva and Informatic Modernization

    boundary 2 35(3): 239-250 (2008); 

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  • Tony Bogues Writes on Life in South Africa

    Tony’s recent Intervention, "South Africa, On Becoming an Ordinary Country," is posted in the Interventions folder. (Link) Please add your thoughts and responses to the comments below.  PAB

  • Secularism

    boundary 2 has a call for papers on secularism and religion.  We might do a special issue but we certainly are interested in responses to the call.  The complete call, with directions for submissions, is in the Call for Papers folder or you can follow this Link.  Please add your comments below this entry.  PAB