recent find

As you may have gathered, there has been a fairly noticable absence in my post history.  This is the combination of working on dissertation(s) and navigating the job market process.  Nonetheless,  I had to share a recent article that I came across in working on my dissertation as I am really impressed with the clarity of explanation it provides.  The article, by John Johnston, “Ideology, Representation, Schizophrenia: Toward a Theory of the Postmodern Subject,” is published in the collection After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places, edited by Gary Shapiro (published by SUNY in 1990).  It is one of the most approachable articles I have read on exploring the distinctions between the postmodern subject and the poststructuralist subject, and provides a fairly solid introduction to a variety of theorists takes on these two diffferent subjects (from Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari to theorists like Terry Eagleton).