Mark Seltzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 277493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Seltzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Seltzer |
| SIGNATURE | SELTZER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3646-4638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Spike in Asthma Healthcare Presentations in Eastern England during June 2021: A Retrospective Observational Study Using Syndromic Surveillance Data
Thunderstorm asthma is often characterised by a sudden surge in patients presenting with exacerbated symptoms of asthma linked to thunderstorm activity. Here, we describe a large spike in asthma and difficulty breathing symptoms observed across parts of England on 17 June 2021. The number of healthcare presentations during the asthma event was compared to expected levels for the overall population and across specific regions. Across affected geog…
The Novel in the Epoch of Social Systems: Or, “Maps of the World in Its Becoming”
These pages pose a general, even rough, question: What is the situation of the artwork, and particularly the novel, in what may be described as the epoch of social systems? I mean to suggest that this question has emerged, if often inexplicitly, on a range of fronts, in recent versions of the so-called “method wars” in literary studies, and in the humanities more generally. If we demilitarize this rhetoric, and demobilize the nearly one-word argu…
The Official World
In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself, and that makes for a world that continuously establishes itself by staging its own conditions. Employing the social theories of Georg Simmel, Erving Goffm…
Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)
The Official World
Parlor Games: The Apriorization of the Media
Murder/Media/Modernity
This article has been drawn from a larger study by the author, True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. Here the focus is on a minor genre—true crime—thatat the same time is a scale model of modern society. True crime is crime fact that reads like, or looks like, crime fiction. It is one of the popular genres of our pathological public sphere and an integral part of our contemporary “wound culture.” True crime maps that vague and shift…
The Crime System
Wound Culture: Trauma in the Pathological Public Sphere
Hence the new millennium's passion for standing live witness to things. A whole sub-rosa schedule of public spectation opportunities, spect-ops, the priceless chance to be part of a live crowd, watching. Thus the Gapers' Blocks at traffic accidents, sewer-gas explosions, muggings . . . people leaving their front doors agape in their rush to get out and mill around and spectate at the circle of impacted waste drawing sober and studious crowds, mil…
The Graphic Unconscious: A Response
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 1995
Serial Killers (II): The Pathological Public Sphere
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns
Examination of how popular novels and films of the American west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time
Serial Killers (1)
Research Article| April 01 1993 Serial Killers (1) Mark Seltzer Mark Seltzer Mark Seltzer is Professor of English at Cornell University. His books include Henry James and the Art of Power (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984) and Bodies and Machines (New York: Routledge, 1992). His current work, from which this piece is drawn, is on forms of violence in machine culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1993) 5 (1): 92–…
Writing Technologies
Statistical Persons
Imagination and Desire in the Novels of Henry James
A Woman's Place in the Novels of Henry James
Reading Foucault: Cells, Corridors, Novels
Wound Culture: Trauma in the Pathological Public Sphere
Hence the new millennium's passion for standing live witness to things. A whole sub-rosa schedule of public spectation opportunities, spect-ops, the priceless chance to be part of a live crowd, watching. Thus the Gapers' Blocks at traffic accidents, sewer-gas explosions, muggings . . . people leaving their front doors agape in their rush to get out and mill around and spectate at the circle of impacted waste drawing sober and studious crowds, mil…
Serial Killers (II): The Pathological Public Sphere
Serial Killers (1)
Research Article| April 01 1993 Serial Killers (1) Mark Seltzer Mark Seltzer Mark Seltzer is Professor of English at Cornell University. His books include Henry James and the Art of Power (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984) and Bodies and Machines (New York: Routledge, 1992). His current work, from which this piece is drawn, is on forms of violence in machine culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1993) 5 (1): 92–…
The Crime System
Murder/Media/Modernity
This article has been drawn from a larger study by the author, True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. Here the focus is on a minor genre—true crime—thatat the same time is a scale model of modern society. True crime is crime fact that reads like, or looks like, crime fiction. It is one of the popular genres of our pathological public sphere and an integral part of our contemporary “wound culture.” True crime maps that vague and shift…
The Official World
Parlor Games: The Apriorization of the Media
The Graphic Unconscious: A Response
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 1995
Reading Foucault: Cells, Corridors, Novels
Imagination and Desire in the Novels of Henry James
A Woman's Place in the Novels of Henry James
Statistical Persons
Writing Technologies
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns
Examination of how popular novels and films of the American west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time
Serial Killers (1)
Research Article| April 01 1993 Serial Killers (1) Mark Seltzer Mark Seltzer Mark Seltzer is Professor of English at Cornell University. His books include Henry James and the Art of Power (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984) and Bodies and Machines (New York: Routledge, 1992). His current work, from which this piece is drawn, is on forms of violence in machine culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1993) 5 (1): 92–…
The Graphic Unconscious: A Response
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 1995
Serial Killers (II): The Pathological Public Sphere
Wound Culture: Trauma in the Pathological Public Sphere
Hence the new millennium's passion for standing live witness to things. A whole sub-rosa schedule of public spectation opportunities, spect-ops, the priceless chance to be part of a live crowd, watching. Thus the Gapers' Blocks at traffic accidents, sewer-gas explosions, muggings . . . people leaving their front doors agape in their rush to get out and mill around and spectate at the circle of impacted waste drawing sober and studious crowds, mil…
The Crime System
Murder/Media/Modernity
This article has been drawn from a larger study by the author, True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. Here the focus is on a minor genre—true crime—thatat the same time is a scale model of modern society. True crime is crime fact that reads like, or looks like, crime fiction. It is one of the popular genres of our pathological public sphere and an integral part of our contemporary “wound culture.” True crime maps that vague and shift…
Parlor Games: The Apriorization of the Media
The Official World
Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)
The Official World
In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself, and that makes for a world that continuously establishes itself by staging its own conditions. Employing the social theories of Georg Simmel, Erving Goffm…
The Novel in the Epoch of Social Systems: Or, “Maps of the World in Its Becoming”
These pages pose a general, even rough, question: What is the situation of the artwork, and particularly the novel, in what may be described as the epoch of social systems? I mean to suggest that this question has emerged, if often inexplicitly, on a range of fronts, in recent versions of the so-called “method wars” in literary studies, and in the humanities more generally. If we demilitarize this rhetoric, and demobilize the nearly one-word argu…
Spike in Asthma Healthcare Presentations in Eastern England during June 2021: A Retrospective Observational Study Using Syndromic Surveillance Data
Thunderstorm asthma is often characterised by a sudden surge in patients presenting with exacerbated symptoms of asthma linked to thunderstorm activity. Here, we describe a large spike in asthma and difficulty breathing symptoms observed across parts of England on 17 June 2021. The number of healthcare presentations during the asthma event was compared to expected levels for the overall population and across specific regions. Across affected geog…
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