Document Type
Essay
Abstract
From the Editor's Introduction
Holland Wilde performs a similar intervention in his multi-media work “Wilde Emerald," which simulates the relationship between academic outsiders (graduate students, those who do scholarship in the form of media and anthropology in the form of pranks) and insiders. Wilde’s e-mail based “essay," which inevitably yet surprisingly leads to the introduction of a mash-up film on Nanook of the North featuring Frank Zappa as “Zapook," is more of an assay of what traditional and even “progressive" academic circles will tolerate or recognize as knowledge. Wilde’s amalgamation of modes questions a discourse that separates subject from object, as if knowledge was an issue of something that is external and which therefore may be captured – the classical fantasy of ethnographical film.
Repository Citation
Wilde, Holland. "Wilde Emerald." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 2, 2009, pp. 1–13. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss2/10