[editor], 'ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ADVERTISEMENTS', Postmodern Culture v5n1 URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v5n1-[editor]-announcements.txt Archive PMC-LIST, file notices.994. Part 1/1 (subpart 1/2), total size 174699 bytes: ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------ ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ADVERTISEMENTS Postmodern Culture v. 5 n. 1 (September, 1994) pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Every issue of Postmodern Culture carries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. I. Journal and Book Announcements: 0) Live at the Ear 1) Essays in Postmodern Culture 2) Black Ice Books 3) The Centennial Review 4) Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science 5) College Literature 6) Contention 7) Convergence 8) Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture 9) Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology 10) Fine Art Forum 11) GENDERS 12) Hot Off the Tree 13) Information Technology and Disabilities 14) Inter-Society for Electronic Arts 15) Leonardo 16) M/E/A/N/I/N/G 17) Minnesota Review 18) Modern Fiction Studies 19) MTV Killed Kurt Cobain 20) Nomad 21) October 22) Representations 23) Revista Alicantian De Estudios Engleses 24) RHETNET: A Cyberjournal for Rhetoric and Writing 25) RIF/T 26) SSCORE 27) Studies in Popular Culture 28) TDR 29) Tonguing the Zeitgeist 30) Virus 23 31) ViViD Magazine 32) Zines-L II. Calls for Papers, Panels, and Participants: 33) PMC-MOO 34) Cultural Cartographies: Mapping the Postcolonial Moment 35) Afritech 1995: An Electronic Conference 36) Convergence: Art, Culture and the National Information Infrastructure 37) CWRL: Computers, Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature/Learning" 38) Einstein meets Magritte 39) Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication 40) Feminist Economics 41) GATES 42) Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist 43) Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 44) Kant Congress: "Kant and the Problem of Peace" 45) The Little Magazine: Work, Writing, Electronic Space, Cyborg Performance and Poetics 46) Mechanisms of Desire: Deleuze, Masoch and the Libidinal Economy of Fur 47) Network Services Conference 48) Open City 49) Postmodern Culture: A SUNY Series 50) PSYCHE 51) Queer-E 52) Reading Rock 'n' Roll: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Music 53) Research on Virtual Relationships 54) Sixties Generations: From Montgomery to Vietnam; an interdisciplinary meeting of Scholars, Artists, and Activists 55) Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Symposium 56) Splinter 57) Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality 58) STYLE: Possible Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Postmodern Fiction 59) TRANSFORMATION: Marxist Boundary Work in Theory, Economics, Politics, AND Culture 60) Undercurrent 61) Understanding the Social World: Towards an Interrogative Approach 62) Virtual Reality World, 1995 III. Networked Discussion Groups: 63) Deleuze-Guattari List 64) Electronic Poetry Center (Buffalo) 65) FEMISA: Feminism, Gender, International Relations 66) Fiction-of-Philosophy 67) HOLOCAUS: Holocaust List 68) NewJour-L 69) NII-Teach 70) Popcult List 71) Scholia IV. Research Programs: 72) Dead-Artist Desert Trailer Park V. Resources: 73) Gopheur Litteratures 74) American Lit. Sublist 75) English Lit. Sublist 76) TAP VI. Other: 77) Spelunk with International Artist 0) -------------------------------------------------------------- LIVE AT THE EAR edited by Charles Bernstein a compact disc from Elemenope Productions / Oracular Laboratories Recordings conceived and produced by Richard Dillon Digitally remastered archival recordings of 13 poets reading at York's Ear Inn, with a 32 page booklet including substantial excerpts from the texts of the poems, photos, and brief statements from the poets. Ideal for personal collections as well as for classroom use and course adoption. Contents: 1. SUSAN HOWE reading from "Speeches at the Barrier," in Europe of Trusts. Recorded October 22, 1983. (6:41) 2. RON SILLIMAN reading from OZ. Recorded April 12, 1986. (6:01) 3. LESLIE SCALAPINO reading from "bum series" in Way. Recorded December 13, 1986. (4:52) 4. TED GREENWALD reading from You Bet. Recorded January 31, 1981. (6:05) 5. ROSMARIE WALDROP reading from Reproduction of Profiles. Recorded December 15, 1984. (6:01) 6. ALAN DAVIES reading "Shared Sentences" from Active 24 Hours. Recorded February 4, 1989. (4:42) 7. BARRETT WATTEN reading from Under Erasure. Recorded January 2, 1993. (5:45) 8. ERICA HUNT reading from "cold war breaks," in Local History. Recorded May 20, 1990. (4:28) 9. BRUCE ANDREWS reading "I Knew the Signs by Their Tents." Recorded March 12, 1988. (5:43) 10. HANNAH WEINER reading from Spoke. Recorded October 10, 1983. (5:40) 11. STEVE McCAFFERY reading from "The Curve to its Answer," variant in Theory of Sediment. Recorded January 11, 1985. (5:10) 12. ANN LAUTERBACH reading "Opening Day" from Clamor. Recorded January 4, 1992. (4:38) 13. CHARLES BERNSTEIN reading from "Dark City," in Dark City. Recorded January 4, 1992. (6:44) HOW TO ORDER: Send $15.95 plus $2 p&h to Elemenope Productions 7 Market Square, Suite 281 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 for COD orders or further information call 800-240-6980 or fax 412-301-9919 1) -------------------------------------------------------------- Essays in Postmodern Culture: . . . Now Cordless An anthology of essays from Postmodern Culture is available in print from Oxford University Press. The works collected here constitute practicalengagements with the postmodern--from AIDS and the body to postmodern politics. Writing by George Yudice, Allison Fraiberg, David Porush, Stuart Moulthrop, Paul McCarthy, Roberto Dainotto, Audrey Ecstavasia, Elizabeth Wheeler, Bob Perelman, Steven Helmling, Neil Larsen, David Mikics, Barrett Watten. Book design by Richard Eckersley. ISBN: 0-19-508752-6 (hardbound) 0-19-508753-4 (paper) To order a copy by e-mail, click here. 2) -------------------------------------------------------------- BLACK ICE BOOKS Black Ice Books is a new alternative trade paperback series that will introduce readers to the latest wave of dissident American writers. Breaking out of the bonds of mainstream writing, the voices published here are subversive, challenging and provocative. Fiction Collective Two Publications Unit Illinois State University Normal, IL 61761 3) -------------------------------------------------------------- Centennial Review Edited by R.K. Meiners The Centennial Review is committed to reflection on intellectual work, particularly as set in the University and its environment. We are interested in work that examines models of theory and communication in the physical, biological, and human sciences; that re-reads major texts and authoritative documents in different disciplines or explores interpretive procedures; that questions the cultural and social implications of research in a variety of disciplines. $12/year (3 issues), $18/two years (6 issues) (Add $4.50 per year for mailing outside the US) Recent special issue: Poland: From Real Socialism to Democracy Please make your check payable to The Centennial Review. Mail to: The Centennial Review 312 Linton Hall Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824-1044 4) ------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science Editors: Stuart Kurtz, Michael O'Donnell, and Janos Simon, University of Chicago We have a vision that university presses and university libraries, working together, can publish and maintain electronic scholarly journals which provide: Peer-reviewed and high-quality papers Continuity and name-recognition Quicker and wider dissemination of information Enhanced search and retrieval mechanisms Lower costs than print journals Guaranteed future access to the contents The journal will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in theoretical computer science and is designed to meet the following needs: The scholar's desire for quicker peer review and dissemination of research results; The library's need to develop systems and structures to deal with electronic journals and know to what degree electronic journals might relieve budget pressures; The publisher's need to develop an economic and a user model for electronic dissemination of scholarly journals. Sold on a subscription basis for fees comparable to standard print journals to both libraries and individuals in an effort to develop an economic model that will encourage publishers to develop electronic journals (initial subscription prices of $125/year for institutions and $30/year for individuals); For subscription information please contact: journals-orders@mit.edu 5) --------------------------------------------------------------- College Literature A Triannual Literary Journal for the Classroom Edited by Kostas Myrsiades A triannual journal of scholarly criticism dedicated to serving the needs of College/University teachers by providing them with access to innovative ways of studying and teaching new bodies of literature and experiencing old literature in new ways. Forthcoming issues: Third World Women's Literature African American Writing Cross-Cultural Poetics Subscription Rates: US Foreign Individual $24.00/year $29.00/year Institutional: $48.00/year $53.00/year Send prepaid orders to: College Literature Main 544 West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383 (215)436-2901 / (fax) (215)436-3150 6) --------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTION: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science Contention is: "...simply a triumph from cover to cover." Fredrick Crews "...the most exciting new journal that I have ever read." Lynn Hunt "...an important, exciting, and very timely project." Theda Skocpol "...an idea whose time has come." Robert Brenner "...serious and accessible." Louise Tilly Subscriptions (3 issues) are available to individuals at $25.00 and to institutions at $50.00 (plus $10.00 for foreign surface postage) from: Journals Division Indiana University Press 601 N. Morton Bloomington IN 47104 ph: (812) 855-9449 fax: (812) 855-7931 7) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Convergence - The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies As you may know we are launching a new academic journal of research into new media technologies to be called Convergence. To help network across disciplines and generate discussion into the nature of convergence we would like to invite you to contribute to a debates section in the first issue. We are seeking contributions of approximately 1000 words that would explore the convergence of critical approaches and methodologies from different disciplines in the study of the new media. For example how could contemporary theories of the reader contribute to the analysis of a multimedia or hypertext product; or how have the achievements of AI contributed to the debate concerning the creation and construction of virtual worlds; or how can the methodologies of anthropology be appropriated in the study of the consumption of the new media; or to what extent have the conventions of realist representation shaped our analyses of new media products. If you would like to contribute please submit your copy by 1st November 1994 to the editors at: Convergence@vax2.ac.luton.uk 8) ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture We are very pleased by the great interest in the Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture. There are already more than 1,850 people subscribed. Our first issue was distributed in March 1993. The future looks very interesting. Editors are working on Special Issues on education, law, qualitative research, and dynamics in virtual culture. The Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture (EJVC) is a refereed scholarly journal that fosters, encourages, advances and communicates scholarly thought on virtual culture. Virtual culture is computer-mediated experience, behavior, action, interaction and thought, including electronic conferences, electronic journals, networked information systems, the construction and visualization of models of reality, and global connectivity. EJVC is published monthly. Some parts may be distributed at different times during the month or published only occasionally (e.g. CyberSpace Monitor). If you would be interested in writing a column on some general topic area in the Virtual Culture (e.g. an advice column for questions about etiquette, technology, etc. ?) or have an article to submit or would be interested in editing a special issue contact Ermel Stepp Editor-in- Chief of Diane Kovacs Co-Editor at the e-mail addresses listed below. You can retrieve the file EJVC AUTHORS via anonymous ftp to: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu (pub/ejvc) or via e-mail to listserv@kentvm / listserv@kentvm.kent.edu Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief MO34050@Marshall.wvnet.edu Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu 9) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology "Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology" by Chuck Welch is to be published in Fall 1994 by University of Calgary Press. The 42 chapter, 350 page text includes an index, 147 illustrations and six major appendices including the largest extensive listing of underground mail art zines in existence. A thorough listing of nearly 100 international private and institutional mail art archives appears in another important appendice. But what is mail art? Mail art is a paradox in the way it reverses traditional definitions of art; the mailbox and computer replace the museum, the address becomes the art, and the mailman brings home the avant-garde to mail artists in the form of correspondence art, e-mail art, artistamps, postcards, conceptual projects, and collaborations. "Eternal Network introduces readers to a lively exchange with international mail art networkers from five continents. The book include snail mail and e-mail addresses, fax, and telephone numbers for many active mail artists. Readers are invited to participate -- to corresponDANCE with global village artists who quickstep beyond establishment boundaries of art. Among the forty-two distinguished contributors appearing in "Eternal Network" are New York City art critic Richard Kostelanetz; physicist, poet Bern Porter; Director of the Museum of Modern Art Library, Clive Phillpot; famed Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Ken Friedman; University of Iowa art historian and archival director Estera Milman, and mail art patron Jean Brown who has collected the world's largest assemblage of mail art material now undergoing documentation at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. Many of the forty-two chapters appearing in "Eternal Network" are original, unpublished essays pertaining to the origin and history of mail art networking, collaborative aesthetics, new directions for mail art networking in the 1990's, mail art projects exploring the interconnection of marginal on and off-line networks, mail art criticism and dialogue, and finally, parables, visions, dances, dreams, and poems that articulate the living mythology of mail art. Edited by Chuck Welch, an active mail artist since 1978, "Eternal Network" makes an important first step towards introducing mail art to non-artists, artists, and academic scholars. For more information send e-mail to Cathryn.L.Welch@dartmouth.edu or write to "Eternal Network" PO Box 978, Hanover, NH 03755 10) --------------------------------------------------------------- Fine Art Forum _____________________________________________________________ ___] | \ | ____] \ __ ___ ___] | | | \ | | / \ | | | __] | | \ | ___] ____ \ __ / | | | | \ | | / \ | \ | _| _| _| __| ______] _/ _\ _| _\ _| :::::: .::::. :::::. :: :: ::. .:: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :::. .::: :::: :: :: :::::' :: :: :: ::: :: :: :: :: :: ':. :: :: :: ' :: :: '::::' :: ':. '::::' :: :: A R T + T E C H N O L O G Y N E T N E W S _____________________________________________________________ Distributed by Leonardo-ISAST on behalf of the Art, Science,Technology Network _____________________________________________________________ Contents: Editorial: Paul Brown Inet art contests: Richard Kadrey ASSETS '94: Ephraim P. Glinert Ars Electronica Center: Christian.Bauer Blast Magazine Bonn Exhibition: Akke Wagenaar CARNIVAL IN ISEA94 J. A. Mannis Chaos in Wonderland: cliff pickover New arts-related listserv: Steve Schrum 11) ----------------------------------------------------------------- GENDERS Ann Kibbey, Editor University of Colorado, Boulder Since 1988, GENDERS has presented innovative theories of gender and sexuality in art, literature, history, music, photography, TV, and film. Today, GENDERS continues to publish both new and known authors whose work reflects an international movement to redefine the boundaries of traditional doctrines and disciplines. GENDERS is published triannually in Spring, Fall, Winter Single Copy rates: Individual $9, Institution $14 Foreign postage, add $2/copy Subscription rates: Individual $24, Institution $40 Foreign postage, add $5.50/subscription Send orders to: University of Texas Box 7819 Austin TX 78713 12) ----------------------------------------------------------------- HOTT Hot Off the Tree HOTT -- Hot Off The Tree -- is a FREE monthly electronic newsletter featuring the latest advances in computer, communications, and electronics technologies. Each issue provides article summaries on new & emerging technologies, including VR (virtual reality), neural networks, PDAs (personal digital assistants), GUIs (graphical user interfaces), intelligent agents, ubiquitous computing, genetic & evolutionary programming, wireless networks, smart cards, video phones, set-top boxes, nanotechnology, and massively parallel processing. 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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Tom McNulty, New York University (mcnulty@acfcluster.nyu.edu) EDITORS: Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout Carmela Castorina, UCLA Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John's University EDITORIAL BOARD: Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout Carmela Castorina, UCLA Danny Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Alistair D. N. Edwards, PhD, University of York, UK Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA Lawrence A. Scadden, PhD, National Science Foundation Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John's University ABOUT EASI (EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION): Since its founding in 1988 under the EDUCOM umbrella, EASI has worked to increase access to information technology by persons with disabilities. Volunteers from EASI have been instrumental in the establishment of Information Technology and Disabilities as still another step in this process. Our mission has been to serve as a resource primarily to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access to information technologies. We seek to spread this information to schools, colleges, universities and into the workplace. EASI makes extensive use of the internet to disseminate this information, including two discussion lists: EASI@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (a general discussion on computer access) and AXSLIB-L@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (a discussion on library access issues). 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To get a copy of the guidelines for authors, send e-mail to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu with no subject and the following single line of text: get author guidelin 14) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts ISEA is the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. ISEA coordinates the continued occurence of the International Symposia on Electronic Art (the ISEA Symposia). 1988: Utrecht, Holland 1990: Groningen, Holland 1992: Sydney, Australia 1993: Minneapolis, USA 1994: Helsinki, Finland 1995: Montreal, Canada ISEA publishes a monthly Newsletter, both electronically and as a hard copy. Associate membership is free of charge for one year. Anyone interrested in membership info, aims and a sample Newsletter, contact ISEA@SARA.NL Greetings, Wim van der Plas ISEA Board 15) ---------------------------------------------------------------- LEONARDO Now Published by The MIT Press Beginning with the 1993 volume, The MIT Press became publisher of LEONARDO. A scholarly bimonthly, the journal is the official publication of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST). Over twenty-five years ago LEONARDO's founding editor established it to provide an international channel of communication between artists, particularly those who used science and developing technologies in their creations. Today, LEONARDO is a leading journal for anyone interested in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music. It currently reaches over 2,000 readers worldwide. LEONARDO primarily focuses on interactions between the visual arts, science and technology. The journal also covers media, music, kinetic art, performance art, language, environmental and conceptual art, computers and artificial intelligence, and legal, economic, and political aspects of art as these areas relate to the visual arts or use the tools and ideas of contemporary science and technology. LEONARDO features editorials, illustrated articles by artists writing about their own work, historical and theoretical perspectives, reviews, technical articles, resource directories, art/science forums, and sound/music technology explorations. Past articles include "Mathematics for the Garden of the Mind," and "Orchestrating Digital Micromovies." Frequently, LEONARDO presents special issues on state-of-the-art developments: Art and Social Consciousness (published October 1993) Art and Virtual Reality (published August 1994). Subscribers can also get the companion annual LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL, which comes with a CD and features the latest in music, multimedia art, sound science, and technology. In September 1993, The MIT Press began publishing Leonardo/ISAST's LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC, a monthly, edited electronic journal and electronic archive, World-Wide Web server, and Mosaic server accessible via the Internet. LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC documents the use of new scientific and technological media in the contemporary arts. ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE EDITORS LEONARDO's executive editor, Roger F. Malina--son of the journal's founding editor, Frank J. Malina--is an astronomer at the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley, and an author on art and technology issues. LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC's executiveeditor, Craig Harris, is a composer, multimedia artist, educator, and researcher of the impact of new technologies on future creative environments. Review copies are available at the discretion of the publisher. Published bimonthly, LEONARDO journal annual subscription rates (5 issues plus 1 LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL issue) are $65.00 for individuals, $320.00 for institutions, and $45.00 for students and retired persons. Published monthly, LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC annual subscription rates are $15 for LEONARDO journal subscribers and $25 for non-LEONARDO journal subscribers. Prices subject to change without notice. For ORDERING INFORMATION, contact the MIT PRESS JOURNALS circulation department,(617) 253-2889 (PHONE), (617) 258-6779 (FAX), or JOURNALS-ORDERS@MIT.EDU. 16) --------------------------------------------------------------- M/E/A/N/I/N/G A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues ] M/E/A/N/I/N/G, an artist-run journal of contemporary art, is a fresh, lively, contentious, and provocative forum for new ideas in the arts. M/E/A/N/I/N/G is published twice a year in the fall and spring. It is edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor. Subscriptions for 2 ISSUES (1 YEAR): $12 for individuals: $20 for institutions 4 ISSUES (2 YEARS): $24 for individuals; $40 for institutions Foreign subscribers please add $10 per year for shipping abroad and to Canada: $5 Foreign subscribers please pay by international money order in U.S. dollars. All checks should be made payable to Mira Schor Send all subscriptions to: Mira Schor 60 Lispenard Street New York, NY 10013 Limited supply of back issues available at $6 each, contact Mira Schor for information. Distributed with the Segue Foundation and the Solo Foundation 17) --------------------------------------------------------------- Minnesota Review Tell your friends! Tell your librarians! The new Minnesota Review's coming to town! Subscriptions are $10 a year (two issues), $20 institutions/overseas. The new Minnesota Review is published biannually and originates from East Carolina University beginning with the Fall 1992 special issue. Send all queries, comments, suggestions, submissions, and subscriptions to: Jeffrey Williams, Editor Minnesota Review Department of English East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 18) --------------------------------------------------------------- Modern Fiction Studies MFS, a journal of modern and postmodern literature and culture, announces the following special issues: February, 39.1: "Fiction of the Indian Subcontinent" May, 39.3: "Toni Morrison" November, 40.1: "The Cultural Politics of Displacement" Barbara Harlow, guest editor MFS is published quarterly at Purdue University and invites submissions of articles offering theoretical, historical, interdisciplinary, and cultural approaches to modern and contemporary narrative. Authors should submit essays for both special and general issues in triplicate paper copy or duplicate paper copy and IBM-compatible floppy; please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of submissions. Send submissions to: Patric O'Donnell Editor MFS Department of English Heavilon Hall Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907-1389 Address inquiries to the editor at this address or by e-mail at pod@purccvm (bitnet); pod@vm.cc.purdue.edu (Internet) Subscriptions to MFS are $20 for individuals and $35 for libraries. Back issues are $7 each. Address subscription inquiries to: Nel Fink Circulation Manager MFS Department of English Heavilon Hall Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907-1389 19) --------------------------------------------------------------- MTV Killed Kurt Cobain Announcing the publication of a mini-multimedia 'zine, MTV Killed Kurt Cobain, with text, graphic, and sound resource. MTV Killed KC was written and directed by Mark Amerika and produced by Bobby Rabyd for Alternative-X, an electronic publishing enterprise at marketplace.com as Alternative-X MTV Killed Kurt Cobain can be ftp'd from: ftp.brown.edu in the directory /pub/bobby_rabyd It is in Storyspace Reader format, a standalone hypermedia template for the Macintosh. Send queries to st001747@brownvm.brown.edu (Bobby Rabyd) 20) --------------------------------------------------------------- NOMAD An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Humanities, Arts, And Sciences Manuscript submissions wanted in all interdisciplinary fields! NOMAD is a forum for those texts that explore or examine the undefined regions among critical theory, visual arts, and writing. It is a bi-annual, not-for-profit, independent publication for provocative cross-disciplinary work of all cultural types, such as intermedia artwork, metatheory, and experimental writing, as well as literary, theoretical, political, and popular writing. While our editorial staff is comprised of artists and academics in a variety of disciplines, NOMAD strives to operate in a space outside of mainstream academic discourse and without institutional funding or controls. Manuscripts should not exceed fifteen pages (exclusive of references); any form is acceptable. If possible, please submit manuscripts on 3.5" Macintosh disks, in either Microsoft Word or MacWrite II format, or by E-mail. Each manuscript submitted on disk must be accompanied by a paper copy. Otherwise, please send two copies of each manuscript. Artwork submitted must be no larger than 8 1/2" x 11", and in black and white. PICT, TIFF, GIF, and JPEG files on 3.5" Macintosh disks are acceptable, if accompanied by a paper copy (or via E-mail, bin-hexed or uuencoded). All artwork must be camera-ready. Submissions by regular mail should include a SASE with sufficient postage attached if return is desired. Diskettes should be shipped in standard diskette mailing packages. Subscriptions: $9 per year (2 issues) Send Manuscripts and Inquiries to: NOMAD, c/o Mike Smith 406 Williams Hall Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, 32306 msmith@garnet.acns.fsu.edu 21) --------------------------------------------------------------- October Art | Theory | Criticism | Politics The MIT Press Edited by: Rosalind Kraus Annette Michelson Yve-Alain Bois Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Hal Foster Denis Hollier John Rajchman "OCTOBER, the 15-year-old quarterly of social and cultural theory, has always seemed special. Its nonprofit status, its cross- disciplinary forays into film and psychoanalytic thinking, and its unyielding commitment to history set it apart from the glossy art magazines." --Village Voice As the leading edge of arts criticism and theory today, OCTOBER focuses on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue examines interrelationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts. Come join OCTOBER's exploration of the most important issues in contemporary culture. Subscribe Today! Published Quarterly ISSN 0162-2870. Yearly Rates: Individual $32.00; Institution $80.00; Student (copy of current ID required) and Retired: $22.00. Outside USA add $14.00 postage and handling. Canadians add additional 7% GST. Prepayment is required. Send check payable to OCTOBER drawn against a US bank, MasterCard or VISA number to: MIT Press Journal / 55 Hayward Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 / TEL: (617) 233-2889 / FAX: (617) 258-6779 / journals-orders@mit.edu 22) --------------------------------------------------------------- Representations New ventures in humanities scholarship Published by the University of California Press ". . . widely recognized as among the most innovative outlets for work in literary criticism, art history, and cultural history." --Ludmilla Jordanova, Social History of Medicine Representations is a quarterly interdisciplinary forum offering imaginative and challenging approaches to the study of culture. Since 1983, Representations has devoted its pages to ground-breaking critical thought. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION $33 Individuals $23 Students (with copy of ID) $62 Institutions (add $9.00 for foreign surface postage) Send orders to: Representations University of California Press 2120 Berkeley Way Berkeley CA 94720 Order by Phone (510/642-4191) Fax (510/642-9917 journals@garnet.berkeley.edu Prices subject to change 23) --------------------------------------------------------------- REVISTA ALICANTINA DE ESTUDIOS INGLESES Editor Emeritus Pedro Jesus Marcos Perez Editors Enrique Alcaraz Varo Jose Antonio Alvarez Amoros (Alvarez@vm.cpd.ua.es) The Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses is a well-established international journal intended to provide a forum for debate and an outlet for research involving all aspects of English studies. It welcomes articles from a wide range of fields and from scholars throughout the world. The Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses is considered the standard Spanish journal in its field and it reflects the state of English scholarship in Spain and in other European countries. Send contributions (essays or reviews recorded on WordPerfect 5.1 or later), books for review, and subscription queries to Jose Antonio Alvarez Amorls, Department of English, University of Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain. We are also happy to make exchange arrangements with other journals in the field of the humanities. Send your proposals to the above address. 24) --------------------------------------------------------------- R H E T N E T A CyberJournal for Rhetoric and Writing RHETNET Philosophy: There are numerous places to talk on the Internet, and scholars in all fields are there (and there and there and there) pouring forth rivers of words. Amid the inevitable and voluptuous mundanity of those conversations reside moments of discovery, the fiery and spontaneous generation of knowledge, and even wisdom. These conversations, or parts of them, are worth saving and savoring. If we look at all of literature, including scholarly publication, as being one long, vast, intricate and diverse conversation, then the discussion online can be seen as part of the same discourse. The conversation is migrating to a new media, but the means of (attempting to) provide coherence are still developing. RHETNET is an effort to adapt the functions of academic print journals to the new environment. Journals simultaneously serve as the medium of conversationand the repository for knowledge. RHETNET serves those purposes, but takes the shape of its native environment: cyberspace. The project is both radical and conservative. RHETNET provides rhetoric and Internet students and scholars with the means of capturing, contextualizing, searching, and retrieving some of the intriguing and valuable conversations that occur on various parts of the Net, but which currently lie scattered and forgotten in dusty corners of the virtual world. It provides a repository of netscholarship on rhetoric and writing. We envision it as a decentered, organic repository for all the stuff of the Net that is of interest to the rhetoric and writing community, while also including space for various traditional types of scholarly discourse. A Listserv list, RHETNT-L@mizzou1.bitnet, has been created to serve this effort, initially as a place to conduct asynchronous discussions about the project. The list is managed by Eric Crump. To subscribe, send email to LISTSERV@mizzou1.bitnet or LISTSERV@mizzou1.missouri.edu Leave the subject line blank and in the first line of the note, put: sub RHETNT-L Your Name Anyone who has trouble subscribing should write to Eric at LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet or LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu 25) --------------------------------------------------------------- RIF/T RIF/T, the electronic poetics journal, is interested in receiving proposals and/or submissions for a forthcoming special issue on Charles Olson. Inquiries may be sent to: E-POETRY@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU RIF/T is edited by Kenneth Sherwood and Loss Glazier 26) --------------------------------------------------------------- SSCORE Social Science Computer Review G. David Garson, Editor Ronald Anderson, Co-editor The official journal of the Social Science Computing Association, SSCORE provides a unique forum for social scientists to acquire and share information on the research and teaching applications of microcomputing. Now, when you subscribe to Social Science Computer Review, you automatically become a member of the Social Science Computing Association. Quarterly Subscription prices: $48 individual, $80 institutions. Single Issue: $20. Please add $8 for postage outside the U.S. (Canadian residents add 7% GST) Duke University Press/ Journals Division / Box 90660 /Durham NC 27708 27) --------------------------------------------------------------- Studies in Popular Culture Dennis Hall, editor. Studies in Popular Culture, the journal of the Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South, publishes articles on popular culture and American culture however mediated: through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, events--any of the material or conceptual conditions of life. The journal enjoys a wide range of contributors from the United States, Canada, France, Israel, and Australia, which include distinguished anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers, ethnomusicologists, historians, and scholars in mass communications, philosophy, literature, and religion. Please direct editorial queries to the editor: Dennis Hall Department of English University of Louisville Louisville KY 40292 tel: (502) 588-6896/0509 Fax: (502) 588-5055 Bitnet: DRHALL01@ULKYVM Internet: drhall01@ulkvm.louisville.edu All manuscripts should be sent to the editor care of the English Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 Please enclose two, double-spaced copies and a self-addressed stamped envelope. Black and White illustrations may accompany the text. Our preference is for essays that total, with notes and bibliography, no more than twenty pages. Documentation may take the form appropriate for the discipline of the writer; the current MLA stylesheet is a useful model. Please indicate if the work is available on computer disk. The editor reserves the right to make stylistic changes on accepted manuscripts. Studies in Popular Culture is published semiannually and is indexed in the PMLA Annual Bibliography. All members of the Association receive Studies in Popular Culture. Yearly membership is $15.00 (International: $20.00). Write to: the Executive Secretary Diane Calhoun-French Academic Dean Jefferson Community College-SW Louisville, KY 40272 for membership, individual issues, back copies, or sets. Volumes I-XV are available for $225.00. 28) --------------------------------------------------------------- TDR The Journal of Performance Studies ...You may have never heard of us, yet you may be interested in... _____________________________________________________________ ______ ______ ______ ######| ######\ ######\ ##| ##| ##\ ##|__##| ##| ##| ##| ######/ ##| ##|__##/ ##| ##\ ___________________ ##| ######/ ##| ##\____________________ -- The Journal of Performance Studies - T142 (Summer 1994) -- TDR is a quarterly journal that explores the diverse world of performance. How does this relate to you? The journal emphasizes the intercultural, inter-disciplinary and spans numerous geographical areas and historical periods. TDR addresses performance issues of every kind: theatre, music dance, entertainment, media, sports, politics, aesthetics of everyday life, games, play and ritual. TDR is for people in the performing arts, the social sciences, academics, activists and theorists -- anyone interested in thinking about the "performance" paradigm. The journal is edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, and is published quarterly by The MIT Press. Although TDR is not yet an electronic journal, you can browse through sample articles available on-line through the Electronic Newsstand and order via e-mail from The MIT Press. For subscription prices and ordering information, contact the publisher: MIT Press Journals 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142 Tel: 617-253-2889 Fax: 617-258-6779 Email: journals-orders@mit.edu Or, access the MIT Press Online Catalog: telnet techinfo.mit.edu, under Around MIT/MIT Press/Journals/Arts/ or via gopher by typing "gopher gopher.mit.edu". To browse through an article from our current issue, logon to the The Electronic Newsstand: via telnet: gopher.internet.com (login name: enews). via gopher: gopher.internet.com (port 2100). Via the gopher menu, go to: North America/USA/general/The Electronic Newsstand/all titles/ TDR: The Drama Review 29) --------------------------------------------------------------- TONGUING THE ZEITGEIST A NEW NOVEL BY LANCE OLSEN So you want to be a rock'n'roll star? In a tomorrow that isn't distant enough, you'll have to sell your soul to MTV to pick up a guitar. And then they'll start carving you up, making you over in the mega-media image of glitter and bone.... LANCE OLSEN'S many other books include the novel Live from Earth and the first full-length study of the godfather of cyberpunk, William Gibson. His work has appeared in more than 200 magazines and anthologies, among them Mondo 2000, VLS, and Fiction International. To Order: Permeable Press 4 7 Noe Street, Suite 4 San Francisco, CA 94114 bcclark@igc.apc.org ISBN 1-882633-04-0, $11.95 30) --------------------------------------------------------------- VIRUS 23 For those brave souls looking to explore the Secret of Eris, you may wish to check out VIRUS 23. 2 and 3 are even and odd, 2 and 3 are 5, therefore 5 is even and odd. VIRUS 23 is a codename for all Erisian literature Don Webb 6304 Laird Dr. Austin TX 78757 0004200716@mcimail.com VIRUS 23 is the annual hardcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A, the Alberta Department of Spiritual Affairs. All issues are available at $7.00 ppd from: VIRUS 23 Box 46 Red Deer, Alberta Canada T4N 5E7 Various chunks of VIRUS 23 can be found at Tim Oerting's alt.cyberpunk ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out). For more information online contact: Darren Wershler-Henry grad3057@writer.yorku.ca 31) --------------------------------------------------------------- ViViD The first issue of ViViD Magazine is now available. ViViD is a hypertext magazine about experimental writing and creativity in cyberspace. We are actively seeking contributions for the next issue. The magazine ispresented in the colorful, graphics environment of a Windows 3.1 Help File. You will need Windows 3.1 to read the magazine. The magazine will also be availablevia anonymous FTP at "ftp.gmu.edu", to obtain it: ftp ftp.gmu.edu username: anonymous password: (your email address) cd pub/library binary get VIVID1.ZIP For more information on ViViD, contact the editor, Justin McHale. Internet address: jmchale@gmuvax.gmu.edu 32) --------------------------------------------------------------- Zines-L announcing a new list available from: listserv@uriacc To subscribe to Zines-L send a message to: listserv@uriacc.uri.edu on one line type: SUBSCRIBE ZINES-L first name last name 33) --------------------------------------------------------------- Postmodern Culture's PMC-MOO PMC-MOO is a service offered (free of charge) by Postmodern Culture. PMC-MOO is a real-time, text-based, virtual reality environment in which you can meet others interested in postmodernism and participate in poetry slams, conferences, and other special events. PMC-MOO has its own mailing lists on postmodern literature and theory. To connect to PMC-MOO, you must be on the internet. If you have an internet account, you can make a direct connection by typing the command telnet hero.village.virginia.edu 7777 at your command prompt. Once you've connected to the server, you should receive onscreen instructions on how to log in to PMC-MOO. Note: If you do not receive these onscreen instructions, but instead find yourself with a straight login: and password: prompt, it means that your telnet program or interface is ignoring the 7777 at the end of the command given above, and you will need to ask your local user-support people how to telnet to a specific port number. No special client software is required to use PMC-MOO, but clients can make it easier to participate. For a sample client-based login, telnet to hero.village.virginia.edu and give "pmcdemo" as your login i.d. (hit "Enter" when prompted for a password). 34) -------------------------------------------------------------- Cultural Cartographies Call For Submissions for Graduate Student Conference Cultural Cartographies: Mapping the Postcolonial Moment March, 24 - 26, 1995 Postcolonial theory is at a crossroads in both its academic and political receptions. This conference intends to map interdisciplinary approaches to postcoloniality--textual, theoretical, political. Exploring problems of nationhood, ethnicity, historicity, intertextuality and subjectivity will help us to interrogate existing models of postcoloniality and, perhaps, devise alternative ones. We welcome papers, creative manuscripts, and panel proposals that exhibit a variety of critical and literary engagements with postcolonial discourse. Panels may be specific to a national or regional literature, to a single author or theorist, to political movements as they are refigured textually, to representations of gender and race, and to the applicability of Eurocentric theory to non-Eurocentric texts. Creative reading sessions may be organized by genre, by theme, and by formal strategies. Conference features include a creative reading by novelist Bapsi Sidhwa, author of Cracking India, and an address by C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander, professor at Amherst College and research fellow at the National Humanities Center. In addition, the best graduate paper will recieve a $100 prize, sponsored by Postmodern Culture. Please send or email a detailed 1 - 2 page abstract by December 2, 1994 to: Jonathan Beasley egjob@unity.ncsu.edu or David Hatfield baffle@unity.ncsu.edu Please send or email creative work by December 2, 1994 to: Caitlin Cary ccary@unity.ncsu.edu English Department Tompkins Hall, Box 8105 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8105 35) -------------------------------------------------------------- AFRITECH '95 ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE The AFRITECH List is now available for use by prospective registrants for the AFRITECH '95 ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE. The List will serve as the point of registration for the conference, keep prospective participants up to date, and provide a forum for input into the development and administration of the conference, scheduled for January 20-22, 1995. See Announcement below for details on the conference and for joining the List. "SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS: PERSPECTIVES AND ISSUES FOR CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DEBATE" January 20-22, 1995. AFRITECH '95 will provide an opportunity for participants to engage in two-and-a-half days of cross disciplinary debate and discussion on a variety of topics related to technology and the African American experience. Researchers, educators, and practitioners will be able to interact with participants from around the world by signing on to different discussion groups within the conference, from home or office. This Conference is sponsored by the Planning Committee for the Mid-Year Electronic Conference of the "Technology and the African-American Experience Workshop Group." The First Annual International Workshop on "Technology and the African-American Experience" was held last May 20-22, 1994, at Howard University, Washington, DC. The Workshop was planned to bring together those who were doing research, or interested in doing research on the following topics: Workplace Technology and Workers; Urban Infrastructure and Transportation Engineering; Environmental Justice; Health and Medicine; Engineering and Engineering Education; Computers, Communication and Information Technologies; Inventors and Inventing; Unexplored Research Frontiers in Technology; Issues of Public Policy, Politics; and Government Involvement with Technology. The Mid-Year Electronic Conference will focus on these same topics and registrants will be able to present papers and/or participate in the conference at the following levels: Area Chair, Panel Chair, Panelist or Discussant, Presenter of a Paper, or to just Attend. The AFRITECH List will serve as the communication source keeping prospective participants informed and up-to-date on the development of panels for the conference, registration, and provide a forum for input into the development and administration of the conference. Joining the List will also establish a Preregistration list for participating in the conference. Please feel free to notify your colleagues of this list and invite them to subscribe. In addition to subscribing to the list, participants will also need to decide ona preferred level of participation for the electronic conference. Papers, Abstracts and Levels of Participation should be submitted according to the following deadline dates, after subscribing to the List: Area and Panel Chairs: Committed by September 24, 1994 Presenters of Papers: Submit topics by October 7, 1994 Discussants (Panelists): Committed by October 7, 1994 Abstracts of Papers: Submitted by December 10, 1994 Other Attendees: Late Registration Ends, December 20, 1994. To subscribe to the List and receive further details on both the Conference and the List, send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU with the message: SUBSCRIBE AFRITECH as the only line in the body of the message (without the brackets). If you have questions about the List of the Electronic Conference send an e-mail message to Rosie L. Albritton (List-Owner and Chair of the Planning Committee for the Electronic Conference) at RALBRIT@WAYNEST1(or) RALBRIT@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU, or see phone and FAX numbers listed below. Rosie L. Albritton, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Library & Information Science Kresge Library 106 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan 48202-3939 Phone: (313) 577-6203 FAX: (313) 577-4172 36) -------------------------------------------------------------- CONVERGENCE: Art, Culture and the National Information Infrastructure Dear Colleague: A critical time is at hand for the institutions that hold our artistic and cultural heritage, the individuals who create it, and everyone who would benefit from those resources. We are on the threshold of a leap in communications similar in scope to the advent of electricity and the introduction of the telephone. In a just-over-the-horizon information landscape of almost unlimited potential, policies and legislation that are being debated today, will determine, quite possibly for decades to come, just how much territory one has access to, how easily, how often, and at what cost. But the rate at which these decisions are being made may leave the arts and humanities at the periphery, just at the moment when the stresses on our society beg for them to be returned to the center. On October 14-16, 1994, the Center for Art Research, in cooperation with The New Art Center and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is organizing a professionally-facilitated three-day conference at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the subject of "Arts and Humanities Policy Agendas for the National Information Infrastructure." The format of the conference will be that of an open, ongoing, managed conversation. A highly-skilled issue-neutral facilitator will foster a collaborative process and insure that all ideas that surface in the open forum are woven into the ongoing conversation. A conference of this type encourages participation, communication, and results. "Convergence" will offer an unprecedented opportunity for focusing and advocacy, and a chance to help forge enlightened telecommunications-policy in cooperation with major cultural, political and technological stakeholders. The next eighteen months will see crucial telecommunications-policy decisions being made. We hope you will be able to attend the conference and participate in the process. Sincerely, Jay Lee Jaroslav, Director Center for Art Research Information Infrastructure Project MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Cambridge, Massachusetts ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If you wish to receive complete Convergence printed materials, including a poster/brochure and list of participants, please contact the CONVERGENCE Conference Office The New Art Center Box 300 / 61 Washington Park Newtonville, MA 02160 USA Tel. (617) 964-3424 Fax. (617) 630-0081 Internet: conf@nac.tiac.net If you wish to register immediately, fill out the Registration Form that follows the information request form. The World Wide Web URL for the Convergence conference is: http://www.ai.mit.edu/events/convergence/convergence-main.html Jay Lee Jaroslav, Director (jaroslav@ai.mit.edu) Center for Art Research Information Infrastructure Project MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Sqare, Room NE43-795 Cambridge, MA 02139-4301 617.253.5814 37) -------------------------------------------------------------- CWRL Computers, Writing, Rhetorics and Literature/Learning. The HyperTexan e-Journal of the Computer Writing & Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Editor: John Slatin Assistant editors: Michael Davis, Mafalda Stasi, Greg VanHoosier- Carey, Susan Warshauer. As the title implies, the main topics of this electronic journal will be issues of textual production in electronic media and the relocation of humanities in a cyberspace community; with particular attention to the pedagogical aspects of all of the above. Starting from May 1994, CWRL will be available for anonymous FTP at the University of Texas Gopher - gopherhost.cc.utexas.edu, port 70. (SUT-Austin/UT Gopher Test Labs/DRC - Division of Rhetoric and Composition - ftp area). Together with the latest issue, there will be abstracts of older articles. Those older issues will be sent through e-mail by request, or will be available via anonymous FTP from the NeXT machine at the Lab. (At your e-mail address prompt, type ftp auden.en.utexas.edu; log on as anonymous; for your password write your e-mail address. Go into the appropriate directory by typing cd pub, then cd CWRL. Type get to import whatever article file you want. Logout by typing bye). Article submission is open to all: the editors will select the most interesting and relevant articles for publication. A copy of this statement and call for papers will be posted to the internet and to several mailing lists, and also will be available at our Gopher site, together with the guidelines for publication format. The formatting style will be the same as that used by PMC and other established e-journals in the field (see immediately below). Please try and limit yourselves to 5000 words. The authors will also have to include a 300-words abstract of their article. Please send articles and queries to: cwrl@auden.en.utexas.edu. The submission deadline for the first issue is April 15, 1994. Copyright is retained by the author. PMC submission guidelines: 'Essay documentation should follow the current MLA format, using parenthetical documentation with notes reserved for discursive text. Because underlining, bold-facing, and other text-formatting features are not available in this medium (at present), PMC uses the following conventions: _underlining_ *boldfacing* %italics% ^superscript^ (for note numbers) Because there are no pages in electronic text, we use paragraph numbers, set off to the left of the paragraph indentation. We format essays with a five-space left-hand margin to accomodate paragraph numbers, single-spaced lines, and sixty characters of text per line (which allows the margin plus the line to fit in a standard 65-character word-processing line)'. 38) -------------------------------------------------------------- Einstein meets Magritte An interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, human action and society Conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel May 29 / June 3, Brussels, Belgium Never before has humanity made such an attempt as now to take its fate into its own hands (science and technology). The increasing speed of current global changes, however, leads to a sense of disorientation. Need this paradox be resolved, and if so, can it be dealt with from a perception that knowledge and actions lead to ever larger fragmentation? Different attitudes prevail, involving respectively: (1) an attempt to reconstitute a form of unity, often projecting the hope that the alleged unwanted effects of scientific and technological progress will become comprehensible and eventually controllable; (2) a relativist attitude, depicting the modern worldview, with its instruments and products (western science and technology), as one among many conceivable,and probably not the most desirable, course for humanity. Each of these attitudes tends to portray the other as a caricature. 'Relativists' stigmatize attempts at unification as dictatorial, unfeasible and naive. Relativism, in its turn, is said to lead anywhere and nowhere at all. The aim of the conference is to gather scholars from different domains, inviting them to set up a dialogue between the above attitudes, and integrate the more relevant insights of both into a new perspective on global change. We have taken up the two myths of Albert Einstein and Rene Magritte, because we believe that where they 'meet' some significant clues might be revealed. How does science (producing knowledge and technology) confront art (producing revelations and sensations)? Do we have to oppose life 'within object' (the conscious ordering of the physical and social world, symbolized in 'Einstein') to a form of life 'beyond object' (symbolized in the imagery of Magritte)? Tentative list of invited speakers: Zygmunt BAUMAN, Leeds University, United Kingdom. Rosi BRAIDOTTI, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Bob EDWARDS, Cambridge University. United Kingdom. Murray GELL-MANN, Caltech and Santa Fe Institute, USA. Adolf GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Jurgen HABERMAS, University of Frankfurt, Germany. Douglas HOFSTADTER, Indiana University, USA. Julian JAYNES, Princeton University, USA. Daniel KOSHLAND, University of California, Berkeley, USA Niklas LUHMAN, University of Bielefeld, Germany. Constantin PIRON, University of Geneva, Switserland. Michel SERRES, Sorbonne-Stanford, France. Isabelle STENGERS, University of Brussels, Belgium. Zeev STERNHELL, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Bas VAN FRAASSEN, Princeton University, USA. Francisco J. VARELA, Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. James WATSON, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA Four workshops will be held during the conference on the following themes: 1. Science, society and the university. 2. The nature of life (and death). 3. A world in transition. 4. Worldviews and the problem of synthesis. Conference proceedings "Einstein meets Magritte : An nterdisciplinary eflection on science, nature, human action and society", will be published, including contributions of participants. Anyone wishing to take part in the conference, or to receive a second announcement containing a more complete programme, should fill in the reply form and return it to us. Conference secretary: Linda Dasseville DINF, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. tel: 32 2 629 34 90, fax: 32 2 629 34 95, e-mail: einmag@vub.ac.be For more information concerning the 'scientific aspect' of the conference contact: Diederik Aerts TENA,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium tel: 32 2 629 32 39 or 32 15 22 07 05 fax: 32 2 629 22 76 or 32 15 22 51 98 E-mail: diraerts@vub.ac.be or: Christiaan Sybesma, BIOF,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium tel: 32 2 629 32 69 E-mail: csybesma@vnet3.vub.ac.be The conference is part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the 'Vrije Universiteit Brussel', which was founded in 1969 as a separate university from the 'Universite Libre de Bruxelles'. It is co-organised by CLEA, an interdisciplinary research centre at this university investigating the possible ways of integrating different worldviews. 39) -------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication Submissions are invited for an issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication on: "The Role of Rhetoric in Contemporary Society" Rhetoric may be viewed as a means for accomplishing goals within the constraints of society. Therefore, as society changes, rhetorical theory and practice should also evolve. Among the most important changes in today's social world are innovations in new communication technologies (such as cellular telephones, cable television, and computer networking), global political and ecconomic realignments following the fall of communism, renewed focus on domestic concerns at the federal level, and heightened cultural fragmentation. Accordingly, this issue is devoted to exploring the role rhetoric plays in our changing contemporary society. Although this topic may be interpreted in a variety of ways, three particular approaches are suggested. First, essays may adopt a conceptual approach to address the role of rhetoric in contemporary society, reflecting on the nature and function of rhetorical practice or theory in today's society. Second, manuscripts may address the rhetorical possibilities and effects of the recent explosion of electronic media (e.g., television, cable, CD-ROMs, E-mail). Third, papers may critically analyze particular instances of situated rhetorical discourse in the 1990's. Questions regarding the appropriateness of a potential submission may be directed to the Special Issue Editor. All submissions must be received in electronic form (ascii text file over BITNET/INTERNET or by DOS disk) by the Special Issue Editor by December 2, 1994. (It is not possible to process submissions on paper or by FAX; individuals wishing to send papers on Mac disks should contact the Special Issue Editor.) All essays will be blind reviewed. Specific submissions guidelines may be obtained from the Special Issue Editor. William L. Benoit Special Issue Editor, Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication COMMWLB@MIZZOU1 (BITNET) / COMMWLB@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU (INTERNET) Department of Communication--115 Switzler University of Missouri, Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 (314) 882-0545 (314) 882-4431 40) -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers - Feminist Economics Feminist Economics, Journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics. Feminist Economics is a new and innovative journal dedicated to developing an interdisciplinary discourse on feminist perspectives on economics and the economy. The first issue of the journal, which will be published by Routledge, will appear in early 1995. The journal solicits high quality contributions from a broad spectrum of intellectual traditions in economics. The journal also welcomes contributions which treat economic issues from cross-disciplinary perspectives, including work in anthropology, cultural studies, critical race theory, gender studies, geography, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, post-colonial studies, public health, psychology, science, technology and society studies, and sociology. Specifically, Feminist Economics seeks submissions which: advance feminist inquiry into economic issues affecting the lives of women, men, and children; provide a feminist rethinking of theory and policy in diverse subfields and related areas of economics, including those not directly related to gender; provide insights into the relationship between gender and power relations in the economy and in the construction and legitimation of economic knowledge; extend feminist theoretical, historical, and methodological insights into economics and the economy; provide feminist insights into the underlying constructs of the economics discipline and into the historical, political, and cultural context of economic knowledge. The journal also welcomes very short essays of 1000 to 1500 words on topical theoretical, methodological and policy issues as well as comments on previously published articles. Authors should submit five (5) typewritten double-spaced copies of their manuscripts (in English) and an abstract of no more than 200 words. (For those based outside of North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, authors may submit three (3) rather than five copies of their manuscripts.) Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. While the title of the paper should appear on the first page of the manuscript, in the interests of double-blind reviewing, the author's name and address should not be included in the text. Author's information should be given on a separate accompanying page together with the title. Articles should be written as clearly and as concisely as possible, with the goal of broad accessibility to an audience of economists, scholars in related fields, and feminists concerned with economic issues. All manuscripts should be sent to: Diana Strassmann, Editor, Feminist Economics - MS 9, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892; (713) 527-4660; dls@rice.edu 41) -------------------------------------------------------------- GATES Requests for Contributions GATES is a new international journal promoting Greater Access to Technology, Engineering and Science. The first issue was published recently. Contributions are sought for Issue 2, due out at the end of the year, and future issues. Journal focus: GATES is directed to professionals committed to creating greater access to technology, engineering and science. The journal focuses on groups who are currently under-represented in education and employment in these areas, with a particular emphasis on women, people with disabilities, and people from minority ethnic backgrounds. This list is suggestive only, and articles relating to any group underrepresented in these disciplines will be considered for publication. The contents may be of interest to educators and careers advisers at the primary, secondary and post-secondary levels, parents, employers, and members of these under-represented groups. The journal is dedicated to advancing knowledge and to providing a forum for public debate on questions of access to technology, engineering and science. Sections of the journal: GATES publishes research articles, literature reviews, case studies of successful interventions, and descriptions of events and new resource materials. The journal is divided into three sections. The first section contains refereed articles describing original research or reviews of research. Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has not previously been published in a peer review journal, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Each article will be forwarded to two reviewers from an international panel of reviewers. Acceptance or rejection will depend on the reviewers' reports. Relevant comments will be forwarded anonymously to the first author. The second section of the journal contains descriptions of case studies. The third section provides constructive comments on issues raised by authors of refereed articles, summaries of interviews, reviews of new books and other resources, announcements of conferences, and any matters which may be of interest to readers. Contributions are welcomed for any of the three sections. Contributions can be sent to The Editors GATES Deakin University Victoria 3217 AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 52 27 2028 Email: gates@deakin.edu.au Further information regarding presentation and submission of manuscripts can be obtained from these addresses or by anonymous ftp from pub/gates at rana.deakin.edu.au Subscribers and sponsors are welcomed also. The individual annual subscription rate is AUD25 (Australia) and AUD30 (overseas), approximately US$23, and the institutional rates are double the individual rates. 42) -------------------------------------------------------------- Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist is a research project investigating the use of hypertext technology by creative writers. The project consists of evaluations of software and hardware, critiques of traditional and computerized works, and a guide to sites of publication. We would like to request writers to submit their works for review. Publishers are requested to send descriptions of their publications with subscription fees and submission formats. We are especially interested to hear from institutions which teach creative writing for the hypertext format. To avoid swamping our e-mail account, please limit messages to a page or two in length. Send works on disk (IBM or Mac) or hardcopy to: Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist 3 Westcott Upper London, Ontario N6C 3G6 KEEPC@QUCD>QUEENSU.CA 43) -------------------------------------------------------------- THE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POPULAR CULTURE CALL FOR PAPERS Scholars are invited to submit manuscripts/reviews that meet the following criteria: ISSUES: The Journal invites critical reviews of films, documentaries, plays, lyrics, and other related visual and performing arts. The Journal also invites original manuscripts from all social scientific fields on the topic of popular culture and criminal justice. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: To submit material for the Journal, please subscribe to CJMOVIES through the listserv and a detailed guidelines statement will automatically follow. To subscribe, send a message with the following command to: LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1: SUBSCRIBE CJMOVIES YourFirstName YourLastName: Manuscripts and inquiries should be addressed to: The Editors Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture SUNYCRJ@ALBNYVM1.BITNET or SUNYCRJ@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU MANAGING EDITORS: Sean Anderson and Greg Ungar Editors Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture School of Criminal Justice, SUNYA 135 Western Avenue Albany, NY 12222 INTERNET: SA1171@ALBNYVM1.BITNET or GU8810@uacsc1.albany.edu LIST ADMINISTRATOR: Seth Rosner School of Criminal Justice, SUNY SR2602@uacsc1.albany.edu or SR2602@thor.albany.edu 44) -------------------------------------------------------------- EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL KANT CONGRESS with "Kant and the Problem of Peace" March 1-5, 1995 Memphis, Tennessee USA The Kant-Gesellschaft e.V. (Bonn) has authorized the University of Memphis, in collaboration with the North American Kant Society, to host the Eighth International Kant Congress. The congress will be held March 1-5, 1995 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, in conjunction with the featured conference series, ``Kant and the Problem of Peace.'' Opening Session Welcoming Ceremonies: Representatives of the Kant-Gesellschaft, the North American Kant Society, the University of Memphis, the city of Memphis, the state of Tennessee, the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany. Opening Addresses: Mary Gregor (San Diego State); Jules Vuillemin (Paris). Kant and the Problem of Peace Symposium Topics: Freedom; Religion; History; Law; Government; Society; Morality; Politics. Speakers Include: Henry Allison (San Diego), Shlomo Avineri (Jerusalem), Reinhard Brandt (Marburg), Sharon Byrd (Augsburg), Jean Ferrari (Dijon), George Fletcher (Columbia), Georg Geismann (Munich), Volker Gerhardt (Berlin), Paul Guyer (Pennsylvania), Joachim Hruschka (Erlangen),`Jan Joerden (Frankfurt/Oder), Leonid Kalinnikov (Kaliningrad), Wolfgang Kersting (Hannover), Pauline Kleingeld (St. Louis), Pierre Laberge (Ottawa), Bernd Ludwig (Munich), Rudolf Makkreel (Emory), Jeffrey Murphy (Arizona State), Onora O'Neill (Cambridge), Francoise Proust ( Paris), Patrick Riley (Wisconsin/Harvard), Ludwig Siep (Muenster), Ernest Weinrib (Toronto), Reiner Wimmer (Tuebingen), Allen Wood (Cornell). Kantian Themes Symposium Topics: Mathematics; Psychology; Logic; Deduction; Pre-History; Dialectic; Science; Opus postumum; Phenomenology; Kantians; Ethics; Aesthetics; Teleology; Space; Hegel; 3rd Critique; Critical Theory; Kant Research Today. Speakers Include: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Richard Aquila (Tennessee), John Atwell (Temple), Marcia Baron (Illinois-Urbana), Manfred Baum (Wuppertal), Graham Bird (Manchester), James Bohman (St. Louis), Daniel Breazeale (Kentucky), Vladimir Bryushinkin (Kaliningrad), Jill Buroker (San Bernardino), Robert Butts (Western Ontario), Mario Caimi (Buenos Aires), Wolfgang Carl (Goettingen), Martin Carrier (Heidelberg), Bernd Doerflinger (Mainz), Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh), Eckard Foerster (Stanford), Christel Fricke (Heidelberg), Michael Friedman (Chicago), Ludger Honnefelder (Bonn), Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Munich), Stephen Houlgate (DePaul), Fumiyasu Ishikawa (Sendai), Klaus Kaehler (Cologne), Patricia Kitcher (San Diego), Jane Kneller (Colorado State), Manfred Kuehn (Purdue), Rudolf Langthaler (Vienna), Claudio La Rocca (Pisa), Beatrice Longuenesse (Princeton), Rudolf Malter (Mainz), Francois Marty (Paris), Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern), Ralf Meerbote (Rochester), J. N. Mohanty (Temple), Susan Neiman (Yale), Frederick Neuhouser (Harvard), Jean Petitot (Paris), Robert Pippin (Chicago), Carl Posy (Duke), Gian-Carlo Rota (MIT), Walter Schaller (Texas Tech), Dennis Schmidt (Villanova), Sally Sedgwick (Dartmouth), Thomas Seebohm (Mainz), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown), David Stern (Toledo, Ohio), Dieter Sturma (Lueneburg), Roger Sullivan (South Carolina), Burkhard Tuschling (Marburg), James Van Cleve (Brown), Michael Young (Kansas), Guenter Zoeller (Iowa). The Rawls Legacy Speakers Include: Barbara Herman (Southern California), Thomas Hill (Chapel Hill), Christine Korsgaard (Harvard), Susan Neiman (Yale), John Rawls (Harvard), Andrews Reath (Raleigh). Kant Reception in Eastern Europe Speakers Include: Karol Bal (Wroclaw), Leonid Kalinnikov (Kaliningrad), Rado Riha (Ljubljana), Leonid Stolovich (Tartu), Andrei Sudakov (Moscow). Kant Reception in Asia Speakers Include: Arindan Chakrabarti (Delhi), Golam Dastagir (Dhaka), Steven Palmquist (Hong Kong), Terence Hua Tai (Taipei), Shin-Chi Yuas a (Kyoto). Kant Dissemination Speakers Include: Paul Guyer (Pennsylvania), Manfred Kuehn (Purdue), Winfried Lenders (Bonn), Rudolf Malter (Mainz), Nellie Motroschilova (Moscow), Werner Stark (Marburg), Miroslav Zelazny (Torun). Current Work on the Philosophy of Kant This section consists of a series of colloquia containing c. 100 refereed contributions on all aspects of Kant's work and influence. --For registration information please contact: Organizing Committee Eighth International Kant Congress Department of Philosophy The University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee 38152 U. S. A. (Tel:+901-678-3356; Fax: +901-678-4365; E-mail: ROBINSONH@MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU ) --For hotel reservations, contact Crowne Plaza Hotel (specifying "Kant Congress rate"), 250 N. Main, Memphis, Tennessee 38103 U.S.A. (Tel: +901-527-7300; Fax +901-526-1561). --For special air fares and other travel arrangements, contact Ann Scobie, Hanover Travel, 0 N. Evergreen St., Memphis, Tennessee U.S.A (Tel: +901-276-4404; Fax +901-276-4494). 45) -------------------------------------------------------------- THE LITTLE MAGAZINE WRITING AND ELECTRONIC SPACE CYBORG PERFORMANCE AND POETICS THE LITTLE MAGAZINE is looking for writing and visual artwork which exists in the imagination of media still uncreated. For all of its power and fascination, electronic media are still limited by metaphors clumsily imported from print. James Joyce and Ezra Pound were making hypertexts sixty years before the appropriate technology was created. We are looking for work which can be reproduced in the pages of THE LITTLE MAGAZINE but will inspire the engineers of the third millennium. Although we are interested in adventuresome uses of the technology, it is not technology but vision which is lacking. We do not need virtual reality machines cranking out the same kind of misinformation that we get from television in even more addictive forms, but we are sick also of the polite, conventional thing literature has become. It is so comfortably contained in print. It is mediated and re-mediated (already); it is the subject of schools. We are not interested in work which exemplifies the theories of the past or even the hottest, most engaging theory of the present. We are interested in work which will call forth the media of the future. CYBERPUNK GROW UP! The deadline for the issue is December 15, 1994, but get in touch with us as soon as possible. We will try to find a way to publish important work even if it does not fit neatly into the usual literary magazine format. Tell us about your writing, visual art, sound pieces, videos, multimedia performances, network art, and investigations of genres still unnamed. The Editors THE LITTLE MAGAZINE Department of English State University of New York at Albany Albany, NY 12222 DJB85@csc.albany.edu 46) -------------------------------------------------------------- MECHANICS OF DESIRE: DELEUZE, MASOCH, AND THE LIBIDINAL ECONOMY OF FUR Deleuze's is one of the rare analyses of masochism which do not anchor themselves in either psychopathology or political victimhood. This theory informed, but not necessarily theory bound, interdisciplinary anthology focuses on the dynamics and problematics of desire as they arise out of the Deleuze-Masoch encounter. Contributors are asked to deploy either or both of these texts as points of departure in exploring the traversals or restrictions involved in the masochistic scenario and its intensities, law and its contracts, body and its perversions. Contributions on closely related topics will also be considered. Address texts (essays, photographic essays, scripts, prose, etc ... )to Fadi Abou-Rihan Department of Philosophy University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1. e-mail: abouriha@epas.utoronto.ca Final Submissions by March 15 1995 47) -------------------------------------------------------------- The Network Services Conference 1994 NSC'94 Great Western Royal Hotel London, England, 28-30 November 1994 Open computer networking is no longer the sole domain of universities and research institutions. Today, governments, schools, public organizations, commercial enterprises and private individuals are actively using and supplying information over the global Internet. How will these various network communities cooperate and interact? How will the academic and research community adapt to the new network reality? How will the network and networking tools now available stand up to the explosion in number of users and amount of information available? How will we train novices? What will we pay for and what will be for free as the commercialization of the network progresses? Will we be inundated by advertising over the net? These are only a few of the questions facing network service providers and users alike. Building on the success of the previous Network Services Conferences in Pisa (1992) and Warsaw (1993), NSC'94 will focus on the issue of providing services to customers, paying special attention to the exciting developments in global tools and services. We will address the impact of the new global tools on service development and support, the changing function of traditional tools and services (such as archives), new services (such as multi-media communications), the future role of the library and the effects of commercialization on networks and network services. Customer support at all levels, and the role of support in accessing global services, will also be covered. Talks, tutorials, demonstrations and other conference activities will address the needs of the research, academic, educational, government, industrial, and commercial network communities. NSC'94 is being organized by the EARN (European Academic and Research Network) Association in cooperation with the Internet Society, RARE, RIPE, NORDUnet and Eunet. 48) -------------------------------------------------------------- Open City CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Utopian thinkers have imagined open cities in many ways. Whether material or virtual, all versions propose to establish a transparent, cosmopolitan metropolis, a place where culture can be efficiently exchanged. One version is Ernst Junger's novel Heliopolis, a cybernetic fantasy in which a world of fluid information enfolds all societies, including a South Pole city. Today his Sun City is being promoted in the notion of an open web of virtual cities on the net which, it is claimed, will join differences in a great liberal conversation. Indeed, the 'Net's intersections, its accidental encounters and air of intimacy, recall a sensuous version of the open city--the urban romanticism of Walter Benjamin's Parisian flaneur or Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City. In other open cities the conversation is more severely limited--in the rational space of Japan's Kansai Science City, for example, which is to be built on an island of garbage to extract profit from the research community that will live there among the modems. In the City--London's financial district--openness is more explicitly a matter of control. IRA bombs have provoked government street blockades and comprehensive video surveillance that prevent the flight of jittery foreign capital. Theories of openness invoke a territory free of limits, but reintroduce closure in disguised form. Every effort to enact universality or transparency generates homogeneity and foreclosure--the very ideology of openness itself signals the closure it seeks to banish. It is a dilemma that offers no easy way out. The task of Open City is to think this impasse in its complications, knots, and difficulties--to sustain the open city in its troubling process of construction. To this end we invite you to send us your written or graphic work - in the genre of your choice - by October 1, 1994. Alphabet City is an interdisciplinary magazine of culture and politics. Its next issue, Fascism and Its Ghosts, will be on the stands in September. Mail: Box 387 Station P Toronto Canada M5S 2S9 Facsimile: 416 538 1210 Internet: submit_opencity@intacc.net.web 49) -------------------------------------------------------------- Postmodern Culture Postmodern Culture A SUNY Press Series Series Editor: Joseph Natoli Editor: Carola Sautter Center for Integrative Studies, Arts and Humanities Michigan State University We invite submissions of short book manuscripts that present a postmodern crosscutting of contemporary headlines--green politics to Jeffrey Dahmer, Rap Music to Columbus, the Presidential campaign to Rodney King--and academic discourses from art and literature to politics and history, sociology and science to women's studies, form computer studies to cultural studies. This series is designed to detour us off modernity's yet-to-be- completed North-South Superhighway to Truth and onto postmodernism's "forking paths" crisscrossing high and low culture, texts and life-worlds, selves and sign systems, business and academy, page and screen, "our" narrative and "theirs," formula and contingency, present and past, art and discourse, analysis and activism, grand narratives and dissident narratives, truths and parodies of truths. By developing a postmodern conversation about a world that has overspilled its modernist framing, this series intends to link our present ungraspable "balkanization" of all thoughts and events with the means to narrate and then re-narrate them. Modernity's "puzzle world" to be "unified" and "solved" becomes postmodernism's multiple worlds to be represented within the difficult and diverse wholeness that their own multiplicity and diversity shapes and then re-shapes. Accordingly, manuscripts should display a "postmodernist style" that moves easily and laterally across public as well as academic spheres, "inscribes" within as well as "scribes" against realist and modernist modes, and strives to be readable-across-multiple- narratives and "culturally relative" rather than "foundational." Inquiries, proposals, and manuscripts should be addressed to: Joseph Natoli Series Editor 20676jpn@msu.edu or Carola Sautter Editor SUNY Press SUNY Plaza Albany, NY 12246-0001 50) -------------------------------------------------------------- PSYCHE an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness You are invited to submit papers for publication in the inaugural issue of PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness (ISSN: 1039-723X). PSYCHE is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration form the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. PSYCHE publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a diverse academic audience four times per year. As an electronic journal, the usual space limitations of print journals do not apply; however, the editors request that potential authors do not attempt to abuse the medium. PSYCHE also publishes a hardcopy version simultaneously with the electronic version. Long articles published in the electronic format may be abbreviated, synopsized, or eliminated form the hardcopy version. Types of Articles: The journal publishes from time to time all of the following varieties of articles. Many of these (as indicated below) are peer reviewed; all articles are reviewed by editorial staff. Research Articles reporting original research by author(s). Articles may be either purely theoretical or experimental or some combination of the two. Articles of special interest occasionally will be followed by a selection of peer commentaries. Peer Reviewed. Survey Articles reporting on the state of the art research in particular areas. These may be done in the form of a literature review or annotated bibliography. More ambitious surveys will be peer reviewed. Discussion Notes critiques of previous research. Peer Reviewed. Tutorials introducing a subject area relevant to the study of consciousness to non-specialists. Letters providing and informal forum for expressing opinions on editorial policy or upon material previously published in PSYCHE. Screened by editorial staff. Abstracts summarizing the contents of recently published journal articles, books, and conference proceedings. Book Reviews which indicate the contents of recent books and evaluate their merits as contributions to research and/or as textbooks. Announcements of forthcoming conferences, paper submission deadlines, etc. Advertisements of immediate interest to our audience will be published: available grants; positions; journal contents; proposals for joint research; etc. Notes for Authors: Unsolicited submissions of original works within any of the above categories are welcome. Prospective authors should send articles directly to the executive editor. Submissions should be in a single copy if submitted electronically of four (4) copies if submitted by mail. Submitted matter should be preceded by: the author's name; address; affiliation; telephone number; electronic mail address. Any submission to be peer reviewed should be preceded by a 100-200 word abstract as well. Note that peer review will be blind, meaning that the prefatory material will not be made available to the referees. In the event that an article needs to be shortened for publication in the print version of PSYCHE, the author will be responsible for making any alterations requested by the editors. Any figures required should be designed in screen-readable ASCII. If that cannot be arranged, figures should be submitted as separate postscript files so that they can be printed out by readers locally. Authors of accepted articles assign to PSYCHE the right to publish the text both electronically and as printed matter and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. Authors will, however, retain copyright to their articles and may republish them in any forum so long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCHE as the original source of publication. Subscriptions: Subscriptions to the electronic version of PSYCHE may be initiated by sending the one-line command, SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L Firstname Lastname, in the body on an electronic mail message to: LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET 51) -------------------------------------------------------------- Queer-E Call for Reviewers Queer-E, the interdisciplinary electronic journal of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies is seeking article reviewers in the following disciplines: PHILOSOPHY (all areas, but especially contemporary American and Continental) CYBERCULTURE FEMINISM/WOMEN'S STUDIES TRANSGENDER STUDIES/ACTIVISM FILM/MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS Reviewers for Queer-E will be asked to review no more than three articles in any one calendar year. Reviewers are asked to agree to a "double-blind" review process (i.e. reviewers will not know the identity of the article's author, and the author will not know the identity of his/her reviewers). Queer-E will provide a "review-form" upon which reviewers can make their comments to the author, and their recommendation to the editorial collective of Queer-E. If you would like to volunteer your time to Queer-E in this manner, please send the following information to : 1. a short biography detailing your academic and/or activist expertise 2. a short list of your publications and other work in the field of Queer Studies 3. an idea of what sort of articles you would be most interested in reviewing, or most able to review for Queer-E. Queer-e E-Journal Update/Request Thank you to everyone (nearly 500 of you!) who has shown interest and given support by subscribing to Queer-e: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Writing. The premiere issue, expected late this Autumn, is under construction. Do you have a manuscript, book review, conference paper, or maybe part of your dissertation, that you would like to have published, to share with the other 499 subscribers/readers? If so, why not consider sending it to us to be considered for inclusion in our first general issue? We have extended the deadline until August 1st, so there is still time to contribute. Please feel free to contact the editorial collective to discuss any writing projects you have on hand or in progress. We look forward to receiving your work! The Queer-e Editorial Collective c/o queer-e-approval@vector.casti.com for information about subscribing to Queer-e, or to receive a copy of the call for papers, mail a post that says: info queer-e-text to majordomo@vector.casti.com 52) -------------------------------------------------------------- Reading Rock 'n' Roll: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Musics. Call for Submissions Original essays and proposals are solicited for an essay collection, tentatively called Reading Rock 'n' Roll: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Musics. Duke University Press has expressed interest in considering the volume for publication. Though a handful of rock lyrics are now regularly included in Intro to Lit anthologies, we have not been generally encouraged to take rock lyrics, live and recorded performances, and music videos seriously, or to employ the analytical tools of literary criticism in order to read them. With the rise of cultural studies, however, and the resultant blurring of the traditional boundaries between high art and popular entertainment, these ostensibly low-brow texts have begun to look every bit as complex, ironic, and deserving of serious study as their high-culture counterparts. In particular, we are interested in exploring rock music's relation to other forms of discourse, both in the ways it has appropriated and reconfigured them and how it has begun to be appropriated by artists from other media as a source of allusion, quotation, and mise en scene--a kind of cultural shorthand. This volume hopes to probe some of these intertextual tensions, and the various new protocols of reading they suggest. Among questions and topics that might be explored: * How does contemporary musical practice affect our thinking about issues of quotation, allusion, plagiarism, and piracy? * How has the presence of openly gay and lesbian musicians influenced the politics of contemporary popular music? * Is musical technology driving rock, or is rock driving the technology? * How have popular musics been adapted by and adapted themselves to Madison Avenue and "the cultural logic of late capitalism"? * Can popular musics make an important intervention in gender and other culture wars? + Musical and verbal self-consciousness in rock since the British Invasion + Ironic reframings of rock (a la Spinal Tap, Beavis & Butt-head, Wayne's World, etc.) + Rock's appropriation of other forms (classical, jazz, world music, etc.) + The resurgence of interest in disco and other "bad" musics: The Knack, The Village People, Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, KC & the Sunshine Band, etc. + The new trans-generational duos: Bono & Sinatra, Costello & Bennett, Beavis & Butt-head & Cher, etc. Interested authors should write, phone, or e-mail with queries, or send 1-2 page abstracts (or completed essays of 20-35 pp., Chicago style) by 31 March 1995, to: Kevin J. H. Dettmar Department of English Box 341503 Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1503 (803) 656 5397 (office) (803) 653 9122 (home) (803) 656 1345 (fax) dkevin@clemson.edu (e-mail) William Richey Department of English University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (803) 931 5265 (office) (803) 765 0763 (home) (803) 777 9064 (fax) 53) -------------------------------------------------------------- RESEARCH ON VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS ******************************************************* * * * RESEARCH ON VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS * * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * Have you had an interesting virtual relationship * * on electronic networks? A research team wants * * your story. Material acknowledged and terms * * respected. Both research articles and a * * general press (trade) book planned. * * * * Mail to Either Address * * USA: CANADA: * * -or- * * VIRTUAL, PALABRAS * * P.O. Box 46, Box 175, Stn. E * * Boulder Creek, Toronto, Ontario * * California 95006 CANADA M6H 4E1 * * * * E-Mail (internet): yfak0073@vm1.yorku.ca * * Fax: (to Canada): (416) 736-5986 * * -> Please re-post to relevant network sites <- * * ( A Distributed Knowledge Project Undertaking ) * ******************************************************* 54) -------------------------------------------------------------- SIXTIES GENERATIONS: FROM MONTGOMERY TO VIET NAM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MEETING OF SCHOLARS, ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS Second Annual Conference November 4-6, 1994 Sponsored by Viet Nam Generation and hosted by Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT Call for papers, session proposals, readings, performance art pieces, and workshops. Sixties Folk, I'm once again posting the call for papers for our "Sixties Generations" conference in November. I'm hoping to see many of you there, and to meet many of you for the first time, face to face. Proposals have been coming in at a steady pace and it looks like this year's conference will be even more informative and entertaining than last year's. (The program for last year's conference is appended to this post.) One of the features of this year's conference will be a Sixties-style coffeehouse, during which we'll feature the work of poets and writers. We feel that the mix of academics and artists/writers and activists makes for a lively gathering and a great environment for interdisciplinary work. I encourage you to participate by submitting scholarly papers/panels, proposing to read your work, stage your performance piece, or hold workshops on activism. See you there, Kali Tal The First Annual Sixties Generations conference was held March 4-6, 1993,in Fairfax, Virginia. It was sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and the American Studies, Film Studies and African American Studies Programs of George Mason University. Sixty academic paper presentations, eight poetry and prose readings, one play reading and a concert filled three days. We also held a full-day roundtable discussion, "On the Sixties in the Nineties," featuring participants who were activists in the Sixties and continue to be so today, including activists in SNCC, SDS, the Black Panther Party, the Yippies, various racial/ethnic formation, antiwar formations, political formations, women's groups and cultural workers. The morning session will focus on recollections and reflections on people's involvement in movement work in the 60's. The afternoon session will focus on the value of the lessons and the continuing agendas and methods of the 60's movements as they affect the work of social justice in the 90's. We encourage conference participants to drop in on the Roundtable and join the ongoing discussion. Roundtable participants are also urged to visit other conference events and to join us for a cash bar, reception, and concert at the conclusion of the discussion. Conference Panels 9:00-10:30am Panel 9: Viet Nam War Film I "Viet Nam War Film," Cynthia Fuchs; "The Heart of Darkness Motif in Vietnam War Texts," David L. Erben, Univ of South Florida; "Warren Beatty and the Draft," Katherine Kinney, UC Riverside 10:45am-12:15pm Panel 10: Sixties Popular Culture "Folk Songs and Allusions to Folks Songs in the Repertoire of the Grateful Dead," Josephine A. McQuail, Tennessee Tech Univ; "Beatles, Beach Boys, Leave It To Beaver, Mustangs, GTO's Freedom Marches, a sexual revolution, a war and PTSD," John Ketwig; "Talking about the Beatles," Bernie Sanders 1:30-3:00pm Panel 11: Performing Arts "Planet Shakespeare: The Bard in Cold War America" Susan Fox, Washington, DC; "Shakespeare, Kerouac & Hedrick," Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas State Univ; "West African Dance and Race/Culture and Gender Identity in Los Angeles African American Communities," Phylise Smith, UCLA Panel 12: Reinterpreting the Sixties V "Peace Through Law: John Seiberling's Vision of World Order," Miriam Jackson, Kent, OH; "Reverend Malcolm Boyd and Bishop Paul Moore, Jr.," Michael B. Friedland, Boston College; Eros on the New Frontier: The Limits of Liberal Tolerance," Louis J. Kern, Hofstra Univ 3:15-4:45pm Panel 13: The Viet Nam War "The National Liberation Front in South Viet Nam," Ton That Manh Tuong; "The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in Contradiction," Anthony O. Edmonds;"The Impact of the American Antiwar Movement on the South Vietnamese Urban Youth Struggle Movement," Nguyen Huu Thai Panel 14: Viet Nam War Film/Drama II "Decentering Genre: Vietnam War Films and Portrayal of Reality," Catherine E. Richardson, Chattanooga, TN; "The Death of the Sixties: Easy Rider & and Deliverance," Margie Burns, Cheverly, MD;"Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino," Dave DeRose, Yale Univ 5:00-6:30pm Panel 15: Music "Folkore of the Viet Nam War," Lydia Fish, SUNY-Buffalo; "In Country Songs," Chuck Rosenberg; "Pilot Songs of the Viet Nam War," Chip Dockery 7:30pm Concert & Reception O.V. Hirsch Chip Dockery Chuck Rosenberg 55) -------------------------------------------------------------- The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction will hold its 1995 Gregory P. Stone Symposium on May 19-21, 1995 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The symposium theme is "Talking at the Borders: Marking and Blurring Interactionist Boundaries," with program and events being organized by Andrew Herman, Joseph Schneider, and Allen Shelton of the Department of Sociology at Drake. Contributions in various forms focusing on articulations of symbolic interactionist sociology and cultural studies, including deconstruction, poststructuralism, poststructuralist feminism, critical theory, postmarxism, queer theory, subaltern or postcolonial studies, and American pragmatism are especially invited. General topics include new forms and practices of ethnography; the critical analysis of the mass mediated images and technologies that make up "the popular"; the implications of the critique of the humanist "subject" for interactionist work; issues surrounding new technologies of writing the social; critical pedagogy; the queering of sexuality, gender, and identity; and the ethics and politics of a possible interactionism that lies past the post(s). Various formats for involvement will include the standard conference paper, "review"-type sessions that focus on a single issue or piece of work; seminar/colloquia formats involving small numbers of participants, and guided discussions of readings distributed prior to the conference. Deadline for proposed participation is 1 December 1994. A detailed call is in preparation. Persons interested in receiving this mailing, or in other information about the conference, should contact Herman (ah7301r@acad.drake.edu; 515-271-2936), Schneider (js2861r@acad.drake.edu; 515-271-2158) or Shelton (as0441r@acad.drake.edu; 515-271-4594). The relevant mailing address is Department of Sociology, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311. 56) -------------------------------------------------------------- splinter splinter is a new electronic publication that seeks texts in various states of unfinish prose poetry neither both your scraps your scrytch your fragments your language doodles unfinished stories unfinished scenes unfinished sentences experiments freewriting drafts of drafts outlines bits of dialogue directionless musings stanzas that never found their way into poems flashes that dead-ended scribbled down and never became no length guidelines / authors keep all rights rolling submission, no deadlines the contact address at this point is dave1@gibbs.oit.unc.edu send your submissions, subscription requests, questions, and comments (put SPLINTER somewhere in the subject line) e-mail subscriptions are free and encouraged thanks 57) -------------------------------------------------------------- STRAIGHT WITH A TWIST: QUEER THEORY AND THE SUBJECT OF HETEROSEXUALITY CALL FOR PAPERS For a collection of essays with the title---STRAIGHT WITH A TWIST: QUEER THEORY AND THE SUBJECT OF HETEROSEXUALITY---theorists and critics are invited to submit essays which explore the political and discursive boundaries of sexual identity, with particular attention to the problem of "straight" negotiations of "queer" theory. Among the issues that might be addressed would be: the "queer" as a discursive formation and its relations to the designations "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," and "straight" and the experiential fields they represent; the critical appropriation/deployment/proliferation of the word "queer" by heterosexually identified theorists (can "straights" be "critically queer?"); the tension between anti-foundationalist theories of sexuality and identity politics; confronting homophobia from within (i.e., one's own); the relation between "straight" readings of "queer" theory and other negotiations of difference, such as "male feminism," "white" readings of "ethnic and minority" theory, etc.; the question of the body; pedagogical and curricular problems; specific readings in literature, film, and mass culture. Please send inquiries, proposals, or fully written papers by January 15, 1995 to: Calvin Thomas Department of English Literature and Language 115 Baker Hall University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50613 calvin.thomas@cobra.uni.edu 58) -------------------------------------------------------------- Style Special issue of Style on Possible Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Postmodern Fiction Deadline for submission: November 30, 1994. To be published in 1995 Contributions are solicited on the following topics: 1. The centrality of ontological questions in postmodernist fiction and the contribution of the theory of possible worlds in capturing and formulating the ontological issue. In particular: the stacking/embedding of realities, the transgression of ontological boundaries, the uses of recursive structures and their ontological implications. 2. Virtual reality (VR) as a technological implementation of the philosophical concept of possible world. 3. Challenges to the notion of actual world and alternatives to the "modal structure" in narrative universes. Hypertext and the decentralization of semantic universes. The theme of the disappearance of reality in fiction and theory. 4. Hyperrealism as parody of realism in postmodern culture. The philosophical basis of the concept of realism and its connection to virtual reality. 5. The thematization (especially in science fiction) of the concepts of virtual reality, parallel universes, alternative possible worlds, immersion in game-worlds, and interplanetary travel as a metaphor for movement across possible worlds. 6. Game-theory and the concept of immersion in virtual worlds--as either thematized or implemented in postmodernist fiction or popular fiction. 7. The myth of virtual reality in contemporary culture and media. 8. Virtual reality as a simulacrum. The role of simulacra (imitations, images, copies) in postmodern culture and fiction. The problematics of the relation between image and reality, sign and referent, original and copy and its implementation in postmodernist fiction. Papers must be original contributions and will be refereed. Length should be between 20 and 40 pages, double spaced. Before submitting a paper, please contact the guest editor: Marie-Laure Ryan 6207 Red Ridge Trail Bellvue, Colorado 80512 mmryan@vines.colostate.edu 59) -------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSFORMATION: MARXIST BOUNDARY WORK IN THEORY, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND CULTURE TRANSFORMATION is a new bi-quarterly journal edited by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Teresa Ebert, and Donald Morton. It is devoted to classical Marxist analysis of urgent contemporary issues by bringing back into present discussions such concepts as class, mode of production, labor theory of value, surplus value, exploitation, . . . The first issue, TRANSFORMATION 1: POST-ALITY: MARXISM AND (POST)MODERNISM, will be published in November, 1994 (publisher: Maisonneuve Press, 301-277-7505). We are now receiving texts for the second issue. CALL FOR PAPERS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR ISSUE 2 TRANSFORMATION 2 THE "INVENTION" OF THE QUEER: MARXISM, LESBIAN AND GAY THEORY, CAPITALISM TRANSFORMATION 2: THE "INVENTION" OF THE QUEER engages Queer Theory as an advanced form of bourgeois social theory from a Marxist perspective. (Post)modern social and cultural theories, and especially Queer Theory, routinely claim that Marxism lacks a theory of gender/sexuality and is in fact so fundamentally flawed that it cannot produce one. TRANSFORMATION 2 contests the question of sexuality through the discourse of invention (as in such recent books as The Invention of Ethnicity, The Invention of Renaissance Woman, The Invention of Pornography, Heuretics: The Logic of Invention . . . ). Invention is the latest concept being deployed in ludic theory to try to solve the historical impasse of social constructionism. While the "constructionist" view of the (homosexual) subject has become the dominant "progressive" view today, it is a cultural constructionism promoted by those who are hostile to a rigorous, determinate constructionism through economics, class, and the social division of labor, but who think it "unethical" to rule out the effects of such factors as race, gender, class, sexual orientation, . . . (all theorized as effects of culture, representation, textuality, or ahistorical "matter"). As "constructionism" has increasingly turned "ethical," it has also turned "inventionist" --that is, it has become a question of "invention," implying idealistically that social change has everything to do with the subject's "inventiveness" in a technicist (often called "technocultural") sense ("self-fashioning" in New Historicism, "cyborg mutation" in Haraway, "electric speech" in Ronell, "performance" in Butler, "choreography" in Drucilla Cornell, "architecture" in Jameson). TRANSFORMATION 2: THE "INVENTION" OF THE QUEER argues that "constructionism" is not so much "exhausted" (as we are told in such texts as Fear of a Queer Planet), but rather has reached an historical impasse of which the new discourse of "invention" is symptomatic. TRANSFORMATION 2 will critique today's dominant "ethical and technicist constructionism/inventionism" as a mystification that blocks a rigorous theorization of the materiality of the subject in general and of the homosexual-as-queer in particular. It investigates sexuality through ideology critique by focussing on such issues as homosexuality and/in the social division of labor; queer theory and the new pornotopia; genetics and identity; commodity fetishism and "queer" readings of Marx; cybersex and libidinal economy; imperialism and (homo)sexual exploitation; (post)modern indeterminacy and AIDS pedagogy; text/sex--tech/sex; queering the internet; (re)inventing the body; lusting and the politics of lust . . . We are seeking both shorter critiques of 10 to 12 pp. on the queer and the everyday, as well as longer inquiries of 20-25 pp. Please send texts, proposals, and inquiries for consideration by the editorial collective to Donald Morton, Department of English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1170. 60) -------------------------------------------------------------- U N D E R C U R R E N T Call for Manuscripts UNDERCURRENT is a free journal available on the Internet through e-mail subscriptions. (See end of this message for how to subscribe for free.) We are seeking article submissions or queries with abstracts providing an analysis of the present in terms of discourses, events, representations, classes, or cultures. We seek to publish analysis of the present from diverse intellectual perspectives--feminist, historical, ethnological, sociological, literary, political, semiotic, philosophical, cultural studies, and so forth. We seek applied analysis rather than theory. Any theoretical orientation ought instead to be apparent and immanent in your particular focus on the present. We especially encourage interdisciplinary work. Article length varies according to your needs, anywhere from "short-takes" of 500-1000 words to "feature" of up to 7500 words. As its audience is potentially much broader than that of academic journals held only in university libraries, the style must account for an educated audience which is not necessarily familiar with either the jargon or the debates in a special field. UNDERCURRENT wishes to publish articles that address this broader audience while also conveying a vivid sense of how current academic scholarship can contribute to our understanding of the present. We are attempting to bridge the gulf between academia and the general reading public, a gulf which has allowed various misperceptions about academia to become politically overcharged in the popular media. All submissions will receive a reply, however no copies can be returned. Any major citation format is acceptable, although endnotes must be used rather than footnotes due to the contingencies of various platforms for viewing electronic text. Submissions and queries can be sent in any of the following ways, in order of preference: e-mail to heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu and note in the subject field that this is a submission to UNDERCURRENT Mail a floppy diskette with your text in ASCII or WordPerfect (address below). Mail two copies of your essay by traditional post to: UNDERCURRENT Erick Heroux Dept. of English University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 ABOUT FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS: You can subscribe yourself to UNDERCURRENT by sending a one-line e-mail message: SUBSCRIBE UNDERCURRENT YOURNAME@DOMAIN.WHERE Address it to: mailserv@oregon.uoregon.edu Problems or questions can be e-mailed to heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu 61) -------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************** * * * UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL WORLD: * * TOWARDS AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH * * * * * * JULY 17TH - 19TH 1995 * * THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, UK * * * * First International conference including * * themes on: Identity, The Self, Social * * Cognition, Agency/Structure, Social * * Constructionism, Multi-disciplinary * * methodology, Individual/Society, * * and Postmodernity and Society * * * * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * Papers, Symposium, Posters * * * **************************************************** INCLUDED BELOW are details regarding the conference coordinator, brief details regarding the background of the conference, submission details, and registration and accommodation costs. Further details regarding invited speakers, publication of papers, venue details and entertainment during the conference will be available in August of this year. CONFERENCE COORDINATOR For further details regarding this conference please contact: DAVID NIGHTINGALE School of Human and Health Sciences The University of Huddersfield Queensgate Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK Email: social-conference@hud.ac.uk Phone: (0484) 472461 or (0484) 422288 extension 2461 Fax: (0484) 472794 PLEASE NOTE: David Nightingale will be unavailable from July 14th until August 1st. CONFERENCE BACKGROUND This conference seeks to draw together and highlight recent developments within the social sciences and related disciplines that offer an account of human activity that transcend purely individualistic or structuralist accounts of the human condition. Increasingly, psychologists, sociologists and many others, are recognising that a full account of social activity necessitates an explanation in terms of both the person and the world that this person inhabits. It is towards an understanding of this social world that this conference is addressed. SUBMISSIONS Although this conference has been organised around a number of themes (Identity, The Self, Social Cognition, Agency/Structure, Social Constructionism, Multi-disciplinary methodology, Individual/Society, and Postmodernity and Society), papers that reflect the title of the conference but cannot be readily categorised in terms of these themes, are also welcomed. In this sense the themes should be viewed as suggestive rather than prescriptive. All papers will be reviewed for submission. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY NO LATER THAN 27th JANUARY 1995. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS (30 minutes) Individual papers of 30 minutes duration (20-25 presentation, 5-10 minutes discussion). Submissions should include a cover page; indicating author(s), affiliation, complete address, phone number, email address and relevant theme (if appropriate). Submissions must include a 200-250 word abstract and brief summary (no more than 750 words) of the papers relevance to the subject area. Papers may be submitted in either hard copy to the conference organiser (send 3 copies) or in electronic form. Electronic proposals are preferred and MUST BE SENT in pure ASCII text (to social-conference@hud.ac.uk). Abstracts will be published at the conference. SYMPOSIA (2 - 2.5 hours) Symposia (up to a maximum of 6 papers). Submissions should include a cover page for each paper within the symposium; indicating author(s), affiliation, complete address, phone number, email address and relevant theme (if appropriate). Submissions must include a 200-250 abstract of the symposium and brief summary (no more than 1500 words) of the symposium's relevance to the subject area. In addition, a 200-250 word abstract of EACH paper MUST be included. Symposia may be submitted in either hard copy to the conference organiser (send 3 copies of each paper abstract and the symposium summary) or in electronic form. Electronic proposals are preferred and MUST BE SENT in pure ASCII text (to social-conference@hud.ac.uk). Abstracts will be published at the conference. POSTERS Those wishing to submit posters to this conference should send a 750 word summary outlining the proposed content of the poster. Poster submissions may be submitted in either hard copy to the conference organiser (send 3 copies) or in electronic form. Electronic proposals are preferred and MUST BE SENT in pure ASCII text (to social-conference@hud.ac.uk). OTHER FORMS OF PARTICIPATION Those interested in presenting their ideas in a different format should contact the conference organiser. REGISTRATION FEES Up to 17th April After 17th April Delegates and speakers 60.00 75.00 Concessionary* 30.00 ----- Day Rate 35.00 40.00 *Concessionary rates apply for under-graduates, post-graduates, the unemployed and the retired. The above fees include morning coffee and afternoon tea but NOT meals. ACCOMODATION AND MEALS Please note that accommodation is full-board only WHOLE CONFERENCE 110.00 (Monday evening - Wednesday lunch, inclusive) DAY 1 55.00 (Mon. eve - Tues. lunch) DAY 2 55.00 (Tues. eve - Wed. lunch) CONFERENCE DINNER 25.00 (Tuesday evening) Please feel free to contact the conference coordinator regarding this event: David Nightingale (social-conference@hud.ac.uk) 62) -------------------------------------------------------------- VIRTUAL REALITY CONFERENCE Dear colleagues, thanks for the interest you showed in the "Virtual Reality Vienna'93". We are now proud to present a new conference, slightly moved from Vienna (Austria) to Stuttgart (Germany), bigger and hopefully of even more quality! This conference is actually the fusion of the three biggest Virtual Reality conferences in Europe. Expect the best... Any suggestion and proposal is welcome. Yours, Christian Bauer c/o Christian Bauer & Freunde Hoettinger Gasse 8 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria / Europe Tel +43 512 29 57 60 Fax +43 512 28 16 98 Email chris@well.sf.ca.us (if the above adress doesn't work...) Information on the "VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD 1995" 21st to 23rd February of 1995 in Stuttgart, Germany The "Virtual Reality World 1995 (VRW'95)" is an international conference on Virtual Reality, with speeches, tutorials, exhibits and social events. VRW'95 is a fusion of the three main Virtual Reality events in Europe: 1. "Virtual Reality Forum '93 and '94" organised by the FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTES IAO and IPA 2. "Virtual Reality Conference" in London sponsored by MECKLERMEDIA 3. "Virtual Reality Vienna '93" sponsored by IDG AUSTRIA Main Sponsor for the VRW'95 is IDG CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS / COMPUTERWOCHE Verlag GmbH,Germany. Mecklermedia is organizing the exhibit and the two Fraunhofer Institutes do the scientific supervision. The agenda is organized by the Fraunhofer Institutes IAO and IPA and Christian Bauer, the initiator and agenda-coordinator of the "Virtual Reality Vienna '93". Some figures: The organizers of the VRW'95 plan to have 500 conference attendees from about 25 countries and more than 3000 visitors of the exhibition. On the first day, the 21st of February 1995, tutorials will be offered, on the follwoing two days there will be about 50 speeches from international experts. The VRW'95 claims to be the leading European event. More Information on the VRW'95 will follow in the next weeks. The chairmen of the programme committee are: Prof. H.-J. Bullinger, IAO Prof. R.-D. Schraft, IPA Finally some persons, who already agreed to speak on the VRW'95: Prof. Nat Durlach, MIT Prof. Ken Kaplan, Harvard Dr. Sandra Helsel, Virtual Reality World Ben Delaney, CyberEdge Journal Dr. Ian Hunter, MIT Prof. Edouard Bannwart, Art + Com Dr. Robert Stone, AARL Prof. Gerd Hirzinger, German Aerospace Establishment Prof. Nadja Thalmann, University of Geneva Dr. Lew Hitchner, Xtensory Howard Rheingold, Writer 63) -------------------------------------------------------------- DELEUZE-GUATTARI LIST The list DELEUZE@world.std.com, a forum for discussion of the works of French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, has changed its name to DELEUZE-GUATTARI. 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A subscription to the E-Poetry list provides a subscription to the electronic journal RIF/T and E-Poetry Center announcements. Subscriptions to E-Poetry to listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Inquiries, suggestions for Center resources, submissions to RIF/T, and other mail may be directed to e-poetry@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu The Center is located at gopher://wings.buffalo.edu/11/internet/library/e-journals/ub/rift (Currently, the prototype is under construction but operational.) Gopher Access: For those who have access to gopher, type gopher wings.buffalo.edu (or, if you are on a UB mainframe, simply type wings) at your system prompt. First choose Libraries & Library Resources, then Electronic Journals, then E-Journals/Resources Produced Here At UB, then The Electronic Poetry Center. (Note: Connections to some Poetry Center resources require Web access, though most are presently available through gopher). World-Wide Web Access: For those with World-Wide Web or lynx access, type www or lynx at your system prompt. Choose the go to URL option then go to (type as one continuous string) gopher://wings.buffalo.edu/11/internet/library/e-journals/ub/rift Participation in the Electronic Poetry Center (Buffalo) For those interested in helping us build the Center, our goal is to provide a single Internet site that offers a doorway into the different poetic projects out there in the electronic (and paper) poetics world. We would like to offer access to information about poetics and poetry activities, electronic poetry journals, texts in progress, etc. We are currently developing a library of electronic poetry/poetics texts (submissions to e-poetry@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu). The Center has other exciting possibilities: 1. Circulation of electronic journals with an emphasis on direct links to those of relevance to Center concerns; 2. Reviews of recent print and electronic publications. (Brief reviews may also be submitted electronically to e-poetry@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu); 3. Direct links to other related electronic sites; 4. Multimedia resources. Sound and graphics relating to poetry. 5. Building our Small Press Alcove, a place for little magazine and book announcements. The point of including announcements of paper resources is to provide a listing of interesting work for people to look at; they can then write or e-mail the publisher to obtain publications. (Send announcements to lolpoet@acsu.buffalo.edu or magazines/books to Loss Glazier, E-Poetry, P.O. Box 143, Getzville, NY 14068-0143); 6. Ultimately, the Center could also offer collaborative projects (perhaps for specific groups of writers), lists and/or archives of other lists, and texts-in-progress, as things develop. The "Buffalo" in the title of the Center is not meant to suggest that this activity is limited to Buffalo, only to give the "visitor" a sense of place, i.e., where the mainframe that's providing this service is "located." Vigorous writing wants to "circulate." On this new electronic terrain, the Electronic Poetry Center will serve as a gathering place or point of entry for a range of poetic efforts. How to Contact Us Please contact us with your suggestions, texts, sound files, and graphics files to submit, or if you have expertise in these areas. LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK (this is meant to be a Center that grows with your ideas) by posting to this list, sending mail to E-Poetry, or to Loss Glazier (lolpoet@acsu.buffalo.edu) or Kenneth Sherwood (v001pxfu.ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) privately. The Archive is administered in Buffalo by E-Poetry and RIF/T in coordination with the Poetics List. Loss Glazier for Kenneth Sherwood and Loss Glazier in collaboration with Charles Bernstein 65) -------------------------------------------------------------- FEMISA FEMISA@mach1.wlu.ca FEMISA is conceived as a list where those who work on or think about feminism, gender, women and international relations, world politics, international political economy, or global politics, can communicate. Formally, FEMISA was established to help those members of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association keep in touch. More generally, I hope that FEMISA can be a network where we share information in the area of feminism or gender and international studies about publications or articles, course outlines, questions about sources or job opportunities, information about conferences or upcoming events, or proposed panels and information related to the International Studies Association. 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Philosophical fiction would include the novels of Bataille, Ballard, Gibson, Sartre; works of Jabes, Michaux, Lautreamont, Karl Kraus; poetry of Lucretius, Susan Howe, Holderlin; the philosophical micro-narratives of Baudrillard, Nietzsche, and Barthes; Lingis' exhilerated accounts of the other/gender, Kathy Acker's deconstruction of sexualities and politics, and other writers/writings too numerous to mention... WHY THIS LIST? Because "creative" and theoretic writing are inter-woven yet distanced by the history of faculties, and because new formations carry the possibilities of new modes of thinking through our overheated postmodern cultural terrain. The list has as goals both the discussion of the FICTION-OF- PHILOSOPHY in general or in reference to specific authors; and the presentation of creative work that may bear on current issues of theory. 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The fully catalogued title will be reported to national utilities and other appropriate sites so that there is a bibliographic record available for subsequent subscribers or searchers. The records will feed a directory and database of these titles. Not all the of the implementation is developed, and the work will expand over the next year. We thank you for your contributions, assistance, and advice, which will be invaluable. SUBSCRIBING: To subscribe, send a message to: LISTSERV@e-math.ams.org Leave the subject line blank. In the body, type: SUBSCRIBE NewJour-L FirstName LastName You will have to subscribe in order to post messages to this list. To drop out or postpone, use the standard LISTSERV (Internet) directions. ACKNOWLEDGMENT: For their work in defining the elements of this project and for their support to date, we thank: Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa, Advisor David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society, Systems & Network Support Edward Gaynor, University of Virginia Library, Original Cataloguing Development John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library, Systems & Network Support Birdie MacLennan, University of Vermont Library, Cataloguing and Indexing Development Diane Kovacs, Kent State University Library, Advisor We anticipate this will become a wider effort as time passes, and we welcome your interest in it. This project is co-ordinated through The Association of Research Libraries, Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing, 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 [e-mail: osap@cni.org (Ann Okerson)] 69) -------------------------------------------------------------- NII-TEACH Scholastic Network, Scholastic Inc. is pleased to announce a new list dedicated to the discussion of the National Information Infrastructure and its role in education. As you know, policy decisions made about the NII will affect how teachers and students use online services, how they will be accessed, how they will be paid for, and who will be able to get these services first. We are encouraging you to share your views on the NII and what it should offer teachers. Moderators of this list are Bonnie Bracey, the Arlington, VA classroom teacher appointed to the NII Advisory panel, Leni Donlan of CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) and Jane Coffey, a teacher-member of the Scholastic Network. This unmoderated list will only be on-line from March through June 1994. All classroom teachers and others interested in sharing feedback about education for the NII advisory group are invited to participate. To subscribe to NII-TEACH, send email to: NII-Teach-request@scholastic.com Leave the subject line blank. The text of the message should say: subscribe NII-Teach yourfirstname yourlastname 70) -------------------------------------------------------------- POPCULT popcult@camosun.bc.ca The POPCULT list is now in place. It is open to analytical discussion of all aspects of popular culture. The list will not be moderated. Material relevant to building bridges between popular culture and traditional culture will be very strongly encouraged. To subscribe, unsubscribe, get help, etc, send a message to: mailserv@camosun.bc.ca There should not be anything in the 'Subject:' line and the body of the message should have the specific keyword on a line by itself. Some keywords are: SUBSCRIBE POPCULT HELP LISTS SEND/LIST POPCULT UNSUBSCRIBE POPCULT It is possible to send multiple commands, each on a separate line. Do not include your name after SUBSCRIBE POPCULT. In some ways this server is a simplified version of the major servers, but it is also more streamlined. I recommend, to start, that you put SUBSCRIBE on one line, and HELP on the next line. That will give you a full listing of available commands. To send messages to the list for distribution to list members for exchange of ideas, etc, send messages to: popcult@camosun.bc.ca Owner: Peter Montgomery Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca Professor Dept of English ph (604) 370-3342 (o) Camosun College (fax) (604) 370-3346 3100 Foul Bay Road Victoria, BC Off. Paul Bldg 326 CANADA V8P 5J2 71) -------------------------------------------------------------- SCHOLIA REVIEWS Scholia aims to provide critical reviews of publications in the field of ancient Greek and Roman art, archaeology, history, literature and philosophy as soon as possible after they appear. The editors also believe that reviews should be as detailed, informative and comprehensive as possible. In order to make it possible for the journal to provide reviews of this kind, given the constraints under which it is produced, reviews will be published over the international electronic network to registered subscribers. Subscription to the electronic reviews is free and without restriction. Once published, the reviews will be archived at the University of Natal, Durban and the University of Pennsylvania, USA, from which they can be retrieved by Gopher or FTP. Instructions on how to retrieve reviews electronically will be published in the journal itself along with a list of books received. The editor reserves the right to publish the full text of a review in the journal itself. Contributors of reviews are therefore requested to submit an abstract (300-500 words) together with the full text of their review. Contributions should preferably be sent by e-mail or on disk followed by one clearly printed copy by air mail. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO SCHOLIA REVIEWS In order to receive electronic reviews from Scholia simply send a request to Scholia@owl.und.ac.za. Your e-mail address will be added to the distribution list of Scholia Reviews. HOW TO OBTAIN SCHOLIA REVIEWS BY GOPHER Gopher to OWL.UND.AC.ZA and follow the path: Campus Information System-->Faculty Information-->Classics-->Scholia Reviews The reviews are classified by the year in which they appeared e.g 1 (1992) and are listed by number, author, title and reviewer e.g. (1) Perkell, Vergil's Georgics (Davis). HOW TO OBTAIN SCHOLIA REVIEWS BY FTP (File Transfer Protocol) FTP to OWL.UND.AC.ZA. When you are asked for your name type: ANONYMOUS When asked for a password type in your email address and press ENTER. You do not have to use upper case letters. Then type: CD PUB/UND/CLASSICS/REVIEWS You can then list the contents of the directory by typing: LS To read a file type MORE followed by the filename (these are UNIX commands). Files are listed by year, number and author e.g. 92-1-Perkell = Review number 1, 1992, review of Perkell, Vergil's Georgics. SCHOLIA REVIEWS AT PENNSYLVANIA Scholia is pleased to announce that the reviews of the journal are now available on the ccat gopher at the University of Pennsylvania. We hope that access to the reviews will be more convenient at this location. We are grateful to Professor James O'Donnell and the University of Pennsylvania for making this possible. GOPHER ACCESS Gopher to ccat.sas.upenn.edu and look under menu item 8 (Electronic Publications and Resources). Scholia Reviews appear as item 19. GOPHER BOOKMARK The gopher bookmark that will let you or anybody else add this to their own gopher menu is: Type=1 Name=Scholia Reviews (Classical Studies) Path=1/scholia Host=ccat.sas.upenn.edu Port=5070 URL: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:5070/11/scholia FTP ACCESS The ftp address is also ccat.sas.upenn.edu, login as anonymous, then cd pub cd scholia ls J.L. Hilton Reviews Editor: Scholia 20 July 1994 72) -------------------------------------------------------------- Dead Artist Desert Trailer-Park offers scholarships and studio-space for qualifying applicants contact: bbrace@netcom.com for info As time goes by, it is the established patterns of thought, the known arguments, the self-perpetuating truths which become the principal defenders of the structures in place. ..The active vocabulary needed to question, even to simply discuss them, has withered away. | The Dead-Artist Desert Trailer-Park is located in the American | Southwest Desert. I basically inherited (after paying back-taxes) | an isolated, derelict trailer-park which is being | transformed without the interference of cultural bureaucrats | into a working resource for creative pursuits. The financial | overhead is practically non-existent; intelligent applicants are | told the location of the Trailer-Park and given written permission | to abide there. 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They can be very useful tools to locate information and students here are very fond of them. They are also the first step towards much more sophisticated modes of accessing collections of research and bibliographic data, e-texts, etc... The "Gopheur LITTERATURES" at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) just happens to be the first gopher dedicated to teaching, research and publications on French Literature, Quebecois Literature and Francophone Literatures, and also the first gopher to do so in french, albeit without the accents for the moment. (In the future we will offer the choice between ASCII and ISO-LATIN, as is currently being done on others gophers in the province of Quebec). The "Gopheur LITTERATURES" is in construction. This means it will be evolving. Items on the main menu indicate a program of research conducted at the Department of etudes francaises. 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TAP includes information on conferences, projects, discussion groups and organizations, fellowships and grants, notable women in Computer Science, and other electronically accessible information sites. TAP also maintains a substantive bibliography of references. TAP serves primarily as a collection of links to other online resources, rather than as an archive. We hope that you, the TAP user community, will help us keep TAP as up-to-date as possible. We also welcome your comments and feedback regarding use of the site. TAP pages include "submission" and "feedback" icons to aid in the sending of information and comments. To access TAP, use Mosaic (or another graphical or textual WWW viewer)to open the URL: http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/tap.html Elisabeth Freeman and Susanne Hupfer Yale University New Haven, CT June 1994 77) -------------------------------------------------------------- Spelunk with International Artist Explore the urban unknown. 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