Eyal Amiran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1005611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eyal Amiran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eyal |
| FAMILY NAME | Amiran |
| SIGNATURE | AMIRAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West State Technical University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
White Noise of the Ecosphere: Ontology in Digital Sound
This essay offers a critique of the ontological turn in digital media theory, focusing on the presence the voice is presumed to confer on sound, even in digital media. The voice is not understood b
Finster's Finger: The Trans-Generational Art of Howard Finster
Drawing on Jean Laplanche’s theory of seduction and Thelma Finster Bradshaw’s biography of her father, this essay reads key scenes in folk artist Howard Finster’s life and art to show that they stage his identity through trans-generational transferential relationships
Proprioception of the Hand: Stelarc’s Object-Oriented Relations
The performances of Australian body artist Stelarc have been read as part of the shift in new media towards radical materiality that rejects the traditional self. Stelarc’s art, instead, belongs in a philosophical tradition that affirms the proprioceptive self, one that can only know itself through touch
The Pornocratic Body in the Age of Networked Paranoia
Das Marterkapital meiner Herkunft: Economic Narrative in Thomas Bernhard’s Korrektur
Thomas Bernhard hated Austria, but his larger subject was the economic logic of modernity. In his novels Frost, The Loser, Extinction, and especially Korrektur, writing, madness, and the state are produced by a modern relationship with objects that requires infinite expenditure. Drawing on Marx, Simmel, Freud, and Sartre, this article contests readings of Bernhard as romantic provocateur, showing instead that for Bernhard, narrative consciousness…
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts
Prefatory Note
Prefatory Note Eyal Amiran, Editor The essays in this issue come from a conference organized at UC Irvine in October 2010 to celebrate two decades of publishing Postmodern Culture, and complement the works from the conference published in issue 21.1. The conference, "Culture After Postmodern Culture," asked what postmodern culture means today: a brief note about the event is found in issue 21.1. Arlene Keizer's paper at the conference appears els…
The Rhetoric of Digital Utopia after Sade: Utopian Architecture and the Static Subject of Digital Art
The Rhetoric of Digital Utopia after Sade:Utopian Architecture and the Static Subject of Digital Art Eyal Amiran (bio) A line of thought popular in new media theory still sees web space as a liberatory not-place (ou-topos) where boundaries collapse or disappear. Since its early days, cybernetics has had the objective to erase the divide between matter and code, the archive and the interface.1 Jay David Bolter endorses a claim that is commonly mad…
Jacques Derrida
We, the Future of Jacques Derrida
We, the Future of Jacques Derrida Eyal Amiran This special issue of Postmodern Culture is dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida. The issue does not attempt to consider his achievements as a whole or to say what place his work will have in philosophy, literary theory, or literature. What has been apparent for some time during his extraordinarily prolific career, however, is that people who have spent time with his writings and have learned to t…
Essays in Postmodern Culture
In an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice in postmodern studies, the essays that make up this volume illuminate some of the issues central to this provocative analytic approach. These works apply theory to practical subjects and, in the process, articulate new theoretical positions. Topics include the relations between food and the symbolic, AIDS and individuality, Marxist politics in the context of postmodernism, the consequenc…
Electronic Time and the Serials Revolution
Electronic Time and the Serials Revolution Eyal Amiran (bio) Discussions of electronic publishing have focused on the political dangers of the new technology and on commercial entanglements that deny the medium’s utopian promise. The net may soon disappear, it is said, between commercialization and censorship, between the business of representation and the representation of business. Baudrillard sees in virtuality a timeless dystopia, a Disneylan…
Against Narrative Poetics: Postmodern Narrative Returns
Cet article traite de la maniere dont les recits postmodernes parviennent a interroger et a remettre en cause les fondements poetiques meme sur lesquels ils reposent. Pour ce faire, l'A. montre comment ces recits thematisent une origine du recit historique analogue a une poetique narratologique qu'ils vont de fait nier en revenant a leurs fondations propres et en exposant par la l'impossibilite d'une origine extra-thematique du recit
Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism
Reviewed by: Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism Eyal Amiran Mas’ud Zavarzadeh and Donald Morton. Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism. New York: Guilford, 1994. vii + 256 pp. $19.95 paper. How do you catch a lion? A patient who was not afraid of lions told Freud of one way: “Take a desert and put it through a sieve and the lions will be left over.” That’s one approach to culture st…
Wandering and Home: Beckett's Metaphysical Narrative
Postface
Postface [What follows is a written exchange between the editors about the contents of this issue of Postmodern Culture. As a “postface,” it is meant to be read after the other items in the issue; we hope it will serve as a preface to discussion among other readers. Please send your comments on the issue to the discussion group, PMC-TALK@NCSUVM ([email protected] on the Internet).] John: Many of the works in the last issue of PMC were conc…
Postface: Positions on Postmodernism
Postface: Positions on Postmodernism Eyal: Last year we expected that the essays we would publish—a good number of them anyway—would be affected by the electronic medium, but that has not happened much. Several of the essays do gain something from being in this medium—Ulmer’s or Moulthrop’s. In print they would lose at the very least the chance to exemplify some of their argument. But we have not seen too many essays that think the way they do or…
Postface: Positions on Postmodernism
The Rhetoric of Digital Utopia after Sade: Utopian Architecture and the Static Subject of Digital Art
The Rhetoric of Digital Utopia after Sade:Utopian Architecture and the Static Subject of Digital Art Eyal Amiran (bio) A line of thought popular in new media theory still sees web space as a liberatory not-place (ou-topos) where boundaries collapse or disappear. Since its early days, cybernetics has had the objective to erase the divide between matter and code, the archive and the interface.1 Jay David Bolter endorses a claim that is commonly mad…
Postface: Positions on Postmodernism
Postface
Postface [What follows is a written exchange between the editors about the contents of this issue of Postmodern Culture. As a “postface,” it is meant to be read after the other items in the issue; we hope it will serve as a preface to discussion among other readers. Please send your comments on the issue to the discussion group, PMC-TALK@NCSUVM ([email protected] on the Internet).] John: Many of the works in the last issue of PMC were conc…
Postface: Positions on Postmodernism
Postface: Positions on Postmodernism Eyal: Last year we expected that the essays we would publish—a good number of them anyway—would be affected by the electronic medium, but that has not happened much. Several of the essays do gain something from being in this medium—Ulmer’s or Moulthrop’s. In print they would lose at the very least the chance to exemplify some of their argument. But we have not seen too many essays that think the way they do or…
Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism
Reviewed by: Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism Eyal Amiran Mas’ud Zavarzadeh and Donald Morton. Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism. New York: Guilford, 1994. vii + 256 pp. $19.95 paper. How do you catch a lion? A patient who was not afraid of lions told Freud of one way: “Take a desert and put it through a sieve and the lions will be left over.” That’s one approach to culture st…
Wandering and Home: Beckett's Metaphysical Narrative
Against Narrative Poetics: Postmodern Narrative Returns
Cet article traite de la maniere dont les recits postmodernes parviennent a interroger et a remettre en cause les fondements poetiques meme sur lesquels ils reposent. Pour ce faire, l'A. montre comment ces recits thematisent une origine du recit historique analogue a une poetique narratologique qu'ils vont de fait nier en revenant a leurs fondations propres et en exposant par la l'impossibilite d'une origine extra-thematique du recit
Essays in Postmodern Culture
In an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice in postmodern studies, the essays that make up this volume illuminate some of the issues central to this provocative analytic approach. These works apply theory to practical subjects and, in the process, articulate new theoretical positions. Topics include the relations between food and the symbolic, AIDS and individuality, Marxist politics in the context of postmodernism, the consequenc…
Electronic Time and the Serials Revolution
Electronic Time and the Serials Revolution Eyal Amiran (bio) Discussions of electronic publishing have focused on the political dangers of the new technology and on commercial entanglements that deny the medium’s utopian promise. The net may soon disappear, it is said, between commercialization and censorship, between the business of representation and the representation of business. Baudrillard sees in virtuality a timeless dystopia, a Disneylan…
Jacques Derrida
We, the Future of Jacques Derrida
We, the Future of Jacques Derrida Eyal Amiran This special issue of Postmodern Culture is dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida. The issue does not attempt to consider his achievements as a whole or to say what place his work will have in philosophy, literary theory, or literature. What has been apparent for some time during his extraordinarily prolific career, however, is that people who have spent time with his writings and have learned to t…
The Rhetoric of Digital Utopia after Sade: Utopian Architecture and the Static Subject of Digital Art
The Rhetoric of Digital Utopia after Sade:Utopian Architecture and the Static Subject of Digital Art Eyal Amiran (bio) A line of thought popular in new media theory still sees web space as a liberatory not-place (ou-topos) where boundaries collapse or disappear. Since its early days, cybernetics has had the objective to erase the divide between matter and code, the archive and the interface.1 Jay David Bolter endorses a claim that is commonly mad…
Prefatory Note
Prefatory Note Eyal Amiran, Editor The essays in this issue come from a conference organized at UC Irvine in October 2010 to celebrate two decades of publishing Postmodern Culture, and complement the works from the conference published in issue 21.1. The conference, "Culture After Postmodern Culture," asked what postmodern culture means today: a brief note about the event is found in issue 21.1. Arlene Keizer's paper at the conference appears els…
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts
Das Marterkapital meiner Herkunft: Economic Narrative in Thomas Bernhard’s Korrektur
Thomas Bernhard hated Austria, but his larger subject was the economic logic of modernity. In his novels Frost, The Loser, Extinction, and especially Korrektur, writing, madness, and the state are produced by a modern relationship with objects that requires infinite expenditure. Drawing on Marx, Simmel, Freud, and Sartre, this article contests readings of Bernhard as romantic provocateur, showing instead that for Bernhard, narrative consciousness…
The Pornocratic Body in the Age of Networked Paranoia
Proprioception of the Hand: Stelarc’s Object-Oriented Relations
The performances of Australian body artist Stelarc have been read as part of the shift in new media towards radical materiality that rejects the traditional self. Stelarc’s art, instead, belongs in a philosophical tradition that affirms the proprioceptive self, one that can only know itself through touch
White Noise of the Ecosphere: Ontology in Digital Sound
This essay offers a critique of the ontological turn in digital media theory, focusing on the presence the voice is presumed to confer on sound, even in digital media. The voice is not understood b
Finster's Finger: The Trans-Generational Art of Howard Finster
Drawing on Jean Laplanche’s theory of seduction and Thelma Finster Bradshaw’s biography of her father, this essay reads key scenes in folk artist Howard Finster’s life and art to show that they stage his identity through trans-generational transferential relationships
Art (13 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Postmodernism (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)