From Postmodern Culture, Jussi Parikka ( Humboldt): Insects, Sex, and Biodigitality in Lynn Hershman Leeson's Teknolust; an interview with Christian Bok on his current project, The Xenotext Experiment, which explores the intersection between poetry and biotechnology; a review of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day; and a review of The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature by R. Clifton Spargo. From The New Yorker, a review of The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu. 

From Nextbook, The Right Questions: German conceptual artists find provocative ways to confront the Holocaust. From Axess, the conformity of rebellion: It has become a requirement of contemporary culture that art transgress norms and overstep

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