Joseph W Slade
Biographic Data
| ID | 715274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph W Slade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph W |
| FAMILY NAME | Slade |
| SIGNATURE | SLADE J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Long Island University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Erotic artifacts of ivory, gold, and porcelain by skilled artists from ancient cultures can now be found in museums, where their display confers respectability. In contrast, ordinary Americans have long combatted public taboos by transforming humbler materials into handmade pornographic objects, of which a few survive. Drawing on the archives of the Kinsey Institute and private collections, Lisa Z. Sigel examines sexualized, prosaic American arti…
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman
Back in the day, instructors proctoring final exams whiled away boredom by composing limericks, inspired by Gershon Legman's observation that the “folk expression” of academics could produce examples nastier than those everybody had already heard. Popular and scholarly delight in the off-color ingenuity of the thousands of limericks he gathered as The Limerick (1953) and The New Limerick (1977) was the reason those books were the only ones to mak…
We Are the Machine: The Computer, the Internet, and Information in Contemporary German Literature (review)
Reviewed by: We Are the Machine: The Computer, the Internet, and Information in Contemporary German Literature Joseph W. Slade (bio) We Are the Machine: The Computer, the Internet, and Information in Contemporary German Literature. By Paul A. Youngman. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2009. Pp. xv+171. $70. Among the virtues of We Are the Machine: The Computer, the Internet, and Information in Contemporary German Literature, an astute study of lite…
The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction
Reviewed by: The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction Joseph W. Slade (bio) The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction. By Tony E. Jackson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 234. $55. When The Technology of the Novel does not read like a series of footnotes to Plato, who disparaged writing through his mouthpiece Socrates, it resembles confessions from a therapist's co…
Eroticism and Technological Regression: The Stag Film
It is commonplace to observe that pornography drives the development of media technologies. Examples abound, from the mania for capturing naked bodies that led Charles Baudelaire to complain in 1859 that photography had been coopted, to the story of how American pornographers in 1976 decided that JVC’s VHS would dethrone Sony’s Beta videotape format. It is also common to assume that sexuality is more stimulating when it is most technological, mos…
Cognitive Fictions (review)
Looking at James Clerk Maxwell's quadratic equations, Heinrich Hertz confessed that he could not "help feeling that these mathematical formulae [End Page 225] have an independent existence and a true intelligence. They know more than we do and more than those who discovered them; they will give out more information than has ever been put into them." Although Joseph Tabbi does not invoke Hertz, he argues similarly that literary forms are both self…
James Joyce's Techno-Poetics
Reviewed by: James Joyce’s Techno-Poetics* Joseph Slade (bio) James Joyce’s Techno-Poetics. By Donald F. Theall. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. xxii+246; notes, bibliography, index. $50. Two strategies structure Donald Theall’s approach to James Joyce’s masterworks. The first, premised on the assumption that Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan’s Wake (1939, written earlier) are landmarks of postmodernism, is to read them through the lens…
Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps (review)
Reviewed by: Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps* Joseph W. Slade (bio) Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. By Rebecca Robbins Raines. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1996. Pp. xix+464; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34. Few readers would call official army history sprightly, and Rebecca Raines's volume, though far from dull, doe…
Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U. S. Army Signal Corps
Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk by Joseph Tabbi
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews Badaracco is at her best in constructing a cultural history in these four chapters. Her discussion of avant-garde movements remains on the level of generalization. She might have explored more fully the Bauhaus, whose social agenda was most readily available to commer cial printing companies. And she might have discussed specific avant-garde experiments in typography (along with some illustra tions) as a way …
Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America by Howard P. Segal
1026 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE breath fresheners. Specialist drivers and designer/mechanics were common, and the most successful cars belonged to entrepreneurpromoters who might or might not be their own drivers. The most successful of this new breed employed a blend of technological inge nuity and showmanship to achieve star status. The locus of drag rac ing moved away from California. Drag racing received its final—or at least curre…
Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America
Thomas Pynchon
The Gnostic Pynchon
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing by John Limon
204 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE and danger. By the 1950s, these criticisms came together in a growing and—for science—dangerous public mood of disappointment. Scien tists had historically made huge promises, a cure for cancer being the paradigm, few of which it had fulfilled. The strength of LaFollette’s analysis is consistently to locate science popularization in what she calls the political incorporation of science over the course of t…
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing
A Cartesian plague 43 Hume and repetition 51 Kant and madness 61 Coda 69 3. Poe's methodology 70 Is science deadly dull?70 Is there a life science?82 Undying literature 96 4. Hawthorne's technology 121 The anxieties of alienation 121 The problems of preemption 135 Treachery betrayed 150 5.After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer 160 Sister Carrie, Brother Arthur 160 Polar similarity 169 The celestial spacecr…
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination by Rosalind Williams
1148 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE As with many such studies, and more damagingly in one that emphasizes “technology,” the book does not engage directly with the material conditions of science. To treat language as a technology helps, but in suggesting how material culture is an aspect of ideas, it remains a long distance from the commonsense notion of technology that is the true subject of popular discontent. The current preoccu pation wi…
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology, and Literature
Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future ed. by Joseph J. Corn
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 459 Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future. Edited byJosephJ. Corn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. vi + 237; illustrations, notes, index. $17.50 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). The utopian hopes generated by new inventions are routinely shredded by the hard edges of economic reality, but they survive as elements of the folklore of American technology. The contributors to Imagining Tomo…
The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States
The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States by Leo Marx
1050 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE are restatements of the conventional wisdom. So it is here. Therefore, the most interesting portions of the book, at least to a reviewer familiar with many of the arguments tying technical to economic change, are those that fit the editors’ thesis less well. These are the essays that assess the interactions between technology and urban form (by Kenneth T. Jackson), politics (by David C. Hammack), education…
Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future
Made in America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets by Lisa M. Steinman
130 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE epilogue should have been made prologue, for then the reader would have been fully prepared for the passion and reformist zeal that are the hallmarks of Mumford’s thought. Arthur P. Molella Dr. Molella is chairman of the Department of the History of Science and Tech nology at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. He is currently working on a book about the intellectual origins o…
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Erotic artifacts of ivory, gold, and porcelain by skilled artists from ancient cultures can now be found in museums, where their display confers respectability. In contrast, ordinary Americans have long combatted public taboos by transforming humbler materials into handmade pornographic objects, of which a few survive. Drawing on the archives of the Kinsey Institute and private collections, Lisa Z. Sigel examines sexualized, prosaic American arti…
Thomas Pynchon, Postindustrial Humanist
To the claims currently being advanced for Thomas Pynchon,1 some of them accurate despite their extravagance, I should like to add another: he is the first American novelist to accept the duty of which Huxley speaks. Pynchon is probably the first competent to do so. An engineering graduate (1959) of Cornell, Pynchon has built an impressive reputation on a half-dozen stories and three novels: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity's R…
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Thomas Pynchon, Postindustrial Humanist
To the claims currently being advanced for Thomas Pynchon,1 some of them accurate despite their extravagance, I should like to add another: he is the first American novelist to accept the duty of which Huxley speaks. Pynchon is probably the first competent to do so. An engineering graduate (1959) of Cornell, Pynchon has built an impressive reputation on a half-dozen stories and three novels: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity's R…
Violence in the Hard-core Pornographic Film: A Historical Survey
Journal Article Violence in the Hard-core Pornographic Film: A Historical Survey Get access Joseph W. Slade Joseph W. Slade 1Joseph W. Slade is Director of the Communications Center and Chairman of the Department of Media Arts at Long Island University—Brooklyn Campus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 1984, Pages 148–163, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-…
Bucknell Review . Harry Garvin Volume 27, Number 2: Science and Literature . James M. Heath
Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary World
Science, Technology, and Literature-Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, February 23-25, 1983
Judith Yaross Lee, Joseph W. Slade, Science, Technology, and Literature-Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, February 23-25, 1983, Technology and Culture, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 299-307
The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900 . Peter Morton
The Social History of the Machine Gun. John Ellis
Hopes and Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times 1929-1939 by Alice G. Marquis
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 171 ters. Schlereth gives a brief, lively history of all of these. He draws heavily on the analytic work of geographer John Jakle, and he cov ers and ties together well a complex and extensive literature. He does not consider the coevolution of the automobile with the road— an omission, but not a serious one. The second part of the book covers the history and roadscape of U.S. 40 in Indiana. In the early repub…
Hopes and Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times 1929-1939
Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future ed. by Joseph J. Corn
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 459 Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future. Edited byJosephJ. Corn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. vi + 237; illustrations, notes, index. $17.50 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). The utopian hopes generated by new inventions are routinely shredded by the hard edges of economic reality, but they survive as elements of the folklore of American technology. The contributors to Imagining Tomo…
The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States
The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States by Leo Marx
1050 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE are restatements of the conventional wisdom. So it is here. Therefore, the most interesting portions of the book, at least to a reviewer familiar with many of the arguments tying technical to economic change, are those that fit the editors’ thesis less well. These are the essays that assess the interactions between technology and urban form (by Kenneth T. Jackson), politics (by David C. Hammack), education…
Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future
Made in America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets by Lisa M. Steinman
130 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE epilogue should have been made prologue, for then the reader would have been fully prepared for the passion and reformist zeal that are the hallmarks of Mumford’s thought. Arthur P. Molella Dr. Molella is chairman of the Department of the History of Science and Tech nology at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. He is currently working on a book about the intellectual origins o…
Made in America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination by Rosalind Williams
1148 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE As with many such studies, and more damagingly in one that emphasizes “technology,” the book does not engage directly with the material conditions of science. To treat language as a technology helps, but in suggesting how material culture is an aspect of ideas, it remains a long distance from the commonsense notion of technology that is the true subject of popular discontent. The current preoccu pation wi…
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology, and Literature
The Gnostic Pynchon
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing by John Limon
204 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE and danger. By the 1950s, these criticisms came together in a growing and—for science—dangerous public mood of disappointment. Scien tists had historically made huge promises, a cure for cancer being the paradigm, few of which it had fulfilled. The strength of LaFollette’s analysis is consistently to locate science popularization in what she calls the political incorporation of science over the course of t…
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing
A Cartesian plague 43 Hume and repetition 51 Kant and madness 61 Coda 69 3. Poe's methodology 70 Is science deadly dull?70 Is there a life science?82 Undying literature 96 4. Hawthorne's technology 121 The anxieties of alienation 121 The problems of preemption 135 Treachery betrayed 150 5.After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer 160 Sister Carrie, Brother Arthur 160 Polar similarity 169 The celestial spacecr…
Thomas Pynchon
Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America by Howard P. Segal
1026 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE breath fresheners. Specialist drivers and designer/mechanics were common, and the most successful cars belonged to entrepreneurpromoters who might or might not be their own drivers. The most successful of this new breed employed a blend of technological inge nuity and showmanship to achieve star status. The locus of drag rac ing moved away from California. Drag racing received its final—or at least curre…
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