12-Mar-93 20:35:25-GMT,5729;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA02319; Fri, 12 Mar 93 15:35:24 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA20224; Fri, 12 Mar 93 15:35:22 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9303122035.AA20224@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from rutvm1.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11160; Fri, 12 Mar 93 05:53:14 EST Message-Id: <9303121053.AA11160@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from RUTVM1.RUTGERS.EDU by RUTVM1.RUTGERS.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) with BSMTP id 3222; Fri, 12 Mar 93 05:51:59 EST Received: from RUTVM1.BITNET (NJE origin LISTSERV@RUTVM1) by RUTVM1.RUTGERS.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 8373; Fri, 12 Mar 1993 05:51:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 05:51:54 -0500 Reply-To: psyc@pucc.bitnet Sender: "PSYCOLOQUY: Refereed Electronic Journal of Peer Discussion" From: Stevan Harnad Subject: psycoloquy.93.4.14.frame-problem.3.fetzer (88 lines) Comments: To: psyc@pucc.bitnet To: Multiple recipients of list PSYC Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 15:35:22 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew psycoloquy.93.4.14.frame-problem.3.fetzer Friday 12 March 1993 ISSN 1055-0143 (5 paragraphs, 3 references 81 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1993 James H. Fetzer VAN BRAKEL'S POSITION APPEARS TO BE INCOHERENT Commentary on van Brakel on Ford & Hayes on the Frame-Problem James H. Fetzer Department of Philosophy University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55812 jfetzer@ub.d.umn.edu 1. There appear to be at least three reasons for disputing van Brakel's (1992) position (in his commentary on Ford & Hayes 1991). First, in 1.1, van Brakel asserts that there are three dimensions to the frame problem: [A] Which things change and which don't? [B] How can [A] be represented? and, [C] How can/do we reason about [A]? In 1.5, he sides with Hayes (1992) in denying that the frame problem is "the problem of induction in disguise." Yet in the very same paragraph he concedes that [A] "is definitely related to the induction problem"! Insofar as [B] and [C] are also "definitely" related to [A] by his own admission, all three dimensions of the frame problem van Brakel identifies are "definitely related to the problem of induction," which suggests that his position is not logically consistent. 2. Second, the problem of induction is precisely the problem of establishing a foundation for making inferences about the future on the basis of information about the past. This includes inferences about what WILL change and what WILL NOT change when events of various kinds occur. In maintaining that the frame problem is a special case of the problem of induction, not only do I not deny that it has other dimensions (of representation and of implementation) but I actively affirm it. Surely, if there is no answer to question [A] then there are no answers to [B] or [C], whose solutions presuppose a solution to [A]. Thus, in denying my position, van Brakel denies his own. 3. Third, in 2.0 and thereafter, van Brakel insists that the frame problem is a special case of "the problem of complete description." In 6.1, he elaborates, with the admonition that it is impossible to give necessary and sufficient conditions for the occurrence of an event or the definition of a concept. But even if it is logically impossible to provide a complete description of any single event (by virtue of its infinite relations to other events), which is true, it does not follow that necessary and sufficient causal conditions for events of specific kinds or necessary and sufficient definitional conditions for specific concepts cannot be advanced. That seems to be false. 4. Consider, for example, the definition of a "bachelor" as an "unmarried adult male," where the former is known as the definiendum and the latter as its definiens. The definiens formulates necessary and sufficient definitional conditions for its definiendum. Or consider the "lighting of a match." Such events typically occur as effects of causes consisting of "strikings of matches of specified chemical composition when they are dry and oxygen is present." The latter conditions appear to be individually necessary and jointly sufficient to bring about an occurrence of the kind described by the former, although other causes are of course possible. 5. If the considerations I have advanced above are well-founded, then, first, van Brakel's position appears to be logically inconsistent; second, in denying my position, he denies his own; and, third, what he maintains is impossible is actually possible. If van Brakel's position is logically inconsistent, then it cannot possibly be valid (on logical grounds). If in denying my position he is denying his own, then even if his position were valid it would be invalid (on semantical grounds). And if he is mistaken about the prospects for establishing conditions for events or for concepts, then he is also wrong (on empirical grounds). His position thus appears to be incoherent. REFERENCES Ford, K.M. and P.J. Hayes (1991) Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World: The Frame Problem. Greenwich: JAI Press. Hayes, P.J. (1992) Summary of "Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World: The Frame Problem" (Ford & Hayes 1991, Eds.) PSYCOLOQUY 3(59) frame-problem.1 van Brakel, J. (1992) The Complete Description of the Frame Problem. PSYCOLOQUY 3(60) frame-problem.2 22-Mar-93 20:53:26-GMT,2132;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19502; Mon, 22 Mar 93 15:53:25 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA26171; Mon, 22 Mar 93 15:53:23 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9303222053.AA26171@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA04572; Sun, 21 Mar 93 16:52:24 EST Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA00625; Sun, 21 Mar 93 16:45:19 EST Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 16:45:18 EST Posted-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 16:45:18 EST Message-Id: <9303212102.AA01995@compute1> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: call for peer-review X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 15:53:23 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew Manuscripts for review: 3-21-93. PMC's peer-review process relies in part on the assistance of self-nominated reviewers from among our subscribers. Listed below are three essays now ready for review. If you have some interest and experience in the subject matter of one of these essays and are willing to help out, please write us at our new address: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu In the interest of obtaining the most appropriate reviewers for particular essays, we ask that you provide us with an indication of your experience with regard to the subject matter of the essay you would like to review. John Unsworth ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MS #1: An essay on Linton Kwesi Johnson, dread, and dub identity. MS #2: An essay on Jameson, Eagleton, texts of pleasure, and texts of bliss. MS #3: An essay on Louise Gluck's _Ararat_ and Kristeva. 22-Mar-93 21:09:06-GMT,3836;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA20233; Mon, 22 Mar 93 16:09:02 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA27909; Mon, 22 Mar 93 16:08:59 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9303222108.AA27909@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18436; Fri, 19 Mar 93 19:18:02 EST Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA22931; Fri, 19 Mar 93 19:14:56 EST Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 19:14:55 EST Posted-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 19:14:55 EST Message-Id: <9303192356.AA22406@compute1> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Digest ending 3-9-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 16:08:58 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 3-19-93 PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to the internet address: PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU Today's Topics: David Antin's PMs Cyberspace cities ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: alan lindsay Subject: David Antin's PMs I'm interested in finding an interlocutor or two who is interested in talking about David Antin's talking--his talk poems. I've now read one of his post-poetry books (Talking at the Boundaries) and heard him speak once. I'm intriqued by his self-avowed postmodernism (he prefers to say postmoderisms--plural, "What makes anyone think there'd be only one postmodernism?") I'm not exactly sure what it is I want to talk about. RIght now I wonder mostly if anyone's interested--particularly anyone familiar with his talk pieces which are impromptu essays sold (the back cover tells us) as "poetry." They are, now that I use the word, very much like the essay as I believe Dr. Johnson defined it "a loose sally of the mind." Full of the kind of movement of one of Pope's essays, but more or less impromptu. He speaks them, has the speech printed without punctuation, right or left justification, or paragraphs. Then he sells them as books. He doesn't sell them as tapes, which would defeat the whole agenda. Rather than ramble on, I'll pause and see if anyone cares. Alan ===================================================== Sender: cahill Subject: cyberspace -- cities I'm working on a paper for a current Myth & Archetype seminar, intending to lin k the archetype of the city with post-industrial cities in various cyberpunk sf -- Gibson, Cadigan, Sterling, Stephenson. In these works, the "city" defines itself through data exchange and info tech; that's where I intend to begin look ing at the archetype -- how this is different, effects, that sort of thing. If anyone has done work in this area, or has comments, I'd be interested to hear what you have to say. Cyberspace, the Metaverse, the Net: these images pervad e "cyberpunk" lit -- it's still in a swirl of possibility, so I would appreciat e any feedback. Thanks. cahill@uconnvm.bitnet ============================================= 29-Mar-93 17:05:22-GMT,8668;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA09171; Mon, 29 Mar 93 12:05:20 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA16037; Mon, 29 Mar 93 12:05:18 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9303291705.AA16037@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA23652; Sun, 28 Mar 93 21:08:32 EST Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA00636; Sun, 28 Mar 93 21:08:44 EST Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 21:08:43 EST Posted-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 21:08:43 EST Message-Id: <9303290129.AA18956@compute1> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 3-28-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 12:05:17 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 3-28-93 PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Unfriendly Pomo? Womb to Tomb in Film and Video ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 19:34:48 EST From: Jay Lemke Subject: Unfriendly pomo? Where else can I pose this question? In recent correspondence about cyborgs and virtual culture I once again found myself wor- rying about "how do you say _user-friendly_ in postmodern?" Postmodern discourse is not just unfamiliar; it seems to me that it has strong exclusionary tendencies. On the other hand, the rhetorical conventions of modernist argumentation are quite limiting and co-opting. How do we make PM more accessible without returning to modernist forms? I know many insightful people, mainly with Anglo-Saxon cultural leanings, who find Gallic _preciosite_ and stylistic norms that don't distinguish scholarly from literary genres not just off- putting, but obscurantist. The Gallic inheritance seems fairly obviously an elitist one in simple sociological terms. Rationalizing that all specialist discourses require initiation into their intertexts does not seem to account for the degree of exclusionism, the lack of *invitation* to the reader. Too much PM discourse makes the novice feel not just uninformed but unwel- come. I am acutely aware of this issue because of my work on scientific and technical discourse, which also excludes the Other. Scitech is a discourse of power, the property of a jealous guild. Outrageous burdens of initiation are laid on apprentices; amateur access is all but ruled out. PM is not a discourse of power sociologically (whatever we may hope for it intellectual- ly). Does it ape its betters to gain respectability? Is it defensive about its parvenu status? Surely many of us do not WANT to express what we take to be cru- cial insights in terms that will remain inaccessible to nearly every potential reader outside our small circle? We are not nar- row specialists who expect that what we say has no wider inter- est, as many scientific and technical writers would. Of course I know that we are trying to wrench people from the grip of modernist ideologies, that we cannot do so by writing in comfortable modernist ways. But is there no way to be both profoundly uncomfortable and still reasonably engaging? Thoughts? exemplars? JAY. JAY LEMKE. City University of New York. BITNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM INTERNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ================================================================== Subject: Womb to Tomb in Film and Video Date sent: 27-MAR-1993 Seventh Annual City Lore Festival of Film and Video Cosponsored with NYU's Metropolitan Studies THAT'S LIFE! WOMB TO TOMB ON FILM AND VIDEO Saturday April 17, 1993, 11 am to 11 pm Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law, Tishman Auditorium and Greenberg Lounge Entrance 40 Washington Square South (between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets) For information and reservations: 212-529-1955 Thirty-two films and videos from the independent media community about ritual and the life course in contemporary society. Subjects include women's sexual discoveries, Navaho girls' basketball team, menstruation myths, midwivery in the South Bronx, adoption, gangs, gay youth, skateboarders, the elderly, the Beecher Funeral home, and La Ofrenda (Day of the Dead). Highlights include: * All My Babies--George Stoney's classic documentary, made for Georgia's Department of Health in 1951, on African American midwives * "Non, je ne regrette rien" (No Regret)--Marlon Riggs (Fear of Disclosure Project, 1992). Through stirring, life affirming performances of songs and poems, five HIV positive Black gay men address the struggle of AIDS in their community * The Family Album--Alan Berliner (1986). Portrait of family life and birth-to-death rituals drawing upon a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the '50s * The Story of Vinh--Keiko Tsuno (1991). A streetwise American-Vietnamese boy orphaned in Vietnam and victimized for his mixed parentage, Vinh was brought to the United States at age 18 by a foster care agency. The video follows him though a difficult passage from adolescence to manhood * Shayna Maidels: Orthodox Jewish Teenage Girls--Lisa Kors (1991). Adolescent rebelliousness as seen through the lives of three teenage girls who have adopted the strict life of Orthodox Judaism and their non-religious, but supportive parents, who fear losing them to the "discovery" of God. * Gypsy Wedding--Eric Metzger (1976). In Romani Gypsy culture in the United States, marriage at the onset of puberty was not only an economic exchange between two kin groups, but a symbol of stability for a community in transition * Because This Is About Love: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Marriage--Shulee Ong (1992). Five couples tell their stories of how they met, how their families and friends responded to their vows of marriage, and what marriage means to them * In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff--Lynne Littman (1985). Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff was making a film about the diverse Jewish neighborhood of Fairfax in Los Angeles when she learned she had cancer. Lynne Littman agreed to make the film on condition that Barbara become its central subject. The result is a moving portrayal of how the anthropologist is embraced by the community though its rituals of healing. * On Ice--Andrew Takeuchi and Grover Babcock (1989). For some, cryonics (freezing the dead for future revival) is an act of denial, for others it's an alternative of hope. On Ice playfully explores this futuristic freeze and offers testimony from such advocates as Timothy Leary. Tickets: Members of City Lore $7.00 Non-Members 10.00 City Lore Membership 25.00 (many benefits) Members may make advance reservations for 2 guests at members' rate. Membership benefits include: City Play, a 212 page hardcover book, plus mailings, newsletter, and discounts. Make checks payable to: City Lore 72 East First Street, New York, NY 10003 212-529-1955 - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Department of Performance Studies New York University 721 Broadway, 6th floor New York, NY 10003 {@}--'--,---,--'---,--- Email: kirshenblatt@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Phone: 212-998-1628 Fax: 212-254-7885 ====================================================================== 30-Mar-93 17:36:30-GMT,6579;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA27820; Tue, 30 Mar 93 12:36:29 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18653; Tue, 30 Mar 93 12:36:27 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9303301736.AA18653@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA14214; Tue, 23 Mar 93 21:54:44 EST Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA13320; Tue, 23 Mar 93 21:54:12 EST Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 21:54:11 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 21:54:11 EST Message-Id: <9303240237.AA06742@compute1> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Digest ending 3-23-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 12:36:27 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 3-23-93 PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Internet Chain Art Project Montage '93 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 14:23:52 -0800 From: Bob Gale Subject: internet chain art event Bonnie Mitchell, a fellow ArtBase email subscriber, has asked us to help promote the following upcoming event. This project is only a few days away, so your quick response is appreciated. Do not email ArtBase about this event, please email all your inquires to Bonnie at: BONNIEM@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - INTERNET CHAIN ART PROJECT The University of Oregon Fine Arts Department is organizing a collaborative art project beginning on April 5, 1993. The project will involve receiving, altering and sending an image over the internet. The U of O will begin by creating a portion of a composition and saving the image as a PICT file (macintosh format) and sending it to the next site. This site will receive the image, download it, and add some more to the composition. They will then save the image as a PICT and send it to the next site. This will continue until the last site has finished altering the image and they will send it to the first site (University of Oregon). The idea of creating CHAIN ART is not new but I am sure the ideas and creative input will be truly exciting. Other file formats could be accomodated if the other sites in the group have the equipment to work with the format. We would like to have 15 groups consisting of 5 sites each. Each site will have one week to receive, alter and send the file. The completed images will be printed out on a color wax thermal or inkjet printer (which ever compliments the image best) and displayed at the University of Oregon gallery/hearth. Completed images will also be sent to each site participating. If you are interested in particating please contact: bonniem@oregon.uoregon.edu Bonnie Mitchell Fine Arts Department University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403 BONNIEM@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU -------------------------------------------------------- Date: MON, MAR 22 1993 12:30:03 From: Montage 93 Inc. Subject: Montage'93 info MONTAGE 93: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGE (1-800-724-4332) motage93@brock1p.bitnet The future of visual communications will open up to educators, professionals and the public during an international festival slated for July 11 through August 7, 1993 in Rochester, New York. The festival will explore the present and future of image-making as well as the fusion of art and technology. Montage 93 will feature the latest advances in imaging technology through a series of events which include a Trade Show, International Film and Video Festivals, Lecture and Panel series, Arts & Technology Exposition, International Student Festival and world-premiere exhibitions. The lecture and panel discussion series will focus on numerous topics including digital museums, living in the computer age, privacy and civil liberties in the computer age, Virtual reality, the future of film and video and more. Sixteen exhibitions, including 11 premiering at the festival, along with the works of over 300 international artists will feature photography, computer graphics, holography, video, electrostatic imaging, electronic transmission and other advanced imaging techniques. The Trade show will include a pavilion of over 50 international companies dealing with many facets of technology. Expect to see manufacturers of next generation digital cameras, Interactive and Virtual Reality, Computer 2D and 3D graphic software, business imaging and more. The International Student Festival will draw about 500 students and educators from across the globe. A Media Teachers Educational Conference will also take place during Montage 93. The Arts & Technology Exposition puts you inside simulated studio environments as artists and tool developers demonstrate still, moving, dimensional and interactive image-making systems. The International Film Festival will feature screenings of new films, 35 and 16 mm, created by independent producers. Video, Etc. is a showcase of video, computer animation, and time-based electronic work by international artists and independent producers. Several professional conferences will take place during Montage 93 including: High-Tech Global New York; Oracle; Fast Rewind; International Visual Sociology Association and the Media Arts Teachers Association. Montage 93 now has available ticketing and registration information. This includes the names and topics scheduled for the panel discussions and seminars. Please call 1-800-724-4332 and request additional information or call (716) 442-6722 (overseas) or e-mail montage93@brock1p.bitnet. ------------------------------------------------------------ 30-Mar-93 17:51:29-GMT,6579;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28000; Tue, 30 Mar 93 12:51:28 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19007; Tue, 30 Mar 93 12:51:26 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9303301751.AA19007@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA27036; Wed, 24 Mar 93 09:20:35 EST Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA18322; Wed, 24 Mar 93 09:19:03 EST Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 09:19:02 EST Posted-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 09:19:02 EST Message-Id: <9303240237.AA06742@compute1> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Digest ending 3-23-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 12:51:26 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 3-23-93 PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Internet Chain Art Project Montage '93 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 14:23:52 -0800 From: Bob Gale Subject: internet chain art event Bonnie Mitchell, a fellow ArtBase email subscriber, has asked us to help promote the following upcoming event. This project is only a few days away, so your quick response is appreciated. Do not email ArtBase about this event, please email all your inquires to Bonnie at: BONNIEM@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - INTERNET CHAIN ART PROJECT The University of Oregon Fine Arts Department is organizing a collaborative art project beginning on April 5, 1993. The project will involve receiving, altering and sending an image over the internet. The U of O will begin by creating a portion of a composition and saving the image as a PICT file (macintosh format) and sending it to the next site. This site will receive the image, download it, and add some more to the composition. They will then save the image as a PICT and send it to the next site. This will continue until the last site has finished altering the image and they will send it to the first site (University of Oregon). The idea of creating CHAIN ART is not new but I am sure the ideas and creative input will be truly exciting. Other file formats could be accomodated if the other sites in the group have the equipment to work with the format. We would like to have 15 groups consisting of 5 sites each. Each site will have one week to receive, alter and send the file. The completed images will be printed out on a color wax thermal or inkjet printer (which ever compliments the image best) and displayed at the University of Oregon gallery/hearth. Completed images will also be sent to each site participating. If you are interested in particating please contact: bonniem@oregon.uoregon.edu Bonnie Mitchell Fine Arts Department University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403 BONNIEM@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU -------------------------------------------------------- Date: MON, MAR 22 1993 12:30:03 From: Montage 93 Inc. Subject: Montage'93 info MONTAGE 93: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGE (1-800-724-4332) motage93@brock1p.bitnet The future of visual communications will open up to educators, professionals and the public during an international festival slated for July 11 through August 7, 1993 in Rochester, New York. The festival will explore the present and future of image-making as well as the fusion of art and technology. Montage 93 will feature the latest advances in imaging technology through a series of events which include a Trade Show, International Film and Video Festivals, Lecture and Panel series, Arts & Technology Exposition, International Student Festival and world-premiere exhibitions. The lecture and panel discussion series will focus on numerous topics including digital museums, living in the computer age, privacy and civil liberties in the computer age, Virtual reality, the future of film and video and more. Sixteen exhibitions, including 11 premiering at the festival, along with the works of over 300 international artists will feature photography, computer graphics, holography, video, electrostatic imaging, electronic transmission and other advanced imaging techniques. The Trade show will include a pavilion of over 50 international companies dealing with many facets of technology. Expect to see manufacturers of next generation digital cameras, Interactive and Virtual Reality, Computer 2D and 3D graphic software, business imaging and more. The International Student Festival will draw about 500 students and educators from across the globe. A Media Teachers Educational Conference will also take place during Montage 93. The Arts & Technology Exposition puts you inside simulated studio environments as artists and tool developers demonstrate still, moving, dimensional and interactive image-making systems. 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PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: The postmodern Available from PMC-TALK Listserv: THE MICROPOLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CZECH CULTURE by Douglas Dix [instructions for retrieving] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: AYEAMAN@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Subject: The postmodern User-friendly is a design issue but what does it mean? Perhaps users are the morons who must operate the machines. Perhaps friendly indicates their training and seduction. Can this be discussed without becoming an honorary logical positivist? Denis Hlynka and I provided some synthesis and review in our Postmodern Educational Technology--published Sept. 1992 as an ERIC Digest (EDO-IR-92-5) but these are early days. There seem to be more questions than descriptions of what is good design from a postmodern, critical theory point of view. Design is a key. It is why I look for work to review in instructional design that disgards the modern assumptions. This is for a chapter in the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology to be published by Scholastic in 1994. I would be glad to receive any leads sent to me privately. Have you seen a copy of the Foucault Reader? The introduction by Paul Rabinow describes a tv program on Human Nature: Justice versus Power. The speakers were Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. Chomsky spoke for a modern utopia of social justice. Foucault spoke for the continued unmasking of institutions. That seems to be the situation where design work in my field deconstructs. Instructional designers appear to be more intent on conveying meaning than on understanding who is doing what to whom. --Andrew Internet: ayeaman@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Dr. Andrew R. J. Yeaman, Consultant Yeaman & Associates 601 West Eleventh Avenue #1103 Denver, Colorado 80204-3555 (303) 534-5749 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Available from PMC-TALK listserv: THE MICROPOLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CZECH CULTURE by DOUGLAS DIX medved@lvt.phil.muni.cs Copyright (c) 1993 by Douglas Dix, all rights reserved. This text may be freely distributed in accordance with the fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law, but it may not be republished for profit without the express written consent of the author. Published by PMC-TALK and available as DIX.ESSAY from listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu INTRODUCTION [1] I arrived in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on September 11, 1989, on what I presumed then would be a ten month Fulbright Lectureship at J.E. Purkyne University in Brno, the largest city in Moravia. After two Fulbright renewals, I have just completed my third academic year at what is now called Masaryk University, and I am preparing my courses for my fourth academic year as a docent teaching in the departments of English, psychology, and sociology. During the time between when I first arrived and the present moment I have witnessed firsthand the mass exodus of East Germans through Czechoslovakia and Austria; the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989; the election of Vaclav Havel to the Czech Presidency; the destruction of the Berlin Wall; the first democratic Czechoslovakian elections in June, 1990; the exodus of Soviet soldiers from Czechoslovakian soil; the first mass rally of skinheads in Czechoslovakia; the Yugoslavian referendum during May, 1991, that voted Yugoslavia out of existence as a unified nation and signaled the beginning of the civil war there [I was in Dubrovnik for an American studies conference at the time--the hotel we stayed at has since been destroyed by Serbian rockets]; the June, 1992 Czech and Slovak elections that have brought the beginning of the end of Czechoslovakia as a united republic; and the resignation of Vaclav Havel as president. But these are what I would term "macro" events: what I wish to explore in this paper are "micro" events, or what I have termed "micropolitics"--more specifically the micropolitics of Czech culture in the postcommunist period, and the relationship between this postcommunist present and what we have come to term in the west postmodernity and postmodernism. [2] It is difficult to open such a discussion without negotiating the terrain of such terms as postmodernism and postcommunism--terms that have incited numerous ongoing debates. As much as I am able I would like to avoid entering such debates here, as my purpose is to go beyond these debates towards a horizon of possibility based in my own direct experience of social transformation on the micropolitical level in Czechoslovakia. While I realize this is a transgression of the field of discourse I am inhabiting, it is a necessary transgression if I am to avoid getting hopelessly mired in the particularities of the current shape of discourse concerning postmodernism and postcommunism. Consequently, for purposes of my discussion, I take the term "postmodernism" as the expansion of the field of culture in the west in the postwar period to include positionalities of the "other," expanding the field of culture in the direction of margins or limits--whether these margins or limits be the previously excluded "others" [other genders, other sexualities, other ethnicities, other nationalities, other cultures], or the expansion from high culture to popular, folk, or "sub" cultures, as well as the expansion of culture beyond its traditional frames [from found spaces to video art, events, environmental art, and so on]. This radical questioning beyond the wall shattered by modernism--a questioning *of* the margins, *from* the margins, and *in* the margins, is what seems most central to me about the cultural and theoretical project of postmodernism.^1^ I take the term "postmodernity" not as a synonym of postmodernism, but as the wider background of the social, economic, and political conditions of the post- industrial world, against which postmodernism is the cultural reaction in much the same way that we see modernity in relation to the term modernism.^2^ Finally, I take the term "postcommunism" as a descriptive designation of the historical facticity of this period for previously communist societies, and the most significant feature seems to me to be the disarray caused by the epistemological rupture between the macro and micro levels of the socius--a rupture that is often augmented by pressure from the accelerated arrival of postmodernity.^3^ [3] What I wish to explore in this article is precisely the nature of this epistemological rupture, and how an understanding of this rupture and its effects can inform an understanding of our own socius in the west in the current historical moment. In many ways what Czechoslovakia is experiencing is the same process we have experienced in the United States in regard to postmodernity, only accelerated greatly, and most importantly, without the same intellectual and social focus on issues brought by the cultural field of postmodernism. The danger in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is that "democracy" is being radically interpreted as simply the appropriation of the technological, infrastructural, and economic achievements of the west without the similar assessment of values and creation of democratic dialogue that has evolved along with these developments [regardless of how successful we feel this dialogue has been]. This hybrid of free market capitalism and a value system bred of a totalitarian system creates an interpretation of the word "democracy" that has come here to mean everyone is free to take what they can get, rather than focusing on the need to develop ways to negotiate the multiplicity of voices and their demands within a democratic dialogue. The recent elections here revealed this in the fact that both the Czechlands and Slovakia chose strong [indeed paternalistic] leaders who are unable to settle the crisis of the federation through diplomatic means, which will almost inevitably result in the splitting up of the country.^4^ [4] Through exploring the situation in Czechoslovakia I wish to inversely suggest an exploration of the current situation in the west from what I term a "micropolitical" level, following the usage of this term by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.^5^ The current historical moment in Czechoslovakia has opened the possibility of a rare look at a society where the macropolitical field of events has been radically severed from the micropolitical field. Suddenly the metanarratives of the society have been torn asunder, revealing within the socius an immanent flux and flow of energies that do not line up with the macropolitical positions of the state [which is not surprising], nor the positions of dissidents or the current government and the "new" institutions that have evolved since the revolution.^6^ In this moment of social upheaval and dislocation, when new macropolitical institutions, positions, or values have not taken hold with any degree of stability yet, and former macropolitical institutions, positions, and values are still operating within the micropolitical field [despite their gradual disappearance from the macropolitical field], the immanent molecular structures of the socius suddenly become apparent like the traces of electrons in a cloud chamber. To those thinkers who are still exploring these phenomena from a macro or molar level, the socius appears as an chaotic flux that fails to yield to any logical analysis; however, it is at precisely such a historical moment that the fog of discursive reality lifts, revealing underneath the infinitely more complex texture of energies and forces that make up the continuously mutating field of the socius.^7^ [5] Although postmodernism brings with it an understanding and acceptance of the limits of rationality, this does not mean we are left with silence in the face of this micropolitical world which comes into view. What I would like to suggest in this article is that the moment the abyss gapes open before us is not the nihilistic moment of inaction that Habermas or Jameson would suggest it is, but rather may be taken as precisely that moment in which we fully take on and understand our responsibility to the other, to our community, and to the world, for it is in this moment that we realize that we are the arbiters and builders of the very human world in which we exist, and that we can no longer place responsibility on some other transcendent cause, whether that be God, the world spirit, dialectical materialism, or even some reified concept of the human spirit. To speak of the micropolitical is to speak of an immanent world, a world that is always more *real*, more *there*, than we can possibly grasp with our minds, and yet we must take up this process despite this lack of ontological foundation. The politics that emerges is a politics of what works, what functions, to perpetuate the continuous process of heterogeneous dialogue that leads to negotiations between an ever-widening circle of human self- identifications and self-determinations, and finally even "negotiations" with the non-human realm as well, when we take the environmental movement as an extension of this process. [6] This attempt at a continuous, non-ontological immanent analysis is what I mean when I refer to a micropolitical analysis. By focusing this analysis on what is happening right now in eastern Europe, rather than trying to use the macropolitical terms that explain away what is happening instead of describing it in its historical facticity [macropolitical terms such as the "triumph of capitalism," the "triumph of western democracy," the "triumph of freedom," and so on], we have a rare moment to actually see through the outmoded discursive structures to what has actually been there all the time--the forces and energies of the self-created human world in all of its immanent complexity. While we certainly must use discursive structures to get a hold of what we see, by having the courage to suspend our comfortable explanations, and avoiding the rush to judgment and interpretation, we can instead see into some of the paradoxes of human action and ideation, and how the relations between theory and practice can be suddenly shifted, twisted, or torn by completely unforeseen energies that work beyond the limits of the rational. Hopefully this analysis will provide insights inversely into postmodernity and postmodernism in the west, for by examining the accelerated entry of postmodernity into Czechoslovakia--without the same accelerated entry of the values that accompanied postmodernism, we can perhaps see from a different perspective the relation between postmodernity and postmodernism, as well as the relation between theory and practice, within our own society. [7] If postmodernism is based in this recognition of the other, as I have maintained above, and if this recognition is part of what can be increasingly seen as a "condition," then I want to stress that it is only in what perpetuates this proliferation of voices, brought about through the expansion of the margins, that the possibilities of a truly democratic future lie, and it is precisely this future which is now in doubt in the postcommunist east as well as in the post-cold war west. Perhaps the best way to suggest the conflicts arising around these questions is to speak directly about what I have observed of the process of democratization in Czechoslovakia, and the shifts that occurred from before the revolution to the present moment. [end of introduction] --------------------- Douglas Dix's essay THE MICROPOLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CZECH CULTURE is available from PMC-TALK listserv and from anonymous ftp. 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Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topic: A Various Art ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: jfinnan@epas.utoronto.ca Subject: A Various Art. Is there anyone who is interested in the "Cambridge group" of poets: J.H. Prynne, Doug Oliver, Andrew Crozier, etc.? There is an anthology of their work (_A Various Art_, ed. Crozier and Longville, Carcanet 1987, rep. Paladin 1991), and a random sampler in the 3rd & 4th sections of _The New British Poetry_ (ed. D'Aguiar, Allnutt, Mottram and Edwards). I wanted to discuss the work especially of Prynne (around here I've had little luck: one English professor thought its only merit was that it "looked pretty on the page".) -- e.g. sorting out the often opaque terminology of the earlier poems ("names", "quality", "numbers", "the city") and imagery (stars, ice, silk, rain);-- and approaching the difficult later work, particularly since it requires a knowledge of science that I don't possess (e.g., what's the relation, if any, of "lithium grease" to semiconductors, in the first poem of _Not-You_?) -NateD ------End---------- 19-Apr-93 16:18:51-GMT,3149;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA02896; Mon, 19 Apr 93 12:18:50 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA23574; Mon, 19 Apr 93 12:18:49 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9304191618.AA23574@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15014; Sun, 18 Apr 93 19:03:19 EDT Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA00987; Sun, 18 Apr 93 19:03:35 EDT Date: Sun, 18 Apr 93 19:03:34 EDT Posted-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 93 19:03:34 EDT Message-Id: <9304182058.AA11469@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: call for self-nominated peer reviewers X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 12:18:48 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew Manuscripts for review: 4-18-93 PMC's peer-review process relies in part on the assistance of self-nominated reviewers from among our subscribers. Listed below are four essays now ready for review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these essays, please write us at our new address: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu In order to obtain the most appropriate reviewer for each essay, we ask that you provide us with an indication of your experience with regard to the subject matter of the essay you would like to review. John Unsworth Co-Editor, _Postmodern Culture_ ----------------------------------------------------------------- MS #1: An essay on politics and postmodern pragmatism in the social sciences, with particular emphasis on the social science of poverty. References include: Stanley Aronowitz, Maxine Baca Zinn, Richard Bernstein, John Dryzek, John Fiske, Michel Foucault, Herbert Gans, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, C. Wright Mills, Richard Rorty, Peter Sloterdijk, William Julius Wilson, Slavoj Zizek. MS #2: An essay on Peter Handke and postmodernism, focused on Handke's _Essay_ (_Versuch_) series. References include: secondary literature on Handke, plus Steven Connor, Gunther Grass, Ihab Hassan, Linda Hutcheon, Jean-Francois Lyotard. MS #3: An essay on the Gibson's _Mona Lisa Overdrive_ and late electronic capitalism. References include: Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Joseph Goux, Fredric Jameson, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Karl Marx, Slavoj Zizek. MS #4: An essay on lesbianism, masochism, and sexual agency. References include: Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, Susan Farr, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, D.A. Miller, Tania Modleski, Kaja Silverman, Monique Wittig. 29-Apr-93 18:23:23-GMT,2955;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18448; Thu, 29 Apr 93 14:23:22 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA20699; Thu, 29 Apr 93 14:23:20 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9304291823.AA20699@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11719; Wed, 28 Apr 93 13:19:31 EDT Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA02026; Wed, 28 Apr 93 13:19:51 EDT Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 13:19:51 EDT Posted-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 13:19:51 EDT Message-Id: <9304281707.AA19342@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 4-28-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 14:23:19 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 4-28-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topic: Latin American Modernism and Postmodernism ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Latin American modernism and postmodernism A colleague without access to this list poses the following questions: When applying the labels Modernism and Post-Modernism to Latin American fiction, what dates are used for the births of both movements, and why? Was Modernism simply an answer to Realism and Naturalism? Between 1960 and, say, 1975, there seems to have been an unusually large amount of very successful literature from Latin America. Is there a name for this period as well? Could the start of this period be considered the end of Modernism? Anyone care to hazard some answers? ************************************************************************* * George McDaniel Tele. 919-254-0209 * * IBM Corporation FAX 919-254-0343 * * Dept. 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Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's topic: Lit Crit Snit ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Chris Amirault Subject: Lit Crit Snit Peter Montgomery writes, > Our dept. (an "English" dept -- in a 2 year college) has just > decided to quarrel about the phrase "literary criticism". ... > > We do not study literary criticism as a coherent disicpline in the > course. We (each in his or her own way) simply supply a range of critical > ideas, tools, prinicples, what have you, to help the students bring > some critical judgement to bear on the works. Some of us (not me) > feel that we can not use the phrase "literary criticism" if we are > not actually studying the discipline itself. Supposedly what was once > a general phrase describing critical activity in a general way, has been > so appropriated that it would be misleading for us to go on using it > in such a general sense. In the interest of helping to formulate the question at the intersection of this list's concerns, I offer the following. I would want to situate this quarrel about the use and practice of "literary criticism" within a historical framework. That is to say, both "literary criticism" and the specific quarrel described here each have their own related histories within the U.S. academy. To binarize: on the one hand we have folks such as Peter who are not interested in the specificity of the "discipline itself," which I take to mean (at least in part) its shifting valuations and vicissitudes over time, but are instead interested in the use value of any given critical approach for us and our students now. On the other hand we have folks such as me who are committed to a "historical" reading of literary criticism that would attempt to locate those valuations and vicissitudes in an attempt to better understand what "literature" is, how its uses and values change, and how the practices associated with it change. So to generalize the binarism, I see here a split between a pedagogy of postmodern bricolage, in which any given critical concept can be appropriated and used in the classroom without regard for its historical context, and a pedagogy of literary and critical history, that asserts that the very objects "literature" and "criticism" to be historical. Is this useful? Does the theory of the postmodern make such historicizing pedagogy dubious? (I know that a theory of literary and critical history makes such bricolage pedagogy dubious.) Is such a binarism itself useful as its own pedagogical object? That is, is doubt such a bad thing? -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Chris Amirault English Department -- Modern Studies amirault@csd4.csd.uwm.edu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 414/372-5153 Milwaukee WI 53201 ------end--------------------------------------------------------- 3-May-93 20:48:44-GMT,6323;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA23645; Mon, 3 May 93 16:47:29 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15779; Mon, 3 May 93 16:47:23 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9305032047.AA15779@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28810; Thu, 29 Apr 93 23:36:56 EDT Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA29738; Thu, 29 Apr 93 23:37:17 EDT Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 23:37:17 EDT Posted-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 23:37:17 EDT Message-Id: <9304300325.AA28062@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 4-29-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 3 May 93 16:47:23 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 4-29-93 PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: [Latin American fiction] Literary Criticism Latin American Modernism ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Rich Subject: Re: Digest ending 4-28-93 On Wed, 28 Apr 93 13:21:16 EDT said: > >When applying the labels Modernism and Post-Modernism to Latin American >fiction, what dates are used for the births of both movements, and why? >Was Modernism simply an answer to Realism and Naturalism? Between 1960 >and, say, 1975, there seems to have been an unusually large amount of >very successful literature from Latin America. Is there a name for this >period as well? Could the start of this period be considered the end >of Modernism? > >Anyone care to hazard some answers? This is an interesting question because it requires us to consider whether Latin American fiction entered into the postmodern between 1965-70, or whether American reception of it did. In otherwords, did postmodern conditions in the U.S. cause American readers to look to Latin American fiction for some reason? The reason could also be quite modernist. Say that American modernism became scarce during this time of prolific postmodern writing. Readers that were searching for alternatives to American postmodernism may have turned to Latin American fiction to quench their thirst for modernism. I doubt that this is the explanation, but my point is that we must be careful not to judge the state of fiction writing in Latin America solely on its reception in the U.S. I would also be careful about classifying Latin American fiction under one Umbrella. Richard Caccavale The University of Connecticut HBLAD124@UCONN.UCONN.EDU ================================================================== Sender: Peter Montgomery Subject: Literary Criticism I'm new to the list, so I'm not sure what the limits of discussion are. I think the following is relevant, but please ignore (and forgive) if it isn't. Our dept. (an "English" dept -- in a 2 year college) has just decided to quarrel about the phrase "literary criticism". The calendar description for our freshman literature course begins as follows: A study of fiction, poetry and drama, introduces the students to literary criticism and analysis. &c &c. We do not study literary criticism as a coherent disicpline in the course. We (each in his or her own way) simply supply a range of critical ideas, tools, prinicples, what have you, to help the students bring some critical judgement to bear on the works. Some of us (not me) feel that we can not use the phrase "literary criticism" if we are not actually studying the discipline itself. Supposedly what was once a general phrase describing critical activity in a general way, has been so appropriated that it would be misleading for us to go on using it in such a general sense. Your responses would be greatly appreciated. Peter ************************************************************* * Peter Montgomery Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca * * Professor * * Dept of English ph (604) 370-3342 (o) * * Camosun College (604) 370-3346 (fax) + * 3100 Foul Bay Road * * Victoria, BC Off. Paul Bldg 326 * * CANADA V8P 5J2 * ************************************************************* ================================================================== From: Charles Brownson Subject: Latin American Modernism In reply to George McDaniel's 4/28 posting about periodization in Latin American modernism/post-moderism, some help may be found in Jose' Donoso's _The Boom In Spanish-American Literature_ (Columbia UP, 1977). I am ac- customed to using the dates 1960-1975 for Latin American high modernism and to refer to this period as the Boom. I would be interested in others' views as to the date and nature of Latin American post-moderism and characteristic differences from the gringo variety, as well as some sug- gestions for reading. Charles W Brownson, Humanities Co-ordinator Hayden Library, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 602-965-5250 fax: 602-965-9169 iaccwb@asuvm.inre.asu.edu iaccwb@asuacad.bitnet Charles W Brownson, Humanities Co-ordinator Hayden Library, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 602-965-5250 fax: 602-965-9169 iaccwb@asuvm.inre.asu.edu iaccwb@asuacad.bitnet ------end---------------------------------------------------------- 21-May-93 19:04:48-GMT,3172;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA24424; Fri, 21 May 93 15:04:45 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA12429; Fri, 21 May 93 15:04:43 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9305211904.AA12429@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA10020; Fri, 21 May 93 14:39:26 EDT Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA18234; Fri, 21 May 93 14:39:25 EDT Date: Fri, 21 May 93 14:39:25 EDT Posted-Date: Fri, 21 May 93 14:39:25 EDT Message-Id: <9305211753.AA29008@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: PMC-MOO X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 21 May 93 15:04:42 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew The May issue of _Postmodern Culture_ will be published next week; in the meantime, _Postmodern Culture_ announces PMC-MOO. PMC-MOO is a new service offered (free of charge) by _Postmodern Culture_. PMC-MOO is a real-time, text-based, virtual reality environment in which you can interact with other subscribers of the journal and participate in live conferences. PMC-MOO will also provide access to texts generated by the journal and by PMC- TALK, and it will provide the opportunity to experience (or help to design) programs which simulate object-lessons in postmodern theory. PMC-MOO is based on the LambdaMOO program, freeware by Pavel Curtis. 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 dewey.lib.ncsu.edu 7777 at your command prompt. Once you've connected to the server, you will receive onscreen instructions on how to log in to PMC-MOO. If you have problems connecting to PMC-MOO or would like more information, contact pmc@unity.ncsu.edu by e-mail. 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To retrieve the Emacs client, perform the following ftp transfer: ftp ftp.ncsu.edu login: ftp password: [your email address] cd pub/docs/pmc/pmc-talk get PMC-MOO.doc get mud.el bin get mud.elc quit You will find an extended version of this notice, including some basic instructions on how to run the Emacs client program, in the text file PMC-MOO.doc, listed above. 1-Jun-93 19:02:27-GMT,18085;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15936; Tue, 1 Jun 93 15:02:19 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA23416; Tue, 1 Jun 93 15:02:16 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9306011902.AA23416@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA17338; Fri, 28 May 93 15:13:42 EDT Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA24893; Fri, 28 May 93 15:13:44 EDT Date: Fri, 28 May 93 15:13:43 EDT Posted-Date: Fri, 28 May 93 15:13:43 EDT Message-Id: <9305281815.AA23451@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: PMC 3.3 Contents X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 15:02:15 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3, Number 3 (May, 1993) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors: Eyal Amiran John Unsworth, Issue Editor Review Editor: Jim English Managing Editor: Nancy Cooke List Manager: Chris Barrett Editorial Assistants: Jonathan Beasley John Hoback Editorial Board: Kathy Acker Chimalum Nwankwo Sharon Bassett Patrick O'Donnell Michael Berube Elaine Orr Marc Chenetier Marjorie Perloff Greg Dawes David Porush R. Serge Denisoff Mark Poster Robert Detweiler Carl Raschke Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mike Reynolds Joe Gomez Avital Ronell Robert Hodge Andrew Ross bell hooks Jorge Ruffinelli E. Ann Kaplan Susan M. Schultz Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett William Spanos Arthur Kroker Tony Stewart Neil Larsen Gary Lee Stonum Jerome J. McGann Chris Straayer Stuart Moulthrop Paul Trembath Larysa Mykyta Greg Ulmer Phil Novak ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AUTHOR & TITLE FN.FT Masthead, contents, and instructions for CONTENTS.593 retrieving files Roberto Maria Dainotto, "The Excremental Sublime: DAINOTTO.593 The Postmodern Literature of Blockage and Release" Steven Helmling, "Marxist Pleasure: Jameson and HELMLING.593 Eagleton" Eric Selinger, "It Meant I Loved: Louise Gluck's SELINGER.593 _Ararat_" "Talking and Thinking: David Antin in Conversation ANTIN.593 with Hazel Smith and Roger Dean" Nathaniel Bobbitt, "Xenakis Letters" BOBBITT.593 George Aichele, "Reading Beyond Meaning" AICHELE.593 Kip Canfield, "The Microstructure of CANFIELD.593 Logocentrism: Sign Models in Derrida and Smolensky" POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN: Susan Suleiman, "Can You Go Home Again? POP-CULT.593 A Budapest Diary, 1992" REVIEWS: Tim Watson, "Comrade Gramsci's Progeny." REVIEW-1.593 Review of Antonio Gramsci, _Prison Notebooks, vol. 1_, David Harris, _From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure_, and Renate Holub, _Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism_. J. Russell Perkin, "Theorizing the Culture REVIEW-2.593 Wars." Review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., _Loose Canons_, Gerald Graff, _Beyond the Culture Wars_, and William V. Spanos, _The End of Education_. Leslie Regan Shade, "Women and Television." REVIEW-3.593 Review of Lynn Spigel, _Make Room for TV_, and Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, eds., _Private Screenings_. Debra Silverman, "Playing With Clothes." REVIEW-4.593 Review of Marjorie Garber, _Vested Interests_. Simon Carter, "Risk and the New Modernity." REVIEW-5.593 Review of Ulrich Bech, _Risk Society_. Eric Rabkin, "CyFy PoMo?" Review of David REVIEW-6.593 Ketterer, _Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy_ and Larry McCaffery, _Storming the Reality Studio_. Lahoucine Ouzgane, "Women and Islam." Review REVIEW-7.593 of Leila Ahmed, _Women and Gender in Islam_. NOTICES: Announcements and Advertisements NOTICES.593 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACTS Roberto Maria Dainotto, "The Excremental Sublime: The Postmodern Literature of Blockage and Release" ABSTRACT: Concerned primarily with American fiction, this essay reflects on the sublime as the defining feature of postmodern literature and discourse. From Longinus to Kant, the sublime, a complexly aesthetic and social category at once, has been described as the individual's confrontation with a superior force that momentarily marks the disruption of the subject, which is later reconstituted in a state of sublime ecstasy and self-reaffirmation. From its very outset, postmodern literature partakes of this paradigm: the "exhaustion" of literary possibilities considered by John Barth, as well as the "loss of the self" announced by Wylie Sypher, present a "momentary check" to a postmodern imagination which has to confront a tantalizing modernist literary tradition and a totalizing social order--a check that will be ironically overcome at the very moment a newly reconstituted subject will be able to "replenish" literature with new tropes, new stories, fictions, and fables of identity. In the end, postmodern imagination and individuality will come out "sublimated" into a new position, alternative to traditional aesthetics and metaphysics, as left-overs, excrements of the symbolic order of both society and literature. --RD Steven Helmling, "Marxist Pleasure: Jameson and Eagleton" ABSTRACT: A study of how Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton differ on the issue of "pleasure," with special attention to the relation between their substantive differences and the textual effects (satisfactions, or "pleasures") of their very different prose styles. Jameson's prose enacts a "vision" of "inevitable failure" that, Jameson argues, is incumbent, generically, on any "dialectical" criticism as such; Eagleton scorns any "defeatist" or "pessimistic" rhetoric, yet slyly recommends Jameson's tortured writing precisely for the "profound pleasure" it offers. How does (or should) "pleasure" manifest in Marxist writing? Jameson's "Pleasure: A Political Issue" proposes (via a reading of Barthes's _Pleasure of the Text_) a redescription of Marxist pleasure as a version of "the sublime," but in the process inverts some hallowed Marxist themes, while Eagleton's manifesto for a "Marxist theory of comedy" in "Carnival and Comedy: Bakhtin and Brecht" unexpectedly founders on a pessimism at odds with Eagleton's avowed "optimism of the will." Such tensions and contradictions indicate the limits, the possibilities and predicaments, of the rhetorical or libidinal resources available to Marxist critique in our historical moment. --SH Eric Selinger, "It Meant I Loved: Louise Gluck's _Ararat_" ABSTRACT: According to Kristeva, an "erosion" of imaginary paternity has undermined contemporary love. In its uneasy family portraits, Louise Gluck's _Ararat_ traces one speaker's progress out of this postmodern melancholy. Rather than replace the old codes of romance with the "work-in-progress" of imaginative play, Gluck embraces a cycle of idealization, disappointment, and forgiveness. Pressing her language to a dry, antipoetic limit she turns the plot of a mass-media lament into memorable and particular verse. --ES "Talking and Thinking: David Antin in Conversation with Hazel Smith and Roger Dean" ABSTRACT: An edited transcript of an interview with David Antin by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean, in San Diego, February 1992. In the interview, Antin talks about language, art, thought, and the methods and principles of his verbal improvisation. The interview took place shortly after a performance by Antin in San Francisco, on the subject of _the other_. --[ed.] George Aichele, "Reading Beyond Meaning" ABSTRACT: The traditional logocentric understanding of text is a theological one; it is the "theology of the Text" (Derrida) which postmodern %differance% refuses. A postmodern theology of reading does not view text as a "work" or property, governed by an ethics and an economics, ideal meaning incarnated in various bodies. Instead, text is uncovered as a material thing, formed of meaningless letters, on which readers violently impose meaning. Three limit-conditions which define reading are the non-reader (Calvino), literal translation (Benjamin), and materialist reading (Barthes, Belo). These point toward a concrete theology, a "reading against the grain," which can never be completely realized. --GA Kip Canfield, "The Microstructure of Logocentrism: Sign Models in Derrida and Smolensky" ABSTRACT: This paper explores a remarkable parallelism in stories about the theory of the sign in the usually isolated discourses of the humanities and the cognitive sciences. It presents a close reading of two works, "Linguistics and Grammatology," Chapter 2 of _Of Grammatology_ by Jacques Derrida, and "On the proper treatment of connectionism" by Paul Smolensky. Both Derrida and Smolensky want to give a fuller, more complex, and dynamic vision of the signifying human. Smolensky explicitly appeals to presence as a field in dynamic systems theory. Derrida precisely defines such a field with the terms "trace" and "differance," but denies their reality because he rejects the idea of global control over all the atoms of signification. The fundamental target of these critiques is the static character of structuralist or objectivist accounts of signification. Both authors also note a semantic problem for sign models that requires a mysterious "semantic shift" from the unconscious to the conscious. This semantic anomaly does not allow intuitive access to the basis of the sign model. 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PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topic: Mississippi River Flood ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: CHLESTER@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Mississippi River Flood I am working on the 1927 Flood and would be interested in hearing from anyone about the current flood: media coverage, personal narratives, cultural responses, local conditions, racial or class disparities in rescue or relief operations, etc. Thanks! 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Listed below are four essays now ready for review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these essays, please write us at: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu In order to obtain the most appropriate reviewer for each essay, we ask that you provide us with information about your experience with regard to the subject matter of the essay you would like to review. Many thanks, Eyal Amiran co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_ ----------------------------------------------------------------- MS #1: An essay on John Barth and Postmodernism, with particular interest in criticism of Barth and of modernity. MS #2: An essay on Byron, Mapplethorpe, and Postmodernism. Interest in the relation between posmodernism and Romanticism and knowledge of Byron's letters and journals useful. References include secondary literature on Byron, Bataille, Levitine, E.A. Kaplan, Elam. MS #3: An essay on ethics and aesthetics in Michael Palmer's _Sun_ and Ronald Johnson's poem, ARK. Reference to Barthes, Lyotard, Forche, Adorno, theories of the sublime. MS #4: An essay on Soviet postmodernism and Bakhtinian dialogism. 28-Jul-93 17:54:14-GMT,4151;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA25404; Wed, 28 Jul 93 13:54:13 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA14698; Wed, 28 Jul 93 13:54:11 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9307281754.AA14698@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19852; Tue, 27 Jul 93 23:19:35 EDT Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA27529; Tue, 27 Jul 93 23:19:47 EDT Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 23:19:47 EDT Posted-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 23:19:47 EDT Message-Id: <9307280307.AA23728@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 7-27-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 13:54:11 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 7-27-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Call for Articles, EJVC: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ a refereed scholarly journal is now accepting submissions for Fall 1993 and Spring 1994 issues. The _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ (EJVC) is a refereed scholarly journal that fosters, encourages, advances and communicates scholarly thought on virtual culture. Virtual culture is computer-mediated experience, behavior, action, interaction and thought, including electronic conferences, electronic journals, networked information systems, the construction and visualization of models of reality, and global connectivity. EDITORIAL GUIDLINES FOR AUTHORS FORM AND STYLE 1. Use a recognized standard form and style, preferably the APA Publication Manual published by the American Psychological Association, as modified by the following requirements. 2. Do not have any line that exceeds 60 characters in length. 3. Do not use any figure or diagram. 4. Do not have more than 1000 lines in any article. 5. Do not submit any draft in any format other than ASCII. SUBMISSION An article may be submitted at any time to the EJVC for peer-review with the understanding that the peer-review requires time. Acknowledgements of the arrival of any article shall be made within 24 hours of arrival. 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Today's Topics: Call for Images ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 16:34 From: byron@art.niu.edu (Byron Grush) CALL FOR IMAGES ------------------------------------------------------------------- In a nutshell: Project title--- Postcards From the Fifth Dimension Coordinator--- Byron Grush Chief Collaborators--- Tom Baggs, Wynne Ragland Exhibition--- Brave New Pixels 5 (Digital Dreams) Sponsor--- Chicago Siggraph Chicago Siggraph Chair--- Christine Oster Location--- Northern Illinois University Art Museum NIU Art Museum Director--- Peggy Doherty email for project--- (reflecting mail list) interjam@art.niu.edu (project coordinator) byron@art.niu.edu FAX number--- 1-815-753-7701 Voice phone--- 1-815-753-1567 Snail mail--- Byron Grush School of Art Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 Deadlines--- intent to participate: NOW! disks or electronic transmissions: by October 5th, 1992 hard copy ready to hang: by October 12th, 1993 date of show: October 25th through December 3rd. -------------------------------------------------------------------- What: Postcards From the Fifth Dimension is an installation and tele-performance event coordinated by Byron Grush for Chicago Siggraph's annual computer art show, Brave New Pixels 5 (Digital Dreams) to be held at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum in DeKalb, Illinois, from October 25th through December 3rd., 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SEND: I am seeking images sent as "electronic" postcards to be exhibited as part of an installation and to be transmitted over the phone to remote sites during the performance. Just like a conventional postcard, your piece should consist of a visual image and a text message. Send it in the spirit of an artist/friend/collaborator with the understanding that it will be exhibited and be seen by the public in the context of an art show. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Content: I am interested in how we communicate through the use of new technology. How has our world changed? I am seeking evidence of the humanization of the machine. I am interested in dreams. I want to learn about you, your activities and your environment. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth Dimension: The first four dimensions are height, width, depth and time. The fifth is the Dream Plane. My performance will deal with messages sent from the Dream Plane. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Exchange: I will send you an electronic postcard in exchange. I will also send written documentation to everyone and try to produce a visual record in some form(s) like a book andor video tape which I will make available to you. My funds are limited, so the doc will probably be black & white. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Specifications: You may send any kind of image and text you like. I will be exhibiting all hard copy you send and I will try to print images that you send as data, if you don't send hard copy. Again, funds are limited, so please try to produce your own hard copy for me to hang. I will not be able to return prints unless you send me return postage and packaging. Please do not frame the piece... I'm looking for an informal presentation. Imagine a wall filled with pinned-up cards. Please keep the size down to 8 1/2 by 11 or smaller. For image transmission during the performance I will use images which I can convert to Targa format (TGA) with resolution of 512 by 400 by 16 bits (32,000 colors). I am using an IBM PC clone and Truevision Targa+ 32 with the Xenas Send->It! software and modem for sending images over the phone. I can deal with TGA, GIF, TIF, and some other formats from DOS or Amiga, some of the same from MAC (postscript usually works but I I have trouble translating PICT-- particularly BIG files). I have access to a Unix machine and internet. I can also scan or frame grab your image if it is non-digital (gasp!) -------------------------------------------------------------------- How to send: The easiest way to send image and text is by regular mail as a printout or on a floppy disk. I can't transmit from hard copy unless I re-scan it, so a disk should be sent as well as hard copy. You can also send images and text by uuencoding them and e-mailing them to my address (not the interjam address or you'll be sending out 110 copies!). If you need directions on how to do this, let me know. You could also leave the picture and text on an anonymous FTP site if you have access to one. Then tell me where it is and I'll retrieve it from the site. You could also use FAX. Our machine is on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (Address it to me.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Labeling: I would like to request that all items sent be labeled with the artist's name, title (if any) and copyright notice. These should be part of the image so that each piece is properly credited when displayed. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Permissions: I am requesting that you give me permission to use your image in limited ways specified by the form below. I will not exhibit your images except in the context of this work, nor will I sell or redistribute your images or charge money to see the work. I may "repackage" the work as the documentation of an event and submit it to future exhibitions, so I request additional permission to do so. You should understand the public nature of collaborative projects before agreeing. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Permission form: Name _____________________________________ Mailing Address _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Voice Phone ________________________________ Title ____________________________________ Format ____________________________________ I grant permission to Byron Grush to use my image, ______________________, for the collaborative art project called "Postcards From the Fifth Dimension" to be exhibited during the art show, "Brave New Pixels 5 (Digital Dreams)," at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum between October 25th, and December 3rd, 1993. I have supplied a hard copy andor data file of this image, which is the particular version of this work which I authorize the use of. I do also grant to Byron Grush permission to translate the work into a different data format for the purpose of transmission of the image via telecommunication during the show. I will allow duplication of the image for the purpose of printed or video taped documentation that may be distributed to other participants in the project. If the work is exhibited again (as documentation of the event) or submitted to another art exhibit I (do) (do not) give my permission for its use in that exhibition. I understand that my piece will be credited to me and I have therefore included a copyright notice as part of the work. Signed ____________________________________ Date _____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bye for now..... Byron Grush byron@art.niu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ 20-Aug-93 19:45:54-GMT,4271;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA21091; Fri, 20 Aug 93 15:45:51 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA09947; Fri, 20 Aug 93 15:45:50 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9308201945.AA09947@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA13453; Fri, 20 Aug 93 00:20:23 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA06536; Fri, 20 Aug 93 00:20:39 EDT Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 00:20:39 EDT Posted-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 00:20:39 EDT Message-Id: <9308200406.AA11748@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 8-19-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 15:45:49 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 8-19-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: ViViD hypertext magazine ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "Justin T McHale" Subject: Announcing ViViD hypertext magazine! Information on ViViD magazine: ViViD is a hypertext magazine about cyberspace news, information and art. The goal of the magazine is to be the best electronic publisher of experimental writing, and the most informed source about the creative side of cyberspace. The magazine is presented in the colorful, graphics environment of a Windows 3.1 Help File. You will need Windows 3.1 to read the magazine. The magazine is available via 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 We are interested in publishing: * High quality experimental writing -- i.e. writing which exhibits some original approach to its subject or form. Even if the piece is very long (more than 10 pages), we could publish an extract from it, and include the author's e-mail address for readers who want to get the whole work. * High quality poetry which does not have a "conventional" form or rhyme. * Traditional fiction, i.e. short-stories, novellas, extracts from novels, etc. These submissions must have some kind of cyberspace "spin" on them, that is, they should either be science-fiction, or linked in some way to cyberspace. * Articles of professional quality, but which are also informal and fun to read. So far, electronic writing has seemed to encourage an accessible and informal style -- let's keep up that tradition in this magazine. The subject matter of submitted articles should pertain in some way to cyberspace. Please send all submissions via email to Justin McHale at jmchale@gmuvax.gmu.edu. If you cannot email me, you can send short submissions (a few pages) to my postal address: 1614 Greenbrier Court, Reston, VA 22090, USA Here are the formats we support: Preferred formats: ASCII, RTF (Rich Text Format), MicroSoft Word For Windows, Write, MicroSoft Word for DOS. Other supported formats: Word for Macintosh, Word Perfect, Wordstar. When submitting for the first time, please try to include a few sentences about yourself, and your electronic address so that you can get feedback from our readers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Justin McHale George Mason University {jmchale@gmuvax.gmu.edu} -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-Sep-93 16:48:20-GMT,3304;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA13752; Thu, 2 Sep 93 12:48:18 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18956; Thu, 2 Sep 93 12:48:17 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9309021648.AA18956@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA01837; Thu, 2 Sep 93 00:18:38 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA26221; Thu, 2 Sep 93 00:18:55 EDT Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 00:18:55 EDT Posted-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 00:18:55 EDT Message-Id: <9309020404.AA20428@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 9-1-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 12:48:17 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 9-1-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topic: BAD SUBJECTS Mailing List ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bad Subjects Subject: NEW: badsubjects - BAD SUBJECTS Mailing List badsubjects@uclink.berkeley.edu _BAD SUBJECTS: POLITICAL EDUCATION FOR EVERYDAY LIFE_ A Production of the Bad Subjects Collective: Ron Alcalay, Charlie Berstch, John Brady, Ann Marie Caffrey, Carlos Camargo, Catherine Hollis, Annalee Newitz, Steven Rubio, Joe Sartelle, Karin Swann Chief of Operations: Joe Sartelle _Bad Subjects_ was first published in September 1992 by editors Annalee Newitz and Joe Sartelle, with the assistance of Charlie Bertsch, and is beginning its second year, with a new collective production team and an expanded online presence. Our first attempt at going online begins with the Bad Subjects Mailing List, to be followed soon by the Bad Subjects Gopher. Recent articles appearing in _Bad Subjects_ discuss _Jurassic Park_, alien abductions, television talk shows, punk rock, and area studies in academia, to give a sense of the kinds of topics that interest us. Our seventh issue, featuring our new manifesto, Stephen Shirreffs' "Three Deaths in Vancouver," Ron Alcalay's "Representing America," and Annalee Newitz' "Gender Slumming," will be available online around September 7. To subscribe to the mailing list, or for information on back issues, please Email to the following address: badsubjects-request@uclink.berkeley.edu Steven Rubio Bad Subjects Computer Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-Jul-93 15:24:49-GMT,3747;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA29195; Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:24:48 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA25951; Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:24:47 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9307161524.AA25951@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA23296; Thu, 15 Jul 93 18:47:00 EDT Received: from (localhost.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA14490; Thu, 15 Jul 93 18:47:11 EDT Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 18:47:11 EDT Posted-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 18:47:11 EDT Message-Id: <9307152230.AA07782@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 7-15-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:24:46 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 7-15-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topic: Yugoslavian Networkers Congress ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: artbase-list-request@well.sf.ca.us Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 07:55:14 -0700 Subject: ArtBase Memo -- Yugoslavian Networkers Congress ****************************************************************** "INTERRELATIONSHIPS" ****************************************************************** OPEN WORLD OPEN MIND OPEN ART EXHIBITION/FESTIVAL AND NETWORKING CONGRESS "Protokol" Gallery and Hall "Kuca Krsmanovica" Narodni fond Belgrade, Yugoslavia July 19 - 30, 1993 ****************************************************************** PROGRAM Art Exhibition, Performances, Video Screenings, Audio Performances, Talks, Lectures, Interactions, Festivities, etc. OPEN INVITATION Please submit your art works, art communication, or art whatever by one of or a combination of the following methods: post/mail, Fax, Telegram, send through friends, deliver personally, participate directly, etc. MEDIA Mail Art/Correspondence Art, Fax Art, audio tapes, video tapes, collage, personal appearances, etc. DIMENSIONS All works will be accepted (N.B. Gallery/Hall decorated in Neo-Baroque style) EXHIBITION All works will be exhibited. No jury. No returns. No fees. Documentation to all participants. DEADLINE Sorry for the short notice! All works that arrive during the exhibition (up to the closing day) will be exhibited! But please try to send your contributions as soon as possible, that is by July, 19. MAILING ADDRESS "Kuca Krsmanovica" / Galerija/ (c/o D. Kamperelic) Terazije 34 Belgrade, Yugoslavia or Dobrica Kamperelic Radivoja Koraca 6 11000 Belgrade Yugoslavia OPEN FAX LINES Mihailo Ristic +38 11 134-573 (from 21.00 - 01.00 hrs or 9.00 - 12.00 CET) at other times please notify M. Ristic first by means of a Telephone (same number) Marica Presic +38 11 184-515 (Non-Stop) D. Kamperelic M. Ristic R. Presic ------------End of File------------------------------------------ 1-Nov-93 18:21:51-GMT,3213;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15016; Mon, 1 Nov 93 13:21:49 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA08415; Mon, 1 Nov 93 13:21:48 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9311011821.AA08415@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11740; Sat, 30 Oct 93 19:38:38 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA15124; Sat, 30 Oct 93 19:38:27 EDT Date: Sat, 30 Oct 93 19:38:27 EDT Posted-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 93 19:38:27 EDT Message-Id: <9310302320.AA10462@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest Ending 10-30-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 13:21:47 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 10-30-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Heidegger and Cyberspace ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Antony Dugdale Subject: Heidegger and Cyberspace I apologize in advance if readers have seen this before. I have posted it on other lists about a week ago, but not here (which I've been listening to for about a week). It seems relevant. Thank you in advance for any help offered (and if you want to be kept up to date on my research, send me a note and I'll put your name on my little "list"). __________________________________________________________________________ Heidegger and Cyberspace I am currently working on a project that seeks to open a space within the Heideggerian vocabulary for a non-primitivist, non-technophobic perspective. I will be using cyberspace as a model for this movement through technology towards what I will construe as a utopic vision that is in accord with Heidegger's language of the "Holy", "Revelation/Manifestation" and "Being/Appearance". If anyone out there has any knowledge about literature that has philosophically addressed the phenonemon of cyberspace (I have Michael Benedikt's book _Cyberspace_ and Michael Heim's _The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality_), preferably within the perspective of Continental philosophy, could you please send me some information about it? You can send to the list or private email at: antdugl@minerva.cis.yale.edu Sincerely, Antony Dugdale Dep't of Religious Studies Yale University ---------------------------END---------------------------- 28-Oct-93 16:59:17-GMT,2863;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA07144; Thu, 28 Oct 93 12:59:15 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA14404; Thu, 28 Oct 93 12:59:13 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9310281659.AA14404@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA08401; Thu, 28 Oct 93 11:21:54 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA18290; Thu, 28 Oct 93 11:21:52 EDT Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 11:21:52 EDT Posted-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 11:21:52 EDT Message-Id: <9310281320.AA29719@sparc03.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: a call for reviews for PMC X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 12:59:12 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew CALL FOR REVIEWS _Postmodern Culture_ invites reviews for the January 1994 issue. We welcome reviews of individual books or groups of related books on all topics pertaining to postmodernity. A list of recent titles will be posted soon. We also welcome reviews of films, TV shows, sporting events, concerts, performances, conferences, conventions, happenings, advertising campaigns, new cultural products, and other events or objects that would be of interest to the journal's subscribers. We are particularly interested in reviews that move beyond the assessment of individual texts to engage in somewhat broader cultural arguments. Reviews should follow _PMC_ format: numbered paragraphs, single spacing, no diacritical marks (use _this_ for underlining, *this* for emphasis, %this% for foreign words, ^this^ for superscript). Length should be approximately 2500-5000 words. Use reviews in recent issues of _PMC_ for guidance. Inquiries should be directed by November 10 to Jim English, review editor, at jenglish@actuality.sas.upenn.edu. Completed reviews should be emailed to the same address, or sent on diskette (in Dos-Wordperfect or ASCII format only, please), to Jim English, 119 Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6273, by December 10. All inquiries will be answered; all submitted reviews will be considered for publication. Reviewers are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the text(s) under review. But if your review appears in _PMC_, you will be invited to choose any two books from our library of recent titles, and these will be mailed to you in late January. 29-Oct-93 15:23:22-GMT,2853;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA29186; Fri, 29 Oct 93 11:23:21 EDT Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA20773; Fri, 29 Oct 93 11:23:19 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9310291523.AA20773@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA16410; Thu, 28 Oct 93 13:24:05 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA03389; Thu, 28 Oct 93 13:24:03 EDT Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 13:24:03 EDT Posted-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 13:24:03 EDT Message-Id: <9310281321.AA17824@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: call for reviews X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 11:23:19 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew CALL FOR REVIEWS _Postmodern Culture_ invites reviews for the January 1994 issue. We welcome reviews of individual books or groups of related books on all topics pertaining to postmodernity. A list of recent titles will be posted soon. We also welcome reviews of films, TV shows, sporting events, concerts, performances, conferences, conventions, happenings, advertising campaigns, new cultural products, and other events or objects that would be of interest to the journal's subscribers. We are particularly interested in reviews that move beyond the assessment of individual texts to engage in somewhat broader cultural arguments. Reviews should follow _PMC_ format: numbered paragraphs, single spacing, no diacritical marks (use _this_ for underlining, *this* for emphasis, %this% for foreign words, ^this^ for superscript). Length should be approximately 2500-5000 words. Use reviews in recent issues of _PMC_ for guidance. Inquiries should be directed by November 10 to Jim English, review editor, at jenglish@actuality.sas.upenn.edu. Completed reviews should be emailed to the same address, or sent on diskette (in Dos-Wordperfect or ASCII format only, please), to Jim English, 119 Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6273, by December 10. All inquiries will be answered; all submitted reviews will be considered for publication. Reviewers are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the text(s) under review. But if your review appears in _PMC_, you will be invited to choose any two books from our library of recent titles, and these will be mailed to you in late January. 3-Nov-93 21:47:57-GMT,4363;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28258; Wed, 3 Nov 93 16:47:56 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15850; Wed, 3 Nov 93 16:47:54 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9311032147.AA15850@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA08550; Wed, 3 Nov 93 00:22:30 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA15513; Wed, 3 Nov 93 00:22:28 EST Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 00:22:28 EST Posted-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 00:22:28 EST Message-Id: <9311030442.AA12603@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 11-2-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 16:47:54 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 11-2-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Call for Papers: Report to the Academy ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 10:08:18 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lambert Subject: "Report to the Academy" "A REPORT TO THE ACADEMY" Call for Papers Conference sponsored by The Critical Theory Institute and the Graduate Students in the Critical Theory Emphasis, scheduled for Spring Quarter 1994 at University of California, Irvine How is discourse in the University contracted? This is the question that will preoccupy us in making our report, and we invite responses which analyze all possible aspects of this question from across the different disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. An adequate response to this question entails turning the theoretical lens or microscope back toward the practice of critical theory in the institution in order to produce a form of "institutional analysis." Some possible topics for this type of analysis might include: * Analysis of the grounds upon which the University institutes itself today (i.e., Where, in the University, is the institution? What or Who is being instituted? Why and for Whom?) * Analysis of the various ways discursive knowledge is contracted by or within the University (i.e. contracted by or within its subjects). * Analysis of the rhetoric of "crisis" and its effectiveness in reshaping and reorganizing disciplinary and inter-disciplinary relations. * Analysis of the various determinations of "economy" in the University . * Analysis of the various usages of "politics," "community," "censorship" and "publicity." * Analysis of the discursive formations of the secret, the scandal, rumor, gossip, slander, the lie; and the accompanying social formations of "the adversary," "the couple," and the "clan" or "family". * Analysis of the various constructions of personal or private subjectivity in the institution. * Analysis of sadist and masochist subjects in the University. These suggestions are neither exhaustive nor perhaps even adequate for the range of topics or issues we wish to include in our report. In making our report, however, we are less interested in the monumental European debates (e.g. Habermas vs. Mickey Mouse) and other forms of academic Jeopardy! , than in developing another type of analysis that draws its theoretical material from discursive and disciplinary formations currently emerging in American Universities. Send papers or proposals by December 19th, 1993, to: Gregg Lambert and Michael Lang, Dept. English and Comparative Literature, U.C.I., Irvine, CA 92717. (Please include S.A.S.E.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 15-Nov-93 19:06:18-GMT,6134;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA21526; Mon, 15 Nov 93 14:06:16 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19286; Mon, 15 Nov 93 14:06:14 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9311151906.AA19286@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15100; Fri, 12 Nov 93 23:32:25 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA25193; Fri, 12 Nov 93 23:32:24 EST Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 23:32:24 EST Posted-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 23:32:24 EST Message-Id: <9311130321.AA04707@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Call for reviews X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 14:06:13 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECENT PUBLICATIONS This is a list of recent titles that may be of interest to subscribers, and in particular to potential reviewers. The list is by no means exhaustive, and we will certainly consider reviews of other books, as well as reviews of films, concerts, conferences, performances, TV shows, etc.. All reviews for the January 1994 issue should be submitted by December 10 (or shortly thereafter by agreement with the review editor). Send reviews or queries to Jim English at: jenglish@actuality.sas.upenn.edu. ******** Alphen, Ernst van. _Fransis Bacon and the Loss of Self_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. Amerika, Mark. _The Kafka Chronicles_. Boulder: Fiction Collective Two, 1993. Aronowitz, Stanley. _Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Ayittey, George A. N. _Africa Betrayed_. New York: St. Martins 1993. Bakhtin, M. M. _Toward a Philosophy of the Act_. Trans. Vadim Liapunov. Austin: Texas UP, 1993. Barrell, John, Jacqueline Rose, and Peter Stallybrass, eds. _Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing: The Collected Essays and "Autobiography" of Allon White_. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Bell-Scott, Patricia, ed. _Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women_. New York: Norton, 1993. Bowie, Malcolm. _Psycholanalysis and the Future of Theory_. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. Bowlby, Rachel. _Shopping With Freud_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Brent, Bill, ed. _The Black Book_. 1994 Edition. San Francisco: Black Book, 1993. Butler, Judith. _Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Conley, Berena Andermatt, ed. [For the Miami Theory Collective.] _Rethinking Technologies_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993. Dawes, Greg. _Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry 1979-1990_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993. Docherty, Thomas ed. _Postmodernism: A Reader._ New York: Columbia University, 1993. Edelman, Lee. _Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Fairbanks, Lauren. _Sister Carrie_. Dalkey Archive Press, 1993. Fish, Stanley. _There's No Such Thing as Free Speech...and It's a Good Thing, Too_. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Foster, Hal. _Compulsive Beauty_. Cambridge: MIT, 1993. Foster, John Burt, Jr. _Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism_. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993. Friedberg, Anne. _Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern_. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Gates, Henry Louis Jr., and K. A. Appiah, eds. _Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present_. New York: Amistad Press, 1993. Giroux, Henry, and Peter McLaren, eds. _Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Grossberg, Lawrence, Simon Frith, and Andrew Goodwin, eds. _Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Hazlehurst, Kayleen M. _Political Expression and Ethnicity: Statecraft and Mobilisation in the Maori World_. Westport: Praeger, 1993. Heller, Agnes. _A Philosophy of History in Fragments_. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Hoover, Paul, ed. _Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology_. New York: Norton, 1993. James, Stanlie M., and Abena P. A. Busia, eds. _Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Kleinig, John and Yurong Zhang, eds. _Professional Law Enforcement Codes: A Documentary Collection_. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993. Krajewski, Bruce. _Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutic and Rhetoric_. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Kruger, Barbara. _Remote Control: Power, Culture, and The World of Appearances. Cambridge: MIT, 1993. Malloy, Judy. _its name was Penelope_. Cambridge: Eastgate Systems, 1993. Marker, Chris. _La Jetee: cine-roman_. Cambridge: Zone Books, 1993. Moorcroft, Sheila ed. _Visions for the 21st Century_. Westport: Praeger, 1993. Norris, Christopher. _The Truth About Postmodernism_. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. Poster, Mark ed. _Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture_. New York: Columbia, 1993. Robbins, Bruce. __Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture_. London: Verso, 1993. Sabin, Roger. _Adult Comics: An Introduction_. New York: Routledge, 1993. West, Cornel. _Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Williams, Bernard. _Shame and Necessity_. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Wolfe, Susan J., and Julia Penelope, eds. _Sexual Practice, Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism_. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. Yeatman, Anna. _Postmodern Revisionings of the Political_. New York: Routledge, 1993. 23-Nov-93 21:08:44-GMT,2131;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA08901; Tue, 23 Nov 93 16:07:40 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA23344; Tue, 23 Nov 93 16:07:39 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9311232107.AA23344@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA10449; Tue, 23 Nov 93 13:02:30 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA21406; Tue, 23 Nov 93 13:02:29 EST Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 13:02:29 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 13:02:29 EST Message-Id: <9311231651.AA16432@sparc03.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: PMC Electronic Text Award X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 16:07:38 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew Postmodern Culutre announces its second annual *** Electronic Text Award *** Postmodern Culture is pleased to announce that Arkadii Dragomoshchenko has been chosen to receive its second annual Electronic Text Award for his poetry from _Phosphor_ published in Postmodern Culture v.3 n.2 (January, 1993). Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova, who translated the poem, will share in the prize of US$500 provided by the journal's publisher, Oxford University Press. Each volume year, the editorial board of Postmodern Culture chooses for the Electronic Text Award an outstanding work published in that volume. The Award is meant to recognize excellent work published in the journal and to encourage electronic publication. Last year's winner was Fred Pfeil for his essay, "Revolting Yet Conserved: Family %Noir% in _Blue Velvet_ and _Terminator 2_." Congratulations to Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Lyn Hejinian, and Elena Balashova! 7-Dec-93 21:07:45-GMT,5447;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA03887; Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:37 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA22791; Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:28 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9312072107.AA22791@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15967; Tue, 7 Dec 93 07:10:04 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA24200; Tue, 7 Dec 93 07:10:02 EST Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 07:10:02 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 07:10:02 EST Message-Id: <9312071153.AA22212@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 12-7-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:26 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-7-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Re: [anti-ideology politics] Shoah ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Jay Lemke Subject: Re: Digest ending 11-30-94 Regarding the anti-ideology politics of Dr. Silber: My deepest sympathy to the faculty of BU to find the intellectual leadership (*is* that what Presidents do in our universities?) of their institution entrusted to a political demagogue whose audience is clearly not the serious intellectuals of the BU faculty, but the media and the mass-market for fear-based, anti-intellectual politics. The specific targets mentioned by Dr Silber are exactly the intellectual movements of our time that challenge establishment orthodoxies and social and cultural privilege. His claim that they lend themselves to dogmatic formulations could be made about almost *any* belief system, including scientific rationalism (have a look at how science is taught at BU, or almost anywhere, for the evidence). The best defense of critical intellectual movements is their offense against established views. Use the tools of these perspectives to demonstrate the ideological character of modernism, patriarchy, science, rationalism, and all the historically specific and still politically dominant intellectual formations which had their origins in the interests and values of a very small segment of humanity, who continue to be privileged by them. Demonstrate exactly how these values, discourses, and practices do in fact favor the interests of one social caste over those of others. Demonstrate the fallacies of its claims to universal validity independent of history and culture. And take the demonstrations beyond the academy to the same media, and wider political constituencies to which Silber appeals. If he believes ideology has no place in the academy, convict him of his own ideology./ I recently had occasion to reply strongly to an editorial in a professional journal warning of the "slippery slopes of postmodernism". I am now on the editorial board of that journal. And I received a lot of support reaction from other professionals in the field, especially younger, more vulnerable ones, who confirmed my claim that such statements are not just statements of editorial opinion,b but, because of existing power relations, create a chilling effect on intellectual freedom. Silber is apparently using his own position in a somewhat similarly irresponsible manner. It is actions like his which constitute the threat to academic freedom, not ideas that challenge the established wisdom. I think we have a responsibility to say so, publicly. JAY LEMKE. City University of New York. BITNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM INTERNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "Rafael F. Newman" Subject: Shoah To Whom etc.: Does anyone have a copy of the transcription of Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" handy? I need a citation: Raoul Hilberg describes the history of Jewish exclusion in Europe from the middle ages to the Holocaust in terms something like these -- "The word to the Jews was first, that you may not live among us as Jews, then that you may not live among us, then that you may not live." Vel simile. I would appreciate an accurate quotation. I am a new subscriber and assume that this sort of request is perhaps not quite the thing here but I belong to no other net and would be grateful. Also: any info on the recent rededication of the Neue Wache in Berlin to the "victims of tyranny and violence" would be welcome -- viz. coverage in press or other media. analysis in scholarly journals etc. Thanks very much. Rafael Newman rfnewman@u.washington.edu ---------------------END-------------------------------------------- 7-Dec-93 21:07:45-GMT,12882;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA03871; Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:32 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA22757; Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:22 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9312072107.AA22757@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA24680; Sat, 4 Dec 93 09:29:30 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA16633; Sat, 4 Dec 93 09:29:19 EST Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 09:29:19 EST Posted-Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 09:29:19 EST Message-Id: <9312040833.AA23636@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 12-3-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:19 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-4-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Re: President Silber of Boston University's reported remarks Re: Silber ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Subject: Re: President Silber of Boston University's reported remarks As someone who works with both deconstruction and structuralism, I am profoundly disturbed by President Silber's reported remarks. Are we in for another round of McCarthyism in American academe? And in what ways is dance therapy a threat to the powers that be? Don't you know that dancing leads to sex? ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: bssimon@helix.ucsd.edu (Bart Simon) Subject: Re: Silber Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 8:40:58 PST Forwarded message: > From Michael.Lynch@brunel.ac.uk Thu Dec 2 11:40:10 1993 > Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 19:39:20 > From: Michael.Lynch@brunel.ac.uk (hsstmel) > To: bssimon@helix.ucsd.edu > Subject: Re: Silber file > Message-Id: > In-Reply-To: > > > > I'm writing this in response to Joseph H. Hesse's message about > Boston Univ. President John Silber. Hesse quotes from an article > in the Boston Globe, regarding Silber's response to a Faculty > Council inquiry about academic freedom. Hesse states: "I found > so much of this article troubling, on so many different points, > that I hardly know where to begin with a commentary on Silber's > statements." I too found this troubling. I spent six years at > Boston University, and left two months ago after a very bitter > battle with the BU central administration over my tenure case. > I would be happy to discuss my case further with anyone who is > interested. However, in this message, I would like to elaborate > on Hesse's message, and suggest that anyone who finds Silber's > remarks ominous (and believe me, he substantiates his words with > deeds) should write to Silber to give him a piece of your mind. > I recommend it highly; it is a rare opportunity to engage a > genuine tyrant in dialogue: > > John Silber, President > Boston University > 147 Bay State Road > Boston, MA 02215 > > Be sure to cc. the following parties: > > James Iffland, Chair > Faculty Council > Department of Modern Foreign Languages > Boston University > 718 Commonwealth Ave. > Boston, MA 02215 > > Arthur Metcalf, Chair > Board of Trustees > Boston University > 147 Bay State Road > Boston, MA 02215 > > Alice Dembner > Higher Education Correspondent > Boston Globe > 135 Morrissey Blvd. > P.O. Box 2378 > Boston, MA 02107-2378 > > Hon. Scott Harshbarger > Attorney General > Commonwealth of Massachusetts > 1 Ashburton Place > Boston, MA 02108 > > Harshbarger's office has been investigating BU for the past year, > focusing on a cozy relationship between a circle of trustees and > Silber. There is a genuine chance that if the academic community > supports Iffland and Faculty Council against Silber, that we will > see the end to 23 years of demoralization at BU. Among the > reasons for getting involved in this battle are that BU, in the > aftermath of a faculty strike in the late '70s offers a model of > a university with a weakened faculty and an administration that > micromanages the faculty's academic affairs. Administrators at > other universities may get ideas from this model. Silber is not > the only problem at BU. His Provost, a fellow named Jon > Westling, is a particularly nasty piece of work, as is the Dean > of the College of Liberal Arts, Dennis Berkey. Silber and his > gang oversee all appointments and promotions, and consequently > they have built a substantial base of support among faculty (and > especially department chairs). Nevertheless, there are very many > faculty at BU who would rejoice if Silber's reign came to an end, > but they rarely speak up for fear of getting their salaries > frozen, suffering departmental budget cuts, or being denied > tenure. > > The following is a series of quotations from the Silber report > that gave rise to the current flap about academic freedom. The > administration's response to a very mild Faculty Council request > gives some indication of the Orwellian atmosphere of the place. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Excerpt from John Silber, President's Report to the Trustees, > Boston University, April 15, 1993, pp. 93-95. (The Report was > delivered as a slide show, and then published for distribution > to parents and others at the time of Boston University's > graduation ceremonies. It was not distributed to the faculty.) > ---------------------------------------------------- > > ". . . let me speak of another way in which the stewardship of > the Board [of Trustees] can be judged. Beyond anything you've > seen so far, but just as important, this University has remained > unapologetically dedicated to the search for truth and highly > resistant to political correctness and to ideological fads. In > my view, it is not too much to say that among this country's > major research universities we are one of the very few that still > deserve to be called a university in the true meaning of the > term. . . . > > We have resisted relativism as an official intellectual > dogma, believing that there is such a thing as truth, and if you > can't achieve it, at least you can approach it. We have resisted > the fad toward critical legal studies, which I've mentioned > [earlier]. In the English Department and the departments of > literature, we have not allowed the structuralists or the > deconstructionists to take over. We have refused to take on > dance therapy because we don't understand the theory of it. We > have resisted revisionist history. We've resisted the fad of > allowing every student to do his own thing by determining his own > curriculum, thereby turning the University into a buffet in which > the student has whatever kind of mis-education he, in the midst > of his ignorance, decides he wants. In the Philosophy Department > we have resisted the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. > > Across the board we have refused to accept hiring quotas, > either of females or of minorities believing that we should > recruit faculty on the basis of talent and accomplishment rather > than any other consideration. We have resisted the official > dogmas of radical feminism. We have done the same thing with > regard to gay and lesbian liberation, and animal liberation. We > have refused to introduce condom machines into University > buildings and thereby compete with drugstores. We refuse to > believe that students at Boston University need a college > education in how to perform the sex act. We believe that > students in America who haven't figured that out before they get > to college are too dumb to come to college. And we have no wish > to share any responsibility whatsoever for what they do with > their knowledge. We will not serve as procurers or facilitators > of sexual liaisons. > > We have resisted the fad of Afro-centrism. We have not > fallen into the clutches of the multi-culturists. We recognize > that Western culture, so-called, is in fact a universal culture. > Western mathematics is the mathematics of the world; Western > science is the science of the world; and the Western culture has > been philosophically oriented from the start toward finding the > truth, and starting to approach it as closely as possible. It > was in the Western cultural tradition that people began to > develop courses in anthropology, in the history of foreign > countries and in comparative religions. Buddhism, for example, > was brought into German Universities by Kant and by Hegel. This > is a part of the very meaning of Western culture and > civilization~not to be parochial, but to be universal in one's > concern." > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Boston University Faculty Council got hold of this report, > and in recent weeks the Council's Committee on Academic Freedom > requested of Silber that he "clarify" what he meant by "resisted" > in the above remarks. Silber did not respond for a few weeks, > and Faculty Council Chairman James Iffland discussed Silber's > report in the BU student newspaper (The Daily Free Press). The > following letter was then published in the Daily Free Press (Nov. > 17, 1993): > > ---------------------------- > 'One would have thought the Faculty Council's Committee on > Academic Freedom wold be a staunch defender of everyone's > academic freedom, including Boston University President John R. > Silber's. ... > The committee's recent demand for "clarification" of a Silber > speech is rank hypocrisy. The committee should honor its > purported credo that "[t]he common good depends upon the free > search for truth and its free expression." > Professor James Iffland's questioning of Silber's speech > represents, at best, an appalling lack of understanding (or > ignorance) of his committee's policy on academic freedom. At > worst, it is itself a flagrant violation of the committee's > policy and Silber's rights under that policy. It is precisely > this corrupt approach to truth and freedom that Silber addressed > in his remarks. > It seems clear to me that the Committee on Academic Freedom > has an elastic code which it is free to stretch and contort > depending solely upon the extent to which the ideas of the > speaker are popular with a majority of the committee. > The article on this issue would have been far more interesting > to the university community if it had recognized the patent > conflict between the committee's demand for a "clarification" of > Silber's speech and its own code of academic freedom. If it had > explored that conflict, the story could have amused readers with > the two-faced contortions offered to justify the committee's > arrogant disdain for its very mission.' > --Robert B. Smith, BU assistant general counsel > > ---------------------- > Another BU official was quoted in the Boston Globe (November 25, > 1993: 'BU official denies curbs on academic freedom' by Alice > Dembner): > "'No credible claims of violations of academic freedom have ever > been made against the university administration,' Carol Hillman, > vice president for university relations said in a statement. > 'Prof. iffland's reported statements are nothing more than a form > of acadmic McCarthyism: innuendo based on secret 'evidence' that > does not in fact exist.'" > --------------------------- > > Silber finally did respond to the Faculty Council's request, but > as the quotations in Joseph Hesse's e-mail message indicate, he > dug in his heels. I am told that during a recent Faculty > Assembly meeting Silber accused Prof. Iffland of being a liar and > a coward. Clearly, the BU Administration believes that a vicious > offense is the best defense against criticism. Iffland and the > Faculty Council are being pilloried by Silber's propaganda > machine. They need support. > > 7-Dec-93 21:07:27-GMT,5256;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA03842; Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:22 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA22749; Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:19 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9312072107.AA22749@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA17416; Fri, 3 Dec 93 01:11:58 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA08693; Fri, 3 Dec 93 01:11:51 EST Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 01:11:51 EST Posted-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 01:11:51 EST Message-Id: <9312030543.AA27173@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 12-2-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 16:07:17 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-2-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: President Silber of Boston University's reported remarks CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO NOBODADDIES CALL FOR PAPERS: Meeting of Society for Literature and Science ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Subject: Re: President Silber of Boston University's reported remarks As someone who works with both deconstruction and structuralism, I am profoundly disturbed by President Silber's reported remarks. Are we in for another round of McCarthyism in American academe? And in what ways is dance therapy a threat to the powers that be? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO NOBODADDIES A new journal is exploring textual experiences in this Post Modern world of Representations. In our first issue we are working on the ideas of pla(y)giarism and appropriation. How can the eye become the I speaking in language, through the language of some other that is no, not me. While our first issue is already nearly full, we are still accepting submissions of any sort of texts (genres and other boundaries do not exist here.). Our second issue, already in the initial planning stages, will focus on two lips speaking twice at once (in a sort of Irigararian "fashion"). We are looking for texts the become themselves twice: multiple genders, sexes, biologies, technologies, sexualities, and so on. Send submissions to: Doug Rice NOBODADDIES: A Journal of Pirated Texts PO BOX 95094 Pittsburgh PA 15223-0694 ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 1994 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science DUE DATE FOR ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS: February 1, 1994 PLACE: New Orleans HOTEL: The Pontchartrain, 2031 St. Charles Avenue DATE: Thursday, November 10 through Sunday, November 13, 1994 HOST: Tulane University Program Committee: Linda Bergmann (Illinois Institute of Technology), Bernice Hausman (University of Chicago), Richard Nash -- Chair -- (Indiana University), Molly Rothenberg (Tulane). SEND *FOUR COPIES* OF ABSTRACTS FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS, AND OF PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS OR PANELS, TO: Richard Nash Department of English Ballantine Hall Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 (Inquiries to ) Proposals must include: full names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses (if available), and institutional affiliations of all participants; full titles and one-page abstracts for all papers; titles or themes and name of coordinator for all sessions and special panels. *Keywords* for paper or session. Include a self-addressed, stamped card. Formats for SLS Sessions: Regular SLS Sessions: 10-12 minute oral presentations, 3-4 participants per session. Special Panels: Focused discussion of a topic, theme, or problem among 4-6 panelists. Seminar Sessions: Pre-circulated papers from 6-10 participants. If desired, 1 or 2 respondents may initiate discussion among panelists and audience. Designated moderator will be responsible for circulating papers to panelists and pre-subscribed audience in advance of meeting. Guest Scholar Sessions: Sessions centering upon extended presentation (up to one-half hour) by a well-known author, followed by two brief comments and open discussion. Call for Chairs (!): We would like to hear from SLS members who are willing to step in and chair sessions. If interested, please contact members of the Program Committee, and let us know whether you have any preferences or restrictions. -----------------END------------------------------------------------ 3-Jan-94 19:31:32-GMT,6643;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28595; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:27 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19454; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:23 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401031931.AA19454@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11862; Sat, 20 Nov 93 20:01:00 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA05618; Sat, 20 Nov 93 20:00:55 EST Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 20:00:55 EST Posted-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 20:00:55 EST Message-Id: <9311210044.AA16707@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 11-20-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:22 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 11-20-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Arts & Humanities and Informational Superhighway ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: MIJOYCE@vaxsar.vassar.edu Subject: Invitation to join Arts & Humanities Ad-hoc group statement (LONG) This message invites interested artists, writers and others concerned with network resources for the arts to participate in a new and pressing national effort to preserve computing resources for the arts on the informational superhighway (or NII as it is termed by the Clinton administration). Since time is of the essence, please repost this message to interested parties nationally and internationally and try to understand and forgive multiple postings to you. Through a simple twist of fate I was very recently invited to participate in an ad-hoc meeting in Washington, D.C regarding Arts and Humanities computing and the NII co-hosted by the (ARL, CAUSE and Educom sponsored) Coalition for Networked Information and the Getty Foundation. The meeting involved some twenty participants including presidents or directors of a wide range of humanities organizations, information industry and publishing organizations as well as officials of NEA, NEH, and NSF. Meeting co-chair Charles Henry, Director of Vassar College Library, set the tone for the meeting by noting that "more space is devoted in the NII prospectus to discuss automating heating of federal buildings than to arts and humanities computing." Like many of you receiving this posting, I had been under the impression that surely someone was speaking for our interests in the deliberations of the Clinton administration regarding NII. However in the discussion that followed it became quite clear that this was not so. A number of participants shared horrifying tales which made it clear that not only were humanities and arts interests not being heard but also that, as regards humanities and arts computing, entertainment industry forces (which Stuart Moulthrop has termed the "Military Infotainment Complex") were largely calling the shots. There was a wide-spread feeling among participants that a crisis existed and that something had to be done. As the lone electronic artist at the meeting I described my own participation by saying I felt like the unelected representative of a nomadic tribe, a representative of the many unrepresentable (in both senses) artists, writers and others who depended upon the network as a place for performance, community, collaboration and publication. I suggested that many of us fancy ourselves as functioning at the interstices in temporary autonomous zones and yet nonetheless increasingly find that our own "cultural heritage" *is* the net itself. While our interests and those of traditional humanities organizations (such as university presses or textual archive projects) might be at cross purposes, I suggested that we shared the concerns of those at the meeting seeking to preserve and protect. "object information," textual databases, and digital libraries. My comments were received with respect and interest by a group which understood the need to form alliances with us but quite frankly wished to focus on what they perceived as the immediate crisis. The meeting ended with a consensus on the need to define a rubric for humanities and the arts in NII; to collect data on computing in the humanities and the arts to support congressional lobbying; and to form alliances with identified stake-holders in these efforts. A preliminary crisis statement drafted by a steering committee will be presented to congress and the administration.and widely publicized. What prompts this message is an invitation to review and perhaps join in the signing of this statement when it is circulated.in the coming week. Since to the best of my knowledge no coordinating group of network artists and writers exists, I am asking interested persons and organizations to email me directly (MIJOYCE@vassar.edu) and I will circulate the statement for you to consider. If you decide to affiliate yourself or your organization with the statement, I will gather the (virtual) signatures and forward them to the steering committee. I do not myself intend to form an organization but will collect these signatures under a collective umbrella which I'm calling NAWOC (network artists, writers and others concerned). If any organization is already actively involved in such a project and would rather coordinate such an effort, I would be happy to forward all this information to them. (Likewise if there is a wider interest in forming such an organization, I'd be happy to join in those efforts.) What's important is to act (at least for the moment) in concert. Michael Joyce MIJOYCE@vassar.edu AOL: michaelj21 AppleLink: D1924 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY 12601 USA Voice 914.437.5943 Fax 914.437.7187 -------------------------------------------------------- 3-Jan-94 19:31:33-GMT,3734;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28599; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:28 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19455; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:24 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401031931.AA19455@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA09946; Wed, 1 Dec 93 01:58:21 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA15037; Wed, 1 Dec 93 01:58:20 EST Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 01:58:20 EST Posted-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 01:58:20 EST Message-Id: <9312010641.AA10306@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 11-30-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:22 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 11-30-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Boston Univ.'s Pres. Silber ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "Joseph H. Hesse" Subject: Boston Univ.'s Pres. Silber Hello. I am new to this list (to e-mail as well) and I feel a responsibility to produce some text for this list, rather than just sit in my room consuming the text of others. Has anyone else been reading about Pres. Silber's recent letter to the faculty of Boston University. There was an article today in THE BOSTON GLOBE. They quote his letter as saying: "Boston University has resisted the imposition of doctrines that would curtail intellectual and academic freedom. It is plain that some versions of critical theory, radical feminism and multiculturism, among other intellectual positions, are ideological in character and inhospitable to free intellectual inquiry." "Marxism, structuralism, feminism, etc., do not, in and of themselves, threaten academic freedom, but each of these views is highly susceptible to being formulated as dogma, impervious to any arguments or evidence not already in conformance with the basic tenets of the dogma." "Any university that takes academic and intellectual freedom seriously has an obligation to spot these epistemologies and head them off." The Globe reports that areas of study that Silber mentioned in an earlier report to the trustees were: "Critical legal studies, revisionist history, Afro-centrism, radical feminism, multiculturalism, the Frankfurt school of Critical Theory, structuralism and deconstructionism, dance therapy, gay and lesbian liberation and animal liberation." I found so much of this article troubling, on so many different points, that I hardly know where to begin with a commentary on Silber's statements. And so, I will wait and see if anyone is interested in this subject before I clutter up this list with my text. Any Comments or additional information on Silber? Joseph Hesse jhhes.mvax.cc.conncoll.edu ---------------------------End-------------------------------------- 3-Jan-94 19:31:34-GMT,9703;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28602; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:28 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19456; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:25 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401031931.AA19456@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA02508; Tue, 14 Dec 93 23:37:00 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA27403; Tue, 14 Dec 93 23:36:58 EST Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 23:36:58 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 23:36:58 EST Message-Id: <9312150419.AA13490@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 12-14-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:23 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-14-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: [Re: BU demagoguery] leo strauss ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: KESSLER Subject: Re: Digest ending 12-7-93 I am working backwards, up the e-mail in my files, but re Lemke's remarks about BU: What is a "political" demagogue, in distinction from a demagogue? 2) Who a re the "serious intellectual faculty" at BU, as distinct from the mere faculty? 3) Name, please, the "social castes" we have in the USA, and I mean as "caste" ? What journal is Lemke helping to edit? he doesnt say? and pardon me if the a nswers are to be found in previous emails that I will work up the list to look at? And, while I am clear about the note from Lemke, 4) how are faculty nowaday s to be distinguished from the mass media, the politicos, etc.? They were not different in the Borking of Thomas, and the Borking of Bork, or the Borking of Guinier, etc. One cannot be a tenured mandarin and ride the rails of hardnosed politics to DC too, can one? ONe never know, nowadays, do one? as FW used to ask. Jascha Kessler, living in this post-Kantian, if not post-Cantian day of ou rs. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: kv10@cornell.edu (Kazys Varnelis) Subject: leo strauss The recent discussion of Boston University President John Silber on this list led me to wonder about his possible connection with the academic/political cult/conspiracy/movement around conservative academician Leo Strauss. While I didn't find any connection, I would like to bring up the question of Leo Strauss, who is a fascinating - and terrifying - ((post) modern) figure for me and I would like to know what other members of the list think about him and his work. For anyone who doesn't know who Leo Strauss is, the following article, ought to be a start. (I should mention that I have explicit permission from the Nation to reproduce this article on pmc-list). For further reading I would probably start with: Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing, (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1952) and Shadia B. Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988). Kazys Varnelis Ph.D candidate, History and Theory of Architecture Cornell University - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Nation magazine, Copyright (c) 1992, The Nation Company Inc. November 2, 1992 SECTION: Vol. 255 ; No. 14 ; Pg. 494 Minority report; Leo Strauss Column by Christopher Hitchens, The obituary of Allan Bloom in the October 8 New York Times contained a marvelous intellectual confusion. Speaking of his book The Closing of the American Mind, the elegy reported, "Mr. Bloom seemed to revel in goading the intellectual elite." A scant few paragraphs later the same report mentioned Bloom's subsequent book, Giants and Dwarfs, and noted without comment that one of the essays collected there in begins with the words "Fellow elitists:' This only appears to be a contradiction. Bloom was guided all his life by the writings of Leo Strauss, the savant of the classical conservatives, whose own obituary he wrote in Political Theory in 1974, employing terms of adoration that are familiar to anyone who knows the Bloom style: Those of us who knew him saw in him such a power of mind, such a unity and purpose of life, such a rare mixture of the human elements resulting in a harmonious expression of the virtues, moral and intellectual, that our account of him is likely to evoke disbelief or ridicule from those who have never experienced a man of this quality. The votaries of Leo Strauss form a sort of cult movement that is crucially ambiguous about the idea of elitism. The core belief of Strauss himself, and the mantra of his many rather odd followers, most of them located in the academy and in the "think tank" culture, was: Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within mass society. The key word here is probably "within"; Strauss made a special study of the esoteric and the cabalistic, and believed that since ancient times authentic philosophers had occluded their true meaning so as to make it clear only to a class of adepts. As Bloom wrote in discussing Strauss's theory of the Greeks (a theory Strauss projected onto Machiavelli and Hobbes and other students of tyranny): Gradually Strauss became aware that these thinkers practiced ' an art of writing forgotten by us, an art of writing by which they hid their intentions from all but a select few. The need for concealment arose from the fact that the untutored masses needed a ruler. It was thought better that they not know what, or how, the ruler was thinking. In his book What Is Political Philosophy?, Strauss was as candid as could be, writing: "Philosophy or science must remain the preserve of a small minority . . . Philosophers or scientists who hold this view about the relation of philosophy or science and society are driven to employ a peculiar manner of writing which would enable them to reveal what they regard as the truth to the few, without endangering the unqualified commitment of the many to the opinions on which society rests." A Straussian, then, is one who hears it said that the study of Aristotle is a study to be pursued only by a favored few, and who privately agrees. (This is a double insult to the lucidity and universality of the Greeks, but the study of classical philosophy is defamed in more than one way these days.) The Straussian ethic involves the cynical "briefing," by "gentlemen" well chosen by one another, of potential princes. To it we owe the current conservative fascination with "natural law" and "natural right" (evidenced by the school of Bork and Thomas) and the less intellectual idea of secret and selective government. The Straussian professor Harry Jaffa was the man who gave Barry Goldwater the line about extremism in the defense of liberty being no vice, and under the still existing Reagan/Bush "regime" (a favorite Strauss word for an ideal form of government) other acolytes have been busy in the worlds of national security and public morals. It may seem absurd, but a number of them have been involved in the molding of Vice President J. Danforth Quayle. Cames Lord, once a close adviser to Quayle on the national security side, wrote two books that are more congruent than they seem. The first, Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle, and the second, The Presidency and the Management of National Security, show how shallow is the "deep connection" between ancient and modern ideas of oligarchy. In the first, Lord follows the precepts of Strauss by writing that Aristotle' s Politics addressed itself "to a class of aristocrats or 'gentlemen' possessed of the leisure necessary for education and for political activity. In the highest case, they are addressed to men of this sort who are potential or actual statesmen or legislators?' From this and other questionable readings, Lord concluded that Aristotle was speaking to "educated and leisured gentlemen even and precisely in regimes where they do not constitute a ruling class in the political sense." The second, more policy-oriented book argues that democracy is a strategic disadvantage. "The openness or penchant for self-criticism of American society strike. many foreigners as manifestations of weakness rather than strength." Lord called for government control of the media in time of war to prevent any sickly subversion of the sentimental democratic sort. Quayle's chief of staff, William Kristol, is another selfadmitted Straussian, and the man who suggested that the Vice President campaign against the "cultural elite." How apt it is that such demagogy comes from those who conceive it as their task to incubate a secret nobility that holds the key to minority rule. Subscriptions: The Nation, PO Box 10763, Des Moines IA 50340-0763. 1-800-333-8536. ----------------------END------------------------------------------- 3-Jan-94 19:31:34-GMT,7036;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28601; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:29 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19458; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:25 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401031931.AA19458@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA27698; Sun, 19 Dec 93 22:42:19 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA18517; Sun, 19 Dec 93 22:42:17 EST Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 22:42:17 EST Posted-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 22:42:17 EST Message-Id: <9312200326.AA29890@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 12-19-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:23 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-19-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Re: Digest ending 12-17-93 [Plato's ideas] Re: Digest ending 12-17-93 [Avoiding bad faith] Re: Digest ending 12-17-93 [evil geniuses of poststructuralism] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: KESSLER Subject: Re: Digest ending 12-17-93 One suggestion may be to ask, What is dangerous about Plato's ideas? And to wh om are they dangerous? And why are they dangerous? What is meant by "post-dem ocratic"? Alpha Beta Delta Gamma, out of bottles? as Huxley suggested in BRAVE NEW WORLD? What is a caste? Where are the intellectuals J Lemke speaks of? What makes the m intellectuals? Professors are intellectuals? Intellectuals are professors? Such a glibness and fluency of talk is rather worrisome, as it assumes a compl aisant audience, knowingness and agreement on categories as defining the world we live in according to this sort of academic argot. Sentimental, suicidal, can ting, and bullying in the extreme. As if the folks quoting a Christopher Hitche ns did not realize that he publishes in journals supported by megabucks in foun dations that are based upon extraordinary wealth. IN Italy years ago, this tal k emanated from the "mink coat Communists." IN the States, today, it is the li mousine liberals and their academic janissaries, who know not what they say or do. In a word, it is sheer bad faith. Pontificating bad faith. Kessler here, not even breathing hard, but waiting for a sign, give us a sign. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: CYWB000 Subject: Digest ending 12-17-93 I was distressed but not shocked by Kazys Varnelis' message to pmc-talk about Strauss. The first two paragraphs of _The Nation_ article seem to demonstrate well enough that the article is confusing, not very interesting, boring, probably easy to take apart. But who wants to comment? I was going to wait to hear other PMCers reactions, but would like to address this message by K. Varnelis as a show of some kind of dissatisfaction with the ideas of, what I see as the L. Strauss club, and show my support for those who counteract the LS club (perhaps by adding a "D" to the end of "LS"). A question in my own mind seems to be, "If I only had the force of A.R. Stone or A. Kroker-- featured in the most recent Mondo 2000-- I could clear up my own confusion, and perhaps push this issue over the edge?" What little force I have is the wish to see A.R. Stone, Kroker, H. Giroux, C. Penley, and D. Haraway (there are others) placed in the same room with these folks (the LS club). Perhaps other PMCers can tell me if this Leo Strauss crowd would be an easy target. My reaction is central to the problem of epistemological battles that go on in individuals' lives everyday. By epistemological battle I mean the frustrations of everyday life-- where proof and burden of proof are too overwhelming to accumulate against some wrong that is being committed to you or to anyone else. The aggression of silence is a good example. Silence does not seem to be a discourse, and as Marika Finley- de Monchy says, the "(silence of) death is not a discourse". An academic elite, or whatever is being referenced (I am not familiar with the texts being discussed; although I know that Henri Giroux has a major contention with Bloom, and I side with Giroux), seems to be a community of silence. It's hard to pin these kinds of opinions down, not simply because they are not available but because they are so unpleasurable. [It is obvious that they are available, K. Varnelis was given permission to distribute the article in question.] The discussion on PMC has been a difficult one. The reason people and individuals arm our/them/onesel(f)ve(s) with theories, words, texts, languages, codes, intellectual tools, etc., is specifically so individuals and people can, as Bourdieu advocates, avoid bad faith, and get on with the business of creating. I suppose people and individuals might also arm our/them/onesel(f)ve(s) with good vocal skills, good writing skills, and a bit of time to address all these potential threats to the creations and creativities many would like to see and do-- not just an intellectual elite. I am dissatisfied with the issue at hand. It gets nasty but not nasty enough. Perhaps Alphonso Lingis is monitoring PMC-talk and could respond. Perhaps J. Bigras could respond from the grave. I feel lucky that Lemke is around; the BU situation is very gray. I hope we are living something post- Kantian. Lemke, as for ""post-Cantian"", well responded to. Brennan Murray Wauters, cywb@musica.mcgill.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: AYEAMAN@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Digest ending 12-17-93 Seems to me that there are some worthwhile points of view being discussed here beyond the slurs against what Spivak ironically calls the evil geniuses of poststructural and postmodern inquiry. (See Spivak's chapter in Reading & Writing Differently.) I wonder, with a smile, if President Silber took lessons in Resistqnce from Henry Giroux? --Andrew Internet: ayeaman@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Dr. Andrew R. J. Yeaman 7152 West Eightyfourth Way #707 Arvada, CO 80003 (303) 456-1592 -------------------------END---------------------------------------- 3-Jan-94 19:31:34-GMT,8108;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28600; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:29 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19457; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:25 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401031931.AA19457@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA12310; Fri, 17 Dec 93 23:39:55 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA24554; Fri, 17 Dec 93 23:39:50 EST Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 23:39:50 EST Posted-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 23:39:50 EST Message-Id: <9312180421.AA16612@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 12-17-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:23 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 12-17-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Leo Strauss BU Demagoguery re: THE NATION piece ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Jay Lemke Subject: Leo Strauss The posting about Leo Strauss did indeed push me to think further about the relation of the academy to democratic ideals. One can read there an invitation to an elitism with the rather serious modernist weakness that it imagines that one caste, narrow in its experience and view of the world, should project its own perspec- tives as universal and itself as fit to lead the whole of society. Mistaking the part for the whole does not seem a very sound foundation for policy-making. But... Just how realistic is it to imagine instead that someday everyone is society will take the time, have the interest, ac- quire the skills, to relate their own perspectives on policy to *any* model of the social system as a whole? Some policies are purely local; for them a stakeholder model of participatory demo- cracy seems reasonable. But other policies necessarily must be grounded in overviews that encompass relations among many social groups, agendas, activities. Such overviews will always, in the division of labor, the specialization of perspective and inter- est, be the speciality of *some* groups in society. They need not be monolithically masculine, middle-aged, middle-class, heterosexual, Christian, Eurocentric, etc. But neither are they likely to encompass most members of a large, diverse society. They need not necessarily be allowed the power to impose their policy choices on the rest of us, but they will be in some sense in a better position to consider such matters. A lot of the time, a lot of us just won't care. And ... Plato, at least, often sounds the theme that people in general need to believe in certain values, or gods, (or ideologies) for a social order to operate at all, and that there is a considerable danger to the social order (*any* social order, not just the ones we are critical of) when intellectual start to undermine general confidence in established beliefs. Intellec- tuals are specialists in critique. We are not supposed to stop at anything (cf. Descartes, Nietzsche, Postmodernism) in our criti- cal inquiries. But there is a danger that we could (if we were listened to, which usually we are not) disturb the social order in ways that would lead to conditions far worse than those we are critical of. It seems very plausible to me that Plato wrote with such notions in mind, and that his works do somewhat cloak his most dangerous ideas (in the indirectness of the Socratic dialogues, in the famous allegories and "religious" passages, etc.). Given the conditions under which many scholars and philos- ophers have written, even in modern times, not only a moral con- cern for the danger of their ideas to society as a whole, but a defensive concern for the danger of repercussions on themselves, may have led to a certain intertextual "encoding" of their mes- sages. We are the intellectual descendants of an elitist tradition. We know that democratic ideals are the product of a bourgeois (and masculine, and middle-aged, and modernist, etc.) culture, which we pride ourselves on criticizing and deconstructing in every other way. So what exactly might a post-democratic politics be? JAY. JAY LEMKE. City University of New York. BITNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM INTERNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Jay Lemke Subject: BU Demagoguery Jascha Kessler asks a few questions about my remarks in the Sil- ber discussion. The first two seem miss the distinction between qualifiers and classifiers in English semantics. Social "caste" is a rather useful idea for postmodernists, I think, since it al- lows us to refine the matrix of categorial social differences and name its smallest cells: class by gender by age by cultural back- ground by .... The term may be less familiar, but the notion is a useful one, as in the work of Pierre Bourdieu and many feminist theorists. Only one such caste has traditionally been politically dominant in our society. ... The journal I co-edit is _Linguistics and Education_ (thanks for the opportunity to ad- vertise). As for what really seems to be bothering our correspondent, I'd say it is the touchy relationship between the political and the academic. Personally, I'd be happy to see more intellectuals (and not many academics today are, I think) enter electoral politics, or even just the arenas of public opinion-making. What is being objected to in the case of Dr. Silber is an attempt, not within the context of civil politics but within that of an academic in- stitution, to control opinion rather than to lead it. And I take it some are suggesting that he is motivated as much or more by the approval of such a move by those outside his university than by his responsibilities to the university itself. I am not, I hope, naive about the inevitable political dimensions of all institutions and indeed of all intellectual inquiry. But direct politically motivated efforts to control what are or are not acceptable theoretical perspectives within the academy should be resisted. The result of such efforts tends to intellectual monoculture, and extinction. JAY. JAY LEMKE. City University of New York. BITNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM INTERNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: KESSLER Subject: Re: Digest ending 12-14-93 re: THE NATION piece. Why, one may ask, the phrase "CYNICAL briefing"? Why th e use of the term briefing, and why the adjective. If one must not put one's t rust in princes, neither should one put one's trust in "Nations(s)." Let us no t forget where that journal is coming from, and who is the cynical editor of it , an unreconstructed Stalinist, to say the best and the least of him, who assum es that his view of the world is a true one. Talk about simpletons in the PM p arish. Str.is one thing; Quayle is another. And William K ristol is a lad with a rather superior education and IQ, as indeed is his fathe r. Please dont start conflating Strauss, Straussians, Kristol and Quayle. It would be rather shoddy argumentation, about anything. Thinking, it is not. Kes sler --------------------------END--------------------------------------- 3-Jan-94 19:31:32-GMT,3125;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA28594; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:27 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19453; Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:23 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401031931.AA19453@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA10574; Tue, 16 Nov 93 18:23:28 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA14551; Tue, 16 Nov 93 18:23:25 EST Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 18:23:25 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 18:23:25 EST Message-Id: <9311162207.AA01308@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 11-16-93 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 14:31:22 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 11-16-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topic: Internet Encyclopedia ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Interpedia - Internet Encyclopedia mailing list interpedia@telerama.lm.com This is to inform you about the proposed Internet Encyclopedia, or Interpedia and the mailing-list for discussion of it. The original idea, due to Rick Gates, was for volunteers to cooperatively write a new encyclopedia, put it in the public domain, and make it available on the Internet. Participants on the mailing-list have expanded the concept by noting that the bibliography entries and references provided with Interpedia articles could include hypertext links to other resources available on the Internet. Unlike any printed encyclopedia, the Interpedia could be kept completely up-to-date. Indeed, it could include hypertext links to ongoing discussions, and perhaps evolve into a general interface to all resources and activities on the Internet. If you find these ideas interesting, please join the Interpedia mailing-list by sending a message to interpedia-request@telerama.lm.com with the body of the message containing the word 'subscribe' and your e-mail address, as follows: subscribe your_username@your.host.domain Owner: Doug Luce interpedia-request@telerama.lm.com Interpedia List Maintainer Telerama Public Access Internet -----End--------------------------------------------------------------- 9-Jan-94 3:24:41-GMT,14918;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA13331; Sat, 8 Jan 94 22:24:39 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA22178; Sat, 8 Jan 94 22:24:37 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401090324.AA22178@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA13708; Sat, 8 Jan 94 19:02:12 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA27768; Sat, 8 Jan 94 19:02:10 EST Date: Sat, 8 Jan 94 19:02:10 EST Posted-Date: Sat, 8 Jan 94 19:02:10 EST Message-Id: <9401082337.AA21347@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 1-8-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Sat, 8 Jan 94 22:24:37 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 1-8-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Foucault readings [Re: A question about Foucault] [Foucault] [More Foucault] Eternal Network: A Mail Art ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Foucault readings Sender: John Ransom Re Chris Loschen's request regarding Foucault readings: Well, what Foucault says he wants to do there (in "What is an author") is determine the "functional conditions of specific discursiv e practices." To me, his comment that he does not want to form a (holy or perverse) family is unhelpfully ambiguous. I'm not sure ( as you seem to be) that I could read it in the methodologically rigorous way you have. I don't "get much" out of this comment by Fou cault, positive or negative. The work Foucault is referring to there is _The Order of Things_ and if you're interested in the specific ways in which Foucault tra ces out the functional conditions of specific discursive practices, then that's the obvious place to start (it seems to me). You can also look at _The Archaeology of Knowledge_. The first book is interesting, the second is incredibly boring. As far as "wanting to agree with Foucault"--don't do that. Who cares what the academy thinks? Not even the academy cares what the ac ademy thinks. On the subject, I recommend pursuing the following readings, in order: 1 "The Subject and Power" in Dreyfus and Rabinow, _Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics_. 2 _The History of Sexuality_, Vol. 1 3 _"Truth and Power," in _The Foucault Reader_ 4 "Body Power" in Power/Knowledge_ 5 The second of the "Two Lectures" in _Power/Knowledge_ 6 "Politics and Reason" in _Politics, Philosophy, and Culture_ 7 "Power and Sex," Ibid. 8 _Discipline and Punish_, pp. 16-13, and 90-end. It's hard to choose page numbers from this book. 9 Finally, "What Is Enlightenment" in _The Foucault Reader_. I hope this helps. If not, just the delete button! --JSR ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Ted Parkinson Subject: Re: Digest ending 12-17-93 Reply to: Sender: "Christopher T. Loschen" Subject: A question about Foucault I'm hoping I can get some help from the literary theorists on the list, and if I start a discussion in the process, that's better yet. I've been rereading Foucault's essay "What is an Author?," and it seems to me there are some glaring flaws in his reasoning. Most problematic, in my opinion, is his claim that "I had no intention of describing Buffon or Marx or of reproducing their statements or implicit meanings, but, simply stated, I wanted to locate the rules that formed a certain number of concepts and theoretical relationships in their works.... I had no intention of forming any family, whether holy or perverse. On the contrary, I wanted to determine--a much more modest task--the functional conditions of specific discursive practices" (114). This seems to me to put the cart very much before the horse, as far as its methodology goes. To assert the existence of a discursive practice is precisely to form a family relationship, since a discursive practice cannot be conceived (by me, in any case) in any other way than as an assertion of relationships between individual examples of that discourse. For Foucault to analyze "concepts and theoretical relationships" also requires a prior claim that these concepts and theoretical relationships are present and influential in the works he is discussing. Finally, then, discourse analysis in the society at large must inherently rest upon a prior induction from individual examples of discourse, which means (to me) that it is by no means a "much more modest task," but indeed an incredibly difficult and painstaking task. Foucault seems to me to want to sidestep the painstaking and slow process of induction, to simply assert that these discursive practices exist as he describes them, without adequately supporting that fundamental claim. The more I re-read "What is an Author?," which I first thought of many years ago as a rather straightforward essay, the more I realize the complexity of the issues Foucault discusses. I have found this essay quite helpful in summarizing many of his methodological interests, but he does not "spell things out" in the detail one might desire. To begin with, there are several footnotes in the _Counter- Memory_ volume which are helpful in contextualizing his argument. It is also important to note that Foucault's "project" changed over the years (quite radically, depending on who you read) and that the notions of "archaeology" and "discourse" are implicated in these changes. Some critics argue that these changes are related to the events of May '68, and change his notions of "subject" and "agency." Your reservations about his mode(s) of analysis are shared by other critics and I think the best way to find out the information you need is to read through Dreyfus and Rabinow's _Michel Foucault_, by far the best introduction to his work. I think you are really interrogating his notion of "genealogy" which this book discusses at some length. Basically, Foucault analyses ("thinks," "formulates," "critiques") "history" much differently than previous historians, and there are many hotly-contested debates over this. However, I should provide a bit more context to your concerns by saying that I think Foucault's claim that determining "the functional conditions of specific discursive practices" is "a much more modest task" is to be read ironically. The task is/was not modest at all, and Foucault knows that. His books, _The Birth of the Clinic_, _Discipline and Punish_, and the various volumes of the History of Sexuality, are all detailed and thorough examinations of "functional conditions of specific discursive practices," and when he calls his project "modest" he is probably responding to his critics whom he believes falsely accuse him of another project. As to your question about what to read in order to "be persuaded" that Foucault is worthwhile, I think that very much depends on your own work. Foucault may not be relevant to it, but the Drefus and Rabinow should help orient you. Personally, I find _Discipline and Punish_ to be the "best read" in terms of general interest, and Volume 1 of _The History of Sexuality_ is also short and pithy. Find some essay or interview on a subject with which you are working, and take it from there. Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Jay Lemke Subject: Re: Digest ending 1-6-94 Chris Loschen may need to read a LOT more Foucault to see the point he is making. It might also be necessary to change some assumptions about the stylistics of academic writing from Anglo-Saxon argumentation to Gallic exposition. As to methodology, Foucault calls into question the very notions Loschen seems to start from. Tough it may be, but for me, it is the first half of the Archeology of Knowledge that establishes the intellectual perspective of most of Foucault's work on discursive analysis. Maybe a big chunk of _Order of Things_ would also help place that perspective in the context of a critical view of the assumptions of modern European social science, which seem to have become those of a lot of modernist literary critical argumentation (i.e. post Leavis, when Anglo-Saxon litcrit starts to sound a lot like analytical philosophy and functionalist social science in its modes of discourse about evidentiality). I don't work in the literary tradition, so this is an outsider's view. Other stances, other recommendations? JAY. JAY LEMKE. City University of New York. BITNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM INTERNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: wendy wahl Subject: Re: Foucault In response to Christopher Loschen's queries: The passage you refer to (in which Foucault notes his distaste for setting up new "families" by citing Buffon and Marx) isn't simply a "glaring flaw" in his reasoning; throughout his career, both in interviews and in his writings, Foucault attempted to steer people away from valorizing him (or other intellectuals) in such a way as to set up the conditions for someone, maybe the professor on your committee, to label themselves as "Foucaultian." These conditions, stated generally, would include the desire to set an author up as representative of a theory or theories, and thus caricature both the author's ideas and identity by conflating the two. If you set out to decide whether or not to "become a Foucaultian" or to "agree or disgree" with "him," you might lose the ability to engage with the texts skeptically, critically, thoughtfully. Whatever Foucault's status in the academy may be, succumbing to veneration won't help you approach some very difficult and exhilerating works. There isn't a single argument in "What is An Author" that needs to be adhered to or cast aside, depending on its "strength." Instead of looking for cracks in the logical foundation of an essay, you could recognize Foucault's strategizing, as you did in your mail (i.e. "which means -to me- that it is by no means a 'much more modest task' but indeed an incredibly difficult and painstaking task"). To take a more prescriptive stance, I'd suggest reading some authors for whom Foucault is significant; the variety of responses, uses, and appropriations of Foucault's work is what has created and sustained Foucault's position in the academy. The "author function" (cf. Foucault) is well on its ironic way when you feel an obligation to accept or reject Foucault based on his alleged position. Here are just a couple books that might help: Jana Sawicki's _Disciplining Foucault_ The collection titled _Feminism and Foucault_ offers a wealth of responses, from anthropologists to literary theorists to sociologists and philosophers. As far as Foucault's own work, I'd suggest the Foucault Reader (ed. Paul Rabinow) as a start, and the lectures, which I believe are collected in various editions. Hope this helps, Wendy Wahl University of Vermont ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 01-05-94 News release Subject: Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology "Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology by Chuck Welch is to be published in Fall 1994 by University of Calgary Press. 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For more information send e-mail to Cathryn.L.Welch@dartmouth.edu or write to "Eternal Network" PO Box 978, Hanover, NH 03755 ----------END---------------------------------------------- 8-Jan-94 23:48:42-GMT,10107;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11392; Sat, 8 Jan 94 18:48:40 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11620; Sat, 8 Jan 94 18:48:39 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401082348.AA11620@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA06859; Tue, 4 Jan 94 20:50:22 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA04264; Tue, 4 Jan 94 20:50:20 EST Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 20:50:20 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 20:50:20 EST Message-Id: <9401050132.AA14657@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 1-4-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Sat, 8 Jan 94 18:48:39 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 1-4-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: RE: democratic developments at the end of the twentieth-century Post-democratic politics ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Peter Stupples, University of Otago, New Zealand pstupples@gandalf.otago.ac.nz I was struck by the importance of the issues raised by Jay Lemke in response to the Leo Strauss exchanges. Is seems to me that the recent and current events in the former Soviet Union illustrate the problems involved in democratic developments at the end of the twentieth-century. The Communist system, as it had evolved under Lenin and Stalin, was clearly non-democratic and had also lost the support of the majority of Russian intellectuals. Communism, in the form it had genetically assumed, has been destroyed and replaced by a swiftly changing array of models that have the appearance of being democratic in the Western tradition. These changes have been accompanied by an almost complete economic collapse. Where stakeholders have had the opportunity to voice an opinion over the past few years they have tended to favour either 1. a return to a form of Communism (better the devil you know - we were better off under Brezhnev - there was a class system in operation in which everyone had a stake and knew the rules) or 2. an inchoate, archaic nationalism (Russia for the Russians, we need a slavonic solution to a slavonic problem, we are the only ones who know how to deal with our historical development). The academy, which was enthusiastically behind forms of socialism in 1917, no longer has a voice - certainly not a voice that is listened to. However I was impressed on a visit to the Russia provinces in May 1992 how well local governments were capable of running their own affairs, able to coordinate local groups of stakeholders into purposeful activity. There seems to be something that can be learnt from this, such as - you cannot interfere with the genetic development of historical processes - Russia is going back to 1916 and rerunning the issues that are pertinent to it - the power of *modern* central governments must be anti-democratic because of the distance from the stakeholders and the self-interests of a vast bureaucracy that is not answerable to those stakeholders. Centralised government is a *modern* idea, it is paternalistic, at best the state looking after the less privileged, who remain without privileges, hope, education, a stake, but are kept fed, clothed and housed to stop them being a social nuisance - post-modernist debates point to the break up of centralising tendencies in the interests of giving stakeholders and stakeholder groups a greater voice and giving room for a diversity of living-choices within communities. The Platonic idea that people in general need to subscribe to a set of beliefs for social order to be possible is one of those leaps of faith that we no longer need to make. When all *beliefs* are undermined then we can all start looking at the construction of the real world, at the hopes and aspirations of real people and try to find the obviously very complex mechanisms that will allow them to flourish. This is not *post*-democratic politics but, perhaps for the first time, real democracy, the voice of the people, all the people, not simply being listened to by the political-class-patriachy representatives. We do not need beliefs but knowledge. Beliefs distort any objective view of the world. Knowledge leads to respect for the views and aspirations of others. Government structures need to be deconstructed in a physical sense until they are responsive to local interests. Policy-making should be local policy-making with pacts between localities to cover equity issues such as the funding of health and education. Silber's comments are part of the defensive response of the patriarchy concerned about critical ideas that break down belief and reveal a real world and real issues that might be uncomfortable for the elite. Leo Strauss gives such ideas an intellectual gloss but are promted, it seems to me by a disrepect for the views of others, a quest for modernist simplicity at the expense of real-life diversity. Sorry to go on at length and in such prolix randomness. But Jay Lemke posed a question on the nature of post-democratic politics and I thought it wortha response, even one hurriedly and badly put together. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Jay Lemke Subject: Post-democratic politics Maybe PMC is more flame-proof than other lists, but KESSLER's ef- fort to foreground critical perspectives and lament complaisance seemed somewhere between negative and incendiary in its tone. I certainly think it unwise to reply in kind. I also suspect that his specific questions were rhetorical (What makes someone an in- tellectual? Why are/aren't professors intellectual? etc.) and his point that we should not take it so much for granted that the common wisdom of the moment on such matters is enough for our discussions. But we all know that every assumption, every few words of every discourse, presents an opportunity for endless critical re-examinations, none of which ever lead to definite conclusions, though they are certainly essential to the process of coming up with newer discourses that serve us in some practi- cal ways. On PMC I assume that we are not in search of "truth" or old Believers that somewhere there is one such true and flawless- ly reasoned discourse which must then prove to be, if not the only useful one, then the most useful one. All the practices of life are carried on, often quite well, with discourses in which any of us could "find" numberless flaws. I read in Kessler's message (Digest 12-17-93) a certain im- patience with political superficiality, suggesting someone who, like me much of time, is more satisfied by analyses of how power sustains privilege and wraps itself in pseudo-intellectual mystification and misdirection. But these are old discourses. They have been around and widely circulated in our communities for more than a couple of generations now. They feel old, modernist, not-ours. They seem wonderfully satisfying as critique and totally useless as a guide to constructive action. Their political heart, which I largely share, needs a new voice, and their theoretical assumptions need a good post-modernist updat- ing. What would a post-democratic politics be indeed? How can there be a democracy of equals when we have no idea how in practice to make a society of equals? when this ideal assumes a privileging of the isolated individual as the ultimate political unit, and we know that this assumption is itself a specifically bourgeois ideological creation? What is the context in which we pose the problem of politics but that of the bourgeois State, a creation, like many before it, for the imposition of control by some upon all. Is there a solution to the paradox of scale in politics that what works in small communities does not generalize to extremely large ones? Can an entity like a nation-state operate as a com- munity except by illusion and artificial manipulation? How can there be a single ideal of politics in the absence of a coercive- ly dominant ideology? If political ideals are inseparable from cultural systems as wholes, what other domains of cultural prac- tice and belief most influence them? If all political critique is situated and positioned, then how is the modernist critique of capitalism, and the subsequent critical obsession with coercive power relationships itself limited, itself a product of masculine perspectives, of middle-class perspectives, of middle-aged per- spectives, of European and Judaeo-Christian perspectives, and of their specific interests? I think that postmodernism has largely held back from critical confrontation with modernist political ideals (and I do not mean classical liberal representative democracy, I mean neo-Marxist post-revolutionary participatory democracy) because we would also indict the political status quo and have not had any alternative to offer. It may also be because p-m is just crossing over from the humanities to the social sciences (by dissolving the modernist boundary between them). JAY LEMKE. City University of New York. BITNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM INTERNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ------------------END----------------------------------------------- 8-Jan-94 23:44:42-GMT,10684;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11375; Sat, 8 Jan 94 18:44:31 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11555; Sat, 8 Jan 94 18:44:29 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401082344.AA11555@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA00809; Thu, 6 Jan 94 19:16:58 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA25105; Thu, 6 Jan 94 19:16:56 EST Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 19:16:56 EST Posted-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 19:16:56 EST Message-Id: <9401062320.AA19440@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 1-6-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Sat, 8 Jan 94 18:44:29 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 1-6-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Postmodern politics A question about Foucault ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Jay Lemke Subject: Postmodern politics Most of the replies I have had, on and off the list, to my queries about postmodernist, if not post-democratic, politics, have been seriously thoughtful and I am grateful for their per- spectives. They all, as well as responses I have had to this question from others lately, point toward localism as the key. I am as much in favor of localism as anyone, for dealing with lo- cal issues, and in earlier posting I pointed out that the participatory democracy ideal seems workable locally, on the scale of relatively small human communities. Many people also noted that the idea of nationwide (much less worldwide) political ideals or systems is a modernist, centralist one. And at least one person believed that they were not neces- sary to large-scale communities. But I do not think that these answers are good enough. Even the premise of "Think globally, act locally" assumes that local ac- tions must take account of a larger view of needs and conse- quences. Local actions interact. They contribute to emergent ef- fects on higher scales of organization of self-organizing ecological-social systems. They produce conflicts which are not resolvable except by appeal to the interests of some larger sys- tem. Some forms of action require trans-local cooperation, whether on the scale of large cities, nation states, world regions, or globally. Our present political solution to these problems is an unstable compromise between the older nation-state system (treaties, EEC- like confederations, wars, economic power-leveraging, etc.) and the emerging global economic-communication order (multi- nationals, economic interdependence, global information networks). The older system was already shifting from an owners- decide model to an experts-and-managers-decide model as the scale and complexity of the systems to be controlled grew; that has now been accelerated by the transnational developments. This is not a system that entirely works; it is still biased by the dis- proportiate representation in it of elite caste interests, but it has the capacity in principle to take mass popular interests and perceptions into account, insofar as those trained to do so can in fact appreciate them. At least this is a model, however flawed, which has evolved naturally within the social system, and which faces up to the fact that many decisions require a degree of global knowledgeability that is not possessed locally. This basically technocratic political model is thoroughly modernist. It has a horrendous ideology that buries values issues under "expert-knowledge" issues. It regards its knowledge as ob- jective rather than viewpoint-limited. It is still an elite suc- cessor to the previous elite, making common cause with it against the rest of us at the same time that it is displacing it. Its worst failures result from the unrecognized subcultural bias of its perspectives. But at least it faces global issues realisti- cally. Localist politics seems to me to be romanticist and utopian by comparison. Postmodernism, I believe, is itself a consequence of the strengthening of global integration, the second stage following colonialist-imperialist domination, when the exchanges across cultures (and to some extent genders and classes) have started to become more reciprocal as power differentials have leveled out somewhat. It is in that climate that the voice of the Other could effectively challenge orthodoxies, even among the dominated. I do not really believe that localism is postmodernist. But neither do I believe in the modernist ideal of global homogenization to the culture of the presently dominant elite. Diversity is good, we want it, and no one could have succeeded in getting rid of it in a viable world social order anyway. Diversity implies a mosaic of differences, with coherence on local scales, and global integra- tion based on horizontal interdependence rather than vertically imposed control. It is the world social-political order as ecosystem rather than as organism-writ-large, or as the patriar- chal family-writ-large. How is this system going to deal with global issues? The very distinction between local and global is disappearing as the sys- tem becomes more integrated! It's getting harder and harder to find a strictly "local" issue, in terms of impact, means for ef- fective action, causes, stakeholders .... Granted that there are going to be many diverse local ways of coming to grips with these kinds of problems, each of those local communities will find it- self already embedded in something larger, and limited in per- spective within it. One can say, Let's just go local and see what happens -- let the system self-organize. Perhaps we CANNOT get the kind of global perspectives on these systems needed to make better local deci- sions. Certainly we cannot hope to control the systems from within them (or from the individual-level of organization), but we are still going to have to make decisions. Those decisions are part of the activity of the system. If they are made strictly lo- cally, I suspect the system will re-organize away from global in- tegration, back toward greater local autonomy, and back toward the kinds of ideologies and political practices characteristic of that kind of system (neo-feudalism, anyone?). Such a political alternative is not going to compete effectively with the present trend toward greater technocracy. What can? what should? (and if English had a plural interrogative pronoun, Whats, I would have used it!) JAY. PS. Perhaps we have no choice but to evolve through technocracy to something else, something we couldn't envision until we're al- ready living in the new postmodern global system. Maybe that presumption releases us from moral responsibility for political vision. Somehow, though, I doubt it. JAY LEMKE. City University of New York. BITNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM INTERNET: JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "Christopher T. Loschen" Subject: A question about Foucault I'm hoping I can get some help from the literary theorists on the list, and if I start a discussion in the process, that's better yet. I've been rereading Foucault's essay "What is an Author?," and it seems to me there are some glaring flaws in his reasoning. Most problematic, in my opinion, is his claim that "I had no intention of describing Buffon or Marx or of reproducing their statements or implicit meanings, but, simply stated, I wanted to locate the rules that formed a certain number of concepts and theoretical relationships in their works.... I had no intention of forming any family, whether holy or perverse. On the contrary, I wanted to determine--a much more modest task--the functional conditions of specific discursive practices" (114). This seems to me to put the cart very much before the horse, as far as its methodology goes. To assert the existence of a discursive practice is precisely to form a family relationship, since a discursive practice cannot be conceived (by me, in any case) in any other way than as an assertion of relationships between individual examples of that discourse. For Foucault to analyze "concepts and theoretical relationships" also requires a prior claim that these concepts and theoretical relationships are present and influential in the works he is discussing. Finally, then, discourse analysis in the society at large must inherently rest upon a prior induction from individual examples of discourse, which means (to me) that it is by no means a "much more modest task," but indeed an incredibly difficult and painstaking task. Foucault seems to me to want to sidestep the painstaking and slow process of induction, to simply assert that these discursive practices exist as he describes them, without adequately supporting that fundamental claim. Now to my question: I know that this issue, and the "problem of the subject," which seems to me closely linked to it (I'll have to spell out those links), were important themes for Foucault, but I don't have a good sense of just what essays I should read in order to explore his arguments on this score in greater depth. Does anyone have some suggestions? Foucault is so powerful in the academy right now, and I would rather agree with him, as everyone else seems to, if I could be persuaded that his argument is stronger than it appears to be now. In fact, even one member of my dissertation committee is a Foucaultian--I'd probably ask him except that he just went on sabbatical. So, I'm asking all of you. What essays did you read that persuaded you to accept Foucault? To reject him? I'd appreciate any leads you might offer. Thanks so much. Yours, Chris Loschen, Brandeis University ----------END------------------------------------------------------- 24-Jan-94 17:01:07-GMT,8768;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA01411; Mon, 24 Jan 94 12:01:04 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA02723; Mon, 24 Jan 94 12:01:02 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401241701.AA02723@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA14583; Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:27:55 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AB22913; Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:27:53 EST Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:27:53 EST Posted-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:27:53 EST Message-Id: <9401201601.AA05496@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 1-20-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 12:01:02 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 1-20-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Re: Foucault's argument Virtual Reality, Poetry, and Heidegger ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: unlisted Subject: Re: Foucault's argument The question about Foucault's "What is an Author?" seems to me acute in recognizing that he could not fully escape from the hermeneutic circle-- in order to establish that a document belongs to a discursivity, one needs an overarching definition of it; and in order to reach that definition, one must begin from individual documents... But I wouldn't use this circle--which is after all one in which we are all cycling--to dismiss either F's methods or _The Order of Things_. I agree with those who have said that we ought to look at the context of this particular argument. F is defending his work in _The Order of Things_ against certain critics who attacked the very notion that it was written, that is, that it was not written as a study of great authors. This polemical context is illuminated by looking at George Steiner's criticism and Foucault's rejoinder. I think that after seeing this rather entertaining real world debate, his later essay, "What is an Author?" will take on an added dimension of purpose, and thus clarity. As I tried to figure this out, I found the 1st couple of interviews in _Foucault Live_ very helpful too. --E. Heroux (heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Antony Dugdale Subject: Virtual Reality, Poetry, and Heidegger As some of you may or may not remember, I have been working over the past few months on a project concerning possible heideggerian responses to virtual reality. It's taken me a while to formulate my thoughts, especially to distance them from Heidegger specifically and elaborate them to apply to ways of responding to VR in general. That process has led to some questions that I'd like to pose, and I ask that you help me in resolving them. In advance, I'd like to thank you for doing so (and ask your forgiveness for the length of the post). I've cross-posted this on PMC-TALK and IRVC-L because both seem good places to talk about all this. If you feel we should limit the discussion to one or the other, say the word ... Perhaps my most basic question gets at a point that Michael Heim makes in his book _The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality_, namely that VR allows for an expansion of art's domain, an increase in the power of art to shape our "real reality". While this no doubt resonates very deeply with what I want to hear (as it probably does among many of us technophiles), I wonder if it's really true. No doubt it allows for a new artistic medium, and hence an entirely new type of art. But Heim wants to go beyond this, saying that "Rather than control or escape or entertain or communicate, the ultimate promise of VR may be to transform, to redeem our awareness of reality -- something that the highest art has attempted to do and something hinted at in the very label virtual reality ... VR promises not a better vacuum cleaner or a more engrossing communications medium or even a friendlier computer interface. It promises the Holy Grail." (124) Of course, Heim doesn't deny that in its current form, or even its current envisionings, VR is primarily a means to "control, escape, entertain, or communicate." But (and even here he hedges by only suggesting, not insisting) it has within it the promise of a greater redemption, the same redemption that art has been pointing to all along. Why? I'll try to pose my preliminary answer without getting too bogged down in aesthetics or in the specifics of Heidegger's theory of art/poetry. For Heidegger, poetry (and for poetry you might effectively read art in general) reveals not so much aspects of our own existence, but the very beingness that everything is. One could perhaps say that through poetry we cease to see things through our own lenses and can see the totality in and of itself. This "shedding of the lenses" is something that is becoming increasingly more difficult, for technology is forcing its interpretive framework upon us by default, so much so that we no longer see the framework for what it is, but just assume that this *is* the way things are. Things exist through their ability to be used for our own manipulation, and cease to exist in themselves. This is at the heart of why he treats technology as "Enframing". Poetry is a way of getting beyond that Enframing, of transcending (?) it even if only temporarily (and here he is vague). So does VR contribute to that Enframing, or does it contribute to the destruction of the very activity of Enframing? On the one hand, it creates the most invisible frame of all, and transforms everything into an object for our own manipulation. It is technology par excellence, and both our thinking and our very being becomes, through VR, disconnected ever more radically from the being that everything is, and instead retreats even further into a world that exists only for us and for our own enjoyment and (ab)use. VR culminates our forgetting of Being, and is the antithesis of poetry. On the other hand (as Heim might argue), VR puts a new, more effective pen into the hands of the poet, a new theatre in the hands of the artist. It allows poetry to go beyond mere alphabetic language to use sound, shapes, kinetics, and other symbols in new ways. Perhaps more important, it draws the user (but even this word is too technologically-biased) onto the page with the poet, drawing the two of them into a dialectic of activity and passivity of mutual manipulation. As seductive as this vision is to me, I have to ask ... to what extent can poetry be dependent upon various constructed tools and still escape this Enframing? The poet is not constrained by external, artificial tools because the poet clears a space for Being to come forward by opening up the essence of the sphere in which Being is made manifest, namely language. Language is special because it is through language that Being is revealed and concealed. And how does VR build for itself a privileged relation to language the way that poetry does? I don't mean to open up a forum on the critique of Heidegger's vision of art and poetry (though those who can state it more succintly and accurately than I have should please feel free to mold my statements above), but I just want to ask if VR can be as poetic (in Heidegger's sense of the word) as Heim wants it to be, to ask whether VR really is a Holy Grail, an instance of a true archetype made "real." I desperately want someone to show me that it is. I've probably said far too much already, so I'll be quiet and wait. Antony Dugdale Antony Dugdale )+( | In this world we live in a Department of Religion | mixture of time and eternity. Yale University | Hell would be pure time. antdugl@minerva.cis.yale.edu | -Simone Weil --------------------END--------------------------------------------- 26-Jan-94 21:16:25-GMT,6013;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA13336; Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:16:23 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA07301; Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:16:21 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401262116.AA07301@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA04374; Sun, 23 Jan 94 22:16:20 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA08223; Sun, 23 Jan 94 22:16:19 EST Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 22:16:19 EST Posted-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 22:16:19 EST Message-Id: <9401230342.AA03175@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 1-22-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:16:21 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 1-22-94. 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Today's Topics: [Virtual Reality, Poetry, Heidegger and *Wagnerism*] poetry, vr, and heidegger [particular VR vs. abstract VR] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: eliot@sunrise.cc.mcgill.ca (Eliot Handelman) Subject: Re: Digest ending 1-20-94 >Sender: Antony Dugdale >Subject: Virtual Reality, Poetry, and Heidegger Heim: > "Rather than control or escape or entertain or communicate, the > ultimate promise of VR may be to transform, to redeem our awareness > of reality -- something that the highest art has attempted to do and > something hinted at in the very label virtual reality ... VR > promises not a better vacuum cleaner or a more engrossing > communications medium or even a friendlier computer interface. It > promises the Holy Grail." (124) Two wagnerisms in one paragraph! Might one counteract this "philosophy" by quoting Wagner against it -- "redeem the redeemer"? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "Jerome J. Mc Gann" Subject: Re: Digest ending 1-20-94 subject: poetry, vr, and heidegger this will for the moment be brief, it's a response to antony dugdale's interesting query. i would be interested myself to know what he (or anyone else) thinks on these matters in relation to the three books i wrote that deal more or less directly with them -- "towards a literature of knowledge", "the textual condition", and "black riders". perhaps especially "the textual conditrion". let me say that art, in my view of its historical passage, appears to redeem nothing. it isn't there to redeem but to reveal, to open doors of perception. vr is interesting as it places at our disposal some new artistic media. such things, new media ie, don't happen very often in so catastrophic a way, so one tends to get excited when it happens, i guess. but finally, as morris says, "you can't have art without resistance in the materials" -- that's a profound insight for our time especially. which is why i foregrounded it so much in 2 recent books. enough for now. jerome mcgann ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Marc A. Smith In reply to Antony Dugdale's thoughtful consideration of the conflicting possible effects of VR, I would like to suggest that answers can be found in the particulars not in the abstract. Will VR place a frame around our existence? In other words, will it become part of our presuppositions, our taken-for-granted knowledge of the world? I personally have no doubt that it will. Telegraphs, telephones, radios, televisions, computers, celluar phones, fax machines, copiers, VCRs, ... the list of powerful communication and representation technologies is long. And I have no doubt that they have altered the world. But VR remains an ambiguous set of technologies and representational strategies, surely not coherent enough yet to be discussing its essential characteristics and ultimate implications in the abstract. Thus, to answer the question: >I just want to ask if VR can be as poetic (in Heidegger's >sense of the word) as Heim wants it to be, to ask whether VR really is a >Holy Grail, an instance of a true archetype made "real." I desperately >want someone to show me that it is. I suspect we will have to look at existing examples of its application. I have heard of installations of VR-like art in various places, and certainly there are a growing number of VR-like entertainment rides and products. Can anyone offer accounts of these? There are few extended examinations of these actual examples (a notable exception is David Sudnow's _Pilgrim in the Microworld_). Well, we're having major aftershocks, and I'm going outside... bye! Marc A. Smith ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ University of California, Los Angeles Department of Sociology Email: SmithM@NICCO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------END------------------------------------------------ 26-Jan-94 20:36:49-GMT,7084;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA12654; Wed, 26 Jan 94 15:36:47 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA03598; Wed, 26 Jan 94 15:36:46 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9401262036.AA03598@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA02428; Tue, 25 Jan 94 17:04:20 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA11776; Tue, 25 Jan 94 17:04:17 EST Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 17:04:17 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 17:04:17 EST Message-Id: <9401252142.AA14654@sparc03.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 1-25-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 15:36:46 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 1-25-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: [art and the psychopharmacology of mescaline] [VR and God] Eternal Network: A Mail Art ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: eliot@sunrise.cc.mcgill.ca (Eliot Handelman) Subject: Re: Digest ending 1-22-94 Sender: "Jerome J. Mc Gann" >subject: poetry, vr, and heidegger > let me say that art, in my view of its historical >passage, appears to redeem nothing. it isn't there to redeem but >to reveal, to open doors of perception. Jerome, given your phraseology, might you not be confusing the history of art with the psychopharmacology of mescaline? The closest I can come to with this is Barnett Newman's "what the artist does is to CREATE reality," but that has nothing to do with a purification of the senses -- quite the contrary. I was going to write why I think VR and the arts are anathema, but I'm not up to it. >Sender: Marc A. Smith >fax machines, copiers, VCRs, ... the list of powerful communication and >representation technologies is long. And I have no doubt that they have >altered the world. Marc, I don't think that's the point. The thing with VR is that unlike these other technologies VR provides no clear-cut benefits even to the businessman or scientist, in other words to those who could direct its development. It's not that VR hasn't figured out a way to be the holy grail -- VR hasn't even figured out a way to be a Petri dish or even a coke bottle. There is no pervasive reason to make it, the question aside whether it could be made. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Peter Montgomery Subject: Re: Digest ending 1-22-94 On Sunday, 23 Jan 1994, at 21:58:39, thus spake pmc@unity.ncsu.edu: p>Heim: p> >> "Rather than control or escape or entertain or communicate, the >> ultimate promise of VR may be to transform, to redeem our awareness >> of reality -- something that the highest art has attempted to do and >> something hinted at in the very label virtual reality ... VR >> promises not a better vacuum cleaner or a more engrossing >> communications medium or even a friendlier computer interface. It >> promises the Holy Grail." (124) VR is simply the next step in the evolution of man's desire to play God by immitating Him. (I haven't noticed that woman has a similar aspiration). Peter ************************************************************* * Peter Montgomery Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca * * Exitus effigium effigies exituum * ************************************************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------- ** For further information contact: Cathryn.L.Welch@dartmouth.edu ** News release Subject: Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology "Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology by Chuck Welch is to be published in Fall 1994 by University of Calgary Press. The 42 chapter, 350 page text includes an index, 147 illustrations and six major appendices including the largest extensive listing of underground mail art zines in existence. A thorough listing of nearly 100 international private and institutional mail art archives appears in another important appendice. But what is mail art? Mail art is a paradox in the way it reverses traditional definitions of art; the mailbox and computer replace the museum, the address becomes the art, and the mailman brings home the avant-garde to mail artists in the form of correspondence art, e-mail art, artistamps, postcards, conceptual projects, and collaborations. "Eternal Network introduces readers to a lively exchange with international mail art networkers from five continents. The book include snail mail and e-mail addresses, fax, and telephone numbers for many active mail artists. Readers are invited to participate -- to corresponDANCE with global village artists who quickstep beyond establishment boundaries of art. 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Edited by Chuck Welch, an active mail artist since 1978, "Eternal Network" makes an important first step towards introducing mail art to non-artists, artists, and academic scholars. For more information send e-mail to Cathryn.L.Welch@dartmouth.edu or write to "Eternal Network" PO Box 978, Hanover, NH 03755 -----------------END------------------------------------------------ 11-Feb-94 15:37:10-GMT,6008;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA01957; Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:37:08 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA04071; Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:37:07 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9402111537.AA04071@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA22389; Thu, 10 Feb 94 23:09:56 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA15608; Thu, 10 Feb 94 23:09:55 EST Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 23:09:55 EST Posted-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 23:09:55 EST Message-Id: <9402110348.AA27844@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 2-10-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:37:07 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 2-10-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: [Solipsistic VR] >>deAD.artist<< ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: eliot@sunrise.cc.mcgill.ca (Eliot Handelman) Subject: Re: Digest ending 1-27-94 >Sender: (Peter Byrnes) >VR will undoubtedly attract self-consciously avant-garde artists, as >film attracted the dadaists and surrealists, and as interactive CD-ROMs >are attracting Todd Rundgren and Peter Gabriel. OK, let's get back to that one. I hear that the Centre Beaubourg has just declared a 5-year moratorium on "art and VR." And I think that's judicious, on the basis of my experiences at the Banff Arts Centre (which is hosting the cyberspace show next May). What I think we need now are people who can think through the basic medium and get beyond the sterile assumptions of choppy sensurround cartoons. What I think is not needed are people who are content with the inscription of banal messages in some master hypist's concept of the perfectly generalized toolbox. Paul Valery once commented that poetry is a purely solipsistic activity practiced by those adept at it for love of the art, and by those less adept because they believe that they're actually communicating something. The point of VR is clearly VR, the purely solipsistic induction of an alien reality experienced by one person. What VR needs to unload is the idea that it has a precedent in the pictures or in TV. It has no right to demote the arts to content generation. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: bbrace@netcom.com (Brad Brace) Subject: >>deAD.artist<< confusion, manyartists began producing directly for the museums, the s-=-=-^-=-=-=-=-=-=-^-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=o=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-x-=-=-=-=-= DEAD-ARTIST DESERT TRAILER-PARK offers scholarships and studio-space for qualifying applicants contact: bbrace@netcom.com for info .the specialists tend now to be pariahs of art, trained and graded by the specific criteria essential to contemporary education.. and frightened by the potential power of the image... their relationship to creativity is rarely one of love or obsession; they are salaried to it... they seem more comfortable with analysis, as if a dozen or so photographs of a masterpiece, taken under perfectly controlled conditions in neutral isolation, would best satisfy them... they could then destroy the original and limit the publicUs understanding to their own photo-based analysis of the measurable elements... you cannot be an expert in genius or in the mystical) ...and since these experts controlled the major galleries, they applied their standards to the Western definition of art; new generations of artists -- cut off from the reverberations which their predecessors had felt, thanks to their integration into society -- instead found that the only sustained reverberations came from the experts... in the ensuing confusion, many artists began producing directly for the museums, the technocrats of art... that is now the dominant theme in Western art... Man-made imagery revolves around the forces of fear, magic and ritual. A radical change in the relationship between the last two cannot but lead to a growth in the first. The more sophisticated the controlling images become, the more likely it is that individuals will seek reassurance in increased levels of fear. It is as if the last know refuge of visual imagination and fantasy had been occupied by the forces of structure. | The Dead-Artist Desert Trailer-Park is located in the American | Southwest Desert. I basically inherited (after paying back-taxes) | an isolated, derelict trailer-park which is being | transformed without the interference of cultural bureaucrats | into a working resource for creative pursuits. The financial | overhead is practically non-existent; intelligent applicants are | told the location of the Trailer-Park and given written permission | to abide there. Usually some structural and creative contribution | is made to the Park during your stay. 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Expect to receive this late summer of 1994; an | electronic response is preferred. =-=-==-=-==-=-=-ox^-=-=-=-==-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-===-=-==-=-=-=c=-=-=-=-= 1-Mar-94 21:54:08-GMT,12497;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA23743; Tue, 1 Mar 94 16:54:06 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19280; Tue, 1 Mar 94 16:54:05 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9403012154.AA19280@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA08195; Wed, 23 Feb 94 20:48:03 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA04006; Wed, 23 Feb 94 20:48:00 EST Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 20:48:00 EST Posted-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 20:48:00 EST Message-Id: <9402240128.AA24001@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 2-23-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 16:54:05 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 2-23-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: VRing back on course Journal of Performance Studies Excerpt from _The Electronic Word_ by Richard Lanham Call for papers: sessions to be proposed for MLA 1994 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: jlye@spartan.ac.brocku.ca (John Lye) Subject: VRing back on course Now what's haunting about VR is that it is already a 'metaphor' in the very naming of it. Reality is always virtual insofar as it is preconstructed by 'ideology' (to use a convenient password -- foreunderstanding, world-view, the gestalt which transforms Stuff into Data). As such VR becomes a symbol for how we already live, wired into an (at least in part) imagined world, playing out our cultural software on our sensory and symbolic fields. This should be no more frightening than it should be. Cautions are not amiss. And VR as 'veer' gives us that nice already-falleness, especially as harmatia, missing the mark, or 'sin' as it is translated biblically. VR as art however is it seems to me just like any other art, crafted re-plication, not to be feared more than reading. 'Real' experience, however shaped by our constructions, has grit, gets odd echoes, lives outside as well as inside the sentence, meets chance; we'll always know it. It's just that any new technology wakens us to the encompassing nature of our participation in technology (it might be claimed that we are only technological beings) and to the similitude between the claims of replication and the claims of our implication in what we experience as 'normal' or 'real' life. We'll adjust, changed just a bit perhaps, open systems and all that, and veer on. ----------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________ ________________ _____________ _____________ /_______________/| /____________ \ /____________ \ |||||||||||||||||/ |||||||||||||\ \ |||||||||||||\ \ |||| | |||| | |||\ \ |||| | |||\ \ |||| | |||| | |||\ \ |||| |______||||/ |||| | |||| | |||| | ||||/______||||/ |||| | |||| | ||||/ |||||||||||||\ \ |||| | |||| |______||||/ |||| | ||||\ \ |||| | ||||/______||||/ |||| | ||||\ \ ||||/ ||||||||||||||/ ||||/ ||||\/ __________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Performance Studies T140 (Winter 1993) TDR is the only journal that explores the diverse world of performance with an emphasis on the intercultural, interdisciplinary and experimental. It covers theater, dance, entertainment, media, sports, aesthetics of everyday life, politics, games, play, and ritual. TDR is edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, and published quarterly by MIT Press. Now, TDR has joined the Internet community! The TDR_FORUM: on the discussion list Perform-L, you can participate in a forum that will focus the the latest issue with both contributing authors and fellow readers. See instructions below. You can browse through a sample article on the Electronic Newsstand. You can subscribe through MIT or the Electronic Newsstand. See directions below. Check out our table of contents: ------------------------------------------------------------------- // In this issue (T140 - Winter 1993) \\ ---------------------------------------- - Towards the 21st Century - TDR Comment by Richard Schechner (editor) - Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction - by J. Yellowlees Douglas - Magister Macintosh: Shuffled Notes on Hypertext Writing - by Richard Gess - The Word Becomes You: interview with Anna Deavere Smith - by Carol Martin - Anna Deavere Smith: Acting as Incorporation - by Richard Schechner - Shapiro and Shaliko: Techniques of Testimony - by Richard Kramer - Shaliko in Pictures, Shapiro in Words - by Leonardo Shapiro - Leaving Town Up and Down - by Leonardo Shapiro - Babilonia in Buenos Aires: An Interview with Javier Grosman - by Elzbieta Szoka - Operation Mallfinger: Invisible Theatre in a Popular Context - by Jonathan M. Gray - Casting the Audience - By Natalie Crohn Schmitt - Happenings in Europe in the '60s - by Gunter Berghaus - Book review essays by Richard Trousdell, Edith Turner, and David J. DeRose Each TDR issue is provocative in content, with photographs, artwork, and scripts illustrating every article. The journal, founded in 1955, is 7 x 10, and a 184 pages per issue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- // Join our electronic TDR_Forum on Perform-L \\ ------------------------------------------------ We invite you to join us in a discussion of the latest issue of TDR, featuring an article by Richard Gess - "Magister Macintosh: Shuffled Notes on Hypertext Writing." Meet the author and fellow subscribers. To subscribe to perform-l, send e-mail to: mailserv@acfcluster.nyu.edu, no subject, the only message being "sub perform-l yourrealname". To download Gess's artictle via anonymous ftp: ftp acfcluster.nyu.edu, cd perform get tdrgess.txt. quit To get Gess's article via e-mail: Send e-mail to: mailserv@acfcluster.nyu.edu Leave subject blank Put only one line in the letter: send [anonymous.perform]tdrgess.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- // Come browse and subscribe \\ ------------------------------- 1. 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Tel: 617/253-2889 Fax: 617/258-6779. -----------------------------------------------------end of msg-------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: DB.PRESSBKS@press.uchicago.edu (DB) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 94 11:17 The University of Chicago Press is making available on the Internet an excerpt from _The Electronic Word_ by Richard Lanham. In _The Electronic Word_ Lanham, a professor of English at UCLA, surveys the effects of electronic text on arts and letters, on the academy, and on the future of democratic education. The excerpt includes the book's fourth chapter: "Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum". The excerpt may be retrieved via gopher, anonymous FTP, or e-mail. The ASCII text file is about 65K. View and/or retrieve via gopher: Gopher to: press-gopher.uchicago.edu (port 70) and choose the menu item "New Books from Chicago" Retrieve the ASCII text file LANHAM.TXT via anonymous FTP: FTP to: press-gopher.uchicago.edu cd pub/Excerpts lanham.txt Retrieve the ASCII text file via e-mail: Send e-mail to etext-request@press.uchicago.edu with the subject field blank and a message consisting of SEND ELECWORD; the request is handled by a human, not a machine. ************ Dean Blobaum The University of Chicago Press dblobaum@press.uchicago.edu ************ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** The following is a special session to be proposed for MLA 1994. Please post and forward to interested parties. Thanks. Weaning, Whining, and Getting Our Way: The Mother/Child Battlefield in Literature, Video and Film. Explorations and analyses of family warfare in literature, video and film, with particular emphasis on the figure of mother and her positioning and re-positioning within legal, familial, political, cultural, and historical systems of signification. Readings of feminist criticism and theory on motherhood/maternality welcomed. Papers might address child custody, lesbian motherhood, motherhood and profession, motherhood _as_ profession, motherhood and sexuality, child as victim or prize, representations of fatherhood, and related issues. Detailed abstracts or papers by 22 Mar.; Ann Brigham, Dept. of English, 445 Modern Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; e-mail:abrig@ccit.arizona.edu. ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** The following is a special session to be proposed for MLA 1994. Please post and forward to interested parties. Thanks. Reproductive Labor in 19th-Century Narratives. Analyses of the cultural work of narrative deployments of family roles and/or relations as embodiments of capitalistic discourses. Readings of tropes of production, reproduction, consumption, labor as notions that cross familial-economic lines; intersections between modes of familial and capitalistic reproduction; how these narratives produce, confront, critique ideas about intersections between race, class, heterosexuality. Detailed abstracts or papers by 22 Mar.; Ruthe Thompson, Dept. of English, 445 Modern Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; e-mail: ruthom@ccit.arizona.edu. ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** The following is a special session to be proposed for MLA 1994. Please post and forward to interested parties. Thanks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Papers on any aspect of Stowe's work, including interdisciplinary and international contextualizations. Essays might examine Stowe's narrative constructions of family, community, gender, race, and class, with emphasis on the intersections among these categories and the historical and political implications thereof. Detailed abstracts or papers by 22 Mar.; Ruthe Thompson, Dept. of English, 445 Modern Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; e-mail: ruthom@ccit.arizona.edu. Ann Brigham University of Arizona abrig@ccit.arizona.edu ------------END----------------------------------------------------- 8-Mar-94 18:20:02-GMT,9909;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18690; Tue, 8 Mar 94 13:19:52 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA10133; Tue, 8 Mar 94 13:19:49 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9403081819.AA10133@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA00483; Tue, 8 Mar 94 01:49:47 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA23849; Tue, 8 Mar 94 01:49:45 EST Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 01:49:45 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 01:49:45 EST Message-Id: <9403080526.AA00411@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Call for reviews X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 13:19:48 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew CALL FOR REVIEWS -- DEADLINE APRIL 10 _Postmodern Culture_ is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs, plays, TV Shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions, conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for the May 1994 issue. Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long, and should follow the journal's format guidelines, which can be obtained from the review editor. Specific events or texts will not be assigned to particular reviewers; rather, all submissions will be gathered on April 10 and a selection will be made at that time. Some revisions may be requested, and these will need to be performed between April 15 and May 1. Prospective reviewers must obtain their own books, tickets, or etc.; _PMC_ does not provide review copies. However, if your review is accepted for publication you will be given two books of your choosing from _PMC_'s library of recent titles. A selective list of recent publications follows this announcement. Send reviews or queries to Jim English at: jenglish@actuality.sas.upenn.edu IBM-compatible diskettes containing ACCII, Word, or WordPerfect files may be mailed to Jim English, 119 Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Phila PA 19104-6273. Please do not send hard copy. SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS Amerika, Mark. _The Kafka Chronicles_. Boulder: Fiction Collective Two, 1993. Aronowitz, Stanley. _Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Ayittey, George A. N. _Africa Betrayed_. New York: St. Martins 1993. Bakhtin, M. M. _Toward a Philosophy of the Act_. Trans. Vadim Liapunov. Austin: Texas UP, 1993. Barrell, John, Jacqueline Rose, and Peter Stallybrass, eds. _Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing: The Collected Essays and "Autobiography" of Allon White_. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Bell-Scott, Patricia, ed. _Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women_. New York: Norton, 1993. Bowie, Malcolm. _Psycholanalysis and the Future of Theory_. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. Bowlby, Rachel. _Shopping With Freud_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Brent, Bill, ed. _The Black Book_. 1994 Edition. San Francisco: Black Book, 1993. Butler, Judith. _Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Carson, Diane, Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, eds. _Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Chanady, Amaryll, ed. _Latin American Identity and Constructions of Difference_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Cixous, Helene. Manna: For the Mandelstams for the Mandelas. Trans. Catherine A. F. MacGillivray. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994. Conley, Berena Andermatt, ed. [For the Miami Theory Collective.] _Rethinking Technologies_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993. Dawes, Greg. _Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry 1979-1990_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993. Docherty, Thomas ed. _Postmodernism: A Reader._ New York: Columbia University, 1993. Druckrey, Timothy, ed. _Iterations: The New Image_. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. Edelman, Lee. _Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Fish, Stanley. _There's No Such Thing as Free Speech...and It's a Good Thing, Too_. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Foster, Hall. _Compulsive Beauty_. Cambridge: MIT, 1993. Foster, John Burt, Jr. _Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism_. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993. Friedberg, Anne. _Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern_. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Garry, Patrick. _Scrambling for Protection: The New Media and the First Amendment_. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh UP, July 1994. Gates, Henry Louis Jr., and K. A. Appiah, eds. _Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present_. New York: Amistad Press, 1993. Giroux, Henry, and Peter McLaren, eds. _Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Grewal, Inderpal, and Caren Kaplen, eds. _Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Grossberg, Lawrence, Simon Frith, and Andrew Goodwin, eds. _Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. _Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, June 1994. Harper, Phillip Brian. _Framing the Margins: the Social Logic of Postmodern Culture_. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Hazlehurst, Kayleen M. _Political Expression and Ethnicity: Statecraft and Mobilisation in the Maori World_. Westport: Praeger, 1993. Heller, Agnes. _A Philosophy of History in Fragments_. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Hite, Shere. _Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change_. Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1994. Holzman, Steven R. _Digital Mantras: the Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worlds_. Cambridge: MIT, June 1994. Hoover, Paul, ed. _Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology_. New York: Norton, 1993. Howes, Craig. _Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight_. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Ismael, Tareq Y., and Jaczueline S. Ismael, eds. _The Gulf War and the New World Order: International Relations of the Middle East_. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. Jackson, Peter, and Jan Penrose, eds. _Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. James, Stanlie M., and Abena P. A. Busia, eds. _Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Jasper, David. _Postmodernism, Literature, and the Future of Theology_. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. Kleinig, John and Yurong Zhang, eds. _Professional Law Enforcement Codes: A Documentary Collection_. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993. Krajewski, Bruce. _Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutic and Rhetoric_. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Kroker, Arthur. _Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music, and Electric Flesh_. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. Kroker, Arthur, and Marilouise Kroker, eds. _The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies_. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. Kruger, Barbara. _Remote Control: Power, Culture, and The World of Appearances. Cambridge: MIT, 1993. Lillyman, William J., Marilyn F. Moriarty, and David J. Neuman, eds. _Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture_. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Lyon, David. _The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Mann, Patricia S. _Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1984. Malloy, Judy. _its name was Penelope_. Cambridge: Eastgate Systems, 1993. Marker, Chris. _La Jetee: cine-roman_. Cambridge: Zone Books, 1993. McHale, _Constructing Postmodernism_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Moorcroft, Sheila, ed. _Visions for the 21st Century_. Westport: Praeger, 1993. Norris, Christopher. _The Truth About Postmodernism_. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. Poster, Mark, ed. _Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture_. New York: Columbia, 1993. Quinby, Lee. _Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, April 1994. Robbins, Bruce. __Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture_. London: Verso, 1993. Rosset, Clement. _Joyful Cruelty: Toward a Philosophy of the Real_. Trans David F. Bell. New york: Oxford UP, 1993. Scarry, Elaine. _Resisting Representation_. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. Searle, John. _The Rediscovery of the Mind_. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. Shepheard, Paul. _What is Architecture? An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines_. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. Szasz, Andrew. _EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, April 1994. Visweswaran, Kamala. _fictions of Feminist Ethnography_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, May 1994. West, Cornel. _Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America_. New York: Routledge, 1993. Williams, Bernard. _Shame and Necessity_. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Winant, Howard. _Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, April 1994. Wolfe, Susan J., and Julia Penelope, eds. _Sexual Practice, Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism_. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. Yeatman, Anna. _Postmodern Revisionings of the Political_. New York: Routledge, 1993. -------------End------------------------------------------------- 22-Mar-94 18:14:08-GMT,10684;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA07124; Tue, 22 Mar 94 13:14:03 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA17681; Tue, 22 Mar 94 13:14:02 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9403221814.AA17681@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA13279; Sun, 20 Mar 94 23:45:35 EST Received: / Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 23:45:34 -0500 Posted-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 23:45:34 -0500 Message-Id: <9403210423.AA14041@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 3-20-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 13:14:01 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 3-20-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: GLOBAL IDENTITY/TECHNOLOGY PROJECT AFTER ROLAND BARTHES (Conference) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: SONDHEIM@newschool.edu Date: 12 Mar 94 11:18:44 EDT Subject: Re: Position Paper [POSITION PAPER FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN: GLOBAL IDENTITY/TECHNOLOGY PROJECT] Global Tech Identikit We've got gangs in the neighborhood of the local village; THEY'VE got signings, different moves; they've got frequencies. It's clear by now that interconnectivity doesn't result in transcendence but increased granularity. Regions compete as domains possessing equivalent access and substructures; desire, however, is based on difference, primary narcissism notwithstanding. And what better construct for drawing distinction than telecommunications, in which RECOGNITION and ADDRESS replace the subject - in fact either replace or originate consensus. Consenus, community, is thus a secondary EFFECT of telecommunications, not an originary ground. Finally, we've eliminated the grain of the voice; signing is all we have. The ex cathedra Soviet Union dissolves, taking the nation-state with it. In Ciudad Juarez, television on one end and microwave links on the other provide the forum for new regional or ethnic identifi- catons - a forum, again, in which recognition is crucial. Recognition on a face-to-face basis (with other, with alterity), is a process of introjection; on the surface it is one of representation (i.e. what I am perceiving is NOT-ME but similar). On the Internet, recognition is flattened; introjection and projection are the produc- tion of a SCREEN OR TERMINAL ECONOMY. Such an economy subjects the subject who responds with localized, fragmented inscriptions. Similar to driving through Atlanta, with its haphazard road patterns and changing streetnames, the user locates himself or herself within a small subset of the net, compressed, accessible, and mastering. The result can only be a masochism against the maternal of the screen economy, as if the linguistic 'family of usages' transformed through the net into a 'family of users.' Flattened and local identity is powerful, the realm of the nomad (for whom address and recognition is crucial when strangers collide in the midst of traceless wanderings.) Wars become stuttered dotted lines drawn nowhere, the battlefield a plaything of gangs and recognitions in which everything and nothing is at stake. Isn't this the old situa- tion of the more we speak to each other, the more we are alone? And the more we are alone, the more we turn to mother, mother, mother... Alan Sondheim sondheim@newschool.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- AFTER ROLAND BARTHES. An International Conference University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 15-17 April 1994 Since Barthes's death in 1980, his influence has not ceased to grow in France aswell as in the United States. Barthes has been known to fascinate wide audienceswith his mixture of theoretical radicality, urbane skepticism and delightfulwit. He has been called a master of the essay in the Gide tradition, and also belongs to a period which has seen radical innovations in the field ofcultural studies, most of which have been either launched or influenced by him. Barthes could appear as the French Walter Benjamin, both exhibiting the same degree of intellectual complexity and stylistic sophistication. The aim of this international conference is to provide a fresh and unprejudiced evaluation ofBarthes's heritage today. If he is still taken as the author of text-books introducing students to Structuralism and Semiology in domains as varied as film-studies, the analysis of advertisement, modern rhetorics of the image, the semiology of fashion, the structural analysis of narrative, his later workshows a marked tendency to return to the questions of history and biography.Barthes's genius has always lain in his ability to adapt specific scientific modelsto theclassical study of the humanities. His immense curiosity led him to constantly broaden the scope of his investigations, moving from the reading of texts to the debunking of contemporary mythologies, from the interpretation of popular culture to more personal acounts of his encounters with music, painting and photography. The starting point of this conference is the later Barthes,as much of a novelist as a versatile critic, always ready to qualify or evendismiss hisprophecy of a coming "death of the author", in order to stress the individual enjoyment one derives from literature and art, who can describe his experiences as a tourist discovering Japan as identical with the reading a text. Barthes's awareness of the values at stake in apparent random encounters with aworld of signs founded on different beliefs leads him to launch into his "moralities",such as his famous meditation on the nature of love (A Lover's Discourse) or hisaphorisms on his own teachings (Roland Barthes on Roland Barthes). This culminates with Camera Lucida, Barthes's last moving autobiographical disclosure of his love for his mother under the guise of a study of photography. Whereas in the former essays on the image, Barthes had emphasized the artificial nature ofthe medium and its ideological power of such a construction, Camera Lucida explores a concept of photography as pure reference.. If photography testifies to past presence, each photograph appears as a Japanese haiku and forces us to stare directly at death. A display of original photographs will recreate the space of this book at the University of Pennsylvania Modern Art Museum(ICA) in conjunction with After Roland Barthes. AFTER ROLAND BARTHES International Conference at the University of Pennsylvania April 15 - 17 1994 -- PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY APRIL 15: 11:00-1:3O REGISTRATION Lauder-Fischer Hall FRIDAY 1:30-3:30 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Jean-Michel Rabate (U Penn) Franois Brunet (Paris VII) "Barthes and American Photography" Colin MacCabe (Pittsburgh University) "Barthes after Bazin". Michael Wetzel (Kassel University) "Green Stuff: Phantasy and Photography in Barthes and Carroll". FRIDAY 4:00-6:00 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Frank Bowman (U Penn) Hubertus von Amelunxen (Mannheim University) "Ponctualite: point d'apres" Jolanta Wawrzycka (Radford University) "Photographeme: Semioti(sizing) in CameraLucida". Wendy Steiner (U Penn) "'The Vast Disorder of Objects': Towards an Aesthetics of Content". I.C.A. : RECEPTION AND BUFFET. 6:30-7:45 SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION : "CAMERA LUCIDA" AT THEINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (I.C.A.) EVENING TALK at the I.C.A.: 8:OO-9:00 Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) "What Has Occured Only Once" : Barthes"s Winter Garden, Boltanski's Mickey Mouse Club". RESPONDENT : Nancy Shawcross (U of Penn) SATURDAY APRIL 16 9:00-11:00 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Gerald Prince (U Penn) Marjorie Welish (Brown University) "The art of being sparse, porous, scattered" Jacques Leenhard (EPHESS) "Il n'y a plus d'apres" Liliane Weissberg (U Penn) "After Barthes after Benjamin". SATURDAY 11:15-1:15. Chair Margreta de Grazia (U. Penn) Carol Shloss (West Chester University) "Narrative liaisons: dangers of the Photography Essay" Steven Ungar (University of Iowa) "Bodies in Time : Rereading the 1950s" Philippe Roger (CNRS Paris) "Barthes with Marx". SATURDAY. 2:30-4:30. Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair. D.A. Miller (Harvard) Derek Attridge (Rutgers University) "Barthes's Obtuse, Sharp meaning" Diana Knight (University of Nottingham) "Barthes and the Woman without a shadow" Antoine Compagnon (Columbia University) "Where Is the Real One?" SATURDAY 5:00- 7:30. Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Richard Sieburth (NYU). Daniel Ferrer "Genetic Criticism in the Wake of Roland Barthes"(ITEM ) Patrizia Lombardo (Pittsburgh University) "Literature and nostalgia in Roland Barthes" Pierre Force (Columbia University) "Barthes and Bathmologia". Elene Cliche (UQAM Montral) "The last Barthes" EVENING TALK : 8:30 - 9:30 Lauder-Fischer Hall Victor Burgin (Santa Cruz): "Barthes's Discretion" SUNDAY APRIL 17. 9:00-11:00. Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Michele Richman (U Penn) Dalia Kandiyoti (N.Y.U) "Exotic Barthes" Craig Saper (U. Penn) "Learning from being Lost: A Barthesian Multiculturalism" Beryl Schlossman (Mellon University) "The Luxury of Language: Reading (Proust) with Barthes". SUNDAY 11:15 - 1:30 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: David Wills (Louisiania SU) Arkady Plotnitsky (U Penn) "Un-scriptible". Francoise Gaillard (Paris VII) "Mythologies today" Hayden White (U of California, Santa Cruz): "The Historical Fantastic". Information: Francoise Gramet French Institute for Culture and Technology 401 Lauder-Fischer Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330. 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The issue is devoted to "future culture," and follows a special issue I put together in 1990 on "noise culture." The latter is defined as a state of chaotic trajectories, broken teleologies, and subcultural responses. "Future culture" is concerned with the problematic of cyberspace, technological/ artistic interaction, abjection and the body, cyborg approaches, inter- net epistemology, and so forth. Theory and (reproducible) art are wel- comes as submissions; there are no preset restraints. Please send materials to Alan Sondheim, either on e-mail at sondheim@newschool.edu or through regular mail to 432 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217. If you want the materials returned, please send SASE. I am sorry to say that my terminal will not receive images... Thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: ake@lighthouse.com (Alan Eyzaguirre) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 10:40:21 -0800 Subject: Depth Probe: a crystalized web of cultural explorations Please explore Depth Probe, a crystalized mixture of book reviews, movie reviews, music reviews, thoughts, and dreams geared towards exploration of modern culture, including: Aristotle, Rousseau, Fellini, and Elvis. http://www.omnigroup.com/DepthProbe/index/home.html Thanks, ake@lighthouse.com Alan Eyzaguirre ---------END-------------------------------------------------------- 14-Mar-94 21:49:46-GMT,2915;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18589; Mon, 14 Mar 94 16:49:45 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA24173; Mon, 14 Mar 94 16:49:44 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9403142149.AA24173@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA09263; Fri, 11 Mar 94 00:50:23 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 03-02-93 09:23:35) id AA08551; Fri, 11 Mar 1994 00:50:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 00:50:22 -0500 Posted-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 00:50:22 -0500 Message-Id: <9403110446.AA15246@sparc03.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: a call for reviews X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 16:49:44 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew Call for Self-Nominated Peer-Reviewers: Self-nominated peer-reviewers regularly participate in the editorial process of _Postmodern Culture_. All submissions distributed for review have been screened by the editors and will receive two other readings from members of the journal's permanent editorial board; _Postmodern Culture_ preserves the anonymity of both authors and reviewers in this process, and forwards the comments of reviewers to the author. If you would like to review one of the submissions described below, please send a note to the editors at PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU detailing your qualifications as a reviewer of the work in question (experience in the subject area, publications, interest). We will select one self-nominated reviewer for each of the works listed below, and we will notify that person within ten days. We ask those who are selected as reviewers to return their comments within two weeks of the time they receive the submissions. Please note: members of the journal's permanent editorial board should not nominate themselves in response to this call. Manuscripts for review: MS #1: An essay on "Cinema 3"; requires wide familiarity with Deleuze's works. MS #2: An essay on the Challenger disaster; references to the media, government documents, organization analysis MS #3: An essay on Star Trek and American frontier lore; reference to "Time's Arrow," Samuel Clemens, Foucault, Todorov, Marx MS #4: An essay on Tsitsi Dangarembga and postcolonial pathology; reference to Bordo, Spivak, Taussig MS #5: An essay on the emerging Cyberqueer literature; references to Susie Bright, _Basic Instinct_, Baudrillard, Butler, Marx, Sedgwick 8-Mar-94 20:54:54-GMT,11195;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA21419; Tue, 8 Mar 94 15:54:53 EST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA21540; Tue, 8 Mar 94 15:54:51 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9403082054.AA21540@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA04937; Tue, 1 Mar 94 20:43:08 EST Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (4.1/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA04152; Tue, 1 Mar 94 20:43:05 EST Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 20:43:05 EST Posted-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 20:43:05 EST Message-Id: <9403020120.AA22702@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 3-1-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 15:54:51 EST Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 3-1-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: RE: VRing back on course >>dead.artist<< Social responsibility Looking [for hypertext on internet] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Ted Parkinson Subject: Re: Digest ending 2-23-94 Sender: jlye@spartan.ac.brocku.ca (John Lye) Subject: VRing back on course Now what's haunting about VR is that it is already a 'metaphor' in the very naming of it. Reality is always virtual insofar as it is preconstructed by 'ideology' (to use a convenient password -- foreunderstanding, world-view, the gestalt which transforms Stuff into Data). As such VR becomes a symbol for how we already live, wired into an (at least in part) imagined world, playing out our cultural software on our sensory and symbolic fields. This should be no more frightening than it should be. Cautions are not amiss. And VR as 'veer' gives us that nice already- falleness, especially as harmatia, missing the mark, or 'sin' as it is translated biblically. VR as art however is it seems to me just like any other art, crafted re-plication, not to be feared more than reading. 'Real' experience, however shaped by our constructions, has grit, gets odd echoes, lives outside as well as inside the sentence, meets chance; we'll always know it. It's just that any new technology wakens us to the encompassing nature of our participation in technology (it might be claimed that we are only technological beings) and to the similitude between the claims of replication and the claims of our implication in what we experience as 'normal' or 'real' life. We'll adjust, changed just a bit perhaps, open systems and all that, and veer on. This is a strangely recuperative and conflicted post, on the one hand asserting VR is "already a 'metaphor'" and "Reality is always virtual," on the other asserting "we'll always know" "real experience." And _how_ will we know "real experience"? Because it "has grit" and "gets odd echoes." The argument relies on an _a priori_ division between "art and reality" but does not explain where and how this exists. The post says VR is ok and not to be feared because it's "just a symbol," yet also claims that we live "wired into an (at least in part) imagined world, playing out our cultural software on our sensory and symbolic fields." This is a tricky distinction to make since the claim that we are "playing out our cultural software" models our own minds, desires, decisions, on a metaphor of computers. John Lye basis his argument on "`real' experience" but does not tell us where it can be found and, therefore, his argument fails. He says that VR is "already a metaphor," but then describes "reality itself" metaphorically. If I'm already "playing my cultural software" then why _shouldn't_ I be frightened of more technologically sophisticated software? Are "_True Grit_" and "odd echoes" all I have to warn me? Sounds like a video game to me. Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: bbrace@netcom.com (Brad Brace) Subject: >>dead.artist<< Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 12:50:43 -0800 (PST) theword intelligence has gradually cometostand forthe manipulation ofsecrets =^-=-=-^-=-=^-=-=-=-^-=-==-=-=-z-=-=-=--=-=-=-=>>-==-=-s-=-=-=-=-_-x-=-=-=-=-+ DEAD-ARTIST DESERT TRAILER-PARK offers scholarships and studio-space for qualifying applicants contact: bbrace@netcom.com for info Systems are constructed from an assumption of correctness...they are built backwards from this assumption--> modern structure responds to errors by a refusal to admit error. It responds to failure by a denial of failure. The system could prove that it does work by simply responding to problems with an open mind, rapidly and positively, eager to find solutions. Instead it automatically goes into a defensive pose, throws out diversions intended to slow criticism, then spends time and money to prove factually that there is no problem. As a final ploy it will attempt to gain time for new ploys by agreeing to negotiate. If even this fails, the system will drop its own position, grasp that of the other side and treat the new position as if it were an absolute truth always known...There is no room for error, except through some properly laid-out procedure.... | The Dead-Artist Desert Trailer-Park is located in the American | Southwest Desert. I basically inherited (after paying back-taxes) | an isolated, derelict trailer-park which is being | transformed without the interference of cultural bureaucrats | into a working resource for creative pursuits. The financial | overhead is practically non-existent; intelligent applicants are | told the location of the Trailer-Park and given written permission | to abide there. Usually some structural and creative contribution | is made to the Park during your stay. No application fees, slides, | or resumes are required or desired. A questionnaire is sent to all | applicants. Expect to receive this late summer of 1994; an | electronic response is preferred. =-=-=#-=-==-=-=**x^-=-=-=-v=-=o=-===-=-=.^-=-=-=x-=-=-**=-x-==-=-=-=.=-+-=-#-= only the artists capable of dragging the mystic power out of themselves seem able to work productively within the breakdown of our society... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: AYEAMAN@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Subject: Social responsibility The February, 1994 Educational Technology is a special issue on The Ethical Position of Educational Technology in Society. These articles are provocative and question the "educational technology is going to democratize society, end the education crisis, and save the world" points of view encountered most frequently. The positions taken here are based in what is generally known as critical theory and draw on contemporary developments in philosophy and literary criticism. They can be labeled as postmodern, poststructural, semiotic, feminist, or Frankfurt School. This special issue began in 1991 at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology conference. At this year's AECT conference in Nashville, February 15-20, the audience overflowed the room at the annual Foundations Symposium and the session was a greater success than ever. Here is the contents list for the February, 1994 Educational Technology: Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis and the Ethics of Educational Technology as Social Responsibility Andrew R. J. Yeaman, J. Randall Koetting, & Randall G. Nichols Glossary of Terms Denis Hlynka Deconstructing Modern Educational Technology Andrew R. J. Yeaman Technology and Restructuring Education: Constructing a Context Robert Muffoletto The Rite of Right or the Right of Rite: Moving Towards an Ethics of Technological Empowerment Jane Anderson Equity, Caring, and Beyond: Can Feminist Ethics Inform Educational Technology? Suzanne K. Damarin Searching for Moral Guidance about Educational Technology Randall G. Nichols Marginalizing Significant Others: The Canadian Contribution to Educational Technology Denis Hlynka Schools and Technology in a Democratic Society: Equity and Social Justice Robert Muffoletto Postmodern Thinking in a Modernist Cultural Climate: The Need for an Unquiet Pedagogy Randall Koetting Where in the World is Jacques Derrida? A True Fiction With An Annotated Bibliography Andrew R. J. Yeaman Commentary on Deconstructing Modern Educational Technology Barbara L. Martin The Struggle for Critical Discourse: Reflections on the Possibilities of Critical Theory for Educational Technology P. K. Jamison Responses to the Discussants' Commentaries J. Randall Koetting, Denis Hlynka, Robert Muffoletto, Andrew R. J. Yeaman, & Randall G. Nichols --Andrew Internet: ayeaman@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Dr. Andrew R. J. Yeaman 7152 West Eightyfourth Way #708 Arvada, CO 80003 (303) 456-1592 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Web Server Subject: Looking Reader's Report from the Web, submitted by Prentiss Riddle Email Address: riddle@rice.edu Message: Hi. A faculty member here at Rice who studies postmodern narrative forms is looking for online hypertext fiction, and I've taken up the challenge to find as much of it for her as I can. What I've found so far is available via WWW in: http://is.rice.edu/~riddle/hyperfiction.html If anyone would care to take a look and tell me what I'm missing, I'd appreciate it. Please reply directly by mail as I don't subscribe to pmc-talk. Thanks. -- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu -- Systems Programmer, Office of Networking Services -- Rice University, POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 / Mudd 208 / 713-285-5327 -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 27-Apr-94 15:24:32-GMT,18411;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA28000 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 1994 11:24:21 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA00285; Wed, 27 Apr 94 11:24:18 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9404271524.AA00285@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA13294; Sun, 24 Apr 94 19:38:03 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA02153; Sun, 24 Apr 1994 19:38:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 19:38:21 -0400 Posted-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 19:38:21 -0400 Message-Id: <9404242320.AA05018@cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 4-24-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 11:24:18 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 4-24-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: Interpedia Digest Douglas Kellner Talk CALL FOR PAPERS: COMPUTERS IN CULTURE PANEL Call for papers: The Electronic Journal of Communication Question re: masquerade, carnival and disguise Bias Survey ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Interpedia Digest Apr 24, 1994 Volume 2, number 110 Today's topics: Building a virtual library for Sarajevo Re: lynx performance This is the Interpedia Digest, dedicated to discussions about the Internet Encyclopedia. A FAQ on the Interpedia, as well as past archives of the Digest, are available via anonymous ftp on ftp.lm.com (192.231.221.1) in the pub/interpedia directory. HOW TO SUBMIT TO THE INTERPEDIA DIGEST Send email to interpedia@telerama.lm.com. Please take care in writing your submissions as well over a thousand people will receive it. In particular: do not send unsubscription requests to interpedia@telerama.lm.com Take care to use quotation effectively. A rule of thumb: if you quote more lines than you're writing anew, you need to revise. HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THE INTERPEDIA DIGEST Send email to this address: interpedia-request@telerama.lm.com Make the subject line read this: unsubscribe HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE INTERPEDIA DIGEST Send email to this address: interpedia-request@telerama.lm.com Make the subject line read this: subscribe The Interpedia Digest is maintained by Douglas Luce, doug@telerama.lm.com. ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 22:57:05 -0800 From: nicka@mccmedia.com (Nick Arnett/Multimedia Computing Corp.) Subject: Building a virtual library for Sarajevo Interpedioids, Over the last few weeks, I've become involved in a project that's gathering a lot of steam, whose goal is to raise money and other contributions toward the rebuilding of the bombed library in Sarajevo. UNESCO, Zlata Filopovic (author of "Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo," Joseph Goldin & Henry Dakin (who built the "space bridges" between San Franscisco and Moscow, and quite a few others are involved. Why the heck am I posting this to this list? Well, as we've talked about the project, I've come to realize that my current work, which is the understanding and development of wide-area information navigation systems, can be viewed as the building of libraries that can't be destroyed by bombs. Interpedia, of course, is exactly such a thing, no matter how it comes to life. We're holding a "Global Tea Party" on June 26th, linking Sarajevo with San Francisco, Moscow, Paris and Vienna, for starters. I'm coordinating, among other things, the Internet portion of the event. If you're interested, please check out the Global Tea Party World-Wide Web server at this URL: http://198.92.133.3/ Sorry about the IP# -- my domain names just don't seem to want to propogate. Please feel free, in fact I encourage you, to pass this information around. I'm hoping that this project can serve as one focus of the various world-wide efforts to create digital libraries. Nick Arnett Multimedia Computing Corp. (strategic consulting) Campbell, California - ---------------------------------------------------------- "We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity." -- Pogo ------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 22:11:45 GMT From: lynn@netcom10.netcom.com (Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: lynx performance I've now updated rfctest2 with "standards" index and a "term" index (in addition to the RFC index and the author index). the standards index is effectively the rfc1600 information with some modification (read prefix to the standards section) the "term" index is a combination of acronyms and glossory terms found in the titles of RFCs (for the output the acronyms were mapped to their respective terms and RFC lists combined). this could use some amount of work cleaning it up. the file has grown by about 50kbytes to slightly over 500kbytes. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/lynn/rfctest2.html note that ftp.netcom.com has a ftp/anon load limit. if actually ftp'ing in, one would see a message about exceeding the limit and possibly trying netcom1.netcom.com, netcom2.netcom.com, netcom3.netcom.com, ..., &/or netcom13.netcom.com. ------------------------------- End of the Interpedia Digest, Apr 24, 1994, Volume 2, Number 110. ******************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Kellner Talk The Sociology Department at Kent State university and The K.S.U. graduate student senate are pleased to announce a lecture by Douglas Kellner on Friday April 29, 1994 at 3:00 pm in Lowry Hall on K.S.U.'s main campus. The title of the lecture is: 'Social Theory and Media Culture: Between the Modern and the Postmodern' Kellner is the author of: Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism, Poststructuralism and Beyond. Postmodern Theory (with Steve Best) Cultural Studies and Media Culture (forthcoming) Baudrillard: A Critical Reader (forthcoming as editor) ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: COMPUTERS IN CULTURE PANEL 21st Annual Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture Association & Midwest American Culture Association Pittsburgh, PA October 7-8, 1994 Proposals Due: no later than June 1, 1994 Reply to (either email or postal): Computers in Culture Area Chair -- Ric Bohannon [fbohann@andy.bgsu.edu] Dept. of Popular Culture Bowling Green, Oh. 43403 We are currently soliciting proposals for a conference panel in the area of Computers in Culture. Subject matter covering a wide range of materials will be considered including, but not limited to: -Portrayal of technology within popular culture -Virtual Communities -Virtual Reality -Cyberpunk -The Internet and the "online revolution" These subjects are presented simply to give you an overview of the types of topics we are looking for. Any projects/papers/presentation having to do with the way computers are or have been used and/or portrayed within our culture will be considered. We encourage submittal of interdisciplinary works. Please send proposals to the address given previously. Either e-mail or regular postal mail is fine, although e-mail will obviously be faster for both parties. Your proposal should include the following: Name Home address & Work address Home phone & Work phone email address (if applicable) FAX number (if applicable) Presentation Title 75 word abstract AV equipment needs day/time preference (October 7 or 8) Thank you and I hope to set up a rather interesting panel on this topic area which continues to move to the forefront of our culture. Ric Bohannon Area Chair -- Computers in Culture If you are not on the MPCA/MACA mailing list and would like to be, please contact: Carl B. Holmberg, Executive Secretary, MPCA/MACA Popular Culture Department BGSU Bowling Green, Oh. 43403 cholmbe@andy.bgsu.edu 419-372-8172 ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of The Electronic Journal of Communication/ La Revue Electronique de Communication devoted to "Networked Virtual Realities (MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs, etc) and Communication" Commonly known as MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions) or MOOs (MUD Object Oriented), these networked, text-based, virtual realities are becoming the sites of serious collaborative work and community-building. While some nvr's are purely for game playing, others are designed to house professional and educational collaborative work. Some nvr's offer a "place" where researchers and scholars may collaborate via real time computer- mediated communication (e.g. MediaMOO). Others offer a virtual schools, complete with textually-constructed buildings, hallways, and offices and innovative software teaching tools (e.g. Diversity University MOO). While still others provide writers and writing students a new environmnet within which to work (e.g. WriteMUSH and Hypertext Hotel). All such enterprises are centrally communication phenomena and explorations of those phenomena are the focus of this special issue. The EJC/REC invites papers that explore the uses and functions of such networked virtual realities. The papers may explore BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO the following topics relating to networked virtual realities (MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs, etc): * community building; the nature of nvr communities * interpersonal communication * gender relations * power relations * the features of language use * the uses of nvr's for teaching; teacher-student interactions * other professional uses of nvr's * communication research methods for studying nvr's DEADLINES * PAPER PROPOSALS must be received by the guest editor no later than JUNE 6, 1994. Authors are encouraged to query the guest editor before May 15 to initiate discussions about proposal/papers. NOTE: All papers will go through blind review; therefore, the acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee the acceptance of the paper. * COMPLETED PAPERS are due no later than JANUARY 15, 1995. * The special issue will be published in the Spring of 1995. Please send queries and proposals to: Stephen Doheny-Farina, Guest Editor sdf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu He may also be reached at: Technical Communication Department Box 5760 Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 13699 315-268-6489 315-268-6484 - FAX sdf on MediaMOO; SteveDF on Diversity University MOO THE JOURNAL The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (through Comserve) is the "publisher" for the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, one of the first refereed electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. EJC/REC is devoted to the study of communication theory, research, practice, and policy. Manuscripts reporting original research, methodologies relevant to the study of human communication, critical syntheses of research, and theoretical and philosophical perspectives on communication are welcome. AUTHOR REQUIRMENTS Authors submitting papers for publication in EJC/REC warrant that their papers are not currently under consideration by any other publication and that the material contained within the work is not subject to any other copyright, unless consents as required are obtained. Authors agree, in any other publication of the work, to credit the publication of the work in EJC/REC. PAST SPECIAL TOPICS Past issues of EJC/REC have been devoted to Q-methodology (guest edited by Irvin Goldman and Steven Brown); the Meech Lake Accord (edited by Jim Winter); the media and the Gulf War (guest edited by Michael Morgan, UMass); women and the media (Debra Clarke, Carleton Univ., and Liss Jeffery, McGill Univ.), computer mediated communication (Tom Benson, Penn St.), and Australian communication studies (Bill Ticehurst, Univ. of Technology in Sydney). FUTURE SPECIAL TOPICS Future issues will be devoted to international communication research (Tom Jacobson, SUNY Buffalo), research and theory in magazine journalism (David Abrahamson, New York University), mass media and meaning (Samuel Becker, University of Iowa) and issues of authorship in online communication (Robin Cheesman, International Association of Mass Communication Research). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SUBSCRIPTIONS TO EJC/REC may be obtained by sending the message: SUBSCRIBE EJCREC your_name as in: Subscribe EJCREC Jane Smith to: Comserve@Rpitsvm (Bitnet) or Comserve@Vm.Its.Rpi.Edu (Internet). Subscribers automatically receive each issue's table of contents, abstracts for each article in the issue, as well as instructions for how to obtain electronic copies of each article in the issue from Comserve. EJC/REC was founded by James Winter (University of Windsor) and Claude Martin (University of Montreal) in 1990. The journal has received support from the Communication Studies Dept. at the University of Windsor, and Comserve at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, N.Y. Articles are protected by copyright (c) by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (ISSN # 1183-5656). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: susan.ballard@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Susan Ballard) Subject: hello Hi, I have just joined this list and are sitting here waiting for messages, news, information... I am undertaking research at the moment into feminist and postmodern uses of masquerade, carnival and disguise. My work is in the visual art area (especially photography). Any comments would be great. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 94 18:37:21 EDT From: Sanjay Kharod Subject: Bias Survey The most valuable sources for help, hope, and power consist of ourselves and our common history . . . We must focus our attention on the public square -- the common good that undergirds our national and global destinies. -- Cornel West, 1993, _Race_Matters_ ******* Recently, there has been an outbreak of bias-related incidents here in the Departments of Geography and Urban Planning at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Unfortunately these are not rare events considering bias-related acts over the past year at University of Minnesota and UMass-Amherst. A 1991 study by the American Council on Education revealing that 36 percent of all U.S. colleges and universities and 74 percent of those universities granting PhD's reported acts of intolerance based on race, gender, or sexual preference. ******* As a response to this string of bias-related incidents that have occurred, the Departments of Geography and Urban Planning have joined together to form a committee to address the problems of bias and to facilitate discussion and awareness in the University community. We held a _Teach_In_On_Racism_ on March 11, 1994 and plan to make the addressing of bias issues a permanent part of the orientation given to incoming students. With the assistance from the Rutgers University Program for Multicultural Awareness and Bias Prevention at Rutgers, we plan to develop workshops, colloquia, and public information material that will address the problems of bias A part of the information gathering we are conducting is a compilation of responses to a survey of questions that raise issues that we often try to overlook. We would appreciate it if STUDENTS would please respond to the survey -- This survey will be anonymous but we will make the responses public. Obviously, electronic mail complicates this goal of anonymity -- we assure all respondents that names will not be divulged on any responses received. Thank you for your participation. Sanjay Kharod Department of Geography Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 kharod@gandalf.rutgers.edu ******* 1. Have you ever been in a situation here at school in which you felt uncomfortable due to your background (gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation)? Please describe that situation (omitting names). Do you feel that others have been overly sensitive to comments or actions of your or other peoples? 2. Have you ever heard jokes which you found to be offensive or have told jokes which others were offended by? Why were you offended? Why do you think others were offended? _Please complete the following statements_: 3. I don't understand when I say things like ______ why people get upset or offended. 4. I wish the department could be more ______. 5. I wonder why in certain classes so much/so little emphasis is placed on ______. 6. Considering the department's curriculum, I wonder why so little/ so much emphasis is placed on ______. 7. What curriculum and/or departmental changes would you like to see which would address some of these issues brought up above? 8. Are there any other comments on these or related issues which you would like to add? ****** Thanks again for responding. -------------END---------------------------------------------------- 6-May-94 15:24:46-GMT,2144;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA26436 for ; Fri, 6 May 1994 11:24:33 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA00250; Fri, 6 May 94 11:24:31 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9405061524.AA00250@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA17543; Mon, 2 May 94 22:53:21 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA07822; Mon, 2 May 1994 22:53:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 22:53:44 -0400 Posted-Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 22:53:44 -0400 Message-Id: <9405030153.AA14690@cc02du.unity.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: pmc call for reviews X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 6 May 94 11:24:31 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew Manuscripts for review: 5-2-94 PMC's peer-review process relies in part on the assistance of self-nominated reviewers from among our subscribers. Listed below are four essays now ready for review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these essays, please write us at: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu In order to obtain the most appropriate reviewer for each essay, we ask that you indicate your experience with regard to the subject matter of the essay you would like to review. Eyal Amiran co-editor, Postmodern Culture ----------------------------------------------------------------- MS #1: An essay on Foucault and Paglia, with reference to Baudelaire and Sade. MS #2: An essay on _A Clockwork Orange_ and Arnoldian education. MS #3: An essay on the theory and practice of hypertext. MS #4: An essay on Kojeve, Hegel, and post-history. ------------------- 9-May-94 14:11:30-GMT,12817;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA23380 for ; Mon, 9 May 1994 10:11:20 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA12218; Mon, 9 May 94 10:11:18 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9405091411.AA12218@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA24405; Sun, 8 May 94 15:08:00 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA12778; Sun, 8 May 1994 15:07:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 15:07:58 -0400 Posted-Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 15:07:58 -0400 Message-Id: <9405081854.AA04338@cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 5-8-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 9 May 94 10:11:17 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 5-8-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: S * A * R * K * O SPLINTER: Call for fragments, unfinish ideal language [from an insurance company] _Queer-E_: Call For Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- S * A * R * K * O In this issue: SARKO Fri April 22, 1994 Volume 1 : Issue 2 ISSN 1022-1069 I have visions of us all out there with Brillo pads trying to scour the brightness off of it. Neighbor of the world's first stainless steel house. Sagaponack, Long Island, New York. CONTENTS, #1.2 (April 1,1994) 013 <1.6> The New Launch Field Aug 31, 1993 Ha Wo Che 014 <1.0> "In Chinese medicine" Aug 31, 1993 Ha Wo Che 015 <1.2> Tivot & The Bishop 4 Apr 20, 1993 Ha Wo Che 016 <2.0> Sui Kwai Tseng Shunck Station Sept 1, 1993 Ha Wo Che 017 <1.3> Tivot & The Bishop 5 Sept 13, 1993 Ha Wo Che 018 <1.0> Tung Wan St in the East Barrows Jun 23, 1993 Shatin 019 <1.1> "Pandora Boks, a form four student..." Jun 23, 1993 Shatin 020 <1.0> The Exhaulted Fart Jun 25, 1993 Shatin 021 <1.2> Jethro Tickle Sept 8, 1993 Ha Wo Che Sarko issue 1.2. is now available for ftp at etext.archive.umich.edu in pub/Zines/Sarko Sarko is a journal of fictional works-in-progress published bi-monthly in ascii format by d.i.h. press. Sarko is being distributed on the net as Literary Freeware. You are encouraged to copy and distribute for non-commercial purposes. Sarko is registered in Paris as ISSN 1022-1069. If you don't have have ftp access. 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Brad Collins brad@mach.hk.super.net snail mail: dih press PO Box 1010 Shatin, NT Hong Kong ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "!dave)-" Subject: SPLINTER: Call for fragments, unfinish _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 hoping to get first issue out by the end of may the contact address at this point is send your submissions, subscription requests, questions, and comments (put SPLINTER somewhere in the subject line) e-mail subscriptions are free and encouraged thanks ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: stijllife@aol.com Date: Wed, 04 May 94 19:00:39 EDT Subject: ideal language This is a real letter sent by a motorist to their insurance company.. FYi there is a big movement in the UK to force the government, legal and insurance companies to use real english not incomprehensible jargon.. -------- Dear Mrs Eldred Re: policy no M0101 Certificate No: 153945 I acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 2 January. I am absolutely staggered by your entirely incomprehensible response, which is based on a phrase of gibberish so inarticulate and inexplicable not even a professor of Litigation English could fathom any meaning from it whatsoever. It must be entirely beyond even the highest intellect to understand or accept an argument which consists of no more than the phrase 'free of particular average'. I defy you to truthfully claim you have the faintest idea of the origin or literal meaning of this random collection of words, or to suggest to anyone that it has any specific linguistic meaning whatsoever. The response 'free of particular average' is a response as junk-riddled and nonsensical as 'birdnest spontaneity imperfect'. If I asked you whether or not you took sugar in your tea, and your answer was 'birdnest sponaneity imperfect', I could be forgiven for thinking you were in the final tragic stages of some rare mental disease. If I asked you to give me a small sum of money, and you said 'No, because birdnest spontenaity imperfect,' I would then assume you were endeavouring to obfuscate an issue premised on a fundamental requirement to circumvent actuality. Which means, where I come from, trying to pull a fast one. I note that you highlighted the relevant points on the Certificate for my easy reference. By that you mean putting a yellow box round the letters F.P.A. I am touched by your evidently profound concern for my full and clear comprehension, and suggest you have a talent for explanation beyond that of any ordinary human being. In turn, I would highlight a point for you: see the bit marked on the copy of the certificate enclosed. It seems clear from that to people who read ordinary English (rather then Free of Particular Average English) that my vehicle would have been insured against the risks it says it is insured against. Which includes theft of blasted mudflaps. However, it is evident that your company is unwilling to consider payment against a straightforward claim, made by a straightforward customer, for an amount not appreciably different to the premium paid. I do not propose to waste any more of my valuable time in trying to waste any more of your valuable time, which is what I was trying to do, since your company has done so well in wasting my time so far. I would only say to you: A.P.S., which means Accordingly Particle Statutory. A.P.S. is a standard phrase used by people in my circumstances when encountering people who say FPA. APS means people who insure mudflaps and then say they didn't, have to pay $100.00 every time they say FPA, until such time as they are stranded, sunk, burnt, catch fire, are in a collision or go mad or broke, or preferably the whole bloody lot at the same time. Thus your rejection of my claim is automatically declined, and for your easy reference I have highlighted A.P.S and trust that you will note this for your records accordingly. Incidentally, a call to the company who arranged the insurance cover for me reveals that they would have assumed that the wretched mudflaps were insured against loss, as they were a component part of the vehicle being shipped. I asked them what FPA meant, and the best explanation they could summon was 'something average'. And they're a shipping company. I hope you all take it in turn to find yourselves driving behind my truck on a muddy road in a rainstorm. I doubt I will let you past even if you could see to try. You people, you break my heart. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Michael Current Subject: _Queer-E_: Call For Papers +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Call for Papers Queer-e: an interdisciplinary electronic journal of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer writing Queer-e is an electronic journal available free on the Internet by subscription. Queer-e will also be available in the Queer Resources Directory. We are seeking article submissions or Queeries with abstracts providing an analysis of any interdisciplinary topic in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer studies. Queer-e invites work in the areas of queer theory, queer historiography, sociology, literary criticism, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and political analysis. Only complete work can be considered for publication, and will be peer reviewed in a double-blind process. However, the Queer-e editorial collective will read and comment on all proposals/abstracts/Queeries submitted. Queer-e is seeking short pieces (500-1000wrds), as well as longer pieces for feature articles. Please send submissions to the editorial collective c/o Queer-e-approval@vector.casti.com Please include a short autobiographical statement with your submission, outlining your background, interests and previous work in g.l.b.t.q. studies. Deadline for submitting completed work to be considered for publication in Queer-e Premiere issue (Autumn 1994): 15 July 1994 We are also seeking essays in the following areas of g.l.b.t.q. studies for upcoming special issues: (a) queer studies in the academy/queer interdisciplinarity (b) cyberqueers (c) queer media studies (c) queer language studies Please queery for more information on any of these special issues. 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Current---------------------------- mcurrent@picard.infonet.net -or- @ins.infonet.net -or- @nyx.cs.du.edu Specializing in Philosophy, Queer Studies, Depression, & Unemployment :) 737 - 18th Street, #9 * Des Moines, IA * 50314-1031 *** (515) 283-2142 "AN IMAGE OF THOUGHT CALLED PHILOSOPHY HAS BEEN FORMED HISTORICALLY AND IT EFFECTIVELY STOPS PEOPLE FROM THINKING." - GILLES DELEUZE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------END PMC-TALK------------------------------------------------- 25-May-94 19:01:58-GMT,5769;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA15096 for ; Wed, 25 May 1994 15:01:53 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA19683; Wed, 25 May 94 15:01:50 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9405251901.AA19683@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA25142; Fri, 20 May 94 18:01:06 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA21076; Fri, 20 May 1994 18:01:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 18:01:05 -0400 Posted-Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 18:01:05 -0400 Message-Id: <199405202143.AA42418@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: John Merritt Unsworth To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: new IATH publications on WWW X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 25 May 94 15:01:50 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Publishes it First and Second Series of Research Reports: * * * * * * * As of May 20th, 1994, the following reports are available via the World-Wide Web, at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ Under the heading Publications: Research Reports, First Series (1993) Ed Ayers, "The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia" Overview The Archive Census Geographic Information Military Rosters Diaries Newspapers The Story Jerome McGann, "The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive" Introduction The Paintings, Drawings, and Designs The Poems The Prose Works and Fragments The Translations Context Research Reports, Second Series (1994) Ellen Contini-Morava, "Semantic Stucture of Swahili Noun Classes" Introduction The Swahili Noun Class System Methodology Preliminary Results Conclusion John Dobbins, "The Forum at Pompeii" Introduction Background Objectives Methods Significance Nature of This Report Acknowledgements The Macellum The Imperial Cult Building Introduction Date Identification Conclusions The Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus The Eumachia Building Hoyt Duggan, "Piers Plowman" Creating an Electronic Archive of Piers Plowman The Nature of the Problem The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive Activity at IATH from July 1993-May 1994 The Electronic Archive--a sample Critical Text B Archetype Documentary Editions Manuscript Descriptions Linguistic Descriptions of Manuscripts Textual Facsimiles Sample Collations Mike Gorman, "The Bell Notebooks" Help Master Map Sound Into Visible Form Sound into Current Introduction References In addition to the research reports, the Institute also makes available the following: Staff, Technical Reports Minutes from IATH Meetings, 6/92 - present Hardware Overview Virtual Disk on Tape Songs from Naked Lunch on an RS6000 Digital Images Overview Capturing Digital Images Manipulating Digital Images An Image Annotation Tool A General Archival Format Using Autocad to Reconstruct Pompeii Using the Net Using the World-Wide Web Setting up a server Controlling access Managing Web Documents Creative Uses of Imagemapping Using Fill-out Forms ToolBook to HTML Moving Text and Images Using Ismapping Approximating ToolBook Upgrading the Server MOOS, MUDs, and Other Virtual Hangouts Standard Generalized Markup Language Overview The Rossetti Archive "The Rationale of Hypertext," by Jerome McGann Postmodern Culture: an interdisciplinary electronic journal (published with North Carolina State University and Oxford University Press) V1 N1, September 1990 V1 N2, January 1991 V1 N3, May 1991 V2 N1, September 1991 V2 N2, January 1992 V2 N3, May 1992 V3 N1, September 1992 V3 N2, January 1993 V3 N3, May 1993 V4 N1, September 1993 V4 N2, January 1994 PMC-MOO Archives of PMC-Talk And elsewhere on our World-Wide Web Server, you can find: Information about Work in Progress on the 1994-95 Research Projects: Gary Anderson, "The Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity" Ken Schwartz, "Urban Design Strategies and Housing for the City of Charlottesville" Judith Shatin, "The Hierarchical Audio Construction Kit: Composition and Design" Michael Stern, "Visions for a Sustainable City: Owings Mills, MD" Related Readings: a selection of resources available elsewhere on the internet, in the following categories: General Resources Archaeology Electronic Publishing Film History Hypermedia Legal Issues Linguistics Literary Studies Medieval Studies Music Philosophy Teaching Resources Technical Research and Information Text-Based Virtual Reality Other IBM-Supported Projects IATH Software development, demonstration, and distribution Forms-Based Demonstration of the Image Annotation Tool A Sound Driver for the RS6000 IATH-MOO: A Real-Time Multi-User Conference Facility Access to other Networked Resources at the University of Virginia Information about the Institute's History, Personnel, and Fellowship Opportunities 25-May-94 19:05:56-GMT,5494;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA15159 for ; Wed, 25 May 1994 15:05:54 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA20441; Wed, 25 May 94 15:05:52 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9405251905.AA20441@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA00648; Thu, 19 May 94 13:10:04 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA16935; Thu, 19 May 1994 13:10:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 13:10:02 -0400 Posted-Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 13:10:02 -0400 Message-Id: <9405191618.AA13604@cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 5-19-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 25 May 94 15:05:52 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 5-19-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: P O L Y G R A P H call for papers Help! Net critique Christian Boltanski & Rote Kapelle ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted-Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 20:54:14 -0400 From: vchernet@sas.upenn.edu Posted on request of the editorial collective of Polygraph: P O L Y G R A P H, an international journal of politics and culture, announces a CALL FOR PAPERS for an upcoming issue: Polygraph 8 (Spring '94): New Regimes of the Sensorium: Cinema, Video, Technology and the Coming Millenium It is today a commonplace that in the past few years a veritable revolution in the technologies of the visual has occurred in arenas previously as diverse as computing, telecommunications, film and video. Such a revolution--which is still in the midst of vertiginous development--seems simultaneously to have been incepted by numerous other significant political and technological transformations, and to be in turn directly redefining and reshaping our perception of the physical world, as well as the physical world itself. We are thinking for example of virtual reality, medical imaging, the computerized production of film and video products, the Gulf War, etc. This issue of Polygraph is meant to elaborate and problematize the social relations among cinema, video, allied technologies and an increasingly global political-economic system. We are soliciting essays of approximately 10 to 30 pages in length. Deadline for submissions: July 15, 1994 Send all manuscripts to: The Editors, Polygraph Program in Literature 104 Art Museum Duke University Durham, NC 27708 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Oivvio Polite Subject: Help! Net critique. Greg Ulmer outlined a critique of the hype that computer salespeople has developed around hypermedia.(GRAMMATOLOGY HYPERMEDIA,_Postmodern Culture_ v.1 n.2 (January, 1991)) Ulmer points out that declarations about the ultimate goal of computer technology being the dissaperance of the computer, the transparency of technology, can readily be compared with the development of the "invisible style" of Hollywood narative films. "[T]he occultation of the production process in favor of a consumption of the product as if it were "natural," is at work again in computing." He also juxtaposes the mastery of the hypermedia with the colonization of a foreign land. These comparisons could as I see it be transfered to computernetworking technology. In Sweden (that's where I'm writing from) the internet has recentlly got a lot of media coverage. It's is generally purpoted to be the final breakdown of the obstacle that space has presented to human contact. What I'm looking for is texts specifically on this matter, maybe in relation to Derridas critique of the metaphysics of presence and to Paul Virilios writings. Oivvio Polite oivvio@stacken.kth.se Please mail to my private address. I'm very new with this mailinglist and I don't know if I have managed to subscribe to it properly. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "Rafael F. Newman" Subject: Christian Boltanski & Rote Kapelle To Whom It May... I need some information, please, on the recent (1993?) installation at the Munchner Kunsthalle (or perhaps Haus der deutschen Kunst in Munich) by Christian Boltanski, in which he put up doctored photos of members of the Rote Kapelle spy ring, taken by the Nazis, all around the building. Please send any background, documentation info or personal accounts to: rfnewman@u.washington.edu. Thanks! Rafael Newman ----------END------------------------------------------------------- 29-Sep-94 13:19:22-GMT,24838;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx+oldruq/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA02279 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 1994 09:19:19 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA05111; Thu, 29 Sep 94 09:19:17 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9409291319.AA05111@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA15200; Thu, 29 Sep 94 02:30:21 EDT Received: from (localhost) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA22829; Thu, 29 Sep 1994 02:30:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 02:30:19 -0400 Posted-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 02:30:19 -0400 Message-Id: <9409290614.AA26652@cc00du.unity.ncsu.edu.> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 9/29/94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 9:19:16 EDT Resent-From: Charles McGrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 9/29/94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: [Copyright] Call for papers: SYMMETRY IN MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA AND POETRY INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COMBINED ARTS & HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE IN ENGLAND & SCOTLAND [Does email entail a postmodern culture?] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Web_Report PMC Reader's Report on copyrights: copyrights serve the least desirable elements dominant culture undermining true cooperative nonselfish information sharing and hinders mass dispersal to a population uninfluenced information. These comments are from: emmanuel goldstien The email address for emmanuel goldstien is: ffgj ----------------------------------------------------------------- SYMMETRY IN MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA AND POETRY INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES This symposium aims at bringing together scholars in the arts, the humanities, the sciences, and technology. The concept "symmetry" (which includes related concepts such as dissymmetry, asymmetry, pattern formation, parallelism, proportion, invariance, as well as the frustration of the expectation of such) will foster communica- tion between the disciplines by serving as a "common language." The Symposium is being organized as an integral part of SYMMETRY: NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL, the Third Interdisciplinary Congress and Exhibition of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF SYMMETRY (ISIS-SYMMETRY), and will take place August 12-20, 1995 in Old Town Alexandria (near Washington, D.C.). CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited from scholars of all disciplines, on topics in- vestigating both literal applications of symmetry-related concepts in music, dance, drama, and poetry, and transferred applications in the interface of these arts with other areas (e.g., the visual arts, architecture, literature at large, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, etc.). Hermeneutic and semiotic approaches are encouraged, as are investigations into uncommon interrelation- ships. Please register your interest in this symposium as soon as possible (but no later than 1 December 1995) by sending/e-mailing the appli- cation form (see below) together with a short description of your project. Formal proposals for papers, due 1 March 1995, should include an extended abstract (maximum four pages, double-spaced) in a camera-ready version. Acceptance of proposals is contingent upon the abstract. Keeping in mind the interdisciplinary goals of the congress and the composition of the participants, please try to help readers outside of your main discipline, e.g., by explaining any special concepts or giving comprehensive tables/illustrations. Abstracts should be submitted in two copies. Since all accepted abstracts will be reprinted in a booklet made available to all congress participants, we aim for unified format. Please print on A4 or letter-size pages, on one side of each sheet, with at least 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins at both sides, top and bottom, double- spaced in 12-point characters. Please follow this heading sample: TITLE IN CAPITAL LETTERS [two line-spaces] Joe Symmetrist and Josephine Asymmetrist Department of Dissymmetry, Fibonacci University San Symmetrino, SY 12358, Symmetryland E-mail: symmetrist@fibonacci.edu [two line-spaces] The text should be printed in one column. Figures (black-and-white only) may interrupt the text. Please avoid any other heading (like "Extended Abstract", "submitted to ... "), and mark page numbers with pencil only. References [at the end of the abstract] should be in alphabetical order, with full bibliographic information. Please mail/e-mail your application form and short description, and mail your proposal, to the symposium organizer: Siglind Bruhn 322 N. State St. #103 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 E-mail: siglind.bruhn@um.cc.umich.edu Please note that travel arrangements, both within the United States and from abroad, will be the responsibility of individual partici- pants. Special room rates in the hotel/motel that is connected to the conference center will be available to participants and their friends and spouses; more details in a later circular. * * * * * SYMMETRY: NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL, the Third Interdisciplinary Congress and Exhibition of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF SYMMETRY (ISIS-SYMMETRY), will feature plenary sessions, paper presentations, workshops, and exhibitions. Exhibits will show art works, models, demonstration materials, etc, in sections like: Kaleidoscopes, Polyhedral symmetry, The beauty of molecules, Aesthetics of man-made constructions, Mechanical struc- tures inspired by nature, Artificial and natural structures, Design principles, New Media, etc.. Evening activities may include perfor- mances, dance, video and laser programs, informal meetings (includ- ing recreational), and "ars scientifica" programs. ISIS-SYMMETRY aims at facilitating the interdisciplinary dialog among artists and scientists. The Society organized the first of its triennial congresses and exhibitions, "Symmetry of Structure," in Europe (Budapest, Hungary: August 1989). The second, "Symmetry of Patterns," was held in Asia (Hiroshima, Japan: August 1992). The forthcoming third congress and exhibition will be hosted on a third continent, North America (Old Town Alexandria, USA). ISIS-Symmetry events demonstrate the emphasis on internationality and interdisciplinarity. The Society has members in 41 countries on all continents, comprising representatives of almost all scholarly and artistic fields. Application of the concept of symmetry is used as a general tool and method for influencing and enriching each other's creative thinking. * * * * * CONTACT PERSONS (for the symposium Symmetry in Music, Dance, Drama, and Poetry) Siglind Bruhn University of Michigan Department of Musicology Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1270, U.S.A. Phone/Fax: 1-313-741-9737 E-mail: siglind.bruhn@um.cc.umich.edu (for other parts of the Congress and Exhibition) America: Martha Pardavi-Horvath, Site Coordinator George Washington University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Washington, D.C. 20052, U.S.A. Phone: 1-202-994-5516; Fax: 1-202-994-5296 E-mail: pardavi@seas.gwu.edu Europe: Gyorgy Darvas, Executive Secretary, ISIS-Symmetry Symmetrion - The Institute for Advanced Symmetry Studies P.O. Box 4, Budapest, H-1361 Hungary Phone: 36-1-131-8326; Fax: 36-1-131-3161 E-mail: h492dar@ella.hu Asia: Denes Nagy, President, ISIS-Symmetry Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki-ken 305, Japan Phone: 81-298-53-6786; Fax: 81-298-53-5205 E-mail: nagy@bk.tsukuba.ac.jp ********************************************************* APPLICATION FORM SYMMETRY IN MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA, AND POETRY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Symposium within SYMMETRY: NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL 3rd Interdisciplinary Congress and Exhibition of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry) August 14-20, 1995, Old Town Alexandria (near Washington, D.C.) U.S.A. Name (First, Middle, LAST): Affiliation: Mailing Address: City: State/Country: Fax (with area code): Phone (with area code): E-mail: I intend to - attend the Congress - submit a paper - exhibit Tentative title of my contribution: Please send the Call for the Symposium to the following persons or organizations (name, address, e-mail): Please send the Call for the Congress and Exhibition to the following persons or organizations (name, address, e-mail): ----------------------------------------------------------------- TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COMBINED ARTS & HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE IN ENGLAND & SCOTLAND February 1 - April 6, 1995 Please contact Prof. Joseph Natoli, Center for Integrative Studies in Arts & Humanities, Michigan State University, e-mail 20676jpn@msu.edu, or 620 Baldwin Court, East Lansing, Michigan 48823, or, (517)432-3979 for information regarding credits, cost, living arrangements, flights, touring, guest lectures, additional cultural anthropology courses. This courses should meet "core" requirements in Humanities and Social Sciences at your university. Since 1990 I have been tracing a shift from modernity to postmodernity in American culture. The "essence" of postmodernity is revealed in the very fact that this shifting is never over with -- that we indeed shift in and out of not only "attitudes" we call "modernity" and "postmodernity" but "medieval," "baroque," "romantic," "classical," "puritan" and so on. We live in a world of intersecting attitudes or frames of "realizing" and therefore we can say we live in multiple worlds, multiple realities. Truth emerges from frames of "realizing" and therefore is itself multiple. Within the postmodern attitude we are "multicultural" first because we are "multi-worlds" and "multi-realities." If there was a "universal rule of judgment" by which we could apprehend the One Truth, the One Reality, the One World, the One Culture (modernity's mission), all our present talk concerning "cultural pluralism," "cultural diversity," and "difference" would be disingenuous, opportunistic. Behind the guise of multicultural discourse we would simply be pushing what most benefits the new globalized consumer economy. The "global marketplace," "product diversification," and the "boundary-less company" find multicultural discourse more amenable than the discourse of cultural primacy, national identity, and hegemonic notions of race and gender superiority. Obviously the postmodern notion of "multiple worlds/realities" fits the new globalized economy but what effect does this discourse have on the hegemony of the "global market"? If we are living increasingly under the hegemony of the "law of the maximization of profits" are we not also facing an erosion of democracy, of egalitarianism, of social justice? If the rich are estranged from the poor on a global and not simply a national level, if identity is determined by class, if justice is a dispensation of the market, if the play of the marekt is self-legitimating and needs neither tradition, the academy, nor the methodologies of Enlightenment modernity, if one is free of everything but the seductions of the market and therefore free only to consume -- if all these are present global trends, then wherein lies the emancipatory power of multiculturalism? If we do not sever multiculturalism from its roots in postmodernity and if we indeed follow through with postmodernity does it raise voices and promulgate differences against the "unfettered" free play of the new globalized consumer economy? Integrative Arts & Humanities 201C: The Postmodern World I. The first part of the course is perhaps most like what one would expect of an American University course being taught in London: we will get a sense of the "canonical status of British culture as a universal measure of Western civilization." (David Rieff) But our purpose is to get at three distinct underlying perceptual/cognitive/affective "frames of real-izing": classic realist, modernist (including Enlightenment Modernity and 20th Century Modernism), and Postmodernism. Within these three "ways of seeing" what we call British culture (the marketing and politics, history and science as well as art and letters) is constructed/controlled differently. Overview of Realism, Modernity, 20th Centure Modernism and Postmodernity; Essays from Natoli and Hutcheon, A Postmodern Reader Classic Realist Group Report -- Essays: Alison Lee, "Realism and Its Discontents"; Catherine Belsey, from Critical Practice; Colin MacCabe, "Theory and Film," "Realism and the Cinema; Films-- Depends on what is showing in London at the time; Paintings and sculpture -- tour of the Tate; Modernist Group Report -- Essays: Natoli and Hutcheon, "Modern/Postmodern," Bauman, "Is There a Postmodern Sociology?" Films: Mona Lisa, Howard's End, Drowning by Numbers, The Draughtsman's Contract, Sid and Nancy, Scandal; Tate Gallery tour of modernism; Novel-- Woolf, Orlando; film, Sally Potter's Orlando Postmodernity Group Report -- Essays: Natoli and Hutcheon, "Representing the Postmodern," Hutcheon, "Beginning to Theorize Postmodernism," Charles Jencks, "The Postmodern Agenda." Novel: Graham Swift, Waterland; film --Waterland II. This second half of the course adopts the postmodern attitude and attempts to explore London from within it. The theory is that the student by this time can distinguish a realist, two forms of modernist and a postmodernist "representational frame." Since there is no way to get out of our American representational frame, the best we can do is strive for what the postmodernists call "self- reflexivity," a jumping back from one's own "real-izings," an activity aided by a continual clash with the "real-izings" of others, in this case myself, your fellow students, and London itself. 1. culture of consumerism and spectacle -- which means we will see the films everyone is rushing to see, go to the English Kmarts and Walmarts, watch tabloid TV, follow the raves in music and video, speech and clothing styles, look at the new architecture; a sense of the avant-garde, of fads and cults, New Age, what is the popular culture? What does it reveal of what haunts contemporary London life? Popular Culture Group Report -- Essays: Houston Baker, "Hybridity, the Rap Race and Pedagogy for the 1990's; Jim Collins, "Postmodernism as Culmination: The Aesthetic Politics of Decentered Cultures;" Natoli, "Free Play of Popular Films." 2. Holes and tears in the fabric of the social order, culture of heterogeneity, of difference and diversity -- which means we try to get a sense of class, gender, sexuality, and race distinctions: TV, advertising, galleries, travels in different neighborhoods and sections, where and how do "marginal voices" represent themselves? Cultural Difference/Marginal Voices Group Report -- Salman Rushdie, "The New Empire Within Britain," Bauman, "The Social Construction of Universality and Paricularity," Giroux, "Postmodern as Border Pedagogy: Redefining the Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity," Cornel West, "Black Culture and Postmodernism," bell hooks, "Postmodern Blackness," Hutcheon, "Circling the Downspout of Empire: Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism," Tom Bridges," "Postmodern and the Primacy of Cultural Difference," Murphy and Choi, "Theoretical Justification for a Politics of Difference;" Creed, "From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism," Hutcheon, "The Post-modern Ex-centric: The Center That Will Not Hold." Films: My Beautiful Laundrette, How does the London frame of realizing that you grasp at this time and in this place affect your American, midwestern, East Lansing, MSU, male or female, Native American, Mayflower American, Ethnic American, African-American, Asian American, underclass, working class, middle class, upperclass, heterosexual, lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, Socialist frame of realizing? Where and how has that frame been shaken, cracked or completely unhinged? History and Politics Group Report: Bauman, "Postmodernity, or, Living with Ambiguity," Hutcheon, "The Polics of Parody," Bridges, "Institutionalizing Postmodern Critical Political Discourses," Natoli and Hutcheon, "Entanglements and Complicities," Belsey, "Toward Cultural History," "Stephen Toulmin, from Cosmopolis, Hutcheon, "The Politics of Postmodernism: Parody and History," Borges, "Pierre Menard," Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot; Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor. Is there a modernist/postmodernism clash in the British's view of their own history? Is there a clash between a politics of identity and of difference visible in present day headlines and events? Advertising and Marketing Group Report -- Essays: Natoli, "Geckoid Democracy and Garfieldian Free Play," Bauman, "Is There a Postmodern Sociology," Natoli and Hutcheon, "Postmodern Practices," David Rieff, "Multiculturalism's Silent Partner." Hayles, "Conclusion: Chaos and Culutre: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experiences," Belsey, "Interrogating the Subject." "Context Control" and "Denaturing the Human" in terms of market and advertising. Arts & Letters 400: LONDON MULTI-CULTURES: HIGH CULTURE, POPULAR CULTURE, MARGINAL CULTURE, AND HYPER-REALITIES I. Cultural Studies and/as the theory of "The Everyday" Essays: Henri Lefebvre, "The Knowledge of the Everyday," Michel de Certeau, "Walking in the City," Laurie Langbauer, "Cultural Studies and the Politics of the Everyday," Stuart Hall, "Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies," Raymond Williams, "Culture," Lawrence Grossberg, "The Formations of Cultural Studies: An American in Birmingham," Grossberg, Nelson and Treichler, "Cultural Studies: An Introduction," Catherine Belsey, "Towards Cultural History," from Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity. Two Group Reports: 1. presenting discussions of these theoretical essays. 2. Journal observations of everyday London life, newspaper headlines, popular TV shows, box office films, talk show favorite topics and so on. "Everyday practices" crisscross broad cultural discourses (what the culture says about itself and how it images itself) and existing institutions. We begin here with the "Everyday." II. High Culture: Representation, Class, and Power Essays: Matthew Arnold," The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," Derrida, "The White Mythology," Zygmunt Bauman, from Modernity and Ambivalence, Greg Owen, "Representation, Appropriation and Power," Michel Foucault, "Method," Roland Barthes, "Inaugural Lecture," Henri Giroux, "Postmodernism as Border Pedgagogy," E. O. Wright, "Rethinking Class Once Again," Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, "Hegemony: the Difficult Emergence of a New Political Logic." Tracing the hierarchies of representation: museums, galleries, concerts, fashion, films, restaurants, magazines, BBC, architecture, schools, literature. Touring: Westminster Abbey, British Museum, Tate Gallery, National Gallery, St. Paul's, Victoria and Albert, Museum of London, National Portrait Gallery, Kenwood, Highgate Cemetery; districts: Belgravia, Knightsbridge, Mayfair, Group Report: Describing London's cultural "top-of-the-line"; photos and slides, films clips, text, music. What sort of universal, absolute "order of things" is being represented here? How is "unity, coherence and continuity" packaged? Intersections with the "Everyday"? III. Popular Culture: Robert Venturi, from Learning from Las Vegas, Jim Collins, from Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Postmodernism, Natoli, "The Order of Prizing and the Devouring Order" from Mots d'Ordre, Natoli, "Free Play of Popular Film," Houston Baker, "Hybridity, the Rap Race and Pedagogy for the 1990's," Dick Hebdige, from Hiding in the Light: Of Images and Things, Touring: Soho, Piccadilly Circus, Cannon Cinema, Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre (summer), Comedy Store, Hippodrome ... Group Report: Trace the intersections of what you observe now in the popular culture and what you can gather is going on in the culture as a whole: market, politics, crises and controversies, "hauntings" and "golden age dreams." IV. Consumer Culture: Constructing and Consuming Context Essays: Katherine Hayles, "Chaos and Culture," bell hooks, "Selling Hot Pussy: Representation of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace," John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," Z. Bauman, "Is There a Postmodern Sociology?", Natoli, "Geckoid Democracy and Garfieldian Free Play," Touring: Oxford Street, Carnaby Street, Chelsea, Kings Road, Regents Street, Piccadilly Street, Beauchamp Place; Fortnum & Mason's, Harrods, Portobello Road Market Group Report: "To Be Is To Consume," and "I Shop Therefore I Am" -- so what is the "being" of Londoners this summer 1994? V. Marginal Culture: Eurocentrism, Postcoloniality and the Other Essays: Homi Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse," S. Rushdie, "The New Empire Within Britain," E. O. Wright, "Rethinking Class Once Again," G. Spivak, "Subaltern Studies," Cornel West, "The New Cultural Politics of Difference," Linda Hutcheon, "Circling the Downspout of Empire: Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism," Murphy and Choi, "Theoretical Justification for a Politics of Difference," Owens, "The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism," Giroux, "Postmodernism as Border Pedagogy." Group Reports: Representations of the tensions of multiculturalism in London at this time, Summer 1994: headlines, film, talk shows VI. Cultures into Hyper-realities: Europe into Euro-Disney, Madame Tussaud's to the Old Curiousity Shop to Peter Pan at Kensington Gardens to the Tower of London Essays: Jean Baudrillard: "The Precession of Simulacra," Arthur Kroker and David Cook, from The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics; Natoli and Hutcheon, "Representing the Postmodern," Hayden White, "The Narrativization of Real Events," novel--Graham Swift, Waterland. Group Report: Tracing London images: 1. as reflections of a basic reality (classic realism and Enlightenment Modernity); 2. as masking and perverting a basic reality (from Plato and Christianity to a sort of a 20th century existentialism); 3. as masking the absence of a basic reality (sort of late 20th Century Modernism: Death of God to the Absurd); 4. bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is its own pure simulacrum. (hyperreality). In what ways do Londoners this Spring 1995 live in hyperrealities identical to or different than those we live in in in your representation of "America"? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Web_Report PMC Reader's Report on Virtual Living: Id be interested to read any answers to the question:Does using this Email service mean that I am now part ofpost modern culture? These comments are from: Richard J Hayter The email address for Richard J Hayter is: Richard@Uni_1.Admin.Port.AC.UK ----------------------------------------------------------------- 29-Sep-94 13:20:11-GMT,16896;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx+oldruq/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA02289 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 1994 09:20:09 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA05157; Thu, 29 Sep 94 09:20:08 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9409291320.AA05157@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA02765; Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:23:58 EDT Received: from (localhost) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA18794; Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:23:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:23:56 -0400 Posted-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:23:56 -0400 Message-Id: <9409120405.AA13467@cc00du.unity.ncsu.edu.> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 9-12-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 9:20:06 EDT Resent-From: Charles McGrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 9-12-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: TRANSFORMATION call for papers [Rock 'n' Roll submissions] >dead.artist<< NEXT SEASON NOW The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Symposium MIT Press information: LEONARDO ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Donald Morton Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW JOURNAL AND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR ISSUE 2 TRANSFORMATION: MARXIST BOUNDARY WORK IN THEORY, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND CULTURE is a new bi-quarterly journal edited by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Teresa Ebert, and Donald Morton. It is devoted to classical Marxist analysis of urgent contemporary issues by bringing back into present discussions such concepts as class, mode of production, labor theory of value, surplus value, exploitation, . . . The first issue, TRANSFORMATION 1: POST-ALITY: MARXISM AND (POST)MODERNISM, will be published in November, 1994 (publisher: Maisonneuve Press, 301-277-7505). We are now receiving texts for the second issue. CALL FOR PAPERS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR ISSUE 2 TRANSFORMATION 2 THE "INVENTION" OF THE QUEER: MARXISM, LESBIAN AND GAY THEORY, CAPITALISM TRANSFORMATION 2: THE "INVENTION" OF THE QUEER engages Queer Theory as an advanced form of bourgeois social theory from a Marxist perspective. (Post)modern social and cultural theories, and especially Queer Theory, routinely claim that Marxism lacks a theory of gender/sexuality and is in fact so fundamentally flawed that it cannot produce one. TRANSFORMATION 2 contests the question of sexuality through the discourse of invention (as in such recent books as The Invention of Ethnicity, The Invention of Renaissance Woman, The Invention of Pornography, Heuretics: The Logic of Invention . . . ). Invention is the latest concept being deployed in ludic theory to try to solve the historical impasse of social constructionism. While the "constructionist" view of the (homosexual) subject has become the dominant "progressive" view today, it is a cultural constructionism promoted by those who are hostile to a rigorous, determinate constructionism through economics, class, and the social division of labor, but who think it "unethical" to rule out the effects of such factors as race, gender, class, sexual orientation, . . . (all theorized as effects of culture, representation, textuality, or ahistorical "matter"). As "constructionism" has increasingly turned "ethical," it has also turned "inventionist" --that is, it has become a question of "invention," implying idealistically that social change has everything to do with the subject's "inventiveness" in a technicist (often called "technocultural") sense ("self-fashioning" in New Historicism, "cyborg mutation" in Haraway, "electric speech" in Ronell, "performance" in Butler, "choreography" in Drucilla Cornell, "architecture" in Jameson). TRANSFORMATION 2: THE "INVENTION" OF THE QUEER argues that "constructionism" is not so much "exhausted" (as we are told in such texts as Fear of a Queer Planet), but rather has reached an historical impasse of which the new discourse of "invention" is symptomatic. TRANSFORMATION 2 will critique today's dominant "ethical and technicist constructionism/inventionism" as a mystification that blocks a rigorous theorization of the materiality of the subject in general and of the homosexual-as-queer in particular. It investigates sexuality through ideology critique by focussing on such issues as homosexuality and/in the social division of labor; queer theory and the new pornotopia; genetics and identity; commodity fetishism and "queer" readings of Marx; cybersex and libidinal economy; imperialism and (homo)sexual exploitation; (post)modern indeterminacy and AIDS pedagogy; text/sex--tech/sex; queering the internet; (re)inventing the body; lusting and the politics of lust . . . We are seeking both shorter critiques of 10 to 12 pp. on the queer and the everyday, as well as longer inquiries of 20-25 pp. Please send texts, proposals, and inquiries for consideration by the editorial collective to Donald Morton, Department of English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1170. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 22:57 EDT From: DKEVIN@clemson.edu Subject: Call for Submissions Call for Submissions Original essays and proposals are solicited for an essay collection, tentatively called _Reading Rock 'n' Roll: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Musics_. Duke University Press has expressed interest in considering the volume for publication. Though a handful of rock lyrics are now regularly included in Intro to Lit anthologies, we have not been generally encouraged to take rock lyrics, live and recorded performances, and music videos seriously, or to employ the analytical tools of literary criticism in order to read them. With the rise of cultural studies, however, and the resultant blurring of the traditional boundaries between high art and popular entertainment, these ostensibly low- brow texts have begun to look every bit as complex, ironic, and deserving of serious study as their high-culture counterparts. In particular, we are interested in exploring rock music's relation to other forms of discourse, both in the ways it has appropriated and reconfigured them and how it has begun to be appropriated by artists from other media as a source of allusion, quotation, and %mise en scene%--a kind of cultural shorthand. This volume hopes to probe some of these intertextual tensions, and the various new protocols of reading they suggest. _Among questions and topics that might be explored_: * How does contemporary musical practice affect our thinking about issues of quotation, allusion, plagiarism, and piracy? * How has the presence of openly gay and lesbian musicians influenced the politics of contemporary popular music? * Is musical technology driving rock, or is rock driving the technology? * How have popular musics been adapted by and adapted themselves to Madison Avenue and "the cultural logic of late capitalism"? * Can popular musics make an important intervention in gender and other culture wars? + Musical and verbal self-consciousness in rock since the British Invasion + Ironic reframings of rock (a la Spinal Tap, Beavis & Butt-head, _Wayne's World_, etc.) + Rock's appropriation of other forms (classical, jazz, world music, etc.) + The resurgence of interest in disco and other "bad" musics: The Knack, The Village People, Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, KC & the Sunshine Band, etc. + The new trans-generational duos: Bono & Sinatra, Costello & Bennett, Beavis & Butt-head & Cher, etc. Interested authors should write, phone, or e-mail with queries, or send 1-2 page abstracts (or completed essays of 20-35 pp., Chicago style) by 31 March 1995, to: Kevin J. H. Dettmar Department of English Box 341503 Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1503 (803) 656 5397 (office) (803) 653 9122 (home) (803) 656 1345 (fax) dkevin@clemson.edu (e-mail) William Richey Department of English University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (803) 931 5265 (office) (803) 765 0763 (home) (803) 777 9064 (fax) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 12:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: { brad brace } Subject: >dead.artist<< NEXT SEASON NOW spirit, appetite, faith, emotion, intuition, will, experience... -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-,-^-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- D E A D - A R T I S T D E S E R T T R A I L E R - P A R K _____________________________________________________________ offers scholarships and studio-space for qualifying applicants contact: bbrace@netcom.com for info =+= T h e n i g h t h a s b e e n d e m o l i s h e d , b u t t h e d e s e r t p r e v a i l s . =-= As time goes by, it is the established patterns of thought, the known arguments, the self-perpetuating truths which become the principal defenders of the structures in place. ..The active vocabulary needed to question, even to simply discuss them, has withered away. | The Dead-Artist Desert Trailer-Park is located in the American | Southwest Desert. I basically inherited (after paying back-taxes) | an isolated, derelict trailer-park which is being | transformed without the interference of cultural bureaucrats | into a working resource for creative pursuits. The financial | overhead is practically non-existent; intelligent applicants are | told the location of the Trailer-Park and given written permission | to abide there. Usually some structural and creative contribution | is made to the Park during your stay. No application fees, slides, | references, or resumes are required or desired. A questionnaire is | sent to all applicants. The current residents will invite new | applicants to visit. APPLICATIONS FOR THE NEXT SEASON ARE BEING | PERUSED NOW; an electronic response is preferred. =-=-=v-=-==-=-=vvvv-=-=-=-v=-=v=-===-=-=vv-=-=-=v-=-=-vv=-v-==-=-=-=v=-v-=-v-v only the artists capable of dragging the mystic power out of themselves seem able to work productively within the breakdown of our society... __ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: AH7301R@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU Subject: The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Symposium Announcement The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction will hold its 1995 Gregory P. Stone Symposium on May 19-21, 1995 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The symposium theme is "Talking at the Borders: Marking and Blurring Interactionist Boundaries," with program and events being organized by Andrew Herman, Joseph Schneider, and Allen Shelton of the Department of Sociology at Drake. Contributions in various forms focusing on articulations of symbolic interactionist sociology and cultural studies, including deconstruction, poststructuralism, poststructuralist feminism, critical theory, postmarxism, queer theory, subaltern or postcolonial studies, and American pragmatism are especially invited. General topics include new forms and practices of ethnography; the critical analysis of the mass mediated images and technologies that make up "the popular"; the implications of the critique of the humanist "subject" for interactionist work; issues surrounding new technologies of writing the social; critical pedagogy; the queering of sexuality, gender, and identity; and the ethics and politics of a possible interactionism that lies past the post(s). Various formats for involvement will include the standard conference paper, "review"-type sessions that focus on a single issue or piece of work; seminar/colloquia formats involving small numbers of participants, and guided discussions of readings distributed prior to the conference. Deadline for proposed participation is 1 December 1994. A detailed call is in preparation. Persons interested in receiving this mailing, or in other information about the conference, should contact Herman (ah7301r@acad.drake.edu; 515-271-2936), Schneider (js2861r@acad.drake.edu; 515-271-2158) or Shelton (as0441r@acad.drake.edu; 515-271-4594). The relevant mailing address is Department of Sociology, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: MIT Press information FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 1994 NEWS about MIT PRESS JOURNALS CONTACT: JOURNALS PUBLICITY THE MIT PRESS 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 USA TEL: (617) 253-2866/FAX: (617) 258-6779 JOURNALS-INFO@MIT.EDU LEONARDO--Now Published by The MIT Press Beginning with the 1993 volume, The MIT Press became publisher of LEONARDO. A scholarly bimonthly, the journal is the official publication of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST). Over twenty-five years ago LEONARDO's founding editor established it to provide an international channel of communication between artists, particularly those who used science and developing technologies in their creations. Today, LEONARDO is a leading journal for anyone interested in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music. It currently reaches over 2,000 readers worldwide. LEONARDO primarily focuses on interactions between the visual arts, science and technology. The journal also covers media, music, kinetic art, performance art, language, environmental and conceptual art, computers and artificial intelligence, and legal, economic, and political aspects of art as these areas relate to the visual arts or use the tools and ideas of contemporary science and technology. LEONARDO features editorials, illustrated articles by artists writing about their own work, historical and theoretical perspectives, reviews, technical articles, resource directories, art/science forums, and sound/music technology explorations. Past articles include "Mathematics for the Garden of the Mind," and "Orchestrating Digital Micromovies." Frequently, LEONARDO presents special issues on state-of-the-art developments: __Art and Social Consciousness__ (published October 1993); *__Art and Virtual Reality __(published August 1994).* Subscribers can also get the companion annual LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL, which comes with a CD and features the latest in music, multimedia art, sound science, and technology. In September 1993, The MIT Press began publishing Leonardo/ISAST's LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC, a monthly, edited electronic journal and electronic archive, World- Wide Web server, and Mosaic server accessible via the Internet. LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC documents the use of new scientific and technological media in the contemporary arts. ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE EDITORS LEONARDO's executive editor, Roger F. Malina--son of the journal's founding editor, Frank J. Malina--is an astronomer at the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley, and an author on art and technology issues. LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC's executive editor, Craig Harris, is a composer, multimedia artist, educator, and researcher of the impact of new technologies on future creative environments. Review copies are available at the discretion of the publisher. Published bimonthly, LEONARDO journal annual subscription rates (5 issues __plus__ 1 LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL issue) are $65.00 for individuals, $320.00 for institutions, and $45.00 for students and retired persons. Published monthly, LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC annual subscription rates are $15 for LEONARDO journal subscribers and $25 for non-LEONARDO journal subscribers. __Prices subject to change without notice__. 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Even if Lynx is not installed on your system, you can start a lynx session via gopher: gopher jefferson.village.virginia.edu choose "Lynx session to the IATH WWW Server" login: guest password: [type nothing, but hit the "Enter" key] choose Publications of the Institute choose Postmodern Culture choose Volume 5.1 Those who have local WWW clients can find PMC at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html Thanks for your patience, John Unsworth 4-Nov-94 16:49:18-GMT,18659;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx+oldruq/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA26721 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 1994 11:49:16 -0500 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA21922; Fri, 4 Nov 94 11:49:14 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9411041649.AA21922@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11669; Mon, 31 Oct 94 12:44:03 EST Received: from (localhost) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA03927; Mon, 31 Oct 1994 12:44:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 12:44:00 -0500 Posted-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 12:44:00 -0500 Message-Id: <9410311611.AA08706@cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu.> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Contents.994 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Nov 94 11:49:14 EST Resent-From: Charles McGrew POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 5, Number 1 (September, 1994) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors: Eyal Amiran John Unsworth, issue editor Review Editor: Jim English Managing Editor: Amy Sexton Editorial Assistants: Chris Barrett Jonathan Beasley List Manager: Chris Barrett Editorial Board: Sharon Bassett Phil Novak Michael Berube Patrick O'Donnell Marc Chenetier Elaine Orr Greg Dawes Marjorie Perloff bell hooks Fred Pfiel Graham Hammill Mark Poster Phillip Brian Harper David Porush David Herman Carl Raschke E. Ann Kaplan Avital Ronell Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Susan Schultz Arthur Kroker William Spanos Neil Larsen Gary Lee Stonum Tan Lin Tony Stewart Jerome McGann Chris Straayer Jim Morrison Rei Terada Stuart Moulthrop Paul Trembath Larysa Mykyta Greg Ulmer ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS Deepika Bahri, "Disembodying the Corpus: bahri.994 Postcolonial Pathology in Tsitsi Dangarembga's _Nervous Conditions_" Robert Kolker, "The Moving Image Reclaimed" kolker.994 (Hypermedia) Marie-Laure Ryan, "Immersion vs. Interactivity: ryan.994 Virtual Reality and Literary Theory" Allan Stoekl, "'Round Dusk: Kojeve at the End" stoekl.994 John Walker, "Seizing Power: Decadence and walker.994 Transgression in Foucault and Paglia" Charles Bernstein, Three Poems (Hypermedia) bernstei.994 James Boros, "Cheered by Battleship" boros.994 Michael Evans, Two Poems evans.994 Lidia Yuknavitch, "Differentia" yuknavit.994 LETTERS/RESPONSES Jeff Bell, "Response to Jonathan Beller's bell.994 Essay, 'Cinema: Capital of the Twentieth Century'" POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN Andrew Levy, "Prehistory and Postmodernism" levy.994 REVIEWS: Russell A. Potter, "Black Modernisms/Black review-1.994 Postmodernisms" Review of: Tricia Rose, _Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America_. Wesleyan UP/ UP of New England; and Paul Gilroy, _The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness_. Harvard UP. Jeffrey Nealon, "Theory That Matters" Review review-2.994 of Butler, Judith. _Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"_. New York & London: Routledge, 1993. Jonathan Markovitz, "Blurring the Lines: Art review-3.994 on the Border." Review of La Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience. Organized by the Centro Cultural de la Raza and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Thomas Benson, "Permanence and Change in the review-4.994 Global Village" Review of Garry, Patrick M. _Scrambling for Protection: The New Media and the First Amendment_. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Kevin J.H. Dettmar, "Postmodern Jeremiad: review-5.994 Kruger on Popular Culture" Review of Barbara Kruger. _Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. Christian L. Pyle, "The Superhero Meets the review-6.994 Culture Critic." Review of Reynolds, Richard. _Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology. Studies in Popular Culture_. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1994. -- Review Editor: Jim English NOTICES Announcements and Adverstizements notices.994 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACTS Deepika Bahri, "Disembodying the Corpus: Postcolonial Pathology in Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions'" ABSTRACT: This paper draws attention to the socio-personal reciprocity between the symptoms of disease and the female condition in postcolonial and patriarchal settings. The "subject" under analysis is Nyasha, the anorexic, teenage deuteragonist of Tsitsi Dangarembga's 1988 novel _Nervous Conditions_. Nyasha demonstrates through her pathological condition the violence wrought on the female body in the successive scenes of pre and post colonial Zimbabwe. In the struggle to escape her assigned subjectivity as woman, native, and other, Nyasha targets her body as the site of resistance, so to destroy the self diseased by both patriarchy and colonization. The paper argues for an expanded understanding of the possibilities of female resistance, while suggesting that female praxis needs to be given a central place in feminist and postcolonial politics. --DB Robert Kolker, "The Moving Image Reclaimed" ABSTRACT: "The Moving Image Reclaimed" is an experiment in intertextuality. The critical text and its subject, narrative film, are woven together, offering the reader an opportunity to see moving-image examples, and the film scholar the opportunity to quote images with the same freedom as the literary critic quotes words. The films under discussion (Scorsese's "Cape Fear" and Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train") are themselves works that quote or are quoted from. Finally, as an essay that exists only on-line, "The Moving Image Reclaimed" is an experiment in alternative means of transmitting text and image. --RK Marie-Laure Ryan, "Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory" ABSTRACT: Virtual Reality has been defined as an "interactive immersive experience generated by computer." This paper investigates the possibility of the literary implementation of these two dimensions. While immersion plays an important role in theories of fiction based on the concepts of possible world and of game of make-believe, it presupposes a transparency of the medium that goes against the grain of postmodern aesthetics. Postmodern literature emulates the interactive aspect of VR in a metaphorical way through self- reflexivity, and in a more literal way through hypertext, but both of these attempts involve a sacrifice of the pleasure derived from immersion. In computer-generated VR, by contrast, immersion and interactivity do not stand in conflict but support each other. The difference in behavior between VR and literature is seen to reside in the participation of the body. While textual worlds are created through a purely mental semiotic activity which presupposes an external point of view, the worlds of VR are created from within through an activity both mental and physical. A mind may conceive a world from the outside, but a body always experiences it from the inside. --MLR Allan Stoekl, "'Round Dusk: Kojeve at the End" ABSTRACT: This essay attempts to put in perspective the relation between a Kojevian posthistoricism and current theories of the postmodern, especially those of Lyotard. While the governing trope of postmodern theory has been the concept of the death of the "grand narratives"--exemplified by those of Hegel and Marx--one must nevertheless note that, in Kojeve's reading of Hegel at least, the end of history results in a proliferation of styles and discourses that one could indeed take as an instance of the postmodern. Is Kojeve, then, postmodern? Through an examination of a number of passages from his major work, _Introduction to the Reading of Hegel_, especially those pertaining to animality, death, and the Book, I attempt to isolate the fundamental and radical differences between posthistoricism and the postmodern. But this reading allows us to put forward as well the hypothesis that posthistoricism, in and through its very ignorance, may be more postmodern than the postmoderns. --AS John Walker, "Seizing Power: Decadence and Transgression in Foucault and Paglia" ABSTRACT: This essay attempts to construct a theoretical rapprochement between these two critics, one the hero of North American liberal-humanist scholars, and the other an avowed enemy of that same group. In doing so, what emerges is a theory of dandyism for the postmodern age and beyond that I call de-structuralism. Drawing on seldom-analyzed statements from Foucault, and concordant elements from Paglia's _Sexual Personae_, de-structuralism attempts to recognize the inescapable necessity of Nietzsche's Apollonian (hierarchical, form-giving) drive, which postmodern criticism has often demonized in favour of an idealized version of Dionysian formlessness. 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Today's Topics: Subject: Drugs & Culture Subject: French mysticism CALL FOR PAPERS: Crossing the Boundary: Feminisms Inside and Outside the University An invitation: ***F E E D T H E C O L L A P S E*** Pomo art query The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project PMC Reader's Report x 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: jmittell@students.wisc.edu (Jajasoon Tlitteu) Subject: Drugs & Culture I was wondering if anyone on these lists might be able to help me with this project: I'm doing research in the representation of drugs on television in the late 60's (specifically LSD on Dragnet, as Screen-L people have already been asked about). Does anyone know of any work that has been done on drugs and culture from a theoreticized perspective? I know there are billions of things about drug culture, etc., but I'm more interested in a theoretical analysis of the role of drugs in culture in terms of production of meaning. My theoretical bent involves issues of Bakhtinian transgression and grotesque as well as Foucault's bodily control, but I'd be open to any theoretical angle that might prove fruitful. thanks in advance! ******** jajasoon tlitteu "Abe Vigoda plays Frankenstein. I kiss the Buddha and made him cry." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Siglind.Bruhn@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: French mysticism Help! Here is a musicologist (musical hermeneutics) working on Olivier Messiaen, and getting lost in Messiaen's highly mystical prefaces to his pieces. Resarch so far has led me to Columba Marmion, St. John of the Cross, possibly (but this is just a hunch) Cathar sources. But it is time to admit that I cannot handle this topic quite on my own. Colleagues within U of Michigan have been kind but recommended I try to find a real specialist on the mystical tradition within Catholicism, particularly that possibly still influential in southern France at the beginning of this century. Does anybody on this list work in this field? or could one of you direct me to others who do? My heartfelt thanks for any suggestions! Siglind Bruhn U of Michigan ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Crossing the Boundary: Feminisms Inside and Outside the University 10th Comparative Literature Symposium at the University of Tulsa: Graduate Student Conference March 17-19, 1995 Keynote Speaker: Judy Grahn Please submit one-page abstracts, proposals for panels and workshops by January 1, 1995 to: Graduate Students for Women's Studies Department of English The University of Tulsa 600 South College Avenue Tulsa, OK 74104-3189 About the conference: Our goal in hosting this conference is to stimulate discussions and critical exchanges among graduate students about the impact feminist theory and practice on our lives, our classrooms, and our communities. We are especially interested in how the boundary between the university and the larger feminist community has been constructed, maintained, and crossed by both academics and social activists. We will focus on the ways this boundary influences and shapes our experiences as feminists, as graduate students, and as people; thus, we hope to attract a wide range of participants from inside and outside the academy. We project a three day conference, beginning with a keynote address and followed by a variety of panel presentations and workshops focused on the interactions between academic theories and social practices. A second address focusing on the interaction between academia and activism as well as a panel discussion between faculty members and social activists in the community will conclude the conference. We will also highlight the resources available for feminist work at the University of Tulsa, such as the _Women Writers in McFarlin_ special collection and _Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature_, a scholarly journal internationally acclaimed for its publications in the field of feminist literary scholarship. The conference will be the 10th Comparative Literature Symposium at the University of Tulsa. Keynote speaker: Judy Grahn has been active in the Gay movement for the past twenty years as a poet, publisher, and organizer. Her works include The _Common Woman Poems_, _Edward the Dyke_, _The Queen of Wands_, and _The Queen of Swords_, and she is the editor of two books of short stories on women's lives. She is also the author of _Another Mother Tongue--Gay Words, Gay Worlds_, a Gay cultural history. She teaches Gay and Lesbian Studies in San Francisco. At this conference, Judy Grahn will also offer a workshop. Panel presentations: Possible panel topics include but are not limited to: * Historical treatments of: organizers/activists; feminisms and the academy * Activists in the community; feminists in the professions * Interaction between theory and practice of: pedagogy; identity politics (gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality); postcolonial feminisms; feminist praxis (in)side/(out)side; ecofeminism * Interactions between feminisms and other theories: essentialism and contructivism; theories of the body; the New Historicism; postmodernism; gender studies and women's studies; lesbian and gay studies * Interactions between feminist theories and the arts: performance artists, visual artists, musicians, writers * Feminist theorists and their works Workshops: We want to create a series of directed workshops, providing space for discussion of practical and pedagogical concerns about our work as feminist graduate students, teachers, and researchers. Possible workshop topics might include: * Teaching feminist/teaching feminisms * Writing feminist/writing feminisms * Community inside and outside the academy Registration: For registration, write to or call Roberta Carter, Continuing Education, The University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104-3189. For more information on the conference, please call Kerri Shaw at (918) 631-3412; write to Kerri Shaw, Johanna Dehler, or Sarah Theobald-Hall at the English Department, The University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104-3189; or e-mail to feminout@vax1.utulsa.edu . ----------------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to announce the formation of a internet discussion group which will address the scholarly and academic discussion of popular music. While the list focuses on rock, we hope to generate discussion on a variety of popular music genres. To subscribe to this list send the following message to LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU: sub rocklist yourfirstname yourlastname The list is unmoderated since, as list owner, I'm not into social control efforts. However a little politeness goes a long way, just ask politenessman (person?). Jon Epstein Kent State University ----------------------------------------------------------------- #####FROM the whirling disjunctive technics decks of ###Global anarcho-kapital ##SubSchizophrenic spawn of spe(w)ed_texts A N I N V I T A T I O N ***F E E D T H E C O L L A P S E*** @@@@@@ OUTVEST YOUR TALENTS ALL OVER ME @@@@@@@ derive-ations (even Venus infers) Smears The Ranting BullDaDa ---FELLOW PASSENGERS, GIRLS AND BOYS PRACTISING---frenzy techniques schizophreniatrics cocksuckology Delirium Textualis Diss-Construction Im/material cartography/Psychogeography ---IN THE CARNIVALESQUE PLENUM OF THE PoMoBwO "It's not rigorous but it feels good" Ambiguity-Lubricity-Connectivity-Contingency @@@@@@@ PROVOKE ME INTO EXISTENCE @@@@@@@@ ****C O L L A P S E PYUDO@csv.warwick.ac.uk c/o R.Mackay 76 Leicester Street Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV32 4TB UK adios amoebas ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: "Robert M. Fowler" Subject: Pomo art query I'm trying to track down the artist or the copyright holder of the following art work: "Moses Descending Mount Sinai," photo collage by Karen Rasco, 1982. Anyone who has further information on this work or the artist, please email me directly. Thanks. ************************************************ * Robert M. Fowler * * Department of Religion * * Baldwin-Wallace College * * 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 // USA * * rfowler@rs6000.baldwinw.edu * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) * ************************************************ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 From: { brad brace } Subject: 12hr-ISBN-JPEG >>>>Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project begins January 1, 1995. A round-the-clock posting of sequenced postmodern photographs by Brad Brace. 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG 12hr-ISBN-JPEG The 12-hr-ISBN-JPEG Project 12hr-ISBN-JPEG --------------- BEGINS JANUARY 1, 1995 Classic Postmodern Photos... posted/mailed every 12 hours... perfect trans-avant-garde art! A continuous sequence of original photos... authentic greyscale... compelling experience. An extension of the printed ISBN-Book series... critically acclaimed... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and sequenced over time... [ see ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbrace/books ] >> Promulgated, de-centered, ambiguous, homogeneous, de-composed... >> Multi-faceted, excentric, oblique, obsessive, obscure, opaque... Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em, trade `em, print `em, even sell them... Here`s how: ~ Set www-links to -> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbrace/bbrace.html Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, TurboGopher... ~ Download from -> ftp.netcom.com /pub/bbrace Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.gif or 12hr.jpg ~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the server address nearest you: * ftp-request@netcom.com ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk * bitftp@pucc.bitnet bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too! The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpg The linked gif will always be named, 12hr.gif * Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror * ~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery begins in earnest on January 1, 1995. The basic structure of the project has been over fifteen years in the making. While the specific sequence of photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 5 years worth of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection, interruption, and assimilation. ~ The sites listed above are currently active. They contain test photographs of the earlier printed volumes from the ISBN-project. ~ A very low-volume mailing list for announcements and occasional commentary related to this project has been established. Send e-mail to: listserv@netcom.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg -- This project has been largely funded in advance. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of a CD-ROM archive of all the 12hr-ISBN-JPEG imagery. -- Jpeg and gif are types of image files. Get the text-file, _pictures-faq_ to learn how to view or translate these images. [ftp ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbrace] -- (c) No copyright 1994 Any use acceptable ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on The Moving Image Reclaimed: [10] of The Moving Image Reclaimed reminds me of the Renaissance discovery of perspective: you give it a moving analogue here. Perhaps you have developed it elsewhere. These comments are from: Sarah Jones Nelson The email address for Sarah Jones Nelson is: nelson@math.princeton.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on Culture and documentary: Hello, first time commenter, longtime reader. I was reading J. Beller's article concerning film. As a graduate student, at U of Oregon, and recent graduate of Duke University, I have developed an academic interest in postmoder culture. A thesis is in the works, critically analyzing Ken Burns' most recentwork "Baseball". Baseball as a religion in an amoral American society, reproducing the language and sports structures through edu-tainment. These comments are from: Andrew Scales The email address for Andrew Scales is: ascales@oregon.uoregon.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on eclipse: hola Gran T.....co te a ido con el eclipse...a todo esto tupor casuela sabes donde encontrar noticias actuales en el'mosaic....gracias.. These comments are from: facmed The email address for facmed is: lascar.puc.cl ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on PMC Moving Image: The Web as an arena for critical discourse and to display critical papers...of course!...but the MPEG movies are still too slow...has the feel of a TA showing up late with the visual aid and they turn out to be smudged xeroxes that arenot elucidating anywa y. I'm glad to see it though. Nice to see things out here that are not simply lists, lists of lists and pointers to lists of weather maps...Thanks. These comments are from: Heather Wagner The email address for Heather Wagner is: wagner@panix.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on Krazy Kat article: The Krazy Kat article (and accompanying pictures) was just terrific! I was so thrilled to find a discussion of my favorite kartoon on the 'Net. An excellent essay. These comments are from: Jeff Greenstein The email address for Jeff Greenstein is: sjg@netcom.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on praise/request: wonderful darlings: so glad to see people with their eyes split open and blood shot. i am quite new to the world-this world-but I suspect I'm as adept as anyone weaned beween the years 1972 and 1975. anyways, the real world I refer to is cyberspace. Ever heard of it? I'd like some sign-posts that might direct me towards something written about dissent in cyberspace. I'm just getting over a Noam Chomskyan addiction and it's been cold turkey for me out there in post-modern land. I need a fix baby; can yous guys help me maybe? These comments are from: kov-I The email address for kov-I is: 0561217@sscl.uwo.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on Kolker.994: Seeing film clips within an HTML document was a major realization of the Web's abilities. These comments are from: Alan Eyzaguirre The email address for Alan Eyzaguirre is: alan@sirius.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- PMC Reader's Report on : I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ALL THE AUTORS NAMES IN THE WORLD These comments are from: The email address for is: ----END------------------------------------------------------------- 5-Dec-94 18:48:08-GMT,2862;000000000001 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA18214 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 1994 13:48:07 -0500 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18070; Mon, 5 Dec 94 13:48:05 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9412051848.AA18070@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA14154; Fri, 2 Dec 94 01:53:16 EST Received: from (localhost) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA01227; Fri, 2 Dec 1994 01:53:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 01:53:14 -0500 Posted-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 01:53:14 -0500 Message-Id: <9412020615.AA28544@cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: End of PMC-TALK X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 94 13:48:03 EST Resent-From: Charles McGrew PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). 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Serge Denisoff Mark Poster Robert Detweiler Carl Raschke Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mike Reynolds Joe Gomez Avital Ronell Robert Hodge Andrew Ross bell hooks Jorge Ruffinelli E. Ann Kaplan Susan M. Schultz Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett William Spanos Arthur Kroker Tony Stewart Neil Larsen Gary Lee Stonum Jerome J. McGann Chris Straayer Stuart Moulthrop Paul Trembath Larysa Mykyta Greg Ulmer Phil Novak ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AUTHOR & TITLE FN FT Masthead, Contents, and CONTENTS.993 Instructions for retrieving files Peter Hitchcock, "'It Dread Inna Inglan': HITCHCOC.993 Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity" Stephanie Hammer, "On the Bull's Horn with HAMMER.993 Peter Handke: Debates, Failures, Essays, and a Postmodern Livre de Moi" Eugene W. Holland, "A Schizoanalytic Reading HOLLAND.993 of Baudelaire: The Modernist as Postmodernist" Elizabeth Fay, "Mapplethorpe's Art: Playing FAY.993 with the Byronic Postmodern" George Bradley, "Another Autumn Refrain" and BRADLEY.993 "Two Thirds of a Second at the Center of the Universe" Lynda Hart, "That was Then: This is Now: HART.993 Ex-changing the Phallus" Martin Rosenberg, "Dynamic and Thermodynamic ROSENBER.993 Tropes of the Subject in Freud and in Deleuze and Guattari" POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN: Steven Shaviro, "If I Only Had a Brain" POP-CULT.993 REVIEWS: Mark Fenster, "Authorizing Memory, Remembering Authority." A Review of Michael Schudson's _Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past_, and Barbie Zelizer's _Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory_. REVIEW-1.993 Rita Barnard, "`Imagining the Unimaginable': J.M. Coetzee, History, and Autobiography." A Review of David Attwell's _J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing_, and J.M. Coetzee, _Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews_, ed. David Attwell. REVIEW-2.993 Heesok Chang, "Postmodern Communities: the Politics of Oscillation." A Review of Gianni Vattimo's _The Transparent Society_ and Giorgio Agamben, _The Coming Community_. REVIEW-3.993 J.L. Lemke, "Practice, Politique, Postmodernism." A review of Pierre Bourdieu and Lois J.D. Wacquant's _An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology_. REVIEW-4.993 John McGowan, "Postmodernist Purity." A review of Craig Owens's _Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture_. Ed. Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock. REVIEW-5.993 SPECIAL MUSIC CLUSTER Andrew Herman, "Fear of Music." A review of Andrew Goodwin's _Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Televison and Popular Culture_. REVIEW-6.993 Marc Perlman, "Idioculture: De-Massifying the Popular Music Audience." A review of Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil and the Music in Daily Life Project's _My Music_. Foreword by George Lipsitz. REVIEW-7.993 Timothy D. Taylor, "The Sound of the Avant-Garde." A review of Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, eds., _The Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde_. REVIEW-8.993 LETTERS: Paul Miers, on Kip Canfield LETTERS.993 NOTICES: Announcements and Advertisements NOTICES.993 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACTS Peter Hitchcock, "'It Dread Inna Inglan': Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity" ABSTRACT: This essay examines the production of cultural voice in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ), the African/Caribbean/European dub poet. It suggests that the double-displacement of an African-Caribbean Black living in England, diaspora upon diaspora, comes with a double- indemnity--making and history. But what cultural logic obtains in the contruction/reconstruction of subjectivity as subaltern, the articulation of the margin, the trace, the veve, that still allows a trenchant sense of history, of the need to make history? Can we still conceive of subjects that make history, have a history to make, remake at a cocophanous rendezvous of victory? To understand why this notion is not a mystery (the History, for instance, of imperialist certitude) but a problematic, one must understand what makes this history: one must come to terms with the history of the voice, what Kamus Braithwaite calls the "invitation and challenge" or what Edouard Glissant defines as "literature" and "oraliture" (the fragmented and therefore shared histories and voices of peoples). One can read this history as an introduction in LKJ's sonorous beat, and one can see this history in a dissidence of voice, in all its synesthesia and dislocation. --PH Stephanie Hammer, "On the Bull's Horn with Peter Handke: Debates, Failures, Essays, and a Postmodern Livre de Moi" ABSTRACT: This essay discusses Handke's critical reception as it pertains to the postmdodern and "reads" Handke's recent essay series (the VERSUCHE) against a variety of concerns: desire, castration, subjectivity, and the resonance of father-essayist Michel de Montaigne. Handke's essays whittle away at the authority of traditional male subjectivity in graphic ways, as though performing a process of aesthetic self-castration in payment fo a new, legitimitzed subjectivity. To paraphrase Michel Leiris, Handke's autobiographical doubles not only expose themselves to the bull's horn, they allow themselves to be gored; this reverse matadorian spectacle is at once the performance to which we are constantly invited and the radical cure which we might also enact upon ourselves. --SH Eugene W. Holland, "A Schizoanalytic Reading of Baudelaire: The Modernist as Postmodernist" ABSTRACT: This schizoanalytic reading of Baudelaire draws on psychoanalytic, rhetorical, and historical-materialist interpretations in order to show that the historical momentum that carried Baudelaire out of romanticism into modernism also propelled him "beyond" modernism into a stance we recognize today as postmodern. Connecting Deleuze and Guattari's notion of "decoding" with the prevalence of metonymy over metaphor (in linguistic, rhetorical, and psychoanalytic terms [Jakobson, Barbara Johnson, and Lacan, respectively]) enables us to read the sonnet "Beauty" as a subversion of the metaphoric poetics of "Correspondences"--a subversion that continues into the "Parisian Tableaus" section of _The Flowers of Evil_, and culminates in the split stance of the narrator in the prose poem collection. This trajectory is fueled by Baudelaire's shock and dismay at the founding of a Second Empire on the ruins of the Second Republic. While his modernism emerges in the ability to distance himself serenely from former romantic-idealistic selves, his postmodernism lies in the recognition that the victims of Second Empire society he contemplates and depicts from afar are actually split-off versions of former selves, with which he cannot help but identify. --EWH Elizabeth Fay, "Mapplethorpe's Art: Playing With the Byronic Postmodern" ABSTRACT: There exist trenchant connections between Byron's romantic creation of himself as a literary figure, and Mapplethorpe's reinterpretation of the Byronic mode towards a postmodern creation of possible selves. The verbal and photographic "languages" employed by both artists focus on issues that allow for a comparative analysis of "staging," and what is termed here "the byronic postmodern." Within this focus, the artistic meaning of "staging" applies to the artistic "self" in ways that seduce the viewer into a consuming appreciator of the artist's seemingly unlabored work. It also entails a particular form of the visual contract normatively understood to exist between artist and viewer. Byronic artists are equipped to understand the seductively teasing nature of this contract because they base their art on the bodily interplay made permissible between hetero-and homosexual worlds by costuming and role playing. --EF Lynda Hart, "That Was Then: This Is Now: Ex-changing the Phallus" ABSTRACT: The concept of masochism has had to be rethought in light of recent developments in psychoanalysis, feminism, and gay and lesbian studies. Bersani and others, for example, have suggested that submission may be sexually emancipatory for men, thus making it a privileged rather than an oppressed position; women, meanwhile, continue to be considered naturally rather than performatively masochistic, and thus unable to benefit from masochism as a strategy. Such conceptualizations of the reality and/or theatricality of masochism and pornography still require lesbianism to be a negative ontology. The lesbian phallus, however, instigates a representational crisis by making no reference to the Real of the penis; it does not signify the presistence of a masculine or heterosexual identification. Rather, the lesbian phallus is the property of she who has given up what no one has. --[Ed.] Martin Rosenberg, "Dynamic and Thermodynamic Tropes of the Subject in Freud and in Deleuze and Guattari" ABSTRACT: The descriptions of human consciousness in Freud and in Deleuze and Guattari are problematic precisely in their inverse, mirrored opposition, and we may discover the "ground" for that opposition by examining the role played by tropes from the discipline of physics in these theorists' representations of subjectivity. We will need to notice the historical differences in the ideological use of these tropes. Yet, even contemporary theories of tropes have had recourse to the discipline of physics in order to model how tropes work. Drawing on Ilya Prigogine's confrontation with the rhetoricity governing a "clash of doctrines" between time-reversible (dynamic) and time-irreversible (thermodynamic) assumptions underlying investigations in the physical sciences, we will examine first the role of oppositional tropes from physics in theories of tropes. Second, we will observe the role that these tropes play in representing the subject: in Freud's "The Dreamwork," in Laplanche and Pontalis' account of Freud's subject-systems, and in Stallybrass and White's account of the unconscious as the site of the carnivalesque. We will then show how Deleuze and Guattari's representations of the subject in terms of the nomad and the rhizome, simply invert Freud's valorizing of the dynamic laws controlling thermodynamic processes, arguing instead for the celebration of the contingent and the indeterminate. In a telling passage on chess and Go as game theories of war in which chess becomes the discourse of %physis%, while Go becomes the discourse of %nomos%, Deleuze and Guattari seek to hide their own claims for a time-irreversible model of cultural resistance "grounded" in natural laws of a different sort than those justifying the rules of domination governing subjectivity and society since the Industrial Revolution. --MER ---------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS LISTSERV: NB: The Unix Listserv program does not accept the "f=mail" switch after get requests. Those of you who are familiar with the VM listserv procedures should NOT continue to use "f=mail" in your requests to the Unix Listserv. Likewise, the "package files" which we used with the VM Listserv to retrieve the entire issue with a one-line command are no longer available, but see the ftp instructions, below, for an easy way to retrieve the entire issue. 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Today's Topics: Call for papers: CONTESTED SEXUALITIES III ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- *********************CALL FOR PAPERS******************* CONTESTED SEXUALITIES III MARCH 18/19, 1994 BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY Proposed panel topics: (Including studies of ethnicity, nationality, gender, physical condition, age, class, race, color, language, etc.. . .). *Pedagogy and the Sex of Learning * Representing Queernes: Art, Literature, Pop Culture. . . * Political Action & Activism: Visibility and Community * Health & Disease: Identification, Desire, Politics *Social History _________________________________________________________ Activists in the academy and communities at large are asked to submit one-page abstracts of papers, presentations, and/or alternative panel suggestions by January 25, 1994 to: Lesiban/Gay Studies Coalition GSO #621 Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13901-6000 or email to: bc05319@bingvaxa.cc.binghamton.edu _________________________________________________________ -------------End---------------------------------------------------- 15-Apr-94 14:56:47-GMT,15406;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA01953 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 1994 10:56:45 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA01480; Fri, 15 Apr 94 10:56:39 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9404151456.AA01480@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA27875; Wed, 13 Apr 94 20:58:09 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA00169; Wed, 13 Apr 1994 20:58:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 20:58:20 -0400 Posted-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 20:58:20 -0400 Message-Id: <9404140038.AA29098@cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 4-13-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 10:56:39 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 4-13-94. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: RHETNET: A CyberJournal for Rhetoric and Writing [Yes, but what do we *do* about HR 3636] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Digital Journeys Collaborative World Wide Web Expressive Art Project CONFERENCE ON CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * R H E T N E T * A CyberJournal for Rhetoric and Writing *RHETNET Philosophy:* There are numerous places to talk on the Internet, and scholars in all fields are there (and there and there and there) pouring forth rivers of words. Amid the inevitable and voluptuous mundanity of those conversations reside moments of discovery, the fiery and spontaneous generation of knowledge, and even wisdom. These conversations, or parts of them, are worth saving and savoring. If we look at all of literature, including scholarly publication, as being one long, vast, intricate and diverse conversation, then the discussion online can be seen as part of the same discourse. The conversation is migrating to a new media, but the means of (attempting to) provide coherence are still developing. RHETNET is an effort to adapt the functions of academic print journals to the new environment. Journals simultaneously serve as the medium of conversation and the repository for knowledge. RHETNET serves those purposes, but takes the shape of its native environment: cyberspace. The project is both radical and conservative. RHETNET provides rhetoric and Internet students and scholars with the means of capturing, contextualizing, searching, and retrieving some of the intriguing and valuable conversations that occur on various parts of the Net, but which currently lie scattered and forgotten in dusty corners of the virtual world. It provides a repository of netscholarship on rhetoric and writing. We envision it as a decentered, organic repository for all the stuff of the Net that is of interest to the rhetoric and writing community, while also including space for various traditional types of scholarly discourse. *RHETNET Purpose:* 1. To act as an archive for Net conversations relating to rhetoric and writing. Few existing places of discourse (mailing lists, newsgroups, chat systems, MU*s), make an effort to capture those conversations in a form that would allow them to be reviewed reflectively and commented upon in the future. They lack the archival intent that RHETNET provides. 2. To offer a place for original publication of articles and essays. We're interested in retaining some aspects of traditional scholarly publishing, or at least exploring the possibilities for the co-existence of network and print-oriented forms and sensibilities. 3. To create appropriate help sheets, conference tutorials, or workshops on accessing the journal and advice that will help new members of the Net. 4. To promote netscholarship and community. *RHETNET Editorial Intent* The editorial management group is responsible for coordinating regular publication of refereed articles on rhetoric and writing, particularly as they are constituted in the network environments of a developing cyberspace. As the journal evolves, this traditional structure may meld with the forms of scholarship more native to the Net, the forms that other aspects of the journal discover through exploratory approaches to network publication. The editorial management group will also explore available possibilities for accomplishing the visions described above, for dispersing authority and responsibility, and for reconfiguring editorial and authorial roles in relation to the texts of this scholarly community. The group is responsible for developing the technological means for enacting the framework outlined above, including building and maintaing places in gopherspace, MOOspace, and the World Wide Web. And it studies ways to promote broad access among members of the online rhetoric and writing community, accounting for various levels of network experience and diverse technological environments. Anyone who is interested in being *actively* involved in the editorial or technological aspects of the journal is invited to join the editorial management group. Like the various scholarly communities on the Net, the main qualification for joining this effort is interest in writing, rhetoric, poetics, composition and critical theory, pedagogy, and online publication. Institutional credentials are not relevant. A Listserv list, RHETNT-L@mizzou1.bitnet, has been created to serve this effort, initially as a place to conduct asynchronous discussions about the project. The list is managed by Eric Crump. To subscribe, send email to LISTSERV@mizzou1.bitnet or LISTSERV@mizzou1.missouri.edu. Leave the subject line blank and in the first line of the note, put: sub RHETNT-L Your Name Anyone who has trouble subscribing should write to Eric at LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet or LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Price Caldwell Subject: Re: Digest ending 4-3-94 I applaud Jay Jaroslav's cogent announcement. But what does he recommend we do? I can't go to the symposium; I don't know enough about the technology; I'll be out of the country the next year; I know I want the future to bring an orderly access for evrybody to everybody else, rather than Big Brother. But I don't know how to effect that. Should I simply write my congressman and urge him to oppose HR 3636? Or is there a better idea? --Price Caldwell ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Digital Journeys Collaborative World Wide Web Expressive Art Project March 24th - April 12th ****What is it?: Digital Journeys is a World Wide Web based adventure into the process of exploration, inspiration and aesthetic response. Participants are encouraged to explore the Digital Journeys theme pages and become involved in the development of ideas by contributing images, text, digital movies, and audio to the project. ****Necessary capabilities to participate: Because images, audio, and digital movies are essential in the expression of our collective ideas, it is suggested you have access to the WWW and Mosaic or some other sufficiently advanced World Wide Web browser to fully explore the Digital Journeys project. If you don't have access to Mosaic, you can access the line mode Web Browser by telneting to info.cern.ch Mosaic is available for Unix, Macintoshes and Windows machines and can be downloaded from: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu You must be able to ftp images, text, audio, or movie files to the project site and E-mail the creator of the theme page. ****How you can contribute: Explore the Digital Journeys World Wide Web site. Become inspired, influenced, infuriated, or otherwise moved by something you see (or hear). You can respond to anything on the page. Anonymous ftp your poetry, short stories, random thoughts, images, digital movies, or audio files to ziris.syr.edu Put the file(s) into /incoming/themename (replace themename with the name of the directory relating to the theme page you are contributing to). E-mail the address at the bottom of the theme page and tell them what you would like your contribution to be linked to. If you do not care what it is linked to, that is fine - tell us so. In your e-mail message, you are encouraged to tell us where you are from and we will credit your contribution. If you would like us to use your name then please supply it. ****Technical Information: URL: http://ziris.syr.edu/home.html FTP site: ziris.syr.edu For more information contact: Bonnie Mitchell: bonniem@mailbox.syr.edu Drew Farris: alfarris@mailbox.syr.edu File formats accepted: .gif (Compuserve GIF) .jpg (JPEG) .txt (any text file) .mov (Quicktime Movie) .mpg (MPEG) .au (Sun Audio) ****Suggested tips: If you want your image on the page and not an external image, you should keep the size relatively small (less that 4 inches square, about 300x300 pixels @ 75 dpi) and it must be a GIF file. JPEG images will be external images and can be larger. Quicktime should be cross-platform Quicktime and should be smaller than 5 megabytes if possible. We have limited diskspace, and we are trying to keep the amount of time spent downloading media to a minimum. MPEG files should be smaller than 5 megabytes. Audio files should be kept to a reasonable size (5 megs, also?) We may be able to do file format conversions for you, on an individual per request basis. ****Final words: We will do our best to merge all the contributions into a unified collective expression of ideas and responses. Please allow time for the linking to occur (we may have tons of contributions to artistically ponder before linking them up). Feel free to make suggestions and contribute in the artistic decision making process. ----------------------------------------------------------------- MCLUHAN PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, HOSTS CONFERENCE ON CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY - MAY 25 TO 28 IN TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA FOR REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION CALL KATHRYN AT 416-978-7026 (Fax 416-979-5324, E-mail derrick@epas.utoronto.ca) Technology's impact on culture is no longer a matter of chance but an issue of choice. Culture is a result of the technologies we choose to implement. We are at a point where the available technologies now present infinite possibilities. The question is no longer What can we do? but What do we want? Technology is forging in a new alliance between business and culture. Today's entrepreneur is frequently a combination of technology specialist, cultural analyst and artist. This new generation of business people identifies and capitalizes on business opportunities that arise where culture and technology converge. CULTURE TECHNOLOGIES CONVERGENCE CONFERENCE OF ONTARIO AND THE FOUR MOTORS OF EUROPE brings together some of the best and brightest innovators from business, the arts, museums, design, and creators and developers of new technologies from Europe and Ontario. Delegates from related but separate areas of expertise will join to bring new perspective to issues of current importance in culture and technology from their own unique vantage points. Internationally renowned in their fields, many of the speakers are owners or directors of businesses that involve the successful merging of culture and technology - people who have taken the critical leap to turn what they have imagined into a business reality. CONFERENCE PACKAGE: $300 CDN Students $175 (+ GST) Including: sessions noted PLUS: opening reception at the Design Exchange, May 25; dinner and performances using new technologies at the Art Gallery of Ontario, May 26; free 3-day admission to the MULTIMEDIA '94 Trade show, Metro Convention Centre. OPENING KEYNOTE: May 25 - 6 pm reception, 7:15 pm keynote, Design Exchange Phillippe Queau - founder of IMAGINA, a major European new technology exposition PUTTING CULTURE INTO BUSINESS: DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY May 26 - 9 am to 12:30 pm Metro Convention Centre (co-ordinating with the opening of MULTIMEDIA '94) 2 to 6:15, Design Exchange, 7:30 pm, dinner, Art Gallery of Ontario Design interprets and provides access to technology and facilitates its adoption. The designer's vision often is the quickest avenue to understanding how things work. How are designers from various disciplines working with and interpreting multimedia, interactivity and other technologies? 13 speakers/panelists including Mai Felip - Director of the Barcelona Design Centre Thomas J. Jermoluk - President of Silicon Graphics, opening speaker for MULTIMEDIA '94 John Tyson - Vice President, Corporate Design Group Bell - Northern Research, multinational designers and producers of telecommunications equipment and systems Gaetano Pesce - one of Italy's most renowned architects and industrial designers CULTURE IS OUR BUSINESS: INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS May 27 - 9 am to 4:00 pm, Art Gallery of Ontario Cultural institutions are competing for audiences in an open market of education and entertainment. How can they harness new technologies for greater relevance? 14 speakers/panelists including: Robert Fulford - Journalist, cultural observer and analyst, Toronto Xavier Berenguer - Director, AudioVisual Institute, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona Thomas Haegele - Film Academy, Ludwigsburg Gail Dexter Lord - President, Lord Cultural Resources - planning and management for cultural institutions and attractions, Canada, U.K., Asia-Pacific, U.S. George MacDonald - Director, Canadian Museum of Civilization BUSINESS IS OUT CULTURE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE May 28 - 9 am to 4:30 pm, Design Exchange Technology is changing culture via business. What are the opportunities arising now and in the near future for businesses in which culture and technology converge? 8 speakers/panelists including: Montxo Algora -Director Art Futura, Barcelona Derrick de Kerckhove - Director, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Toronto. Ezio Manzini - Director of Design, Domus Academy, Milan Jeffrey Shaw - Director of Media Arts Research Section, ZKM Karisuhe ---------------END-------------------------------------------------- 15-Apr-94 15:23:48-GMT,27090;000000000000 Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu (mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.2]) by klinzhai.rutgers.edu (8.6.8.1+bestmx/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA03169 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 1994 11:23:45 -0400 Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA04135; Fri, 15 Apr 94 11:23:43 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9404151523.AA04135@aramis.rutgers.edu> Received: from sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA09850; Mon, 4 Apr 94 08:22:26 EDT Received: from (localhost.eos.ncsu.edu) by sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu (5.67b/SYSTEMS 12-28-92 15:15:00) id AA18759; Mon, 4 Apr 1994 08:22:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 08:22:31 -0400 Posted-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 08:22:31 -0400 Message-Id: <9404040623.AA20726@sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu> Errors-To: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Originator: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: pmc-talk@listserv.ncsu.edu Precedence: bulk From: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu To: mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu Subject: Digest ending 4-3-94 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: NCSU Post Modern Culture Talk Resent-To: mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 11:23:43 EDT Resent-From: charles mcgrew PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 4-3-94 PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send your first and last name and a request for subscription to PMC@UNITY.NCSU.EDU (internet). Today's Topics: H.R. 3636 University of Maryland Symposium and Open House Hakim Bey's essay "T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone" Screensites Conference ARL and AAUP Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND OTHERS CONCERNED WITH CULTURAL LIFE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: H.R. 3636 WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES. It is being debated RIGHT NOW. H.R. 3636 is the National Communications Competition and Information Infrastructure Act of 1993, and it is shaping our future to an extent that may be hard to grasp. In a just-over-the-horizon information landscape of almost unlimited potential, H.R. 3636 will determine just how much territory we can have access to, how easily, how often, and at what cost. We are at the threshold of a quantum leap in communications technology similar in scope to the advent of electricity and the introduction of the telephone. Although most of us can't see this change coming, and can't comprehend its language ("bandwidth", "interoperability", "open-platform", etc.), that failure of perception will not diminish its soon-to-be-felt and all-pervasive effects. The question is not how to deliver more and more pre-packaged programming on more and more channels to individuals in the home, classroom, or office. It is how, in each of those situations, individuals can have the opportunity to participate in a whole new model, actively seeking out the information they need and the audiences they want to reach. The potential of this new model may never be realized however. Decisions that will determine levels of access and interactivity on the emerging National Information Infrastructure are being made right now. Tremendous pressure is being applied by groups whose interests are primarily profit-related and do not coincide with the interests of the general public.* On October 14-16, the Center for Art Research and The New Art Center are sponsoring an important international symposium at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts that will lay the groundwork for a response to this crisis. The symposium will bring together representatives of the arts and humanities, government officials, network technologists and telecommunications visionaries who share the common goal of assuring maximum individual access to high-capacity interactivity on any proposed electronic infrastructure. The view of individuals and organizational representatives in the arts and humanities have special relevance to the issue of access and interactive potential. Museums and libraries are the major repositories of cultural information: collected history and heritage which can add significant value give meaning and context to our lives. Arts organizations produce cultural expressions through performances and exhibitions and, through their education and out-reach programs, encourage the spirit of creativity and innovation in our youth that interactivity demands. Individual artists, writers, film-makers and musicians are examples of persons who are already active communicators, forming unique information syntheses and seeking appropriate audiences for them. The next twelve months will see crucial telecommunications policy decisions being made. This symposium will be one of the key public opportunities for high-level interactions leading to the formation of partnerships, alliances and working-groups that could affect current policy and proposed legislation. We hope you will be able to attend. * Pat Aufderheide, in _In_These_Times_, quotes John Malone, CEO of TCI as saying to Jeff Greenberg on ABC's _American_Agenda_, "Nobody would invest hundreds of millions of dollars for the public interest. One would be fired if one took that stance." -------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Jaroslav, Director Internet: jaroslav@artdata.win.net CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH 241 A Street Boston, MA voice: (617) 451-8030 02210-1302 USA fax: (617) 451-1196 -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK HUMAN-COMPUTERH INTERACTION LABORATORY 11th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM & OPEN HOUSE June 13, 1994 Laying the Foundation for the Information Super Highway: Human-Computer Interaction Research June 14, 1994 Superteaching in the Electronic Classroom: Concepts, Design and Evaluation June 14, 1994 Interfaces to Imagination: Art, Music, and Poetry in the Digital Village Sponsored by Center for Automation Research University of Maryland with additional support from Computer Science Center Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Institute for Systems Research ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ June 13,1994, HCIL 11th Annual Symposium & Open House Laying the Foundation for the Information Super Highway: Human-Computer Interaction Research Tydings Hall, Room 0130, 9am-2:30pm Co-Chairs Ben Shneiderman, Gary Marchionini, Kent Norman, Catherine Plaisant * Is Easy-to-Use Enough for Information Retrieval? An Evaluation of WAIS (Wide Area Information System) - Gary Marchionini * How Do Users Organize Their Files and Directories? - Deborah Barreau * Lessons from the Widget Carvers of College Park: Specifying New Interaction Widgets for use with a Platform Independent User Interface Builder - Dave Carr & Richard Chimera * Satellite Network Management: Cracking the Complexity Barrier with Task-Oriented Design - Catherine Plaisant & Harsha Kumar * Treemaps for Hierarchical Data Visualization: Mature Technology for Real Tasks - Marko Teittinen * Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Queries and Starfield Displays - Ben Shneiderman * Role Manager: Window Environments for Managing Long-Term Projects - Catherine Plaisant * Programming Graphical Macros with Pixel Pattern Matching: Universal End-User Programming for Free: Richard Potter * Enhancing Selection in Splay Menus with Color and Spatial Cues - Ben Harper * Locus of Control and Levels of Interaction as Determinants of Lecture Effectiveness in the Electronic Classroom - Diane Alonso * Dynamic Control/Display Ratios for Computer Pointing Devices - Blake Sobiloff * Evaluating a Small HyperText as a Medium for Learning - Scott Butler ~ ~ * ~ ~Demonstrations, 2:30pm-5pm~ ~ * ~ ~ * Computer Science - AV Williams Building FilmFinder: Visual Information Seeking with Smooth Zooming Treemaps for the PC and Macintosh Triggers: Graphical Macros with Pixel Pattern Matching Health Statistics Atlas with Dynamic Queries Hyperties: Multimedia for Browsing and Learning Role Manager: The Future of Window Management Hughes Satellite Network Management Prototype * Psychology - Zoo-Psych Building HyperCourseware: An Integrated Package for Educational Environments The Mole: A Foot Operated Cursor Control Input Device QUIS On-Line: The Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction Computer Pointing Devices Splay Menus * College of Library and Information Services - Hornbake Classroom Building Perseus Multimedia ~ ~ * ~ ~Materials~ ~ * ~ ~ * 1 hour video of HCIL projects * Software demo disk * Collection of recent HCIL technical reports * Full set of visual materials used in the morning lectures ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ June 14, 1994 Superteaching in the Electronic Classroom: Concepts, Design and Evaluation AT&T Teaching Theater - Engineering, Room 3140 and IBM-TQ Teaching Theater - Van Munching Hall, Room 2203, 9am Immersive experience in two teaching theaters linked by video, with lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. As more and more technology is used in the classroom, does a learning theory emerge which explains how teaching in an electronic, media-rich environment enhances the learning process? Chair: Theodore Stone, Computer Science Center * Superteaching in the Electronic Classroom - keynote address presented via video by Glenn Ricart, Director of the Computer Science Center * A Naturally Unfolding Paradigm of Software Development for the Electronic Classroom -Theodore Stone, Coordinator of the Teaching Technologies Group of the Computer Science Center * Electronic Imaging: Changing the Focus of Art History (and Other Visually-Based Instruction.) - Walter Gilbert, Manager of the Teaching Technologies Group of the Computer Science Center * Students Construction of Knowledge in Technology-Rich and Collaborative Settings - Judith Torney-Purta, Professor of Human Development * Navigating the Educational Space with Hypercourseware - Kent Norman, Associate Professor of Psychology * Education By Engagement & Construction - Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science * Extending Collaborative Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls - Bradley Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Information Systems * Building Concepts in Physics Using Computer Visualization - Edward Redish, Professor of Physics * History as a Laboratory Science - Chad McDaniel, Manager of the Academic Software Development Group, Computer Science Center ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ June 14, 1994 Interfaces to Imagination: Art, Music, and Poetry in the Digital Village South Campus Surge, Room 1120, 9am Presentations, panel discussion, and studio demonstrations to explore multiple uses of electronic technology in the arts. New tools and vocabularies, changing boundaries and definitions. Co-chairs: Terry Gips, Department of Art, Robert Kolker, Department of English * Memories, Metaphors, & Megabytes-Terry Gips, Artist, Director of The Art Gallery, Faculty, Department of Art * Beyond Traditional Art Forms: Creating Art with Digital Tools-Ruth Leavitt, Department of Visual Arts, UMBC * Re-imagining the Reel: Digital Imaging and Video Art-Charles Woodman, Artist, Washington, DC * Ex Machina: A Composers View-Robert Gibson, Department of Music * Cinematic Interfaces: Controlling the Moving Image-Robert Kolker, Department of English ~ ~ * ~ ~Open Studio & Demonstrations~ ~ * ~ ~ * Electronic Media Center Jeff Bloomberg, Department of Art Ruth Leavitt, Department of Visual Arts, UMBC Terry Gips, Artist, Director of The Art Gallery, Faculty, Department of Art * MIDI Lab Robert Gibson, Department of Music * Hardware and Software for Publication Design Kerstin Neteler, University Publications * Mosaic: How Sound and Moving Images Will Change the Nature of Scholarly and Scientific Writing Robert Kolker, Department of English ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ Registration ~ ~ * ~ ~June 13, 1994~ ~ * ~ ~ Laying the Foundation for the Information Super Highway ( ) $150 Industry - Full fee includes videotape, technical reports, handouts, demo disk and lunch buffet ( ) $110 Faculty/Staff - University faculty & staff fee includes videotape, technical reports, handouts, demo disk and lunch buffet ( ) Student - Free registrations without materials or lunch will be granted to full-time undergraduate and graduate students space permitting ~ ~ * ~ ~June 14, 1994~ ~ * ~ ~ Superteaching in the Electronic Classroom ( ) $80 Industry ( ) $50 Faculty/Staff ( ) Student ~ ~ * ~ ~June 14, 1994~ ~ * ~ ~ Interfaces to Imagination ( ) $60 Industry ( ) $40 Educator/Art Practitioner ( ) Student Name: __________________________________________________ Company name:___________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Email: ________________________ Phone: _____________________ ~ ~ * ~ ~Directions and Parking Info:~ ~ * ~ ~ Please enclose a self addressed stamped envelope with your registration by May 27, 1994 to receive ___ a map and/or ____ a parking permit (indicate what you need). After May 27, permits cannot be requested, so plan to bring lots of quarters for parking meters. There is a 10% reduction for group of 4 or more from the same organization and registering together. Contact Teresa Casey (see below) for details. Since we CANNOT accept charge cards or cash, please enclose with your registration your check made payable to The University of Maryland, or a purchase order with the reference CFAR/HCIL-OH94. Mail to: Teresa Casey HCIL AV Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-3255 e-mail: tcasey@cs.umd.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Hakim Bey A discussion of Hakim Bey's essay "T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone" is about to start on the thinknet mailing list "avant-garde". All interested are invited to join. To subscribe to the list, send the command subscribe avant-garde to majordomo@world.std.com. The text of "T.A.Z." appears in in the book: Bey, Hakim. _T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism_. New York: Autonomedia, 1991. ISBN # 0-936756-76-4. The book is priced under $7. On-line copies of the essay are available on the World Wide Web, at http://www.ifi.uio.no/~mariusw/bey/, by ftp from etext.archive.umich.edu in file pub/Politics/Spunk/texts/@writers/Bey/Spunk058.txt, and by ftp or gopher from wiretap.spies.com in file /Library/Document/taz.txt. If you need instructions for using ftp or any further info about the matter at hand, please contact ma@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Malgosia Askanas). I apologize if you receive duplicates of this message; I am trying to spread the word. -------------------------------------------------------------- Screensites Conference, April 22-23, 1994 The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University 3465 Peel Street (Schedule is subject to change) Friday, April 22 9:00 am Registration and Coffee, Lobby, GPC 9:30-11:00 am Room 202 Sites of Virtual Space/Sighting Virtual Spaces Chair: Lynne Darroch Brent-Palmer, Cora (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Beyond the Hegemony of Sight: Towards Conceptualizing Screen-Based Electronic Media (SBEM) as Sites of Multisensorial Politics." Goldberg, Lydia (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "On-Line: Tele- Teaching and the Panoptic Gaze" Wauters, Brennan (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Influences of Absorptive Technologies on Social Communication." 11:30-1:00 pm Room 203 Designing the Virtual Chair: Brennan Wauters Cook, Kevin (Montreal Artist, UQAM) "Semiotic Variety in Digital Video Imagery: The Case of Maxwell's Demon.." Downes, Dann (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Playing with Virtual Reality: Transitional Phenomena and Computer Games." Varnelis, Kazys (History and Theory of Architecture, Cornell University) "Screening Architecture: Subject, Agency, Visual Language, and Computer Aided Design." 11:30-1:00 pm Room 202 Queerying Screens Chair: Kyle Mechar Scilley, Joel (Communications/Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh) "How do I Look Back?: Stuart Marshall and the Post-Pink Triangle Present." Seltzer, Katharine Adrienne (Communications, Concordia University) "Butch/Femme & Drag: Reclamation, Re- articulation and the Politics of Queer Cultural Identities through the Canadian Films Forbidden Love and Lip Gloss ." Winzell, Cherie (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Instinctive Images: Queer and Campy, or Downright Nasty?." 1:00-2:30 pm LUNCH 2:30-4:00 pm Room 202 Boys Will be Boys: Reconfiguring Screened Masculinity Chair: Berkeley Kaite Pennant, Robert E. (Drama and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto) "Panic and Pleasure: Watching the Male Victim in the Horror Film." Loftus, Laurie (Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University) "Fear of Falling Down : The Cultural Production of the White Male Martyr." Mechar, Kyle (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Negotiating Masculinity: Masquerading as the Heterosexual Poster-Boy in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia." 4:30-6:00 pm Room 203 The Emergence of Screen-Sites Chair: Will Straw Beaty, Bart (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Pre Jules and the Popular Front: Vigo, Bataille, and the Possibilities of Working Class Culture" Walker, Jane (Cinema Studies, University of Toronto) "From Babel to Babble: History and Alienation in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance." Woller, Joel (Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University) "Off-Screen Sites: Hollywood Screenwriting Manuals, 1912-1922." 6:00 pm Screenings: TBA 6:30 pm Opening reception, GPC Building, Room 202 Saturday, April 23 9:00 am Coffee, Lobby, GPC 9:30-11:00 am Room 202 Visualizing the (In)visible Chair: Anne Beaulieu Braithwaite, Ann (Comparative Literature, University of Rochester) "Imaging Beauty and Health: The Sight and Site of Body Management." Johnson, Stacey (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "The Stereoscope and Feminist Theory: Imperfectly Constituted Partners in Theory." Maranda, Michael (Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester) "Gendered Screens: Sexual Politics in Text- Based Virtual Realities." 9:30-11:00 am Room 203 Siting the Other On-Screen Chair: Peter Van Wyck Melnychuk, Linda (Communications, Concordia University) "Marginalization and Trihn T. Mihn-ha." White, Bob (Dept. of Anthropology, McGill University) "Filming Ourselves into a Corner: Collaboration and the Colonial Encounter." Respondent: Peter Van Wyck (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University). 11:30-1:00 pm Room 202 Visualizing the Body through Technology Chair: Haidee Wasson Beaulieu, Anne (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "The Proof is in the Pixel: Computed Micrography and Medical Diagnosis." Marchessault, Janine (Dept. of English-Cultural Studies, McGill University) "Cracking the Code: Informatics and the Popular Discourse of the Body Archive." Mitchell, Lisa. (Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University) "Sneak Previews: Ultrasound Screens and Fetal Stars." 11:30-1:00 pm Room 203 Is Mediation the Message? Chair: Dann Downes Darroch, Lynne (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "(Re)Discovering the Audience: the Underground Goes Public." Jackson, Joe (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Game Boys (and Girls, too): Video Games and Gender." Sinclair, Struan (Dept. of English, McGill University) "Crocodile Tears or Real Fears: Fiction, Documentary, and Emotion." 1:00-2:30 pm LUNCH 2:30-4:00 pm Room 202 Screening Histories, Siting Pasts Chair: Stacey Johnson MacKenzie, Scott (The Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University) "Schecter's List: Documentary Histories, Holocaust Allegories, a