Phillip E. Wegner
Turlington Hall 4115
352-392-6650 ext 261
Dr.
Susan Hegeman
&
Dr.
Phillip Wegner
&
Owen &
Nadia (9-30-03)
Owen
& Nadia (December 04)
Owen &
Nadia (December 05)
Owen & Nadia (March 2008)
Selected Publications:
Imaginary
Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
(University of California Press:
2002)
Reviews can be found at:
Politics
and Culture 2002, #3
Science
Fiction Studies 30, no. (2003)
Utopian
Studies 13, no. 2 (2002)
American
Literature 76, no. 1 (2004)
Comparative Literature 57, no. 2
(2005)
"Postmodernism." In The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy,ed. John Protevi (Edinburgh University Press: 2005).
"Utopian Fiction," & "Science Fiction." In
Encyclopedia
of Literature and Politics, ed. M.
Keith Booker (Greenwood Press: 2005).
"Utopia." In A Companion to Science Fiction, ed. David Seed. (London: Blackwells, 2005).
"October 3, 1951 to September 11, 2001: Periodizing the Cold War in DeLillo's Underworld." In "Neorealism: Between Innovation and Continuation," eds. Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss.Amerikastudien/American Studies 49, no. 1 (2004).
"Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Cluband Ghost Dog."In Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination,eds. Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini (London: Routledge, 2003).
"Soldierboys for Peace: Cognitive Mapping, Space, and Science Fiction as World Bank Literature." In World Bank Literature, ed. Amitava Kumar (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 2003).
"Spatial Criticism: Critical Geography, Space, Place, and Textuality." In Introducing Criticism at the Twenty-First Century, ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 2002).
"'A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living': Messianic Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day." Rethinking Marxism 12. no 1 (2000).
"The Last Bomb: Historicizing History in Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain and Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine." The Comparatist 23 (1999).
"Horizons, Figures, and Machines: The
Dialectic
of Utopia in the Work of Fredric Jameson." Utopian
Studies 9, no. 2 (1998).
Battisti Award winner for best essay in volume.
Spring 2008 LIT 6847 Syllabus Spring 2007 ENG 6076 |
Spring 2006 ENG 6077 Syllabus
LIT 4930 description LIT 4483 description
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Spring 2005 ENG 4936 description ENG 6077 description Fall 2005 LIT 4188 Syllabus |
Fall 2003 ENL 4273 Syllabus LIT 3313 Syllabus Fall 2004
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Like the freed convict in Kafka's Penal
Colony,who
has survived the destruction of the machine that was to have executed
him,
these beings have left the world of guilt and justice behind them: The
light that rains down on them is that irreparable light of the dawn
following
the novissima diesof judgment. But the life that begins on
earth
after the last day is simply human life. . . . . Tricksters or fakes, assistants or 'toons, they are the exemplars of the coming community. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community My
friend the Angel climb'd up from his
station
into the mill; I remain'd alone, & then this appearance was no
more,
but I found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by
moonlight,
hearing a harper who sung to the harp; & his theme was: 'The man
who
never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles
of the mind." As long as man concentrates his interest
contemplatively
upon the past orfuture, both ossify into an alien
existence.
And between the subject and the object lies the unbridgeable
"pernicious
chasm" of the present. Man must be able to comprehend the present
as becoming. He can do this by seeing in it the tendencies out of
whose dialectical opposition he can make the future. Only
when he does this will the present be a process of becoming,that
belongs
to him. Alain Badiou
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Last revised: March 11, 2008