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Journal and Book Announcements: 1) Essays in Postmodern Culture 2) The Centennial Review 3) Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science 4) Chorus 5) Collapse 6) College Literature 7) Contention 8) C-Theory 9) Denver Quarterly 10) Eastgate Systems 11) Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture 12) Fineart Forum 13) GENDERS 14) Hot Off the Tree 15) IDEA/International Directory of Electronic Arts 16) Information Technology and Disabilities 17) Inter-Society for Electronic Arts 18) James Joyce Quarterly 19) Leonardo 20) M/E/A/N/I/N/G 21) Minnesota Review 22) Modern Fiction Studies 23) MTV Killed Kurt Cobain 24) Nomad 25) October 26) Representations 27) Revista Alicantian De Estudios Engleses 28) Studies in Popular Culture 29) TDR 30) ViViD Magazine 31) Zines-L II. Calls for Papers, Panels, and Participants: 32) PMC-MOO 33) Alphabetum 34) Acadia '95 Conference 35) Convergence 36) Culture and Tradition 37) CWRL: Computers, Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature/Learning" 38) EAEA '95 39) ETHICOMP95 40) Empirical Inquiry into Hypertextualized Composition 41) GATES 42) Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist 43) inter/face Electronic Literary Magazine 44) Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 45) Kant Congress: "Kant and the Problem of Peace" 46) Mechanisms of Desire: Deleuze, Masoch and the Libidinal Economy of Fur 47) Pompidou Center Project 48) Postmodern Culture: A SUNY Series 49) PSYCHE 50) Queer-E 51) Reading Rock 'n' Roll: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Music 52) Research on Virtual Relationships 53) Splinter 54) Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality 55) TRANSFORMATION: Marxist Boundary Work in Theory, Economics, Politics, AND Culture 56) Undercurrent 57) Understanding the Social World: Towards an Interrogative Approach 58) Virtual Features 1995 59) Virtual Reality World, 1995 III. Networked Discussion Groups: 60) Deleuze-Guattari List 61) Electronic Poetry Center (Buffalo) 62) FEMISA: Feminism, Gender, International Relations 63) Fiction-of-Philosophy 64) HOLOCAUS: Holocaust List 65) MCLuhan List 66) Popcult List 67) POSTCOLONIAL 68) VIRTED: Virtual Reality and Education IV. Other: 69) New Media Site Visits 70) Leonardo WWW Conference Rooms 71) On Line Poetry 72) CyberAnthropology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) _Essays in Postmodern Culture_: An anthology of essays from _Postmodern Culture_ is available in print from Oxford University Press. The works collected here constitute practical engagements 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. 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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, or Diane Kovacs, Co-Editor, at the e-mail addresses listed below. 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'::::' :: :: A R T + T E C H N O L O G Y N E T N E W S _________________________________________________________________ Distributed by Griffith University, Division of Information Services on behalf of the Art, Science and Technology Network (ASTN) _________________________________________________________________ Contents: Editorial: Paul Brown IDEA: Annick Bureaud New Media Site Visits: Paul Brown 12hr-ISBN-JPEG: brad brace IEEE CG & A: R.A.Earnshaw ACADIA '95: Branko Kolarevic TENCTON: Morgan Bottrell alt.fringeware and WWW: FringeWare Daily ALTERNATE REALITIES CORP: David Bennett Ars Ad Astra: Roger F. Malina art of love www: Joseph Flicek CD-ROM SHOW: Mike Leggett ArtNetWeb: R. 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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. 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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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18) _James Joyce Quarterly_ JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY Volume 32 Fall 1994 through Summer 1995 Richard Breckman Perils of Marriage in _Finnegans Wake_ John Gordon "Ithaca" as the Letter C Vicki Mahaffey Fascism and Silence: The Coded History of Amalia Popper Michael Bruce McDonald "Circe" and the Uncanny, or Joyce from Freud to Marx Ira B. 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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. 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For ORDERING INFORMATION, contact the MIT PRESS JOURNALS circulation department,(617) 253-2889 (PHONE), (617) 258-6779 (FAX), or JOURNALS-ORDERS@MIT.EDU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20) _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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21) _Minnesota Review_ Subscriptions are $10 a year (two issues), $20 institutions/overseas. The new _Minnesota Review_ is published biannually and originates from East Carolina University. Send all queries, comments, suggestions, submissions, and subscriptions to: Jeffrey Williams Editor Minnesota Review Department of English East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22) _Modern Fiction Studies_ _MFS_, a journal of modern and postmodern literature and culture, 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: Patrick 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 23) 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24) _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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 25) _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! Number 70, Fall 1994 __The Duchamp Effect__, A Special Issue The back cover of OCTOBER's latest special issue appropriately features a black-and-white, 1966 photograph of Andy Warhol filming Marcel Duchamp. Like Warhol's camera, this OCTOBER issue, entitled The Duchamp Effect, looks at the enduring legacy of Duchamp in late-twentieth-century art practices. Review copies are available at the discretion of the publisher. ISSN 0162-2870. Published quarterly, annual subscription rates are $32 for individuals, $90 for institutions, and $22 for students and retired persons. For ORDERING INFORMATION, contact the MIT PRESS JOURNALS circulation department, (617) 253-2889 (TEL), (617) 258-6779 (FAX), or JOURNALS-ORDERS@MIT.EDU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 26) _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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 27) _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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28) _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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 29) _TDR_ ######| ######\ ######\ ##| ##| ##\ ##|__##| ##| ##| ##| ######/ ##| ##|__##/ ##| ##\ ##| ######/ ##| ##| -- The Journal of Performance Studies -- T144 (Winter 1994) TDR is a quarterly journal that explores the diverse world of performance. 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 (see directions below). In this issue (T144 Winter 1994): /TDR Comment ----------- "I No Longer Subscribe to TDR" - by Richard Schechner In Memory of Huang Zuolin - by Faye C. Fei /Letters, Etc. -------------- A Review Response--a letter from Loren Kruger Susan Manning responds "Jerzy Tymicki" Revealed, a letter from Kazimierz Braun /Articles --------- Dan Baron Cohen: Resistance to Liberation with Derry Frontline Culture and Education--an interview by Lionel Pilkington The Alabama A. and M. Thespians, 1944-1963: Triumph of the Human Spirit--by Glenda E. Gill Double Bodies: Androgyny and Power in the Performances of Louis XIV--by Mark Franko Virtual Reality: Performance, Immersion, and the Thaw--by Jon McKenzie The Steps of the River Bank--by Eugenio Barba Masks or Faces Re-Visited: A Study of Four Theatrical Works Concerning Cultural Identity--by William H. Sun and Faye C. Fei Theatre/Archaeology--by Mike Pearson with comments by Julian Thomas The Power Team: Muscular Christianity and the Spectacle of Conversion--by Sharon Mazer /Book Reviews ------------- Contemporary Feminist Theatres: To Each Her Own by Lizbeth Goodman--review by Jill Dolan Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas--review by Edward David Miller Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theatre as if Gender and Race Matter edited by Ellen Donkin and Susan Clement--review by Peggy Phelan Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber; Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross Dressing edited by Lesley Ferris--reviews by Amy Robinson Caesar Antichrist and Visits of Love by Alfred Jarry-- reviews by John Bell To browse and subscribe: 1. For subscription prices and ordering information, contact 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". 2. To browse through articles from our back issues, logon to 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 30) _ViViD_ _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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 31) _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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 32) PMC-MOO 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). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 33) _Alphabetum_ _ALPHABETUM_, a new journal of international literature, invites critical articles on World Literature. The Editorial Board, composed of literature professors from a number of different international institutions (Australia, Europe, North and South America), welcomes submissions representing different schools of literary criticism and individual perspectives. The articles should be written in one of three languages: English, Spanish or French. The manuscripts should be between fifteen and twenty pages (double spaced), following the MLA style. Book reviews are also accepted and they should be four to five pages long. Send each manuscript in duplicate along with a self addressed envelope. Manuscripts and subscriptions ($15/individuals, $20/institutions) should be sent to the editor, Pol Popovic, 5111 North 10th Street, Suite 124, McAllen, Texas 78504, USA. For more information, including submission requirements, write or call the editor, Pol Popovic, Universidad de Monterrey, Humanidades, Apartado Postal 738, Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, C.P. 66250 Mexico, Tel. (8) 338-50-50 ext.198 or 252, Fax: (8) 338-3135 or 336-42-02, E-mail: ppopovic@ummac01.mty.udem.mx (e-mail has been a very cheap and effective way of communication with our foreign collaborators). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 34) Acadia '95 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACADIA '95 CONFERENCE October 19-22, 1995 University of Washington, Seattle COMPUTING IN DESIGN: ENABLING, CAPTURING, AND SHARING IDEAS For more than a decade the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) has provided a FORUM for presentation and discussion of innovative application and integration of computer technology in architectural education and practice. Now, more than ever, we face many new and still some old challenges, problems, and issues, some of which are critical to our mission and future as designers, educators, and researchers. The ACADIA '95 conference will address the emergent theoretical and practical issues in design education and practice in a series of paper presentations, workshops, and panel discussions. Abstracts due ...................... March 1, 1995 E-mail:branko@rossi.arc.miami.edu Tel:(305) 284-6521 Fax:(305) 284-2999 Workshops/Panels due ............... April 11, 1995 E-mail:lnk@psu.edu Tel:( 814) 865-0877 Fax:( 814) 865-3289 Exhibition due ..................... May 16, 1995 E-mail:brj@u.washington.edu Tel:(206) 543-2132 Info: Branko Kolarevic Technical Chair, ACADIA '95 University of Miami School of Architecture 1223 Dickinson Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146-5010 U S A E-mail:branko@rossi.arc.miami.edu Tel:(305) 284-6521 Fax:(305) 284-2999 http://www.caup.washington.edu/acadia95/acadia95.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 35) _Convergence - The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies_ _Convergence_ is a new refereed academic journal which addresses the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. As a research journal it will provide a forum both for monitoring and exploring developments and for publishing vital research. Published biannually and adopting an inter-disciplinary approach Convergence will develop this area into an entirely new research field. The principal aims of _Convergence_ are: to develop critical frameworks and methodologies which enable the reception, consumption and impact of new technologies to be evaluated in their domestic, public and educational contexts to contextualise the study of those new technologies within existing debates in media studies, and to address the specific implications of the increasing convergence of media forms to monitor the conditions of emergence of new media technologies, their subsequent mass production and the development of new cultural forms to promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational potentials of those technologies, and to contextualise those cultural practices within wider cultural and political debates. Papers on any of the following areas are welcomed: the move from traditional media to multimedia, gender and technology, convergence of satellite media technologies and terrestrial broadcasting, cable and telecommunications, control and censorship, copyright, electronic publishing, media policy, interactivity, education and new technologies, TV/Computer screen interfaces, myths and representations of technology, problems of definition and terminology, and virtual reality. Copy for first issue accepted until 5th January 1995 Copy deadline for second issue 30 March 1995 Submission details: Two hard copies and where possible one disk copy (Macintosh Word5 compatible) of all articles should be sent to the editors with the following information attached separately: name, institution and address for correspondence, telephone, fax and email address. Papers should be typed on one side of the sheet with endnotes in accordance with the MLA style sheet (abbreviated form available on request). Authors should also enclose a 50 word biography and an abstract. Proposals for articles or completed papers should be sent to: JuliaKnight/Alexis Weedon, Editors, Convergence, School of Media Arts, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton, LU1 3AJ, United Kingdom. Tel: 0582 34111, fax: 0583 489014 email: Convergence@vax2.luton.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 36) _Culture and Tradition_ The editors of "Culture and Tradition" are now accepting submissions for issue 17. Your manuscript should be of interest to folklorists, Canadian in focus, and should conform to the guidelines outlined below: _Culture and Tradition_ is published annually and with cooperation of Etudiants en Arts et Traditions Populaires de l'Universite Laval de Quebec and the Folklore Students Association of Memorial University of Newfoundland. The editors welcome manuscripts on any subject of interest to folklorists. These should be scholarly articles of ten to twenty typed, double-spaced pages, and may be accompanied by photographs or drawings. Articles submitted on disk in Wordperfect format would be greatly appreciated. Our range of topics includes the traditional arts, music, cuisine, architecture, values, beliefs, cultural psychology and sociologic structure of regional, ethnic, religious, and industrial groups in Canada. Studies based on original fieldwork in Eastern Canada are especially welcome. We also accept book, record and film reviews, and brief notes appropriate to the journal's focus. Submission Deadline: 31 March, 1995. Papers, subscriptions or any correspondance may be sent to: Culture and Tradition Department of Folklore Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland Canada A1C 5S7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 are 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. CWRL is 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. The formatting style will be the same as that used by PMC and other established e-journals in the field. 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. Copyright is retained by the author. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 38) EAEA95 The second in a series of biannual conferences on architectural endoscopy, EAEA '95 Vienna aims at a critical investigation of today's endoscopic culture with a focus on three themes: SPACESCAPES: The Re-Design of Spatial Experience HIGH TECH & LOW COST: The Choice of Appropriate Technology THE NEXT GENERATION: The Implementation of Applications The deadline for extended abstracts will be closed on May 15th On-line information is available on the information server of TU Vienna (info.tuwien.ac.at) under 'International Activities'. Please submit your e-mail-address in order to receive latest information. EAEA-Conference Office c/o Department for Spatial Simulation Vienna University of Technology Karlsplatz 13/2561 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43-1-58801-3382 Fax: +43-1-5041147 E-mail: bmartens@email.tuwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 39) ETHICOMP95 An international conference on the ethical issues of using Information Technology 28th, 29th and 30th March 1995 Queen's Building, De Montfort University Leicester UK Co-directors: Simon Rogerson, Department of Information Systems, De Montfort University Terrell Ward Bynum, Director Research Center on Computing and Society, Southern Connecticut State University The programme of events for ETHICOMP95 provides an excellent forum for stimulating debate on fundamental issues relating to the development and use of Information Technology and Information Systems. There will be an opportunity to consider approaches based on the different cultures and countries of both conference presenters and conference delegates. The three-day conference consists of three parallel themes. Each theme will comprise a series of papers and workshops. There will be three broad themes within the conference programme 1) ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT This is concerned with the use of development methodologies and the consideration of ethical dilemmas, user education and professionalism. 2) ETHICAL TECHNOLOGY This is concerned with the advances in technologies and the likely ethical issues they raise as they are applied to business and societal problems. 3) ETHICAL APPLICATION This is concerned with developing ethical strategies which allow technology to be exploited in an ethically acceptable way. CONFERENCE ATTRACTIONS INCLUDE * Keynote presentations will be given by Professor Walter Maner, Bowling Green University, US. Professor Maner has been a leading authority on Computer Ethics in US for over 25 years. He has produced many books and papers on the subject and has been prominent in establishing the subject as a mandatory element of Computer Science education accredited by ACM and IEEE. Mrs Elizabeth France, Data Protection Registrar, UK. Before taking becoming Data Protection Registrar, Mrs France was head of the Home Office's Information and Pay Services Division. A member of the Committee for the Co-ordination of Computerisation in the Criminal Justice System and of the CCTA's Computers Committee Mrs France has extensive experience of national computing policy making. Professor Jacques Berleur, Namur, Belgium. Professor Berleur was chairman of the IFIP task group which has produced the strategic report entitled "IFIP Framework for Ethics" and recently endorsed by IFIP. This work establishes an approach to addressing Computer ethics from a global perspective. * Presentation of refereed papers * Interactive workshops * Information stalls and interactive demonstrations * Bookstall with books and journals on Computer Ethics * Conference dinner at the prestigious location of Bosworth Hall KEY BENEFITS * An update of the current and future ethical dilemmas facing IS/IT * An opportunity to exchange ideas on ethical practices with colleagues from different work environments and cultures * Guidance on how to develop and implement more acceptable systems * Research-oriented and practically-oriented sessions providing a unique opportunity for knowledge dissemination WHO SHOULD ATTEND Educators, researchers and practitioners in the field of IS/IT Decision makers in industry and commerce responsible for the application of IS/IT ACCOMMODATION Belmont House Hotel Telephone (+44) 533 544773; Fax (+44) 533 470804 Bed and breakfast daily rate--double: 79 ponds, single: 63.5 pounds (state DMU rate) The Grand Hotel Telephone (+44) 533 555599; Fax (+44) 533 544736 Bed and breakfast daily rate--double: 76 pounds, single: 58 pounds (state DMU rate) Stoneycroft Hotel Telephone (+44) 533 707605; Fax (+44) 533 706067 Bed and breakfast daily rate--double: from 33 pounds, single: from 24 pounds It is recommended that accommodation is booked well in advance. Details are correct at time of going to press. FEES AND REGISTRATION The conference fee of $375 includes conference proceedings, refreshments, lunches and the conference dinner. All conference fees must be paid in sterling by cheque or money order in advance. Registration paid in full on or before 15th February 1995 will receive a $25 discount. The fee will then be $350 Fees are inclusive of VAT To register please provide the following information and include a cheque or money order for the appropriate amount made payable to De Montfort Expertise. These should be sent to Sue Colledge ETHICOMP95 External Relations De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LEI 9BH UK Tel: (+44) 533 577354 Fax: (+44) 533 577533 Accommodation should be booked direct with the hotels. Joining Instructions will be issued approximately two weeks before the date of the conference. Cancelled bookings may incur a cancellation fee. If written notification of cancellation reaches us later than 10 days before the conference commences we reserve the right to charge the full fee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 40) _Empirical Inquiry into Hypertextualizing Composition_ CALL FOR PAPERS: Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Kip Strasma invite submissions for a collection of essays that explores the issues of hypertext, empirical research, and writing pedagogy entitled, Empirical Inquiry into Hypertextualizing Composition. Submissions should describe empirical research studies that investigate the influence of hypertext on students' writing processes. We are especially interested in submissions that represent a wide range of teaching strategies and sites (K-12, two-year college, university, etc.). Writers should prepare a two-page, single spaced proposal that reveals the study's focus, its research methodology, and its current status. Submit two copies of your proposal by 1 June 1995 (deadline extended) to: Dr. Scott Lloyd DeWitt Assistant Professor, English The Ohio State University--Marion Campus 1465 Mt. Vernon Ave., Morrill Hall Marion, OH 43302-5695 Work: 614-389-OSUM (6786), X-6211 Home: 614-294-2971 sdewitt@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, or dewitt.18@osu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 41) _GATES_ _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) _inter\face Electronic Literary Magazine_ VOICES Voices to the left to the right near and far rise up and be numbered. Resurrect the voices past and present, those lost from constant screaming, those buried in layers of silence. Summon them to rise as phoenixes and proclaim "I am woman." I, am woman. --Tanya Manning "Women on the Net(work)" is the focus for inter\face's tenth issue (coming Spring 1995). This issue is especially dedicated to providing women writers an electronic forum for the multiplicity of their voices. Metaphorically the title "Women on the Net(work) stands for the magazine operating as a net to catch the multiplicity of writings by women that may typically go unknown. The search for subjects and forms of discourse are unrestricted. Whether you write in a "technological/mechanical" voice or "renaissance/romantic" style, we're interested. Whether your poems or stories are of topical relevance to politics or race relations, women's rights or women's magic, sexual orientation or erotica, or anything unmentioned, we want you to contribute your work. The criteria for this issue is simple. To preserve the writer's integrity and promote the writer as publisher, editing of content is minimal. In the spirit of accepting "contributions" as opposed to "submissions," we believe in your right as a writer to say whatever you want to say in the way you want to say it. However, we do ask of you to limit for publishing fairness your contributions to three separate pieces. Please send your entries no later than February 14, 1995 to interfac@cnsunix.albanu.edu. For more information, please contact Tanya Manning at TM5498@cnsvax.albany.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44) _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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45) Kant Congress 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). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) Pompidou Center Project A New Multidisciplinary Periodical: Call for Comments ***************************************************** The following document presents the broad outlines of a new publication currently being developed by the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris (France). It is also available on our new WWW server, at URL http://www.cnac-gp.fr/ We are informing Internet users of this project so as to generate a discussion and so that your ideas and comments can be used to modify and enrich our plans. You will also find a questionnaire to help us know the people interested in this publication. --Daniel Soutif Directeur du Departement du developpement culturel 1. A project for the Pompidou Center ************************************ 1.1 The multidisciplinary approach ================================== As a place of development and experimentation for all creative disciplines (literature, music, visual arts, photography, video, architecture, design, cinema, new technologies), the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou has always prioritized the multidisciplinary approach. As a venue for exhibitions, meetings, performances and debates, it has always advocated maximum access for the general public. But the Center is not only a showcase for modern creation, it is also a cultural production center in its own right with its own, distinct publishing policy. For all these reasons, the Center is in a unique position with regard to multimedia publishing. The Center is now planning to create a new type of periodical bringing together a variety of approaches and media. The idea is to extend the scope of the old publication, Traverses, which looked at man's relation to his environment, culture and production as reflected in various themes or problems, and confronted with differing viewpoints and disciplines. By going further into the new technologies, its successor will set out to appeal to a younger and more varied audience in addition to the traditional readership of Traverses, which consisted mainly of intellectuals, teachers, artists, researchers and students. 1.2. The postulate =================== The founding principle of this new publication is that we are today seeing a radical shift in the relations between the different spheres of knowledge. This is due both to the decline in the opposition between the "exact" sciences and the human sciences, and to the transformation of the means of access to knowledge as a result of the new communication technologies. And yet there remain barriers between the various disciplines. One of the aims of this publication will be to explore the multidisciplinary idea in and through the new technologies, to serve as an experimental platform for the creation of a new arena of knowledge, capable of setting up interactions between different disciplines, works and techniques, though without seeking to imitate the encylopaedia. The idea is not to build a "consensus" between the arts, sciences, technology and the various schools of philosophy, but to generate productive tensions of meaning between their different languages. 1.3. Contents ============== This periodical will thus go beyond the frontiers running between culture and society, art and technology, to a level where these areas of activity interact. Each issue will focus on a major contemporary issue and will be able to draw on the resources of the Pompidou Center, with its wealth of written documents, sound archives (interviews, lectures, music), iconography (the photo library of the museum of modern art) and video recordings. The theme--and title--of the first issue, which is currently in preparation, will be "Literature and software engineering." 2. A New Type of Publication **************************** 2.1. The central role of the new technologies ============================================== The new technologies will by definition be at the heart of this publication, both for the possibilities they represent and the questions they raise. This publication will seek to generate and discover unexpected new ways of relating reading and writing. Working on the principle that the new technologies can complement, rather than compete with, the culture of the book, it will be one of the first publications to allow its users to combine the pleasure of reading the printed word with the advantages of "intelligent" reading assisted by computer: representation of a text's textual organization, dynamic annotation, access to a wider corpus of texts, iconographic, audiovisual and sound documents, etc. 2.2. Connecting up with the Internet ===================================== Going beyond the traditional method whereby the contents of a publication are determined by an editorial committee, it will be possible to experiment with the selection and enrichment of the themes and topics by opening them up to discussion on the Internet. At a later stage, articles from back issues and excerpts will be made available on the Internet. 2.3. A publication on two media =============================== Publication will be annual. The editorial characteristics of the periodical will contribute to its novelty. Each issue will be designed as an intellectual event, in close link with the Pompidou Center. The publication will have its own independent resources for design, production and distribution. The publication will take the form of two products, sold together: a printed edition, comprising several hundred pages, and featuring unabridged commissioned articles together with accompanying illustrations, a CD-ROM to allow for the combination of writings: stills, animated images and sounds. The designers of the project see these two forms of reading--traditional and electronic - as perfectly compatible. The aim is to combine both modes of textual access and appropriation. It is worth pointing out some of the reading operations and types of textual presentation available on the electronic version. For example: linguistic exploration and analysis (vocabulary, style, syntax); representation of the textual organization; presentation of the various stages of the texts (manuscripts), up to the final version presented on paper; some of the more theoretical texts will be accompanied by their reference texts, thus allowing for association and contextualisation; dynamic annotation of the text by the reader, whereby the act of reading becomes an act of writing; availability of aids to literary creation such as generators, especially for the first issue, "Literature and software engineering." the possibility of letting some authors create their own CD-ROM sequences. 2.4. Reaching an international audience: the question of language ================================================================== We are currently looking into the question of language. Should we offer a publication that is entirely bilingual (French and English)? Or one which reflects its global reach by publishing contributions in their original language as well as in French? Should we offer a full French translation alongside the original version of texts by non-French contributors, or just abstracts? Questionnaire We would like to know your thoughts about this project. Please reply to the following few questions and return via email to "revue@cnac-gp.fr" Thanks for your time! 1. Who are you? 2. How old are you? 3. Where do you live? 4. Which language(s) do you speak? 5. Would you read this publication in French? 6. Would you read a bilingual version of this publication (French and English)? 7. Which computer platform do you use: Mac? PC? other (specify which one)? 8. What is your profession/activity? 9. Your impressions, suggestions, thoughts about this project: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 48) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 49) _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. 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 ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 50) _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_. 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 subscribers/readers? If so, why not consider sending it to us to be considered for inclusion in _Queer-E_? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 51) _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. 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 52) 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 ) * ******************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 53) _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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 54) _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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 55) _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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56) _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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57) Understanding the Social World **************************************************** * * * 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 * * * **************************************************** 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58) Virtual Futures 1995 CALL FOR PAPERS VIRTUAL FUTURES 1995 MAY 26-28, 1995 UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK COVENTRY, ENGLAND VIRTUAL FUTURES 1995 is an interdisciplinary event that examines the role of cybernetic and specifically dissipative or non-linear models in the arts, sciences, and philosophy. The conference explores the relationship between postmodern philosophy and chaos theory, with topics ranging from: information technology, hypertext and multimedia applications, virtual reality and cyberspace, C3, complexity theory, cyberfeminism, artificial life and intelligence, neural nets, and nanotechnology. Literary themes such as apocalypse, narcotics, cyberpunk science fiction, and annihilation are all welcome. Philosophically, the conference emphasizes materialist schools of Continental Philosophy and neurophilosophy, with a particular stress laid on the work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Of particular interest are papers tracing the theoretical implications of technology in regard to the future of economics, politics, and culture. Invited speakers include (* has accepted invitation): *Kathy Acker, author of Empire of the Senseless *Hakim Bey, author of Temporary Autonomous Zone *Pat Cadigan, author of Synners and Fools *Manuel DeLanda, author of War In the Age of Intelligent Machines *James Der Derian, author of Antidiplomacy & Virtual Security *Michael Hardt, co-author of Labour of Dionysus *Gwyneth Jones, author of White Queen *Richard Kadrey, author of Metrophage & The Covert Culture Sourcebook *Marilouise & Arthur Kroker, editors of ctheory *Nick Land, lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University *Brian Massumi, author of The User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia *Alan Moore & *David Jay, writers, musicians, and performance artists *Stephen Pfohl, author of Death at the Parasite Cafe *Sadie Plant, cyberfeminist-lecturer in Cultural Studies at Birmingham University *David Porush, author of Cybernetic Fictions *Alan Sondheim, Cybermind moderator *Stelarc, performance artist *VNS-Matrix, cyberfeminist collective from Australia Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz Keith Ferrell, editor of Omni Max More, editor of Extropy, a leader of the Extropian movement Orlan, performance artist Ed Regis, author of The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition Rudy Rucker, author of The Fourth Dimension R.U. Sirius, writer and journalist If you would like to present a paper at VIRTUAL FUTURES '95, please send a 250 word abstract before March 1st to VIRTUAL FUTURES '95, The Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England. Phone: (44)(0203) 523523 x2582, Fax: (44)(0203)523019. E-mail can be sent to the following address: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59) VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60) 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@jefferson.village.virginia.edu. To subscribe, send the message: "subscribe deleuze-guattari" (no name necessary) to: majordomo@jefferson.village.virginia.edu For more information about the list, send the message: "info deleuze-guattari" to: majordomo@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Eric Davis Moderator DELEUZE-GUATTARI ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61) THE ELECTRONIC POETRY CENTER (BUFFALO) The mission of this World-Wide Web based electronic poetry center is to serve as a hypertextual gateway to the extraordinary range of activity in formally innovative writing in the United States and the world. The Center will provide access to numerous electronic resources in the new poetries including RIF/T and other electronic poetry journals, the Poetics List archives, a library of poetic texts, news of related print sources, and direct connections to numerous related poetic projects. The Center's first phase of implementation is scheduled for August 1, 1994. 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. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62) 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. To subscribe: send one line message in the BODY of mail-message sub femisa your name to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca To unsub send the one line message unsub femisa to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca I look forward to hearing suggestions and comments from you. Owner: Deborah Stienstra stienstr@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca Department of Political Science University of Winnipeg ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63) FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY A NEW ELECTRONIC FORUM FOR THE DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL FICTION, FICTIONAL PHILOSOPHY, AND EVERYTHING IN-BETWEEN The FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY: As in the fiction-of-crime, the category encompasses both `philosophical fiction' and that aspect of philosophy which encounters fiction as a mode of inquiry. 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. FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY: FOP, defined in the older Roget: "...swell, dandy, exquisite, coxcomb, beau, man about town, spark, popinjay, puppy, prig, jackanapes, carpet knight, dude" - extended into situationist, raconteur, flaneur... existing-between, passing for the other, the spy in the house of love who came in from the cold. The threads on the list might include presentations and discussions of creative work by the participants, cross-postings addressing relevant issues, discussions/critiques/group readings of specific literary works, and discussions of more general issues ranging from the interface between poetry and philosophy, to the narratology of the site of writing-philosophy (Heidegger's forest, Jabes' desert, Ballard's high-way). This list is open to everyone interested in philosophy and theory, on any level. FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY is brought to you by the Spoon Collective, a group of Net citizens devoted to free and open discussion of literary and philosophical issues on the Internet. Based on the Collective's philosophy, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT POSTS CONTAINING LANGUAGE OR SUBJECT MATTER THAT SOME MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE MAY APPEAR ON THE LIST FROM TIME TO TIME, AND SUCH POSTS WILL NOT BE CENSORED. However, we would also like you to know that racial or other bias slurs will not be tolerated; there are other sites on the Internet for them. To (re)subscribe, send the message: subscribe fiction-of-philosophy to majordomo@jefferson.village.virginia.edu To send a post, send to: fiction-of-philosophy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@jefferson.village.virginia.edu unsubscribe fiction-of-philosophy To find out who is on the list, send the message: who fiction-of-philosophy If you have any difficulties or more questions concerning the list, contact the list moderator, sondheim@panix.com Please note that there are no archives available as yet. Alan Sondheim - sondheim@panix.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64) HOLOCAUS: Holocaust list HOLOCAUS on LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU HOLOCAUS@uicvm has become part of the stable of electronic mail discussion groups ("lists") at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It is sponsored by the University's History Department and its Jewish Studies Program. To subscribe to HOLOCAUS, you need and Internet or Bitnet computer account. From that account, send this message to: LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu SUB HOLOCAUS Firstname Surname Use your own Firstname and Lastname. You will be automatically added. You can read all the mail, and send your own postings to everyone on the list (We have about 100 subscribers around the world right now). Owner: JimMott@spss.com HOLOCAUS is moderated by Jim Mott (JimMott@spss.com), a PhD in History, and is a part of H-Net, a project run by computer-oriented historians at the U of Illinois. We see moderated e-mail lists as a new mode of scholarly communication; they have enormous potential for putting in touch historians from across the world. H-Net has an ambitious plan for training historians across the country in more effective use of electronic communications. Details of the H-Net plan are available on request from Richard Jensen, the director, at: campbelld@apsu or u08946@uicvm.uic.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65) McLuhan List "Even mud gives the illusion of depth" --MARSHALL McLUHAN The Marshall McLuhan Center for Global Communications in association with The Center For Media Science (both non-profit) are releasing a veritable mountain of information in 1995, updating McLuhan theory and using McLuhan insights to analyze the world we live in, and "project" trends over the coming months and years. THE MEDIUM IS STILL VERY MUCH THE MESSAGE! These two associations have incredible resources to share -- all the McLuhan archives, as well as individuals who wrote and lectured with Marshall. The process of "updating" McLuhan theory to 1995 has been years in the making! The result will be a detailed analysis of the interplay between Technology and Culture. This information affects everyone on the planet, and will be shared. PROJECT McLUHAN will also release information gleaned from so-called "alternative media," non-traditional media which nonetheless gather and distribute information which may be of interest. TOPICS (KEYWORDS) INCLUDE TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTERS, CULTURE, SIGHT & SOUND, ADVERTISING, MARKETING, COMMUNICATION, HUMOUR, LIFESTYLES, HEALTH, RUMOUR, ENIGMAS AND MUCH MORE. There is no charge to be on the e-list. To join the list send a short email to: mclr@inforamp.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 66) 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 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTCOLONIAL The Spoon Collective would like to announce the creation of a POSTCOLONIAL mailing list. POSTCOLONIAL is an electronic forum for discussion and experimentation rooted in postcolonial literature, film, and theory. POSTCOLONIAL is an open list - all interested parties are invited and encouraged to participate. Specific information about the list is below. To subscribe to POSTCOLONIAL, send the message: subscribe postcolonial to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu To post a message to POSTCOLONIAL, send your post to: postcolonial@lists.village.virginia.edu The (im)propriety of the term "postcolonial" will hopefully be addressed on the list. For now: "We use the term 'post-colonial'...to cover all the culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day" (Bill Ashcroft, et al. _The Empire Writes Back_. 1989). Postcolonial literature and film generally includes the cultural productions emerging out of the experience of colonization. Postcolonial theory and criticism interrogates the relations between culture and imperialism. It frequently is concerned with creating agency for the marginalized and with recovering lost cultural histories. Feminist questions are, of course, germane to this discussion. The roles of academia and the Internet in postcolonial power relations merit discussion as well. A list of representative authors and directors might include: LITERATURE: Chinua Achebe, George Lamming, Aime Cesaire, Sara Suleri, Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Marguerite Duras, Farida Karodia, Ayi Kwei Armah, Nuruddin Farah, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, V.S. Naipaul, Wole Soyinka, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Derek Walcott, Anita Desai, Hanif Kureishi, C.L.R. James, etc. FILM: Claire Denis, Ketan Mehta, Farida Ben Lyazid, Ken Loach, Peter Ormrod, Horace Ove, Srinivas Krishna, Ousmane Sembene, Gurinder Chada, Pratibha Parmar, the Sankofa Film Collective, Mira Nair, Marguerite Duras, etc. THEORY: Homi Bhabha, Partha Chatterjee, Amilcar Cabral, Frantz Fanon, Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Edward Said, Trinh T. Minha, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Abdul Jan Mohamed, etc. This is an "open list"--posts on all aspects of the above issues and more will be welcomed. It is open to general discussion, group readings of published works, the sharing and critique of participants' works-in-progress, and creative appropriations of the texts across a variety of disciplines. This list is unmoderated in the sense that all posts are sent out without the need for approval. However, if you are interested in serving as coordinator of the list (not approving posts but instigating, trying to maintain discussion, and helping with administrative tasks), please contact the Spoon Collective: spoons@jefferson.village.virginia.edu POSTCOLONIAL is brought to you by the Spoon Collective, a group of Net citizens devoted to free and open discussion of philosophical issues on the Internet. Based on the Collective's philosophy, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT POSTS CONTAINING LANGUAGE OR DEALING WITH SUBJECT MATTER THAT SOME MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE MAY APPEAR ON THE LIST FROM TIME TO TIME, AND SUCH POSTS WILL NOT BE CENSORED. For that reason, if you are not interested in receiving such posts, please do not subscribe. Other Spoon lists include: avant-garde, bataille, baudrillard, blanchot, cybermind, deleuze-guattari, feyerabend, fiction-of-philosophy, film-theory, foucault, frankfurt-school, french-feminism, lyotard, marxism, nietzsche... Please address any questions, comments, or concerns that are not appropriate for the list as a whole to: spoons@jefferson.village.virginia.edu This announcement created by Dan Kern of the Spoon Collective. Special thanks to Mia Carter for her help. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68) VIRTED: Virtual Reality and Education VIRTED on LISTSERV@SJUVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU VIRTED is an open, unmoderated discussion list for TEACHERS, STUDENTS, and anyone else interested in the uses of VIRTUAL REALITY in education and learning. We look forward to the exchange of ideas related to VIRTUAL REALITY. In this forum we hope to explore the use and potential uses of VIRTUAL REALITY environments in both traditional and alternative educational settings, the effects of VIRTUAL REALITY environments upon the learning process, and the efficacy of using VIRTUAL REALITY as an educational delivery system. Review of research, publications and observations related to EDUCATIONAL uses of VIRTUAL REALITY are welcome and encouraged. Our mission is to shed light on this new avenue of education and learning which takes place in both text based environments as well as graphic environments. To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail to LISTSERV@SJUVM on BITNET or LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU on the Internet: SUB VIRTED yourfirstname yourlastname For example: SUB VIRTED Jane Doe Owners: Valorie J. King P.J. Lucas Dr. Robert Zenhausern ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69) New Media Site Visits Stuart Glover is Program Manager for Writing at Arts Queensland and also who is also preparing a policy statement for the Queensland government on new media. He's looking for places to visit and short-term attachments in the USA and Europe at oranisations and institutions that are familiar with the use of new media technology in writing/publishing/libraries or government adminstration and policy. His study will cover network publishing as well as CD-ROM and other emerging forms. Stuart Glover Arts Queensland GPO Box 1436 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia +61 7 225 8106 voice (freecall 008 175 531 in Australia) +61 7 224 4077 fax (freefax 008 175 532 in Australia) p.brown@gu.edu.au please put Attn: Stuart Glover in the subject field ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70) Leonardo WWW Collaboration Rooms The Leonardo WWW site announces a new service : The Collaboration Meeting Rooms which provide a mechanism for interested individuals and organisations to find collaborators with specific skills, experience or interests. Projects seeking collaborators can post requests for collaborators, persons interested in collaborating can contact project organisers. The Leonardo WWW Collaboration Meeting Rooms are accessible on the Leonardo Electronic Members Forum on: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/members.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 71) On Line Poetry We are featuring an on-line poetry series for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a a burgeoning center for poetry slams in the heart of the east village in NYC. The site features works by promising, young poets such as Maggie Estep and Reg E. Gaines. http://marketplace.com:80/obs/books/holt/books/aloud/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72) CyberAnthropology Page CyberAnthropology is cyborg anthropology given a DMT hit from Terrence McKenna. It's what Malinowski would have done if he had Mondo 2000 to read. It's a humanities refresher for the posthuman! Still in the preliminary stages, but aimed at the cyberanthropologist interested in computer-mediated communications (CMC), postmodernity, hypermedia, modern primitivism, hyperreality, virtual communities, virtual reality, cyberculture, technoculture, and the changing landscape of the human interface with technology. Please: send me your essays, if you're a prospective cyberanthropologist. Send me GIFs or MPEGs or AUs you think might spice the place up. Tell me of links you think would be kool for my Cyberanthropology page. Most of all, tell me what you think of the stuff that's on there now (mostly my essays.) The URL is http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/Seeker1_s_CyberAnthro_Page.html --Seeker1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ End of Notices for January, 1995 ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------