Critical Vices

Nicholas Zurbrugg (series editor), Warren Burt

"Nicholas Zurbrugg is a superb guide to that confusing adventure-playground called postmodernism. Critical Vices reveals all Professor Zurbrugg's critical virtues at their best, in a witty, lucid and always accessible prose. Highly recommended." -- J.G. Ballard"Zurbrugg is an informed and intelligent critic; he is as knowledgeable about the theorists he criticizes as he is about the artists and poets he chooses to celebrate, and he brings considerable intellectual flair to his arguments." -- Art Monthly

• Introduction to the Series. One or Two Final Thoughts (A Retrospective Preface) Essays 1 Marinetti, Boccioni and Electroacoustic Poetry: Futurism and After 2 The Limits of Intertextuality: Barthes, Burroughs, Gysin, Culler 3 Postmodernity, Métaphore Manquée and the Myth of the Trans-avant-garde 4 Baudrillard’s Amérique and the “Abyss of Modernity” 5 Jameson’s Complaint: Video Art and the Intertextual “Time-Wall” 6 Postmodernism and the Multimedia Sensibility: Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine and the Art of Robert Wilson 7 Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 8 “Apocalyptic”? “Negative”? “Pessimistic”?: Baudrillard, Virilio, and Technoculture 9 Baudrillard, Giorno, Viola and the Technologies of Radical Illusion 10 Zurbrugg’s Complaint, or How an Artist Came to Criticize a Critic’s Criticism of the Critics