{"title":"Nanowarriors: Military Nanotechnology and Comic Books","authors":"C. Milburn","doi":"10.1353/itx.2005.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.2005.0016","url":null,"abstract":"(Colin Milburn, Nanowarriors: Military Nanotechnology and Comic Books, Intertexts 9.1 (2005): 77-103. This article is posted at the University of California eScholarship Repository by permission of Texas Tech University Press.) In 2002, MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) appropriated copyrighted images from the comic book Radix in a grant proposal to the U.S. Army—a proposal that succeeded in securing $50 million for foundation of the Institute. While this case draws on questions of authorship and the local origins of words and images, it also vividly animates the nonlocal and nonlocalizable cultural narratives that enframe the field of soldier nanotechnology. Comic-book images of soldier nanotechnology may serve to inspire certain scientific projects as conceptual artwork, or even as design-ahead engineering diagrams, but they also bear in themselves traces of a long history of graphic narratives about superhuman techno-augmentation and military cyborgs. This article analyzes the intertextual webs of comic-book images and superhero narratives that entangle the research programs, the rhetoric, and the culture of military nanoscience.","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"52 1","pages":"103 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84098263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Canadian Biraciality and Its “Zebra” Poetics: For Adrienne Shadd","authors":"G. Clarke","doi":"10.1353/itx.2002.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.2002.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"80 1","pages":"203 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90620118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rituals of Confrontation: Cabeza de Vaca and the Texas Indians","authors":"N. P. Hickerson","doi":"10.1353/itx.1997.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.1997.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"29 1","pages":"169 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83703601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My Long Journey Home by Lily Golden (review)","authors":"P. Barta","doi":"10.1353/itx.2006.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.2006.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"152 10 1","pages":"187 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78147007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Politics of the Word: Claribel Alegría’s Album familiar and Despierta, mi bien, despierta","authors":"Mary Jane Treacy","doi":"10.1353/itx.1997.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.1997.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"24 1","pages":"62 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73153418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Theory, Sexuality, and Women’s Writing from Latin America: The Example of Cristina Peri Rossi","authors":"R. Feal","doi":"10.1353/itx.1997.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.1997.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"65 1","pages":"51 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84799802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New World Colonization and the De Navigations of Stephen Parmenius","authors":"R. Barnett","doi":"10.1353/itx.1997.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.1997.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"9 1","pages":"159 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82917202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Language to Call My Own: Utopian Space in María Luisa Puga’s Pánico o peligro","authors":"Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg","doi":"10.1353/itx.1997.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.1997.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33860,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Intertexts","volume":"64 1","pages":"78 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76003390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}