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If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Publication Announcements * Essays in Postmodern Culture * disClosures * Guy Debord's Films Subtitled * The Electronic Labyrinth * Rachitecture 1.6 * NewJour * Bright Lights Film Journal * Internet and Library Information Science * Lusitania 7 * Acadia * Mail-Order Books on Russian History and Culture * Centennial Review * The Minnesota Review Conferences, Calls for Papers, Invitations to Submit * Calls for Papers in English and American Literature * Hyptertext '96 * 5CYBERCONF * Chaos, Death and Madness y * Mwendo * Standards * National Graduate Student Cultural Studies Conference * Gender and Space: South/Southeast Asia * Call for Papers: Public Access Computer Systems Review * Blast 5: Drama * On-line Fiction Writers Workshop * Call for Help - Polish Internet * Culture and Poverty: Call for Papers * Creative Time Conference ----------------------------------------------------------------- * 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. Book design by Richard Eckersley. ISBN: 0-19-508752-6 (hardbound), 0-19-508753-4 (paper) To order a copy by e-mail, click here ----------------------------------------------------------------- * disClosure disClosure a journal of social theory [disClosure: a journal of social theory] http://www.uky.edu/~sdwyer0/disclose.html Issue 5: REASON INCorporated EDITOR'S FOREWORD PART I: Non-reflective rationality and the cyborg body politic o Interview with Hubert Dreyfus: What makes an expert system? o Essay by Thomas Strong: Plastic heart, black box, iron cage: instrumental reason and the Artificial Heart Experiment o Poetry by Michael Caufield: Isaac Newton died a virgin o Review essay by Susan Mains: Bodily regimes PART II: "As if the world were split in two:" contesting dualisms o Essay by Dianne Rothleder: The end of killing, the law of the mother, and a non-exclusionary symbolic o Review essay by Christine James: Reconceptualizing masculinity o Poetry by Beth Harris: The faggot's claim to name, or deconstructing the breeding game o Interview with Timothy Mitchell: Archeology of modernity in *Colonizing Egypt* and beyond PART III: Saving "rationality" by listening to its critics? o Essay by Bryan Crable: Method as the embodiment of reason o Poetry by Carol Denson: Cultch o Interview with Russell Berman o Review essay by Arnold Farr: Theory and rationality: extending the Habermas/Foucault debate POSTSCRIPT: Poetry by Michael Caufiend: I was just getting started when o ARTWORK BY CHRIS HEUSTIS, Richard Pennell ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- * English Subtitles for Guy Debord's film Society of the Spectacle The films of Guy Debord have been an occult presence. Available at first only by pilgrimage to the Rue de Cujas, they became completely inaccessible in the mid-1980s when Debord withdrew them from circulation. In January of this year, two older films and a new video collaboration with Brigitte Cornand were broadcast on French TV, shortly after Debord's suicide. The vcrs were running. Through the machinations of Ediciones La Calavera, Debord's film version of _The Society of the Spectacle_ is now available in an English-subtitled NTSC version on VHS video. It may now enter the arena of theory and practice in the English language world. The subtitles are by Keith Sanborn. Proceeds will go to fund further subtitling projects. Costs For individuals: $25 U.S. for locations in the USA. $30 U.S. for locations elsewhere. Payment must be in advance in U.S. dollars ONLY in U.S. Postal money orders for US addresses. No cash. No personal checks. No C.O.D.'s. International orders must be in travellers checks in U.S. Dollar. All U.S. orders will be sent priority mail. Tapes sent outside the U.S. will go by U.S. first class mail. Make money orders or traveller's checks payable to: "Keith Sanborn." Send orders with payment to: Ediciones La Calavera P.O. Box 1106 Peter Stuyvesant Station New York, NY 10009 Smile, Karen Elliott is watching. Also available under the same terms on NTSC VHS: Rene Vienet's _Can Dialectics break bricks_? For more information contact, Keith Sanborn at mzero@panix.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- * The Electronic Labyrinth _The Electronic Labyrinth_, a book-length study of hypertext fiction and software, is now available on the Internet as freeware. _The Electronic Labyrinth_ provides a critically-informed introduction to the field of hypertext, with a special emphasis on its potential for use by authors and other creative artists. It provides a history of the development of the form, discussions of key terms and concepts, and reviews of many PC and Macintosh-based authoring systems. The emergence of hypertext is placed in the context of the literary tradition of non-linear approaches to narrative, such as those employed by Cortazar, Nabokov, Borges and Pavic. Special attention is paid to works created specifically for computerized hypertext,including Michael Joyce's _Afternoon, A Story_, John McDaid's _Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse_ and Stuart Moulthrop's _Dreamtime_. _The Electronic Labyrinth_ can be obtained using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The site address is: QSILVER.QUEENSU.CA. Login as ANONYMOUS and provide your email address when you are prompted for a password. Once logged on, change to the directory containing _The Electronic Labyrinth_ by typing: cd /pub/english/hypertext If you are running Microsoft Windows 3.1 or 3.11, then download the WinHelp version (LAB_WIN.ZIP). This is the preferred format, since it is the only one which preserves the hypertext structure of the document. Otherwise, retrieve either the Rich Text Format file (LAB_RTF.ZIP) which retains the formatting of the text, or the ASCII format file (LAB_ASC.ZIP) which does not. Finally, if you are unable to unarchive a ZIP file, retrieve LAB_ASC.TXT, which is a plain text file. For more information on installing _The Electronic Labyrinth_, retrieve the REAME.TXT file with the command: GET README.TXT If you encounter problems, please send email to: robin.escalation@ACM.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- * rachitecture 1.6 *rachitecture* is my version of architecture on the internet. As a 'net based newsletter, its only function is to get you out there to have a look around. Of course, what is out there is always changing, and what seems interesting does too. If it is indeed true that for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction, this release of rachitecture is definitely an expression of that insistent dialectic. As an expression of my continued interest in the realm of actual buildings and physical lessons, let's look to christopher alexander's speech "Domestic Architecture" from the "@ Home Conference" In that essay alexander asks "what does it really take to build up a world in which our houses sustain and enlarge childish, innocent life in us?" and i will suggest that it goes beyond space planning with clients and requires us as architects to ask "what does it really take to build up a world in which our houses sustain and enlarge our lives and the lives of our children." William mcdonough, who is the dean of the architecture program at the university of virginia is trying to answer those questions in and exciting and responsible way. In his essay "Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things" he outlines his position. Because of his tenure at the University, UVA is sponsoring a number of exciting projects that are using the computer technologies to help foster sustainable development both here and abroad. The Urban Poverty and Sustainable Development Project, is just one example, in which architects and planners from the united states and brazil are using the world wide web to help develop plans for sustainable developments in Rio de Janeiro. Of course using technology to help develop sustainability has been something of a buggaboo in the environmental movement, obviously it must be brought to bear. At The Global Network for Environmental Technologies they are thinking about the ways in which Technology can be used for a Sustainable Future at a national scale. In general, architecture and architectural thinking lends itself to thinking about patterns and systems (in a cybernetic way) that can be useful for thinking about sustainable development in general, and sustainable settlements (ie planning ) in particular. and i think that it is important for architects to begin to consider the ways in which we can contribute to and help direct these dialogues. For background information on sustainable deveopment see the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Winnipeg. They have a very good calender of international conferences, and are co hosts of "Developing Ideas," an electronic forum on creating sustainable societies. For most architects, however it is important to think clearly about what we can do about discipline at regional and local scales. Prior to becoming the dean at uva, william mcdonough worked closely with the City of Chattanooga to help develop their sustainability program and he is currently working on the redesign of the Trade Center Renovation that embodies his principles of buildings as "living machines." Most of us work at the smaller scale of the individual building and lot. For those of us who are working at that level we need both useful precedents, like the ecohouse and useful sources of information about what materials to use and where to get them. Like this list from the rainforest action network. Of course, there are other options, perhaps more radical proposals, like those made by Nomadic Research Labs, who have been trotting around for years on bicycles called BEHEMOTH -- they have some interesting notions about nomadics that might give traditional architects pause to rethink the focus of their attention. Don't know about you but i've missed the aphorisms. So there it is. Comments, questions and suggestions are always welcome. rachitecture is available through email subscription, if you want to subscribe or be taken off the mailing list write me and on the subject line write "rachitecture." gsd96cpc@gsd.harvard.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- * NewJour NewJour, the Internet list for reporting and announcing new on-line electronic journals, announces a major improvement in its archive. The result is an important new tool for those who track the explosive growth in on-line Internet serial publishing, or simply for those who wish to see what is available in particular subject areas. The URL is simple: http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour The archive is maintained by mhonarc software which not only displays the entries in HTML, but takes all URLs in the messages and turns them into links, so when you read an entry describing a journal that offers a URL, you can immediately click and go to the site described. There is searching software and a reverse chronological index to let visitors check the newest material first. (Suggestions for other ways to improve the presentation are very welcome.) As of 3 p.m. Pacific Time, Sunday, October 22nd, 1995, the NewJour archive contains 975 items. NewJour distributes its reports to 2200 subscribers on all seven continents (list subscription instructions below). Its archive goes back to August 1993, but the last half year has seen a remarkable boom in initiatives reported. The list began as an activity of the Association of Research Libraries in connection with its famous _Directory of Electronic Scholarly Journals, Newsletters, and Discussion Lists_, now in its fifth edition. ARL has enriched the scope of the Directory project and the partnerships that create it, and NewJour now represents a collaboration between ARL, the Yale University Libraries, the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT) at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California at San Diego Library with their excellent library and systems staff. To subscribe to NewJour, send e-mail to: majordomo@ccat.sas.upenn.edu with no Subject and include the simple message "subscribe newjour" You may also choose to receive a single daily message compiling all the day's messages in one "digest." To do that, send to the same address the message: "subscribe newjour-digest" The WWW NewJour archives are provided as a service by the Data Services Unit of the Social Sciences and Humanities Library of the University of California, San Diego: Jim Jacobs Abe Singer Marsha Fanshier For questions about the ARL Directory, contact: Patricia Brennan, Communications Coordinator (patricia@cni.org), or Dru mogge, Electronic Services Coordinator (dur@cni.org) The co-owners/moderators of the NewJour service are: Ann Shumelda Okerson James J. O'Donnell Yale University University of Pennsylvania Ann.Okerson@yale.edu jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Bright Lights Film Journal BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM JOURNAL: http://www.crl.com/~gsamuel/bright.html Bright Lights Film Journal is a glossy, 8-1/2" x 11" popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary, looking at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political. A prime area of focus is on the connection between capitalist society and the images that reflect, support, or subvert it -- movies as propaganda. Written by curdled critics and excitable academics. ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Internet and Library and Information Services The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announces the publication of: _The Internet and Library and Information Services: A Review, Analysis, and Annotated Bibliography_ By Lewis-Guodo Liu Occasional Paper No. 202, December 1995 The literature on the Internet and library and information services has emerged and expanded since 1990 into a rich corpus -- both in quantity and variety. Yet little effort has been made to organize this literature. The Internet and _Library and Information Services: A Review, Analysis, and Annotated Bibliography_ examines the literature and provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography containing 446 items on the Internet and library and information services. The selected items are classified into twenty-seven topical categories such as: Business Resources; Government Information; Legal, Ethical, and Security Issues; Public Libraries; and User's Needs and Human Cognition. Lewis-Guodo Liu observes in his accompanying essay that the literature is predominantly descriptive and argues that more analytical research needs to be performed in the future. This bibliography focuses on providing information on the characteristics of the literature in the hopes to facilitate scholarly research and policy-making in this area. _The Internet and Library and Information Services: A Review, Analysis, and Annotated Bibliography_ (Occasional Paper 202), by Lewis-Guodo Liu. ISSN 0276 1769. 91 pp. $8.00 + $3.00 shipping ($1.00 for each additional copy) in the U.S. International orders add $5.00 shipping ($1.50 for each additional copy). Orders should be prepaid to the University of Illinois and sent to: The Publications Office Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Telephone Orders: (217) 333-1359 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Lusitania #7: Sites and Stations Announcing the publication of Lusitania #7: Sites and Stations: Provisional Utopias Publication date: January 1995. Authors include: David Hickey, Miwon Kwon, Friedrich Kittler, Paul Virilio, John Miller, Raoul Bunschoten, Celeste Olalquiaqa, Hani Rashid & Lise Antic Couture. Description of Contents: Steel & glass towers, once were a manifestation of our utopian dreams now they recede into the distance. Las Vegas is up ahead, an oasis, whose sole function is distraction, entertainment and spectacle. This is the end of the road. Nothing beyond but wasteland. Like the Emerald City of Oz, all that glitters is not Utopia. Since Venturis "Learning from Vegas," this city of lights has been architecture's worst nemesis. The future was not supposed to be like this. Today, design bureaucrats have usurped and decorated the place of visionary architects. The emblematic indulges in the academic. What is presented in _Sites and Stations: Provisional Utopias_ is a challenge to architects to retrieve and deliver unsuspected possibilities of new tomorrows, from the forbidden vision of the utopian. Trim Size 7 in. by 9 1/2in. Page Count: 256 Pgs Stock: 100grm Japanese Woodfree Cover: Laminate 260 grm Artboard Binding: Perfect Binding Language: English/ Korean Illustratons: 32 Pgs Color 64 Pgs B&W ISBN Price: $15.00 Lusitania #7 is available at a discount of 20% for orders of between five and nine copies and at a 30% discount for order of 10 or more. For more information contact Carol Ashley: e-mail: lusitani@panix.com Fax: (212) 732 3914 phone: (212) 619 6224 Mail: Lusitania Press 104 Reade St. 2nd Flr. NY, NY 10013-3864 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Acadia Hi, My name is Kemper James and I'd like to introduce you to Acacia. It's a brand new little ezine on the web! We have poetry, music, stories, and a little insight into who we are . . . The 50's was the "he" decade, the 60's was the '"we" decade, the 70's was the "she" decade, and the 80's the "me" decade . . . so what's left for us childern of the 90's? Come and find out. Please visit us, write us, and yes, even add a link to our page at: http://bchi.com/acacia/acacia.html e-mail: kemper@ripco.com keywords: ezine, ezines, journal, literature, poetry, music, stories, young people Thanks, see you there! ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Mail-Order books on Russian History and Culture Please, have a look at http://www.dux.ru/win/guest/phenix/pap.html Phenix-Atheneum Publishers WWW Page "Phenix" publishers was founded in May, 1990 when its main establisher, the Russian language publishers "Atheneum" in Paris, decided to move from France to Russia. The most important spheres of activity of "Phenix" are search and annotated publications of original source documents on the political, social and cultural history of Russia in the XIX-XX centuries. The documents are published in almanacs, collections and as separate books. Memoirs, diaries and letters as well as official documents found in State and private archives, form for the most part the contents of the volumes that have already came out. Modern historical studies published by "Phenix" are based on the same archive materials. The themes of publications are rather broad in scope: religion, science, painting, literature, theatre, political repressions, resistance, revolutions, wars, politics, etc. Special series are dedicated to biographies, the history of separate regions, emigration. Well-known slavic scholars Richard Davis, John Malmstad, Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff contribute to the publishers. Since 1995 a periodical of modern prose, poetry and critics "Postscriptum" has been published, as well as the poetical series "Masterskaya." In May of 1995 "Phenix" was awarded the elite Petersburg prize "Severnaia Palmira." Sincerely, Ivan Krasnyj St.Petersburg, Russia ivan@krasnyj.spb.su ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Centennial Review [IMAGE] ----------------------------------------------------------------- * The Minnesota Review [IMAGE] ----------------------------------------------------------------- * cfp@english.upenn.edu Calls for Papers in English & American Literature For the last two years, the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania has kept a collection of call for papers, conference announcements, etc., on English and American literature, on Penn's English Web and English Gopher. To facilitate the exchange of information on upcoming conferences and publication opportunities, Penn English has created an electronic mailing list, cfp@english.upenn.edu. We encourage conference or panel organizers and volume editors to find the largest possible audience for their announcements by posting them on this list. 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If you have any questions, write to Jack Lynch at jlynch@english.upenn.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Hypertext '96 Advance Program HYPERTEXT '96 Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext Washington DC, USA - March 16-20, 1996 ----------------------------------- Full details at this URL: http://acm.org/siglink/ht96/ *We still need student volunteers* . . . email to capps@cs.unc.edu ----------------------------------- "Docuverse Takes Form . . ." In the '70s Ted Nelson coined the term "docuverse" to describe a global network of interlinked and personalizable information. Now, two decades later, the docuverse is taking form. Graphics and computing technology now bring inexpensive hypermedia technology to everyone, and the World Wide Web is linking all those everyones together. Technical Papers The latest research results in WWW development and use, Hypermedia documents, systems, models, concepts. Courses We are offering two days of courses prior to the conference. Topics include document design and critique, WWW basics, HMTL 3.0 and style sheets, Java for WWW applications, Netscape 2.0 enhancements, educational use of hypermedia, legal issues, collaboration environments, HyTime, Hyper-G, and more. System Demonstrations Working research systems will be demonstrated. Posters Short presentations of work in progress. Workshops There are four pre-conference workshops in which researchers will meet to discuss developments in specific technical areas. Doctoral Consortium A workshop in which Ph.D. students will meet to discuss research topics and results, critique of the field overall. By invitation, see the Web pages for details. ----------------------------------- For information e-mail to ht96-info@cs.unc.edu David Stotts (General Chair) Catherine Marshall (Program Chair) Department of Computer Science Hypermedia Research Lab University of North Carolina Department of Computer Science Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112 stotts@cs.unc.edu marshall@bush.cs.tamu.edu phone: (919) 962-1833 phone: (409) 845-9980 fax: (919) 962-1799 fax: (409) 847-8578 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * 5CYBERCONF 5CYBERCONF June 6th to 9th, 1996. Madrid, Spain Hosted by "Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia de Telefonica" 5CYBERCONF is an international conference that addresses the social, political and cultural implications of cyberspace from a critical standpoint and encourages discussion between theoreticians and practitioners. Hosted for the first time in Europe, this fifth edition of CYBERCONF considers computer-human interface breakthroughs, our fascination and weariness with disobedient technology, the role of synthetic behaviour in virtual design, and the increasing importance of cross-cultural contributions to the electronic community. In the 90's cyberspace has reached a critical mass. The tools to construct and navigate virtual worlds are becoming increasingly affordable, intuitive and widespread. The rise in bandwidth and dropping prices have provoked the exponential growth of the online population (or is it the other way around?). As the net becomes a mainstream hit, how has the transition from science fiction to reality changed cyberspace? CONFERENCE FORMAT 5CYBERCONF is scheduled to start on Thursday afternoon, June 6th and take place over three and a half days. There will be 8 keynote speakers, 18 plenary sessions, special events, a videoconference link-up and a banquet dinner on Sunday, June 9th. All sessions are designed to foster discussion. Presentations will be in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation. THEMES o INTER-FACE LIFT: How are the boundaries of the computer-human interface disappearing? Is the "window onto the world" metaphor exhausted? Can we unframe our synthetic worlds? What can replace the cartesian grid as a reference for non-linear worlds? o CYBER SICK-AND-TIRED: Who is leaving cyberspace and why? What are the different forms of cyber-sickness? Is the body rejecting interfaces that ignore it? What are the old and new psychological disorders manifested in or caused by cyberspace? What are the different forms of cyber-tiredness? How can we counteract the disenchantment brought about by the unfulfilled promises of the cyber-hype industry? Who is buying the media's portrayal of cyberspace as dirty and dangerous? Who is winning the battles to control or dominate access? o TECHNOLOGY GOOD, PEOPLE BAD (Virtual Perversions): When will the predicted death of "outmoded" dualisms finally happen? Is accepting our own cyborgness the only way to explore post-humanism, or are there other, as-yet-unimagined, ways? How do we create new languages to describe unprecedented experiences? How has the language of cyberspace changed since the first CYBERCONF? o DIGITAL THIRD WORLDS: Are there digital ethnic groups? How can ceremony and language be used in the retro-colonization of cyberspace? Can the international economic system be de-virtualized? What kinds of non-digital virtuality are there? What are the experiences of new online communities in countries where access is relatively recent, and how are their contributions changing the time and space of cyberspace? Who are the new marginals? The "Global Village" and other myths. o CRASH TECHNOLOGY: What is seductive about technology out-of-control? What would be the uses of a "personal dis-organizer"? What is technological correctness? How will our ethics be transformed by the ability to "undo" our virtual actions? Will artificial intelligence finally deliver an automaton that disobeys? What is cyber-pain (and where to find it)? o SYNTHETIC BEHAVIOUR (Recombinart): Can cyberspace behaviour be "rendered" (as in designer-behaviour)? What constitutes interesting behaviour? Will synthetic behaviour change what we mean by normal behaviour? What is the virtual equivalent of the Undead? What proposals challenge the dead/alive binary (videogames, military simulators, etc.) as the primary paradigm of virtual interaction? CALL FOR ABSTRACTS To submit an abstract for the potential inclusion of your paper in the 5CYBERCONF programme, please follow these format guidelines: Title of the paper Author(s) Institutional affiliation, if any Chosen 5CYBERCONF theme (from the list above) Abstract, 500 words maximum Brief biography, 100 words maximum Audiovisual equipment requirements Contact information (email preferred) There are two ways to submit: 1) Email 5cyberconf@ceai.telefonica.es with the subject "5CYBERCONF Submission" or 2) mail both a printed copy and a PC or MAC diskette to the address given below. The selection will be done by an international and a local committee made up of academics, theorists, artists and technicians in the field. Submission of an abstract indicates the submitter's intention and capability to write and present the corresponding, full length paper, if chosen. Papers will be alloted a half hour for presentation and may be in English or Spanish. Please be advised that the selection committees will not consider abstracts that are not formatted as stated above nor papers that have been previously published. All papers will be published in a bilingual edition of the proceedings, which will be available in late 1996. DEADLINES: Deadline for reception of abstracts: February 15, 1996 Notification of selection for presentation: March 15, 1996 Deadline for registration: May 1, 1996 For more information: http://www.telefonica.es/fat/ecyb.html#A1.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Chaos, Death, and Madness: The Use of the Disruptive in Literature and the Arts Chaos, Death, and Madness: The Use of the Disruptive in Literature and the Arts The 5th Annual Conference on Language and Literature Baylor University April 12-13, 1996 Plenary speakers: Dr. Katherine Hayles Dept. of English, UCLA and Dr. Melissa Dowling Dept. of History, SMU We invite papers to be submitted for consideration in all areas of Literature and the Arts. However, we are particularly interested in papers dealing with disruption. Suggested topics include: o Madness or Feigned Insanity o Deconstructing the Status Quo o Gender relationships and Violence o The grotesque or Carnivalesque o Creating Order Through Disruption o Fear or Constructive Terror o Structure and Disruption in the Arts o War and the Warrior o Chaos Theory o Representations of Death SUBMISSIONS DUE BY FEBRUARY 12, 1996 PLEASE SEND A 1-2 PAGE ABSTRACT ALONG WITH YOUR PAPER. DETAILED ABSTRACTS WITHOUT PAPERS WILL BE CONSIDERED, BUT IF THEY ARE ACCEPTED, THE COMPLETED PAPERS ARE DUE BY MARCH 28, 1996. SEND ALL RESPONSES TO: WARREN EDMINSTER English Department Baylor University Waco, TX 76798 or email to: james_mckeown@ccis01,baylor.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- * MWENDO MWENDO, a black literary magazine, is currently accepting submissions for the 1996 issue. Works of poetry, personal essays, commentaries, short stories, and artwork are welcome. Literary works are limited to 1,000 words (max). Submission deadline is February 29, 1996. (e-mail submissions are welcomed!) Include SASE for return of materials. MWENDO, Coe College, 1220 First Avenue NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 (e-mail: gkaruri@coe.edu) ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Standards STANDARDS, the first international journal of multicultural studies on the world wide web, is now accepting submissions for the Spring, 1996 issue, to be posted online in March, 1996. The current online issue is our Fifth Anniversary Edition, titled "Survival," and includes a retrospective of our first four volumes, previously published on the page by the University of Colorado and Stanford University. Features this issue include an Introduction by Marlon Riggs; a Tribute to Audre Lorde, with original poetry by Lorde first published in STANDARDS; "On Bombs, Memory, and Survival: A Scientist Recalls Hiroshima and Nagasaki," by Gene D. Robertson, a scientist who worked on the after-effects of the Manhattan Project; as well as works by Aurora Levins Morales, Essex Hemphill, Benjamen Alire Senz, and Cordelia Candelaria. We are especially pleased to introduce to a global readership new and emerging writers and artists who are finding creative solutions to the challenges of difference. Individual works address topics of race, gender, ethnicity, color, physical ability, class, sexuality, incest, domestic violence, AIDS, rape, and, above all, resistance and survival. The current issue is dedicated, with affection and admiration, to the memory of award-winning Black gay film-maker and scholar Marlon T. Riggs. Inquiries regarding our journal may be sent to via email to: standard@colorado.edu. Submissions of original, unpublished fiction, prose, poetry, drama/performance art, photography/visual art, and all points in between, may be submitted by the same link, throughout the year. We will occasionally consider reprints; include original publication information. IF YOU PUBLISH A NOT-FOR-PROFIT PRINT JOURNAL ON MULTICULTURAL ISSUES: The next volume of STANDARDS will include a tribute to the BEST OF THE MULTICULTURAL JOURNALS around the world. Editors may submit up to five (5) entries previously published in their pages; we will select one piece each, from as many as 15 international journals, to appear in our Internet pages. We will also include a listing of progressive, not-for-profit multicultural print journals around the world, including submission and subscription information. Texts will appear in their original languages, and should be accompanied by an English translation. Deadline for this issue: February 1, 1996, for inclusion in our Spring, 1996 issue. By email attachment, use either a Word for Mac file or as an ASCII/text only file. Visual art should be sent as either GIFs or JPEGs, preferably compressed. Hard copies, when necessary, may be submitted to: Canela A. Jaramillo, Editor STANDARDS: An International Journal of Multicultural Studies University of Colorado Office of Academic Affairs, Campus Box 40 Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0040, USA. No original materials can be returned. Please include a return email address or, for hardcopies, a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Copyrights revert to the author, and are shared by the STANDARDS Editorial Collective, for reprinting only. Text in languages other than English and Spanish are accepted, with accompanying translation to English. (In opposition to the negative effects of current "English Only" laws on the burgeoning Latino/Spanish speaking populations in the United States, we have printed some "Spanish only" texts in the current volume.) Please allow three weeks for queries; six to eight weeks for editorial consideration of complete submissions. STANDARDS is a not-for-profit publication, and does not pay for any submissions; we can, however, extend individual works, in a sophisticated format, to a growing international audience of readers who are involved in every aspect of cultural studies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- * National Graduate Student Cultural Studies Conference C A L L F O R P A P E R S 10th ANNUAL NATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CULTURAL STUDIES CONFERENCE: CITING CULTURAL LOCATIONS: PERFORMING PERSONAL THEORETICAL OCCASIONS Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. April 19, 20, 21, 1996 This conference challenges the boundaries established within the traditional academic setting and those placed around the academic site. It acts against illusions of a separation between theoretical production and lived experience. Opening up the discussion of cultural studies to include performances, political activism, and creative expression, we will explore the occasions where the personal and the theoretical meet and the performances that spring from them, particularly with regards to transforming both the public and academic spheres. Send 1-2 page abstracts to: Nat'l Graduate Cultural Studies Conference LN 2441/Library Tower Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13901 or email to: bc05319@binghamton.edu Deadline: February 15th ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Gender and Space: South/Southeast Asia Call for Papers We invite critical essays for an interdisciplinary anthology on the conceptualization of space in South and Southeast Asian contexts in the 19th and 20th centuries. The emphasis is on a feminist analytics of women's and men's experiences of space in such topics as political, social, and/or psychic cartographies of imperialism, nationhood, urbanization, technological production (cyberspace, etc.), (e)migration, enforced/chosen exile, and cosmopolitanism. Papers might also consider how narratives (visual, written, spoken, enacted), spatial designs, and sociocultural practices configure race, class, gender (also transgendering), sexuality, religion/spirituality, and the politics of public and private realms inside, between, and outside predetermined boundaries. Countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmara (Burma), Nepal, India, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Send 2-3 page proposals or papers (25-30 pages) by May 15, 1996 to: Esha Niyogi De (UCLA) at idr2end@mvs.oac.ucla.edu or by regular mail to: Sonita Sarker Women's and Gender Studies Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 Office Phone: (612)696-6316 Fax: (612)696-6430 e-mail:sarker@macalstr.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Public Access Computer Systems Review _The Public-Access Computer Systems Review_, an electronic journal established in 1989, is issuing a call for papers on scholarly electronic publishing activities on the Internet. The journal has published a number of papers on this topic in the past, and the editors are interested in exploring contemporary e-publishing projects and perspectives. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o State-of-the-art overviews of the e-publishing of books, journals, preprints, and other materials. o Case studies of "second-generation" e-journals that utilize HTML; graphic images; Acrobat, PostScript, and similar distribution tools; search engines; and related discussion lists to overcome the limitations of ASCII text or to provide new capabilities not found in print publishing. (Similar case studies about other types of scholarly electronic materials would also be welcome.) o Discussions of how libraries are (or should be) integrating scholarly electronic materials into their collections (especially preservation issues), participating in efforts to develop relevant standards and improved finding tools, and leading the way with digital library and similar projects. o Critiques of the rapidly changing role of copyright in the Internet environment and how it may influence the future of scholarly publishing for good or ill. o Thoughtful position papers, manifestos, and calls for action that illuminate the potentials and perils of scholarly electronic publishing or suggest new directions. See the journal's home page for more background information about the journal, including author guidelines. If you would like to participate, please contact the Editor-in-Chief at cbailey@uh.edu and indicate what target date you would like for submission (the journal has a flexible publication schedule). Papers can be submitted to either the Refereed Articles or Communications (editor-selected) sections of the journal. ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Blast 5: Drama CALL FOR PARTICIPATION WE INVITE YOU to develop a SCENARIO for BLAST 5. We are looking for submissions that make use of our contemporary experience of stories. These stories, increasingly nonlinear and hypertextual, contradictory and irresolute, are built upon an ever-expanding multiplicity of media, their lines of continuity networked into complex webs. The BLAST 5 project takes the form of a year-long drama composed of scenarios, intercutting real life, artificial life, scripted life, telematic life, and afterlife. The setting for BLAST 5, "Crossroads," appears below. In some manner, your scenario should engage this setting and the BLAST 5 drama that departs from it. Your scenario can take any form, but we encourage those that evoke action. The developing storylines will be hyperlinked and can be accessed at any time through the BLAST 5 "Theater of Operations" site on the World Wide Web (http://www.interport.net/~xaf/), or they may be relayed to you by someone who is participating in the project. Some form or aspect of your scenario -- such as a score, script, recording, recipe, game, diagram, index, drawing, letter, plan, prop, map, mask, code -- can be included in the BLAST 5 "vehicle" and/or in the various BLAST 5 "stage sets." These vehicles and stage sets are environments where the scenarios are played out. They provide a way for participants to engage your scenario and possibly assume roles in it. Scheduled stage sets include the Sandra Gering Gallery in New York in late 1996, and the "blast_stage" on the PMC-MOO [telnet: hero.village.virginia.edu 7777] at various times. The BLAST 5 Theater of Operations site on the World Wide Web may also operate as a stage set (or a part of one), and other stage set locations may be announced. The BLAST 5 vehicles are PORTABLE stage sets that individuals may buy or lease. They will be available for purchase at galleries (through Sandra Gering Gallery) and bookstores (through Distributed Art Publishers/D.A.P.). To submit a proposal, please send a short informal summary of your project to: BLAST 334 East 11 Street #2B New York, NY 10003 USA tel (212) 677-8146 fax (212) 505-6562 email xaf@interport.net The project begins on February 1, 1996, and continues for a period of at least one year. Proposals may be submitted at any time during this period, however editorial review meetings are held on March 1, May 30, and September 1. We encourage you to contact us first to discuss any questions you might have before you submit your proposal. A conference will be scheduled to coordinate with the stage set at the Sandra Gering Gallery in late 1996. We are also requesting papers for presentation at this event. Please inquire as to themes and deadlines. BLAST 5 is produced by THE X-ART FOUNDATION, a nonprofit artmaking entity based in New York. BLAST is an art publication that involves its participants in new experiences of reading and content production. For information on the XAF and BLAST, please visit http://www.interport.net/~xaf/ or contact us for further information. EDITORS: Marlena Corcoran, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Sean Bronzell, Antoinette LaFarge, Heather Wagner, Adrianne Wortzel Setting Sixth Avenue's nothing but old Highway Six as it passes through town. By some bad roll of the dice, I live at 1212, the intersection of Highway Six and the train tracks. Oh, it's not a bad neighborhood. There is no neighborhood. It's just where the line from the North Pole to the Gulf of Mexico crosses the line from the George Washington Bridge to the Pacific Ocean. Something called a town. At night when the trucks roll down so-called Sixth Avenue, I hear them coming from far away. The noise peaks and becomes a rattle as the truck passes. The bed settles as the truck pulls away. For a long, long time it gets fainter and fainter. At last I know it's gone and left me lying here in the wide midwestern night. The Doppler effect. We drew it on graph paper in school. We didn't learn to calculate how it feels when a bell curve of loneliness peaks at your front door. On rainy nights sometimes the lightning strikes the rails out on the prairie. The jolt travels many miles, setting off warning signals all along the way. Ding, ding, ding, flash. Before I learned better, I'd wait for the train. Why sleep now, I'd think, when any minute a distant rumble will turn to a grinding, shrieking, slow train crawling across Sixth Avenue. Ding, ding, flash. Nothing. Rain. "It's nothing," mumbles my husband. "Lightning on the tracks." I think of the pioneers who laid this grid on miles and miles of nothing. Not all of them made it. What about that fiddler from Bohemia. They buried him at the crossroads. I shake my husband and make him promise one more time. If I die, don't bury me here. -- stay, "Crossroads" ----------------------------------------------------------------- * On-line Fiction Writers Workshop A group called Book Stacks is now hosting an on-line Fiction Writers Workshop. We are hoping to turn this into a forum in cyberspace where fiction writers can present drafts of short stories or novel chapters for comment and critique by other writers and interested readers. Writers of all experience levels are welcome to present their work, and everyone is encouraged to provide constructive criticism. If possible, I would very much appreciate it if you could mention this on your zine. The URL is: http://www.books.com/scripts/newcon.exe. From there, click on the link to the Fiction Writers' Workshop. Thanks. DC Palter Fiction Editor Abiko Quarterly ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Call for Help - Polish Internet This is a request for help on behalf of the Polish internet. We have one single internet provider in Poland: NASK. NASK has, because of an agreement with Polish Telecom, a monopoly on lines connecting Poland with the rest of the world. Universities, schools and, commercial internet providers have to get their access from NASK. Prices for internet service are high. A complete account with SLIP etc. costs around $60 a month. Telephone costs are $3.7 per hour. If you take into account that wages of around $350 per month are considered normal it is clear why internet is not used by so many people in Poland. And now NASK has announced that too many people are using the internet and that they need more money to keep the lines open. They decided that from January, 1996, they would raise the prices, and that they would calculate costs per bytes sent or received. Yes that's right, we have to pay for letters you send us and we have to pay for WWW pages you download from us. This will mean the end of most internet activity in Poland. If you want to know the details you can find them at: http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~szymon/protest-eng.html http://www.put.poznan.pl/hypertext/isoc-pl/battle.html or by email: protest@uci.agh.edu.pl That's why we, Marta Dubrzynska, Webmaster of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, (http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/culture/csw/) and Michiel van der Haagen, Net user (http://www.atm.com.pl/COM/michiel/) ask your help. Can you make it clear to our Government and NASK that this policy is disastrous for Polish culture, economy and education? Please check out these WWW adresses and react. ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Culture and Poverty: Call for Papers Call for Papers CULTURE AND POVERTY _The Radical History Review_, an independent, academic journal of history, politics, and culture published by Cambridge University Press, plans a special issue for Fall 1997 devoted to the theme of CULTURE AND POVERTY. This issue is conceived as both a political and scholarly intervention. It will present work that examines the production of poverty through political, economic, and cultural practices; illuminates the ways in which discourses on poverty and wealth have been shaped, controlled, and deployed; and suggests how scholars on the left might intervene in public debates on the production of wealth and poverty within and across national boundaries. We seek papers which: o examine the role of culture in the construction and representation of poverty and wealth. o investigate the ideological workings of hierarchies of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality within popular representations of poverty. o study cultural representations of poverty and processes of cultural imperialism with a transnational or comparative perspective. o explore how dominant discourses on poverty have been contested and reconstructed within poor communities. o challenge narratives and ideologies that criminalize and pathologize poor people. o make connections between representations of poverty and policy making processes. o investigate narratives of assimilation and upward mobility in the construction of race and class. o examine the cultural production of poverty through photography, fine art, literature, film, video, television, music and other cultural forms. o suggest strategies for intervention in public debates on poverty and culture including submissions which experiment with alternative forms for diverse audiences. o adress methods for teaching courses that deal with these issues. Please send submissions to: Managing Editor, Radical History Review Tamiment Library 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012. Inquiries to Adina Back or Kevin Murphy at aqb2865@is2.nyu.edu or to the RHR office at 212-998-2632. Submission deadline: November 15, 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Creative Time -- April 22 Creative Time is sponsoring a three-day conference spread over three weeks, and held at the New School in New York City. The April 22nd evening is devoted to Internet Culture and Community; participants to date include Lisa Brawley, Shawn Wilber, and Alan Sondheim. There will be active participation from the Net as well. For further information, contact Alan Sondheim: sondheim@panix.com. Our conference session will discuss on-line communities and relationships, and how these are resulting in social realignments everywhere. The session will be in part on-line, with participants around the globe. The topics will include the politics and formats of on-line communities, net sex, love and death in cyberspace, and more. The on-line component will most probably use voice technology instead of text. ------------------END OF NOTICES.196 FOR PMC 6.2----------------- ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------