Kritikos: an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image

ISSN 1552-5112

 

 

Contributors and Guests

 

 

Ethan J. Leib, Ph.D.

 

is assistant professor of  Law at the Hastings College of Law, University of California in San Francisco (beginning in July 2005). His recent work includes Deliberative Democracy in America (Penn State University Press, 2004)

 

 

 

McKenzie Wark, Ph.D.

is professor of  Cultural and Media Studies at the Lang College, New School University in New York City. His recent works include A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press, 2004), Dispositions (Salt Books, 2002) and Virtual Geography (Indiana University Press, 1994).

 

Juan Bruce-Novoa, Ph.D.

is professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Irvine.  His recent works include Only The Good Times (Arte Público Press, 1995) and RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature (Arte Público Press, 1990).

 

Constantine Sandis

 

is about to submit his PhD on The Things we Do and Why we Do Them at the University of Reading. He also teaches in the Philosophy Department there, as well as at the University of Bath (Division of Lifelong-Learning), and for the Royal Institute of Philosophy.  See also: http://www.sandisproductions.com/

 

 

Robert Pepperell

 

Robert Pepperell is a member of Polar (The Posthuman Laboratory for Arts Research) and a lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at University of Wales College, Newport.  He is also associate editor of Leonardo Reviews.  His works include The Posthuman Condition (Intellect, 1995) and The Postdigital Membrane (Intellect, 2000) in collaboration with Michael Punt. A revised version of his first book, entitled The Posthhuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain, has also recently been published (Intellect, 2003).

 

 

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Ph.D.

 

is currently a visiting/teaching scholar in  the department of Philosophy at Zhejiang University in China.  Previously he was lecturer in Pan-Asian Studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.  His recent books include Place and Dream: Japan and the Virtual (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2003), and his work has appeared in Cinetext, Ctheory.net, Film-Philosophy International Salon-Journal and others.

 

 

Michael H. Goldhaber

 

Is completing a book on the attention economy.  His work has appeared in journals such as First Monday, Wired.com, Telepolis and others.

 

 

Jason Sperb

 

is a DeRoy fellow and doctoral student in English at Wayne State University.  He holds a master’s in Film Studies (Oklahoma State University, 2004).   His work has recently appeared in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

 

 

Harry Polkinhorn, Ph.D.

 

Professor of English, San Diego State University
Harry Polkinhorn is an experimental poet/artist, translator, and editor whose works have been exhibited and published worldwide. He has published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, translation, and edited collections. His areas of scholarly interest focus on the international avant-garde and the culture of the U.S.-Mexico border region. He has translated works from Italian, Portuguese, German, and Spanish. Blue Shift (a book-length poem) was published by Ex Nihilo Press, San Francisco (1999). He is currently preparing a bilingual English/Spanish anthology of poetry by Baja California poets to be published by Junction Press. He was educated at the University of California, SDSU, New York University, the Kunstgewerbeschule of the City of Zürich, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a permanent visiting professor in the Ph.D. program in Semiotics and Communication of the Pontifical Catholic University of Sãão Paulo, Brazil. He is Director of San Diego State Press.

 

 

 

August Highland

August Highland's work has appeared in Harvard's visual poetry exhibition, "Errata and Contradiction" Spring 2004, milkmag.org, interpoetry.com and others.  He says of his visual poetry, "Whether my paintings are hung in homes, galleries, museums, hotels, or corporations, I want my paintings to remind people of their greatness."  For more on August Highland:  www.august-highland.com

 

 

Anton Karl Kozlovic

is a Ph.D. candidate in Screen Studies, School of Humanities, The Flinders University of South Australia.  He is interested in Religion-and-Film, Interreligious Dialogue, DeMille Studies, Computer Films and Popular Culture. He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the biblical cinema of Cecil B. DeMille and is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Religion and Popular Culture.  He has published articles in Australian Religion Studies Review, Compass: A Review of Topical Theological, Counterpoints: The Flinders University Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Conference Papers, The Furrow: A Journal for the Contemporary Church, Effective Teaching, Journal of Christian Education, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Mundane Behavior, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Journal of Religious Education, The Journal of Religion and Film, Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics, Latent Image: A Student Journal of Film Criticism, Marburg Journal of Religion, Metaphilm, Nowa Fantastyka, Organdi Quarterly, Quodlibet: Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Religious Education Journal of Australia, Science as Culture, Teaching Sociology and 24 Frames Per Second. His latest critical entries and book chapters have been published in The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors (Allon, Y., Cullen, D., & Patterson, H., 2001) and Sex, Religion, Media (Claussen, D. S., 2002).  He can be contacted at either Anton.Kozlovic@flinders.edu.au or AntonKozlovic@hotmail.com.

 

Temenuga Trifonova, Ph.D.

 

is a lecturer in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  She has written on film theory, time in contemporary cinema, special effects, science fiction cinema, film remakes, the postmodern sublime, Continental philosophy and American literature.  Her articles have appeared in International Studies in Philosophy, Postmodern Culture, SubStance, Quarterly Journal of Film and Video, CineAction, Kinema: a Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, Film and Philosophy and others.

 

 

 

Catharina Landström, Ph.D.

 

is a researcher in the Dept. of History of Ideas and Theory of Science, Göteborg University, in Sweden.

 

 

 

Alan Sondheim’s

 

books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), and .echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001) as well as numerous other chapbooks, ebooks, and articles. His videos and films have been shown internationally. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. For the past decade, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, and virtuality. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn; he lectures and publishes widely on contemporary art and Internet issues. In 1999, Sondheim was the second virtual writer-in-residence for the trAce (sic) online writing community (Nottingham, England). He is currently associate editor of the online magazine Beehive, and one of the editors of Nettime's Unstable Digest. In 2001, Sondheim assembled a special topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork has often been screened at Millennium Film (NYC), as well as a number of other venues. Sondheim teaches in the trAce online writing program; in 2000-2001 he taught new media at Florida International University in Miami. He currently works in video, cdrom, performance, sound, and text, often in collaboration with Azure Carter, Foofwa d'Imobilite, and others.

Relevant URLS:
http://www.asondheim.org/
Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm

 

 

 

James Charles Fox, Jr.

 

received his B.A. (1999) in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.  He will receive his M.A. (2005) in English, with a specialization in Writing, from the State University of New York at Albany.  Two of his one-act plays, Penguin Politics (1997) and To Hope Against Hope (2004), were produced at the University of New Orleans where he also received the 2004 Academy of American Poets College Prize for "Camille" and "On Waking", featured in the Ellipsis literary magazine, issue 32 (2004).  He is currently working on an experimental film based on the cinematographic poetry and poetics of Louis Zukofsky.

 

 

 

 

Paula Murphy

 

is currently completing her doctoral thesis in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland entitled, ‘The Post-Millenial Self’.  Her areas of specialization are contemporary Irish literature and film, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and film theory.  She has given many papers on these topics and has chapters forthcoming in ‘Spec(tac)ular Society: French Theory Interpreting Globalisation’ in Globalisation and France (2004, New York: Peter Verlang) and ‘From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern: the Changing Face of Irish Cinema’ in Engaging Post-Modernity (2005, London: Pluto Press).

http://www.mic.ul.ie/english/Paula's Home Page.htm

 

 

 

Nicholas Ruiz III

 

is a graduate teaching instructor and doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities at Florida State University.  His areas of interest include global capital, critical theory, culture and society; his work has appeared in Rhizomes.net, Reconstruction, Media/Culture.org.au and The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.  He holds a master’s in Liberal Arts (University of North Carolina, 2003) and a baccalaureate in Molecular and Microbiology (University of Central Florida, 1996). He is also the editor of Kritikos.

 

 

 

David J. Tremblay

 

MFA candidate, Columbia College

 

 

 

Kyle A. Wiggins

 

Department of English, University of Montana

 

 

 

Jayne Fenton Keane (JFK)

 
for further info, please visit her website, “The Stalking Tongue” at www.poetinresidence.com 
JFK is also a Ph.D. student in Poetry at Griffith University in Australia. 
 
 

 

Kritikos: an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ISSN 1552-5112