Selling Out in a Buyer's Market
riPOSTe: Michael Bérubé responds to the respondents in Selling Out.
In this issue of ebr:
Michael Bérubé is one of the rare cultural scholars who has actually gotten
a hearing in the media and mainstream journals of American culture. In this
feature essay, he claims that left intellectuals have little choice but to
sell out, if they want to make a difference in the culture they critique.
But which way is out? And who gets to go public? In this issue of ebr, ten
university-based writers carry Bérubé's provocation into spheres of culture
and media that have yet to become truly "public."
Ronald Sukenick turns hypercapitalism inside out, and finds no place to hide
should the Left pool its resources and buy CBS? Robert Markley offers
strategies for avoiding Patrick Buchanan's jihad
FC2 Co-publisher Curtis White defends radical fiction against Left radical
intellectuals
systems theorist Cary Wolfe lays bare the assumptions that define Bérubé's
stance
Marjorie Perloff on the surprising viability of art and poetry - everywhere
but in universities
Joe Amato muses on academic stardom, the poetics list, and the corporation
that motors his university
Mark Amerika goes public, and reveals speculative fiction and market
speculations to be one and the same
can electronic conversations reconstitute Bérubé's lost public sphere? a
marxist analysis by Jamie Daniel
Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discuss what intellectual work will be like
in the new electracy
also in this issue:
Linda Brigham reviews Incorporations, the most recent collection from Zone Books
David Cassuto reviews Wild Ideas, a collection of ecocritical essays
Matt Kirschenbaum on Richard Coyne's philosophical treatment of technographics
Daniel Riess on Roger Chartier's media history
an overview of Gregory Ulmer's thought by Victor Vitanza
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