Issue 1:1

The Cyborg of the Main Battle Tank: A Tool Of Human Engineering
Nannette Brenner

email: nvb8641@utarlg.uta.edu
homepage: http://www.uta.edu/english/gta/nant.html

Nannette Brenner is a graduate teaching assistant and MA candidate in English at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her interests are critical theory, Hegelian thought, and the material texts of the military, and she plans to extend her work on the text of the main battle tank for her thesis. For her dissertation, she plans to trace the influence of Hegelian thought on Clauswitzian philosophy of war and its impact on the doctrine, tactics, and weapons design of Western armies, especially in the use of automation in the military decision-making process.

Non-Places and the Enfeeblement of Rhetoric in Supermodernity
Grant Boswell

email: grant_boswell@byu.edu
homepage: http://English.byu.edu/boswellg.htm

Grant Boswell is an Associate professor of English at Brigham Young University with research interests in the history of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, rhetoric and culture, and postmodernism.

The Fate of Rhetoric in an Electronic Age
Collin Gifford Brooke

email: cgb1046@utarlg.uta.edu
homepage: http://www.uta.edu/english/cgb/cgbhp.html
& http://www.uta.edu/english/cgb/home/index.html

Collin Brooke is a PhD candidate in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington, with concentrations in rhetoric and critical theory. His current research interests center on the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and identity.

Saul/Paul and The Promise of Technological Reforms
David Metzger

email: ddm100f@hamlet.bal.odu.edu

David Metzger is director of Writing Tutorial Services and assistant professor of rhetoric and classical studies at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). He is the author of *The Lost Cause Cause of Rhetoric* (Southern Illinois 1995) and founding editor of *Bien Dire: A Journal of Lacanian Orientation.* At present, he's working on a manuscript called "Psychoanalysis, Progressivism, and The Rhetoric of Religious Culture."

editors note:The PreText Conversations held a Re/In/View with David Metzger about his book The Lost Cause of Rhetoric.

Skipping, Jumping, Twisting and Untwisting:
Reading the Oldest and Newest of Writing Styles
Cass Dalglish

email: dalglish@augsburg.edu
homepage: http://www.boreal.org/arts/memory.html & http://www.augsburg.edu

Cass Dalglish is a novelist, poet, and short fiction writer. She holds an MFA in fiction as well as a Ph.D. in Creative Writing. She is an assistant professor of English, teaching creative writing, news and feature writing, and computer-assisted reporting at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. She will teach next summer at the Grand Marais Art Colony on the shores of Lake Superior. In her doctoral work, she specialized in the study of ancient and archetypal women's literature. She is currently working on poetic translations of stories and songs written in clay by Mesopotamian women four thousand years ago. She is fascinated by coincidences she finds in the Grail Legends and the stories of the Descent of Inanna. Dalglish recently completed a draft of Moist Wind from the North, a novel which she describes as a reminder of women's history, a history which slips all too easily from personal and cultural remembrance. Her first novel, Sweetgrass (Lone Oak Press), was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in the mystery category in 1993. Dalglish is a former journalist who has worked in both the print and broadcast media.

Mapping Post-War Anxieties onto Space:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Invaders from Mars
Michael Hardin

email: mhardin@Bayou.UH.EDU [current email: mhardin@husky.bloomu.edu]

Michael Hardin is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston. He teaches in the University of Houston system (at the central, downtown, and Victoria campuses) as well as the Houston Community Colleges. In addition he has published numerous articles on contemporary U.S., Latin American, and British writers.

Swift's Satire of Dissent in A Tale of a Tub
Elio Di Piazza

email: dipiazza@mbox.unipa.it

Elio Di Piazza is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Palermo (Italy). He graduated in Naples (Istituto Universitario Orientale) in 1970, and took an MA in Applied Linguistics at Essex University (Colchester) in 1975. In 1977 he received a professorship in English Language and Literature, and is now teaching literature at the University of Palermo in Sicily. Dipiazza has published books on Christopher Caudwell (Soggetto e storia; Dante, Palermo, 1981), William Godwin (Caleb Williams, Un antagonismo imperfetto; Flaccovio, Palermo, 1983), Thomas Deloney (Thomas of Reading; Dante, 1992), Jonathan Swift (Le aperture del testo; Annali della Facoltذ di Lettere, Palermo, 1995) and essays on Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Kinglake and Kipling.

Becoming Cat, Becoming Irena: Deleuze, Guattari, and Cat People
Jim Roberts

email: jhr8@psu.edu
homepage: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/jhr8

Jim Roberts is a PhD candidate and Lecturer in English at Penn State University, interested in critical theory, contemporary philosophy, and film theory.

"help manners": Cyber-democracy and its Vicissitudes
Charles J. Stivale

email: cstival@cms.cc.wayne.edu
homepage: http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/romance/romance.html
& http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/romance/stivalelinks.html

Charles J. Stivale is Professor of French and Chair in the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI, USA). His research includes work on nineteenth-century French narrative, twentieth- century French critical theory, French and Francophone cultural studies, and text-based virtual reality.

The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project: Continuous Hypermodern Photo-art
Brad Brace

email: bbrace@netcom.com
homepage: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html

Brad Brace is an Artist, Contemporary Cultural Theorist, Educator, Technology Specialist.

The Co- Production of Knowledge and Power:
A Postmodern Critique of Tenure
Nathan A. Brown & Peter Marston

email: nbrown@scf.usc.edu & peter.marston@csun.edu
homepage: All Things Rhetoric- http://www-scf.usc.edu/~nbrown/ (still under improvement as a resource for students of rhetoric)

Nathan A. Brown is a Ph.D. Student and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, USC. His current research areas included Internet usage in political campaigning and postmodern rhetorical, critical theory. Dr. Peter Marston is a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at California State University Northridge

Bahktin's Words: There is No Alibi for Being
(Why Freud Was Not a Creative Writer)
Vadim Linetski

email: picador@il.lucky.net

Vadim Linetski is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Besides numerous articles on various aspects of poststructuralist theory and psychoanalysis, he has published three books: ANTI-BAKHTIN, BEING THE VERY BEST BOOK ON NABOKOV (in Russian, 1994), THE TEXT WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO REACH (in English, 1996, read the book announcement: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/linetski.html) and BAKHTIN LAID BARE (in English, forthcoming on Sarah Zupko's website: http://www.mcs.net/~zupko/popcult.htm).

The Top Ten in Music, 1996 (plus some purely gratuitous honorable mentions . . .)
Thomas Rickert

email: hijinks@utarlg.uta.edu
homepage: http://www.uta.edu/english/rickert.html

Thomas Rickert is a PhD candidate in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington, with concentrations in rhetoric and critical theory. He is preparing to write a dissertation on the writings of Slavoj Zizek.

Equal Opportunity Psychoanalysis
Byron Hawk

email: oth@utarlg.uta.edu
homepage: http://www.uta.edu/english/hawk

Byron Hawk is a GTA in English and PhD candidate in Humanities with concentrations in rhetoric/composition and critical theory/cultural studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.