Andrew Strombeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Strombeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Strombeck |
| SIGNATURE | STROMBECK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wright State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Small-Scale Institutions in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
This article examines tensions between I Hotel's sprawling, experimental form—which appears tailored to the disruptions of the 1960s and 1970s—and its continual return to the stabilizing function of the hotel itself. I Hotel meditates on the problems and possibilities of literary building, within a historical setting that represents the very epitome of anti-institutionalism. Published at a moment—the aftermath of the 2008 crash—when housing insec…
Gregory Jones-Katz. Deconstruction
Journal Article Gregory Jones-Katz. Deconstruction: An American History. Get access Gregory Jones-Katz. Deconstruction: An American History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 352. Paper $32.50. Andrew Strombeck Andrew Strombeck Wright State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023,…
Inhuman writing in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy
Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, which has become well-known for its embrace of the nonhuman, is nevertheless highly interested in texts, literary and otherwise. VanderMeer has identified a key passage from the novel as originating in a dream he had after the Deepwater Horizon spill. He thus figures the spill as writing through him, a figuration which the series itself takes up. Moving from the dream writing, through scientific journals,…
The Network and the Archive
This article argues that William Gibson’s Neuromancer registers a tension between two historical moments of managerial power: while steeped in the moment of the “network society,” with its simulated authority and flattened hierarchies, the text exhibits nostalgia for the more hierarchical moment of imperialism, best manifested in its lauded treatment of Straylight. While the network society provides mobility primarily for elites, it nevertheless …
Whose Conspiracy Theory
Whose Conspiracy Theory? Andrew Strombeck (bio) Review of: Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files. New York: Routledge, 2000. In the post-9/11 world, cultural paranoia and its number-one star, conspiracy theory, have reemerged with a vigor unseen since their heyday in the fifties. The Bush Administration’s anti-terrorism rhetoric could be characterized as a form of conspiracy theory, epitomized by Bush’s use of “Axis of Evi…
Inhuman writing in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy
Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, which has become well-known for its embrace of the nonhuman, is nevertheless highly interested in texts, literary and otherwise. VanderMeer has identified a key passage from the novel as originating in a dream he had after the Deepwater Horizon spill. He thus figures the spill as writing through him, a figuration which the series itself takes up. Moving from the dream writing, through scientific journals,…
Whose Conspiracy Theory
Whose Conspiracy Theory? Andrew Strombeck (bio) Review of: Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files. New York: Routledge, 2000. In the post-9/11 world, cultural paranoia and its number-one star, conspiracy theory, have reemerged with a vigor unseen since their heyday in the fifties. The Bush Administration’s anti-terrorism rhetoric could be characterized as a form of conspiracy theory, epitomized by Bush’s use of “Axis of Evi…
The Network and the Archive
This article argues that William Gibson’s Neuromancer registers a tension between two historical moments of managerial power: while steeped in the moment of the “network society,” with its simulated authority and flattened hierarchies, the text exhibits nostalgia for the more hierarchical moment of imperialism, best manifested in its lauded treatment of Straylight. While the network society provides mobility primarily for elites, it nevertheless …
Inhuman writing in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy
Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, which has become well-known for its embrace of the nonhuman, is nevertheless highly interested in texts, literary and otherwise. VanderMeer has identified a key passage from the novel as originating in a dream he had after the Deepwater Horizon spill. He thus figures the spill as writing through him, a figuration which the series itself takes up. Moving from the dream writing, through scientific journals,…
Gregory Jones-Katz. Deconstruction
Journal Article Gregory Jones-Katz. Deconstruction: An American History. Get access Gregory Jones-Katz. Deconstruction: An American History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 352. Paper $32.50. Andrew Strombeck Andrew Strombeck Wright State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023,…
Small-Scale Institutions in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
This article examines tensions between I Hotel's sprawling, experimental form—which appears tailored to the disruptions of the 1960s and 1970s—and its continual return to the stabilizing function of the hotel itself. I Hotel meditates on the problems and possibilities of literary building, within a historical setting that represents the very epitome of anti-institutionalism. Published at a moment—the aftermath of the 2008 crash—when housing insec…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (2 works) · American history (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Cartography (1 works)