Monthly Archives: September 2010
“Teledildonics” by Howard Rheingold
The first fully functional teledildonics system will probably not be a fucking machine. You will not use erotic telepresence technology in order to have sex with machines. Twenty years from now, when portable telediddlers are ubiquitous, people will use them to have sexual experiences with other people, at a distance, in combination and configurations undreamt of by precybernetic voluptuaries. Through the synthesis of virtual reality technology and telecommunication networks, you will be able to reach out and touch someone—or an entire population—in way humans have never before experienced. Continue reading
“The Jane Show” at Museum of New Art
Museum of New Art (MONA) will hold an opening reception for The Jane Show: A Museum of One’s Own on September 18 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. The exhibit will be open during regular museum hours until October 30, 2010. … Continue reading
Neighborhood Film Night at The Burton Theatre
The Burton Theatre’s inaugural Neighborhood Film Night (August 10) was a great experience, and one that I am proud to have been included in. Not including the intermission, the program ran about ninety minutes and exclusively screened the works of … Continue reading
Detroit Murders
Quoted are the first two paragraphs from the preface to Detroit Murders, written by editor Alvin C. Hamer. It is a mesmerizing introduction to Detroit’s pre-history and foundational politics, and perhaps telling of the seemingly endless reign of instability in the city’s government. Continue reading
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Book Review: Interrogating Postfeminism by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra
I recommend Interrogating Postfeminism for those who have an intermediate grasp of critical and cultural theory, an amateur knowledge of postfeminism, and no interest in media beyond its traditional forms. The anthology is not an interrogation of postfeminism as its title suggests, but instead an illustration of manifestations of postfeminist ideologies in a limited range of media texts. As a whole and with very little exception, Interrogating Postfeminism is safe and repetitive, reinforces previously established thinking patterns concerning postfeminism in general and the feminist/postfeminist binary in particular, and fails to fully engage the complexities of contradiction in representation. Continue reading