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Online Quarterly Academic Periodical Publishing from an international pool of contributors NEBULA A JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARSHIP Flagging the New Iraq 30-37 The Aphex Twin Face 50-57 SPACESHIP 58-67 ISSN-1449-7751 Nebula 1.1, June 2004 The Nebula Editorial Board Dr. Samar Habib: Editor in Chief (Australia) Dr. Joseph Benjamin Afful, University of Cape Coast (Ghana) Dr. Senayon S. Alaoluw,University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) Dr. Samirah Alkasim, independent scholar (Egypt) Dr. Rebecca Beirne, The University of Newcastle (Australia) Dr. Nejmeh Khalil-Habib, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Isaac Kamola, Dartmouth College (U.S.A) Garnet Kindervater, The University of Minnesota (U.S.A) Dr. Olukoya Ogen, Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria) Dr. Paul Ayodele Osifodunrin, University of Lagos (Nigeria) Dr. Babak Rahimi, University of California (San Diego, U.S.A) Dr. Michael Angelo Tata, City University of New York (U.S.A) The Nebula Advisory Board Dr. Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, The University of Puerto Rico Dr. Paul Allatson, The University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) Dr. Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State College (U.S.A) Dr. Murat Cemrek, Selcuk University (Turkey) Dr. Melissa Hardie, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Samvel Jeshmaridian, The City University of New York (U.S.A) Dr. Christopher Kelen, The University of Macao (China) Dr. Kate Lilley, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College of New York (U.S.A) Dr. Tracy Biga MacLean, Academic Director, Claremont Colleges (U.S.A) Dr. Wayne Pickard, a very independent scholar (Australia) Dr. Ruying Qi, The University of Western Sydney (Australia) Dr. Ruben Safrastyan, Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Armenia) Dr. Alberto Sandoval, Mount Holyoke College (U.S.A) Dr. Judith Snodgrass, The University of Western Sydney (Australia) Dr. Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (U.S.A) Opinions expressed in articles published in Nebula reflect those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the journal or its editorial or advisory board members. Nebula 1.1, June 2004 Content i Note on contributors 1 “Of the Virus Party”: Ecofeminist Perspectives on Dissent in AIDS Science. Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio 20 Economic Globalization and the Free Market Ethos: A Gender Perspective. Chineze J. Onyejekwe 25 Violence against Women: An Issue of Health and Human Rights. Chineze J. Onyejekwe 30 Ishraqat, Part I. Flagging a New Iraq: Failure of a National Symbol. Babak Rahimi 38 Steal this Message, Part I. William Matthew McCarter 42 Double Negative. Tangirala Sri Rama Chandra Murthy 45 Appointment in Samarra II. Tangirala Sri Rama Chandra Murthy 50 Music in His Own Image: The Aphex Twin Face. Peter David Mathews 58 Spaceship. Michael Karl (Ritchie) 68 ...take you anywhere at midnight. Helen Young 69 ...It wasn’t the sun that made me wise. Helen Young Nebula 1.1, June 2004 Note on contributors Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio to the audience. Mathews’ entertaining style and pertinent selection of disturbing yet engaging Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio is an Associate images makes interesting reading to both fans of Professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Aphex Twin and those who are not familiar with Mayaguez. She has published a comparative study the musician’s work. of women’s authorship in the modern theatre enti- tled The “Weak” Subject: On Modernity, Eros, and Women’s Playwriting. She has published numer- ous articles in Atenea, Carte Italiane, Diacritics, William Matthew McCarter Feminist Issues, Italian Culture, The Journal of Dramatic Criticism and Theory, The Journal of William Matthew McCarter received his Masters Gender Studies and many more. She has also in Liberal Arts from Dallas Baptist University in contributed to various edited volumes, includ- 2003. He is presently working on his Doctorate ing Feminine Feminists: Cultural Practices in at the University of Texas where he has received Italy; Natalia Ginzburg: A Voice of the Twentieth a graduate teaching fellowship. He has received Century and Franca Rame: A Woman Onstage. numerous awards for prose writing from Mountain She is the co-translator of In Spite of Plato, a book View College and one from Storyteller Magazine. of feminist theory by Italian philosopher Adriana He has numerous literary publications, with a first Cavarero. She has acted as Guest editor for The novel to be released in 2005 entitled Cornbread Journal of Bisexuality on more than one occa- Voodoo. McCarter intends to publish periodically sion. She is currently at work on her third book in Nebula under the rubric, Steal This Message. of cultural theory, Taking the Gaia Hypothesis McCarter’s project is unique in that he intends Seriously: Secularism, Globalization, and Earth- to reduce Left-wing political protestations to based Belief Systems. Her article “Of The Virus bumper-sticker language. His project will cer- Party” that is published in this issue of Nebula, tainly be an interesting one to follow. gives us a glimpse of the philosophy behind the Gaia hypothesis, whilst daring to challenge some of the most fundamental beliefs held by scientists on the relationship between HIV and AIDS. Tangirala Sri Rama Chandra Murthy Having secured a bachelor of science followed by a postgraduate bachelor of Journalism from Peter Mathews Osmania University in Hyderbad in the 1970’s, Murthy returned to Osmania to secure a Masters Peter Mathews has a Ph.D. in Comparative degree in philosophy in 1997. He is currently Literature and Cultural Studies from Monash enrolled in pursuit of his doctorate on “Noam University (Melbourne, Australia). He is cur- Chomsky’s contributions to the Philosophy of rently Resident Assistant Professor of English at Language” at Venkateswara University in Tirupati. Creighton University. In Music In his Own Image, Mathews casts an analytic eye over Aphex Twin’s Murthy’s thirty-year career in journalism has use of imagery to convey themes and messages seen him work in half a dozen English- Indian Note on Contributors i Nebula 1.1, June 2004 newspapers and this, together with his numerous Philosophy and Political Science at the University dissertations, has no doubt contributed to his lyri- of California, San Diego and his Masters in cal and sophisticated prose in which he shares his Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. ideas and reflections on two distinctly fascinat- He is currently expecting to defend his disserta- ing topics. In Double Negative Murthy ponders tion on the Iranian public sphere in the Safavid the implications of G.W. Bush’s invention and period, 1564-1590, in the Department of Political use of the word “misunderestimated” alongside and Social Sciences at the European University one of his own concoctions – Blairism. In Death Institute in Florence. Rahimi provides a thorough in Samarra II Murthy delves into the existential analysis of the failure of the new Iraqi flag to implications of predeterminism through a rigor- symbolize and reflect the Iraqi people in the post- ous reading of what was once a secular fable, and Saddam era. He intends to contribute periodically which has been retold to bear (and bare) political to Nebula under the rubric Ishraqat, which is the and cultural significance to our times. Arabic word for Illuminations. Chineze J. Onyejekwe Michael Karl (Ritchie) Chineze J. Onyejekwe is a sociologist writing Michael Karl (Ritchie) is a Professor of English from Concord, New Hampshire. She is currently at Arkansas Tech University in Texas where he involved in broad-based women empowerment teaches a variety of subjects. He is an editor of issues. She has contributed to books as well as the literary magazine Nebo, which serves the uni- Journals such as Asian journal of Women’s Studies, versity’s students. His most recent work can be Quiet Mountain essays and Parallax: A Journal of found on the Arkansas Literary forum, Volume Ethics and Globalization. In her Globalization and 5, in a collaborative slide show that functions at the Free Market Ethos, Onyejekwe explains the random: http://www.hsu.edu/dept/alf/2003/slide- negative impact that neoliberal trade policies have show/slide.html on women at the lower end of the economic scale, whilst submitting some strategies toward chang- On his delightful Spaceship he comments: “this ing their adverse labour conditions. In Violence work…is highly experimental, and I invite you to Against Women she provides a disturbing account play.” of the difficulties encountered by poor women to protect themselves against aggression, and their difficulties in attempting to gain access to laws that protect their human writes. Helen Young Helen Young was awarded a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Creative writing with Honours from Babak Rahimi the University of Wollongong (Australia) in 2002. She is currently completing her Doctorate on “The Babak Rahimi received his Bachelor of Arts in Imagination of a Post-Colonial Nation in Middle Note on Contributors ii Nebula 1.1, June 2004 English Romance” at the University of Sydney, where she has held an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship since 2003. Helen Young is an edi- tor of Sydney University’s Arts Journal Philament where she has published her article: “Bi contray caryez this knyght”: Journeys of Colonisation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Her two poems “…Midnight” and “…It wasn’t the sun” demon- strate a poetic sensibility that is enmeshed with feeling and geographical space. Note on Contributors iii Nebula 1.1, June 2004 “Of the Virus Party”: Ecofeminist Perspectives on Dissent in AIDS Science. By Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio Abstract My analysis of the controversies in AIDS science demonstrates that due to the influence of the allo- pathic scientific collective, the course of mainstream research about the disease has been overdetermined.1 During the disease’s early outbreaks, allopathic medicine dominated medical discourse. As a result, AIDS science focused on infectious rather than environmental and ecological causes.