ESSAYS FROM THE PROGRAMME

1. AN OLD FILE, A NEW DAY:
   looking at the information revolution.

   This cites a 1977 letter from John Mauchly, co-inventor of the world's first computer, ENIAC. Mauchly talks about the germination of his ideas about the computer while he was teaching physics at Ursinus College, before he went to the University of Pennsylvania. There he and Presper Eckert developed ENIAC by 1946.

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2. ARE THESE SHOES MADE FOR DANCING?
   on Fredric Jameson's Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

   Although unfinished, this essay contains a summary of Chapter 1, which is the title essay of Jameson's book. The summary in itself may be of interest while the commentary on it is in the making.

3. THE AUTHOR IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE AUTHOR

   This is a review of John L'Heureux's THE HANDMAID OF DESIRE, a timely excursion through a diversified university English department and a confrontation with "theory and discourse" as it battles with old-time study of literature.

4. TO BEAR THE UNBEARABLE:
   Reflecting on the "foregone conclusion" of Hiroshima.

5. CORPORATE ENTERPRISE AS POSTMODERN PRACTICE

6. THE CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORT:
   An Artifact of the Age of Agile Competition

7. THE ENGINE OF THEORY:
   postmodern dynamics

8. FIN PASSING FAR OUT:
   Modernism in Virginia Woolf

9. HETEROTOPIA IN TORONTO
   A review of The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood.

10. LINKSMANSHIP: MAXIMS ON THE ART OF HYPERTEXT
    A consideration of the poetics of hypertext at the mechanical and the conceptual levels.

11. REGRET:
    reflecting on the origin of the modernist temper.

12. RELIGIOUS LIFE AFTER GOD'S DEATH
    A review of Don Cupitt's AFTER GOD: THE FUTURE OF RELIGION (21 March 1999)

13. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE POSTMODERN:
    the definitive statement of theoretical concepts

14. TOWARD A NEW ENLIGHTENMENT?
    A review of Edward O. Wilson's CONSILIENCE: THE UNITY OF KNOWLEDGE

15. UP THE CHIMNEY:
    reflecting on the folk around the fire.

16. WHY ARE THE FOLK AROUND THE FIRE?
    Cultural psychology gives an answer.

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