Dr. Mark A. McCutcheon: Recent submissions
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"We should have brought a poetry grad student": Higher education and organised labour in The Expanse
(Red Futures, 2023-07-06)From the introduction: “'We should have brought a poetry grad student' explores class in the series in relation to both higher education and organised labour. In particular, they draw out the representation of higher ... -
Andromeda (disambiguation)
(Heartlines Spec, 2023-02)A personal essay on fandom, love, and friendship, prompted by reading and watching The Expanse. Originally published by Heartlines Spec, 16 Feb. 2023; open access at https://www.heartlines-spec.com/andromeda-disambiguati ... -
The Expanse Season 6 [media review]
(Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2022)A critical review of season 6 of the science fiction TV series The Expanse for the international SF journal Foundation. -
Paratextual and "sampladelic" techniques for "committing centonism" in contemporary poetry published in Canada
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022-04)This chapter attempts to model a twofold method for reading centos ‒- poems composed wholly of excerpts from other works -‒ in relation to intellectual property (IP) law, in the context of contemporary poetry published in ... -
Reading poetry and its paratexts for evidence of fair dealing: Mary Dalton’s Hooking, cento poetics, and copyright law
(2020-11-14)A close reading of Canadian poetry books’ citational paratexts — such as the copyright page, whose statements hold both intertextual information and legal consequence — argues that Canadian poetry publishers make extensive ... -
Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse
(University of Delaware Press, 2022)This chapter first reprises the twofold argument from my book The Medium Is the Monster: the argument that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein effectively reinvented the meaning of the word "technology" for modern English, and ... -
Review of The Expanse (TV series)
(SFRA Review, 2021-05-04)A co-authored review of The Expanse (TV series), focusing on Season 5, for the open-access online journal SFRA Review -
A New Monster Manual, in Theory (Review of The Monster Theory Reader, ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock)
(Extrapolation, 2021)A review of The Monster Theory Reader, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (U of Minnesota P, 2020), in the SF studies journal Extrapolation vol. 62 no. 3 (2021). This is a post-print copy; the published version of record ... -
Postmodern theory's retreat amidst postmodern art's return: neglect of IP law as a possible cause of postmodernism's "death"
(Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University, 2015-09-23)Despite the centrality of appropriation to postmodernist aesthetics, despite the embroilment of postmodernist artists in copyright actions, and despite the steady toughening of intellectual property (IP) law during the ... -
The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
(Athabasca University Press, 2018)Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s ... -
"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)From James Rovira's introduction: "Mark A. McCutcheon shifts the locus of suffering to substance abuse in '"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom.' McCutcheon examines the ... -
Stephen Harper as killer robot
(English Studies in Canada, 2017)In popular culture and public discourse, especially on the Internet, the image of Canada’s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is conspicuously characterized and caricatured as robotic [...] Amidst popular culture’s hordes ... -
A Close Reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch’s 1977 long poem SEED CATALOGUE
(The Explicator, 2017)A close reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch's 1977 long poem Seed Catalogue -
Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Methods: Review of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism, by David McNally
(Extrapolation (Liverpool UP), 2014)A book review of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism (2012) by David McNally, published in the science fiction studies journal Extrapolation. -
"Come on back to the war": Germany as the Other National Other in Canadian Popular Literature
(University of Toronto Quarterly, 2009)This essay argues for bringing the methodology of post-colonial studies to bear on mainstream Canadian popular culture, towards a rethinking of Canada's ideological affinities with nations traditionally considered as ... -
Institutions and Interpellations of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self
(Athabasca University Press, 2016)This essay develops the idea of the dubject as a model of remediateda subjectivity. It will discuss some theoretical and institutional contexts of the dubject, and then will consider digital manifestations of the dubject ... -
Resistance is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction
(TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016)This article surveys science fiction (SF) since 1980, and queries the conspicuous under-representation of recognizable images of unions in popular SF, which includes, in contrast, numerous images and narratives of corporate ... -
Fair dealing: We’ve got it, let’s use it. Review of Rosemary Coombe et al's Dynamic Fair Dealing
(Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2016)This review of Rosemary Coombe et al's edited collection Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian culture online (University of Toronto Press, 2014) sketches the global and Canadian copyright contexts that make this book ... -
Introduction to New Fronts in the Copyfight, Part 2 (2015-16)
(Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2016)This article introduces the second part of New fronts in the copyfight: Multidisciplinary directions in critical copyright studies (the first part of which appeared in DSCN Vol. 4 [2014]). The article surveys recent and ... -
Introduction to New Fronts in the Copyfight, Part 1 (2014-15)
(Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2015)Intellectual property (IP) is a subject of concern to all academics because it is the legal-economic infrastructure of all academic work. The long-increasing, now accelerating, and multilateral strengthening of IP regulation ...