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8) _Differences_
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10) _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_
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ESSAYS ON POSTMODERN CULTURE
Available in December, 1993:
An anthology of essays from _Postmodern Culture_ is forthcoming
in print from Oxford University Press. The works collected here
constitute practical engagments with the postmodern--from AIDS
and the body to postmodern politics.
--"I laughed, I cried. The feelgood
critical book of the year." --Jonathan Beasley
--"Two thumbs up!" --Chris Barrett
CONTENTS:
George Yudice, "Feeding the Transcendent Body"
Allison Fraiberg, "Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and other Indiscretions:
Resurfacing the Body in the Postmodern"
David Porush and Allison Fraiberg, "Commentary: An Exchange"
Stuart Moulthrop, "You Say You Want a Revolution: Hypertext and
the Laws of Media"
Paul McCarthy, "Postmodern Pleasure and Perversity: Scientism
and Sadism"
Roberto Maria Dianotto, "The Excremental Sublime: The Postmodern
Literature of Blockage and Release"
Audrey Ecstavasia, "Fucking (with Theory) for Money: Towards an
Interrogation of Escort Prostitution"
Elizabeth Wheeler, "Buldozing the Subject"
Bob Perelman, "The Marginalization of Poetry"
Steven Helmling, "Marxist Pleasure: Jameson and Eagleton"
Neil Larsen, "Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics
in Latin America"
David Mikics, "Postmodernism, Ethnicity, and Underground
Revisionism in Ishmael Reed"
Barrett Watten, "Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii
Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov"
ISBN: 0-19-508752-6 (hardbound)
0-19-508753-4 (paper)
_Essays in Postmodern Culture_
will be available at
the MLA in Toronto
December, 1993
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_BLACK ICE BOOKS_
_Black Ice Books_ is a new alternative trade paperback series
that will introduce readers to the latest wave of dissident
American writers. Breaking out of the bonds of mainstream
writing, the voices published here are subversive, challenging
and provocative. The first four books include:
_Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation_
Edited by Larry McCaffery, this book is an assemblage of
innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics and various
other unclassifiable texts by writers like Samuel Delany, Mark
Leyner, William Vollmann, Kathy Acker, Eurdice, Stephen Wright,
Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe, Tim Ferret, Ricardo Cortez Cruz and
many others.
"One of the least cautious, nerviest editors going, Larry
McCaffery is the No-Care Bear of American Letters."
-- William Gibson.
"A clusterbomb of crazy fiction, from a generation too sane to
repeat yesterday's lies."
-- Tom Robbins
_New Noir_
Stories by John Shirley
John Shirley bases his stories on his personal experience of
extreme people and extreme mental states, and on his struggle
with the seduction of drugs, crime, prostitution and violence.
"John Shirley is an adventurer, returning from dark and troubled
regions with visionary tales to tell."
-- Clive Barker
_The Kafka Chronicles_
a novel by Mark Amerika
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ultracontemporary twentysomething guerilla artist who is lost in
an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters
an unusual cast of angry yet sensual characters
"Mr Amerika--if indeed that is his name--has achieved a unique
beauty in his artful marriage of Blake's lyricism and the iron-
in-the-soul of Celine. Are we taking a new and hard-hitting
Antonin Artaud? Absolutely. And much more."
--Terry Southern
_Revelation Countdown_
by Cris Mazza
Stories that project onto the open road not the nirvana of
personal freedom but rather a type of freedom more resembling
loss of control.
"Talent jumps off her like an overcharge of electricity."
--LA Times
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_Black Sacred Music_
A Journal of Theomusicology
Presenting the proceedings of an important conference held in
Blantyre, Malawi in November of 1992, this volume represents a
significant step for the African Christian church toward
incorporating indigenous African arts and culture into it
liturgy. Recognizing that the African Christian church continues
to define itself in distinctly Western terms, forty-nine
participants from various denominations and all parts of Africa--
Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius,
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon--and the United States
met to share ideas and experiences and to establish strategies
for the indigenization of Christianity in African churches.
Other special issues by single copy:
The William Grant Still Reader
presents the collected writings of this respected American
composer. Still offered a perspective on American music and
society informed by a diversity of experience and associations
that few others have enjoyed. His distinguished career spanned
jazz, traditional African-American idioms, and the European
avant-garde, and his compositions ranged from chamber music to
opera.
Sacred Music of the Secular City
delves into the American religious imagination by examining the
religious roots and historical circumstances of popular music.
Includes essays on musicians Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington,
Marvin Gaye, Madonna, and 2 Live Crew.
Subscription prices: $30 institutions, $15 individuals. Single
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_boundary 2_
an international journal of literature and culture
Paul Bove, editor
Forthcoming in 1993:
The Violence of Light in the Land of Desire; or How William Jones
Discovered India / Jenny Sharp
Veiled Woman and Veiled Narrative in Tahar Ben Jelloun's _The
Sandchild_ / John. D. Erickson
The Ideologies and Semiotics of Fascism: Analyzing Pound's
_Cantos 12-15_ / Stephen Hartnett
Lionel Trilling, _The Liberal Imagination_, and the Emergence of
the Cultural Discourse of Anti-Stalinism / Russell J. Reising
Divine Politics: Virginia Woolf's Journey toward Eleusis in _To
the Lighthouse_ / Tina Barr
%Saxa loquuntur%: Freud's Archaeology of the Text / Sabine Hake
Deleuze's Nietzsche / Petra Perry
A Tyranny of Justice: The Ethics of Lyotard's Differend / Allen
Dunn
Thinking\Writing the Postmodern: Representation, End, Ground,
Sending / Jeffrey T. Nealon
Three issues annually
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_The Centennial Review_
Edited by R.K. Meiners
_The Centennial Review_ is committed to reflection on
intellectual work, particularly as set in the University and its
environment. We are interested in work that examines models of
theory and communication in the physical, biological, and human
sciences; that re-reads major texts and authoritative documents
in different disciplines or explores interpretive procedures;
that questions the cultural and social implications of research
in a variety of disciplines.
**SPECIAL ISSUE**
POLAND: FROM REAL SOCIALISM TO DEMOCRACY
Winter 1993
Guest Editor: Stephen Esquith
Essays on events and ideas in recent Polish history, culture, and
politics.
Adam Michnik:
_An Interview with Leszek Kolakowski_
Marek Ziolkowski:
_The Case of the Polish Intelligentsia_
Marian Kempny:
_On the Relevance of Social Anthropology
to the Study of Post-Communist Culture_
Plus: Lagowski, Narojek, Szszkowska, Buchowski, and others.
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_College Literature_
A Triannual Literary Journal for the Classroom
Edited by Kostas Myrsiades
A triannual journal of scholarly criticism dedicated to serving
the needs of College/University teachers by providing them with
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"My sense is that _College Literature_ will have substantial
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Forthcoming issues:
Third World Women's Literature
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_CONTENTION_
Debates in Society, Culture, and Science
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_Differences_
A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
QUEER THEORY: LESBIAN AND GAY SEXUALITIES
(Volume 3, Number 2)
Edited by Teresa de Lauretis
Teresa de Lauretis: _Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities
An Introduction_
Sue Ellen Case: _Tracking the Vampire_
Samuel R. Delany: _Street Talk/Straight Talk_
Elizabeth A. Grosz: _Lesbian Fetishism?_
Jeniffer Terry: _Theorizing Deviant Historiography_
Thomas Almaguer: _Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual
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Ekua Omosupe: _Black/Lesbian/Bulldagger_
Earl Jackson, Jr.: _Scandalous Subjects: Robert Gluck's
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Julia Creet: _Daughter of the Movement: The
Psychodynamics of Lesbian S/M Fantasy_
THE PHALLUS ISSUE
(Volume 4, Number 1)
Edited by Naomi Schor and Elizabeth Weed
Maria Torok: _The Meaning of "Penis Envy" in Women (1963)_
Jean-Joseph Goux: _The Phallus: Masculine Identity and the
"Exchange of Women"_
Parveen Adams: _Waiving the Phallus_
Kaja Silverman: _The Lacanian Phallus_
Charles Bernheimer: _Penile Reference in Phallic Theory_
Judith Butler: _The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological
Imaginary_
Jonathan Goldberg: _Recalling Totalities: The Mirrored Stages
of Arnold Schwarzenegger_
Emily Apter: _Female Trouble in the Colonial Harem_
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_DISCOURSE_
Volume 15, Number 1
SPECIAL ISSUE
FLAUNTING IT: LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES
Kathryn Baker: Delinquent Desire: Race, Sex, and Ritual in
Reform Schools for Girls
Terralee Bensinger: Lesbian Pornography: The Re-Making of (a)
Community
Scott Bravmann: Investigating Queer Fictions of the Past:
Identities, Differences, and Lesbian and Gay
Historical Self-Representations
Sarah Chinn and Kris Franklin: "I am What I Am" (Or Am I?):
Making and Unmaking of Lesbian and Gay Identity in _High
Tech Boys
Greg Mullins: Nudes, Prudes, and Pigmies: The Desirability of
Disavowal in _Physical Culture Magazine_
JoAnn Pavletich: Muscling the Mainstream: Lesbian Murder
Mysteries and Fantasies of Justice
David Pendelton: Obscene Allegories: Narrative Structures in
Gay Male Porn
Thomas Piontek: Applied Metaphors: AIDS and Literature
June L. Reich: The Traffic in Dildoes: The Phallus as Camp and
the Revenge of the Genderfuck
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_The Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_
We are very pleased by the great interest in the _Electronic
Journal on Virtual Culture_. There are already more than 1,280
people subscribed.
Our first issue was distributed in March 1993. The future looks
very interesting. Editors are working on Special Issues on
education, law, qualitative research, and dynamics in virtual
culture.
The _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ (EJVC) is a refereed
scholarly journal that fosters, encourages, advances and
communicates scholarly thought on virtual culture. Virtual
culture is computer-mediated experience, behavior, action,
interaction and thought, including electronic conferences,
electronic journals, networked information systems, the
construction and visualization of models of reality, and global
connectivity.
EJVC is published monthly. Some parts may be distributed at
different times during the month or published only occasionally
(e.g. CyberSpace Monitor). If you would be interested in writing
a column on some general topic area in the Virtual Culture (e.g.
an advice column for questions about etiquette, technology, etc.
?) or have an article to submit or would be interested in editing
a special issue contact Ermel Stepp Editor-in-Chief of Diane
Kovacs Co-Editor at the e-mail addresses listed below. You can
retrieve the file EJVC AUTHORS via anonymous ftp to
byrd.mu.wvnet.edu (pub/ejvc) or via e-mail to listserv@kentvm or
listserv@kentvm.kent.edu
Cordially,
Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief
MO34050@Marshall.wvnet.edu
Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor
DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu
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_GENDERS_
Ann Kibbey, Editor
University of Colorado, Boulder
Since 1988, _GENDERS_ has presented innovative theories of gender
and sexuality in art, literature, history, music, photography,
TV, and film. Today, _GENDERS_ continues to publish both new and
known authors whose work reflects an international movement to
redefine the boundaries of traditional doctrines and disciplines.
------------------------------
_GENDERS_ is published triannually in Spring, Fall, Winter
Single Copy rates: Individual $9, Institution $14
Foreign postage, add $2/copy
Subscription rates: Individual $24, Institution $40
Foreign postage, add $5.50/subscription
Send orders to:
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Box 7819
Austin TX 78713
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M/E/A/N/I/N/G
A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues
M/E/A/N/I/N/G, an artist-run journal of contemporary art, is a
fresh, lively, contentious, and provocative forum for new ideas
in the arts.
M/E/A/N/I/N/G is published twice a year in the fall and spring.
It is edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor.
M/E/A/N/I/N/G #13 is a vivid mix of writings by artists and art
historians. Curtis Mitchell's "Working the Park" considers the
sublime and the abject through the travails of an installation
artist's efforts at public sculpture; Jordan Crandall's
"Transactional Space" speaks of new systems of art communication
and production at the limits of information technology; Jo Anna
Isaak sheds new light on colonialist discourse in Matisse's "The
Comfy Chair"; painting illiteracy is considered in Mira Schor's
"Course Proposal;" Daryl Chin's "Those Little White Lies"
critiques art history as an instrument of capitalism; an artist's
spiritual sources are explored in David Reed's "Media Baptisms."
Also in this issue: Definitions of "Art" by Stewart Buettner;
Book and video reviews by Barry Schwabsky, Susan Bee, Johanna
Drucker, Stephen O'Leary Harvey, and Robert C. Morgan.
>From issue #13, Spring 1993
"The sublime consists of a major dose of entropy, with the
picturesque as only a condiment."
-- Curtis Mitchell
"In all likelihood, what Matisse actually saw of a harem was what
any tourist would see -- the high outer walls of the compound."
-- Jo Anna Isaak
"If 'good' painting is suspect and unseen, then it might help to
look at some bad painting just as closely."
-- Mira Schor
"The artwork becomes a Marxist Christmas tree on which are hung
gaudy baubles of 'late capitalism.'"
-- Daryl Chin
"Rationality or belief don't work well now for painting.
Suspension--doubt, works best."
-- David Reed
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2 ISSUES (1 YEAR):
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All checks should be made payable to Mira Schor
Send all subscriptions to:
Mira Schor
60 Lispenard Street
New York, NY 10013
Limited supply of back issues available at $6 each, contact Mira
Schor for information.
Distributed with the Segue Foundation and the Solo Foundation
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_Minnesota Review_
Tell your friends! Tell your librarians!
The new _Minnesota Review_'s coming to town!
**now under new management**
Fall 1992 issue (n.s. 39): "PC WARS"
includes essays by:
* Richard Ohmann "On PC and related matters"
* Michael Berube "Exigencies of Value"
* Barry Sarchett "Russell Jacoby, Anti-
Professionalism, and the Politics
of Cultural Nostalgia"
* Michael Sprinkler "The War Against Theory"
* Balance Chow "Liberal Education Left and Right"
Spring 1993 issue (n.s. 40): "THE POLITICS OF AIDS"
Poetry, Fiction, Interviews, Essays.
topics include:
* Queer Theory and activism.
* Public image of AIDS.
* Politics of medical research.
* Health care policies.
Subscriptions are $10 a year (two issues), $20
institutions/overseas. The new _Minnesota Review_ is published
biannually and originates from East Carolina University beginning
with the Fall 1992 special issue.
Send all queries, comments, suggestions, submissions, and
subscriptions to:
Jeffrey Williams, Editor
_Minnesota Review_
Department of English
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
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NOMAD
An Interdisciplinary Journal of
The Humanities,
Arts,
And Sciences
**************************************************************
Manuscript submissions wanted in all interdisciplinary fields!
Nomad is a forum for those texts that explore or examine the
undefined regions among critical theory, visual arts, and
writing. It is a bi-annual, not-for-profit, independent
publication for provocative cross-disciplinary work of all
cultural types, such as intermedia artwork, metatheory, and
experimental writing, as well as literary, theoretical,
political, and popular writing. While our editorial staff
is comprized of artists and academics in a variety of
disciplines, NOMAD strives to operate in a space outside of
mainstream academic discourse and without institutional
funding or controls.
Manuscripts should not exceed fifteen pages (exclusive of
references); any form is acceptable. If possible, please
submit manuscripts on 3.5" Macintosh disks, in either
MicroSoft Word or MacWrite II format, or by E-mail. Each
manuscript submitted on disk must be accompanied by a paper
copy. Otherwise, please send two copies of each manuscript.
Artwork submitted must be no larger than 8 1/2" x 11", and
in black and white. PICT, TIFF, GIF, and JPEG files on
3.5" Macintosh disks are acceptable, if accompanied by a
paper copy (or via E-mail, bin-hexed or uuencoded). All
artwork must be camera-ready. Submissions by regular mail
should include a SASE with sufficient postage attached if
return is desired. Diskettes should be shipped in standard
diskette mailing packages.
Subscriptions: $9 per year (2 issues)
Send Manuscripts and Inquiries to:
NOMAD, c/o
Mike Smith
406 Williams Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, 32306
(msmith@garnet.acns.fsu.edu)
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"In NOMAD, the rarest combinations of interests are treated with
respect and exposed to the eyes of those who can most
appreciate them."
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_October_
Art | Theory | Criticism | Politics
The MIT Press
Edited by: Rosalind Kraus
Annette Michelson
Yve-Alain Bois
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Hal Foster
Denis Hollier
John Rajchman
"OCTOBER, the 15-year old
quarterly of social and cultural
theory, has always seemed special.
Its nonprofit status, its cross-
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and psychoanalytic thinking, and
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glossy art magazines."
--Village Voice
As the leading edge of arts criticism and theory today, _OCTOBER_
focuses on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of
interpretation. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue
examines interrelationships between the arts and their critical
and social contexts.
Come join _OCTOBER_'s exploration of the most important issues in
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_RIF/T_
E-Poetry Literary Journal
In all arts there is a physical
component . . . We must expect
great innovations to transform the
entire technique of the arts.
--Paul Valery
This list was formed to serve as a vehicle for (1) distribution
of an interactive literary journal: _RIF/T_ and related exchange,
and (2) collection of any information related to contemporary
poetics.
_RIF/T provides a forum for poets that are conversant with the
media to explore the full potential of a true electronic journal.
Dynamic--not static, _RIF/T_ shifts and riffs with the diction of
"trad" poetry investigating a new, flexible, fluid poetry of
exchange.
Archives of e-poetry and related files are stored in the e-poetry
FILELIST.
To receive a list of files send the command
INDEX e-poetry
to: LISTSERV@UBVM or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU as the first
line in the body of your mail message (not your Subject: line).
To subscribe to e-poetry, send the command
SUB e-poetry your name
to: LISTSERV@UBVM or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU via mail
message (again, as the first line in the body of the mail, not
the Subject: line). For example: SUB e-poetry John Doe
Owner: Ken Sherwood
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_SSCORE_
Social Science Computer Review
G. David Garson, Editor
Ronald Anderson, Co-editor
The official journal of the Social Science Computing Association,
_SSCORE_ provides a unique forum for social scientists to acquire
and share information on the research and teaching applications
of microcomputing. Now, when you subscribe to _Social Science
Computer Review_, you automatically become a member of the Social
Science Computing Association.
Recent articles:
Social Impacts of Computing: Codes of Professional Ethics
Ronald Anderson
Teledemocracy and Political Science
William H. Dutton
Trends in the Use of Computers in Economics Teaching in the
United Kingdom
Guy Judge and Phil Hobbs
The Essentials of Scientific Visualization: Basic Techniques and
Common Problems
Steve E. Follin
Psychology: Keeping up with the State of the Art in Computing
Charles Huff
Computer Assistance in Qualitative Sociology
David R. Heise
Automating Analysis, Visualization, and Other Social Science
Research Tasks
Edwin H. Carpenter
From Mainframes to Micros: Computer Applications for
Anthropologists
Robert V. Kemper, Ronald K. Wetherington, and Michael Adler
Quarterly
Subscription prices: $48 individual, $80 institutions
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_Studies in Popular Culture_
Dennis Hall, editor.
_Studies in Popular Culture_, the journal of the Popular Culture
Association in the South and the American Culture Association in
the South, publishes articles on popular culture and American
culture however mediated: through film, literature, radio,
television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations,
events--any of the material or conceptual conditions of life.
The journal enjoys a wide range of contributors from the United
States, Canada, France, Israel, and Australia, which include
distinguished anthropologists, sociologists, cultural
geographers, ethnomusicologists, historians, and scholars in mass
communications, philosophy, literature, and religion.
Please direct editorial queries to the editor:
Dennis Hall
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville KY 40292
tel: (502) 588-6896/0509
Fax: (502) 588-5055
Bitnet: DRHALL01@ULKYVM
Internet: drhall01@ulkvm.louisville.edu
All manuscripts should be sent to the editor care of the English
Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292.
Please enclose two, double-spaced copies and a self-addressed
stamped envelope. Black and White illustrations may accompany
the text. Our preference is for essays that total, with notes
and bibliography, no more than twenty pages. Documentation may
take the form appropriate for the discipline of the writer; the
current MLA stylesheet is a useful model. Please indicate if the
work is available on computer disk. The editor reserves the
right to make stylistic changes on accepted manuscripts.
_Studies in Popular Culture_, is published semiannually and is
indexed in the _PMLA Annual Bibliography_. All members of the
Association receive _Studies in Popular Culture_. Yearly
membership is $15.00 (International: $20.00). Write to the
Executive Secretary, Diane Calhoun-French, Academic Dean,
Jefferson Community College-SW, Louisville, KY 40272, for
membership, individual issues, back copies, or sets. Volumes I-
XV are available for $225.00.
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_VIRUS 23_
For those brave souls looking to explore the Secret of Eris, you
may wish to check out _VIRUS 23_.
2 and 3 are even and odd,
2 and 3 are 5,
therefore 5 is even and odd.
_VIRUS 23_ is a codename for all Erisian literature
Don Webb
6304 Laird Dr.
Austin TX 78757
0004200716@mcimail.com
_VIRUS 23_ is the annual harcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A, the
Alberta Department of Spiritual Affairs.
All issues are available at $7.00 ppd from:
_VIRUS 23_
Box 46
Red Deer, Alberta
Canada
T4N 5E7
Various chunks of _VIRUS 23_ can be found at Tim Oerting's
alt.cyberpunk ftp site (u.washington.edu, in
/public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out).
For more information online contact Darren Wershler-Henry:
grad3057@writer.yorku.ca
20)------------------------------------------------------------
ViViD Magazine
The first issue of ViViD Magazine is now available. ViViD is a
hypertext magazine about experimental writing and creativity
in cyberspace. We are actively seeking contributions for
the next issue.
The magazine 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 will also be 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
-----------------------------------------------------------------
For more information on ViViD, contact the editor, Justin McHale.
Internet address: jmchale@gmuvax.gmu.edu
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Issue 1 Features:
Articles:
What is Cyberspace?
What is Hypertext?
Multiple Fiction and Multiple Worlds.
News items:
"Matrix News," a section featuring news items, notices
and reviews concerning cyberspace.
"Treasure of the Internet," a section which details
interesting sites and services on the Internet.
Experimental writing:
Poemtexts
Explodedview Texts
21) -------------------------------------------------------------
_Zines-L_
announcing a new list available from: listserv@uriacc
To subscribe to _Zines-L_ send a message to:
listserv@uriacc.uri.edu
on one line type:
SUBSCRIBE ZINES-L first name last name
22) -------------------------------------------------------------
_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 _Postmodern Culture_
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
should receive onscreen instructions on how to log in to PMC-MOO.
If you do not receive these onscreen instructions, but instead
find yourself with a straight login: and password: prompt, it
means that your telnet program or interface is ignoring the 7777
at the end of the command given above, and you will need to ask
your local user-support people how to telnet to a specific port
number. If you have the Emacs program on your system and would
like information about a customized program for PMC-MOO that uses
Emacs, contact pmc@unity.ncsu.edu by e-mail.
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******************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
for
"RAIDS ON THE CONSCIOUS:
New Essays on Don DeLillo"
A special cluster for _Postmodern Culture_, Jan. 1994
******************************************************
Since the early Seventies, Don DeLillo's work (fiction,
drama, and journalism) has played an important role in the
literature of what has gradually become known as the
"postmodern condition." DeLillo's novels and plays
investigate the problem of subjectivity in an environment
increasingly governed by, perhaps even constructed purely of
information and its various modes of transmission. Identity
in DeLillo is dominated by a sense of anxiety concerning the
formation of "self" from this patchwork of postmodern
discourses, and is often further problematized by the
lurking suspicion that there is no longer any stable
referential framework behind the blizzard of signifiers; a
suspicion that ideals, goals, and even individuality are
categories as "empty" as poststructuralist theory tells us
are the images, words, and digits with which we are
surrounded; that identity is as arbitrary, illusory, and
transient as the "sign."
The breakdown of various Western master narratives
which is often at the heart of DeLillo's novels--a
breakdown discussed by, among others, Lyotard--contributes
to this "vacuuming out" of substance. The result is a
"postnarrative" world where the acontextual, the enigmatic,
the arbitrary and fundamentally anti-rational continually
threaten to become the sole reality--as in Jorge Luis
Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius."
Furthermore, in DeLillo's works this cultural
identity crisis often "bleeds" into the characters' private
anxieties; in fact, the boundary between public and private
is the barrier which DeLillo seems to believe the postmodern
condition threatens to breach. Some line has been crossed,
and in DeLillo's work identity is now formed from the
outside in, the product of a ceaseless anti-Cartesian
barrage of decontextualized messages and undifferentiated
signals from without. The governance of this situation has
devolved from powerful but recognizable individuals onto
shadowy larger "bodies": corporations, intelligence
agencies, the academy and, perhaps most importantly,
terrorist organizations. Beyond such barely tangible agents
DeLillo posits a postmodern sublime, the force described in
Libra as the "world inside the world."
Papers are solicited which respond to these issues in
DeLillo's work (fiction, drama, and journalism) for possible
inclusion in a special issue (January, 1994) of the
electronic journal Postmodern Culture, and in a hard cover
edition to be published later in 1994 or in early 1995.
Papers should address the problems of how literature and
other forms of public language support and/or resist the
construction of the postmodern relationship of author, text,
and reader; how these identities and their relationships are
maintained, thwarted, or altered through a concatenation of
public spectacle, random violence, and decontextualized
language; and how the control of a massively disoriented
narrative (or former narrative) of and about these
identities increasingly depends upon a variety of ill-
defined and vaguely sinister "postindividual" agencies.
Comparative essays utilizing other authors, films, music and
other forms of popular culture are welcomed.
Abstracts (250-500 words) should arrive no later than
Oct. 15th, and the *first* drafts of papers (15-30 pages)
will be due no later than December 15th. Inquiries,
abstracts and rough drafts may be sent electronically to:
Glen Scott Allen at e7e4all@toe.towson.edu, or
Stephen J. Bernstein at bernstein_s@crob.flint.umich.edu
or by regular mail to
Prof. Glen Scott Allen or Prof. Stephen J. Bernstein
English Dept. Dept. of English
Towson State University University of Michigan-Flint
Towson, MD 21204 Flint, MI 48502
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
CALL FOR ARTICLES
EJVC: Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Special Issue: Gender Issues in Computer Networking
Issue Editor: Leslie Reagan Shade
McGill University
Graduate Program in Communications
czsl@musica.mcgill.ca; shade@well.sf.ca.us
EJVC is a new peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to
scholarly research and discussion of all aspects of computer-
mediated human experience, behavior, action, and interaction.
This special issue of the EJVC will be devoted to gender issues
in networking. Despite the abundance of various private networks
and the meteoric growth of the Internet, this rapidly expanding
user base does not include an equal proportion of men and women.
How can women become equally represented in the new "electronic
frontier" of cyberspace? Issues to be discussed can include, but
are not limited to, the following:
* Access issues--to hardware, software, and training. What
barriers do women face? What are some success stories.
* How can women be given the technical expertise to become
comfortable and versatile with computer networking?
* Interface design: can there be a feminist design?
* How can networking realize its potential as a feminist tool?
* How can women scholars exploit networking's technology?
* What information technology policies could be developed to
ensure computer networking equity for women, as well as
minorities?
* How does one define computer pornography and "offensive"
material on the net? Should it be allowed?
* How should sexual harassment on the net be treated?
* Are women-only groups necessary?
* How do women interact on MUDS and MOOs?
* What net resources exist for women?
Deadlines: December 1, 1993 (submission of abstracts)
April 1, 1994 (submission of contributions)
Abstracts will be reviewed by the issue editor for
appropriateness of content and overall balance of the issue as a
whole. In turn, authors will then be invited to submit full-
length contributions, which will be peer-reviewed by the
journal's normal editorial process before final acceptance for
publication. The issue editor encourages correspondence about
proposed contributions even before submission of an abstract.
Potential contributors may obtain a more detailed statement about
the focus and range of this special issue by sending email to the
issue editor with the subject line: EJVC Issue or by anonymous
ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu, directory/pub/ejvc, get
ejvc.shade.call.
Further information about EJVC may be obtained by sending e-mail
to LISTSERV@KENTVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU with one or
more of the following lines in the text:
SUBSCRIBE EJVC-L YourFirstname YourLastName
GET EJVC WELCOME
INDEX EJVC-L
Also, the file is available by anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
in the pub/ejvc directory.
25) ------------------------------------------------------------
*********************
Call for Submissions
*********************
_Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist_ is a research project
investigating the use of hypertext technology by creative
writers.
The project consists of evaluations of software and hardware,
critiques of traditional and computerized works, and a guide to
sites of publication.
We would like to request writers to submit their works for
review. Publishers are requested to send descriptions of their
publications with subscription fees and submission formats. We
are especially interested to hear from institutions which teach
creative writing for the hypertext format.
To avoid swamping our e-mail account, please limit messages to a
page or two in length. Send works on disk (IBM or Mac) or
hardcopy to:
_Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist_
3 Westcott Upper
London, Ontario
N6C 3G6
E-mail: KEEPC@QUCD>QUEENSU.CA
26)------------------------------------------------------------
THE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POPULAR CULTURE
CALL FOR PAPERS
Scholars are invited to submit manuscripts/reviews that
meet the following criteria:
ISSUES: The Journal invites critical reviews of films,
documentaries, plays, lyrics, and other related visual
and performing arts. The Journal also invites original
manuscripts from all social scientific fields on the
topic of popular culture and criminal justice.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: To submit material for the Journal,
please subscribe to CJMOVIES through the listserv and a
detailed guidelines statement will automatically
follow.
To subscribe, send a message with the following command to
LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1:
SUBSCRIBE CJMOVIES YourFirstName YourLastName
Manuscripts and inquiries should be addressed to:
The Editors,
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
SUNYCRJ@ALBNYVM1.BITNET
or SUNYCRJ@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU
MANAGING EDITORS:
Sean Anderson and Greg Ungar
Editors
Journal of CriminalJustice and Popular Culture,
School of Criminal Justice, SUNYA 135
Western Avenue Albany, NY 12222
INTERNET:
SA1171@ALBNYVM1.BITNET or GU8810@uacsc1.albany.edu
LIST ADMINISTRATOR
Seth Rosner
School of Criminal Justice, SUNYA
SR2602@uacsc1.albany.edu or SR2602@thor.albany.edu
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Call for Papers
_PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary
journal of research on consciousness_
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You are invited to submit papers for publication in the inaugural
issue of _PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on
consciousness_ (ISSN: 1039-723X).
_PSYCHE_ is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting
the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness
and its relation to the brain. _PSYCHE_ publishes material
relevant to that exploration form the perspectives afforded by
the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology,
Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Anthropology.
Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged.
_PSYCHE_ publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a
diverse academic audience four times per year. As an electronic
journal, the usual space limitations of print journals do not
apply; however, the editors request that potential authors do not
attempt to abuse the medium. _PSYCHE_ also publishes a hardcopy
version simultaneously with the electronic version. Long
articles published in the electronic format may be abbreviated,
synopsized, or eliminated form the hardcopy version.
Types of Articles:
The journal publishes from time to time all of the following
varieties of articles. Many of these (as indicated below) are
peer reviewed; all articles are reviewed by editorial staff.
Research Articles reporting original research by author(s).
Articles may be either purely theoretical or experimental or some
combination of the two. Articles of special interest
occasionally will be followed by a selection of peer
commentaries. Peer Reviewed.
Survey Articles reporting on the state of the art research in
particular areas. These may be done in the form of a literature
review or annotated bibliography. More ambitious surveys will be
peer reviewed.
Discussion Notes critiques of previous research. Peer Reviewed.
Tutorials introducing a subject area relevant to the study of
consciousness to non-specialists.
Letters providing and informal forum for expressing opinions on
editorial policy or upon material previously published in
_PSYCHE_. Screened by editorial staff.
Abstracts summarizing the contents of recently published journal
articles, books, and conference proceedings.
Book Reviews which indicate the contents of recent books and
evaluate their merits as contributions to research and/or as
textbooks.
Announcements of forthcoming conferences, paper submission
deadlines, etc.
Advertisements of immediate interest to our audience will be
published: available grants; positions; journal contents;
proposals for joint research; etc.
Notes for Authors
Unsolicited submissions of original works within any of the above
categories are welcome. Prospective authors should send articles
directly to the executive editor. Submissions should be in a
single copy if submitted electronically of four (4) copies if
submitted by mail.
Submitted matter should be preceded by: the author's name;
address; affiliation; telephone number; electronic mail address.
Any submission to be peer reviewed should be preceded by a 100-
200 word abstract as well. Note that peer review will be blind,
meaning that the prefatory material will not be made available to
the referees. In the event that an article needs to be shortened
for publication in the print version of _PSYCHE_, the author will
be responsible for making any alterations requested by the
editors.
Any figures required should be designed in screen-readable ASCII.
If that cannot be arranged, figures should be submitted as
separate postscript files so that they can be printed out by
readers locally.
Authors of accepted articles assign to _PSYCHE_ the right to
publish the text both electronically and as printed matter and to
make it available permanently in an electronic archive. Authors
will, however, retain copyright to their articles and may
republish them in any forum so long as they clearly acknowledge
_PSYCHE_ as the original source of publication.
Subscriptions
Subscriptions to the electronic version of _PSYCHE_ may be
initiated by sending the one-line command, SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L
Firstname Lastname, in the body on an electronic mail message to:
LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET
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*************************************
Announcement and Call for Submissions
_Postmodern Culture_
*************************************
_Postmodern Culture_
A SUNY Press Series
Series Editor: Joseph Natoli
Editor: Carola Sautter
Center for Integrative Studies, Arts and Humanities
Michigan State University
We invite submissions of short book manuscripts that present a
postmodern crosscutting of contemporary headlines--green politics
to Jeffrey Dahmer, Rap Music to Columbus, the Presidential
campaign to Rodney King--and academic discourses from art and
literature to politics and history, sociology and science to
women's studies, form computer studies to cultural studies.
This series is designed to detour us off modernity's yet-to-be-
completed North-South Superhighway to Truth and onto
postmodernism's "forking paths" crisscrossing high and low
culture, texts and life-worlds, selves and sign systems, business
and academy, page and screen, "our" narrative and "theirs,"
formula and contingency, present and past, art and discourse,
analysis and activism, grand narratives and dissident narratives,
truths and parodies of truths.
By developing a postmodern conversation about a world that has
overspilled its modernist framing, this series intends to link
our present ungraspable "balkanization" of all thoughts and
events with the means to narrate and then re-narrate them.
Modernity's "puzzle world" to be "unified" and "solved" becomes
postmodernism's multiple worlds to be represented within the
difficult and diverse wholeness that their own multiplicity and
diversity shapes and then re-shapes.
Accordingly, manuscripts should display a "postmodernist style"
that moves easily and laterally across public as well as academic
spheres, "inscribes" within as well as "scribes" against realist
and modernist modes, and strives to be readable-across-multiple-
narratives and "culturally relative" rather than "foundational."
Inquiries, proposals, and manuscripts should be addressed to:
Joseph Natoli
Series Editor
20676jpn@msu.edu
or
Carola Sautter
Editor
SUNY Press
SUNY Plaza
Albany, NY 12246-0001
29) -------------------------------------------------------------
NSC'93
The Network Services Conference 1993
Warsaw, Poland, 12-14 October 1993
Invitation
Networking in the academic and research environment has evolved
into an important tool for researchers in all disciplines. High
quality network services and tools are essential parts of the
research infrastructure.
Building on the success of the first Network Services Conference
in Pisa, Italy, NSC'93 will focus on the issue of providing
services to customers, with special attention paid to the
actual usage of the various tools available. We will address the
impact of today's global tools on service development and
support, the changing function of traditional tools and services
(such as archives), new services (such as multi-media
communications), the future role of the library and the
effects of commercialization of networks and network services.
Customer support at the institutional and campus level, and the
role of support in accessing global services, will also be
covered.
Talks, tutorials, demonstrations and other conference activities
will address the needs of the research, academic, educational,
governmental, industrial, and commercial network communities.
Tutorial sessions on specific network services have been
integrated into the regular conference program. Practical issues
in the use of these services and tools will be covered in detail
by experts. Throughout the conference, participants will be able
to get hands-on experience in the well-equipped demonstration
area.
NSC'93 is being organized by EARN in conjunction with EUnet,
NORDUnet, RARE, and RIPE.
To get a preliminary program and registration form, send e-mail
to:
LISTSERV@FRORS12.BITNET (or LISTSERV@FRORS12.CIRCE.FR)
In the body of the message, write: GET NSC93 ANN2
David Sitman
EARN
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_FEMISA_
FEMISA@mach1.wlu.ca
_FEMISA_ is conceived as a list where those who work on or think
about feminism, gender, women and international relations, world
politics, international political economy, or global politics,
can communicate.
Formally, _FEMISA_ was established to help those members of the
Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the _International
Studies Association_ keep in touch. More generally, I hope that
_FEMISA_ can be a network where we share information in the area
of feminism or gender and international studies about
publications or articles, course outlines, questions about
sources or job opportunities, information about conferences or
upcoming events, or proposed panels and information related to
the _International Studies Association_.
To subscribe: send one line message in the BODY of mail-message
sub femisa your name
to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca
To unsub send the one line message
unsub femisa
to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca
I look forward to hearing suggestions and comments from you.
Owner: Deborah Stienstra stienstr@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca
Department of Political Science
University of Winnipeg
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_HOLOCAUS: Holocaust list_
HOLOCAUS on LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET
or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU
HOLOCAUS@uicvm has become part of the stable of electronic mail
discussion groups ("lists") at the University of Illinois,
Chicago. It is sponsored by the University's History Department
and its Jewish Studies Program.
To subscribe to HOLOCAUS, you need and Internet or Bitnet
computer account. From that account, send this message to
LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu:
SUB HOLOCAUS Firstname Surname
Use your own Firstname and Lastname. You will be automatically
added. You can read all the mail, and send your own postings to
everyone on the list (We have about 100 subscribers around the
world right now).
Owner: JimMott@spss.com
The HOLOCAUS policies are:
1. The coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself,
and closely related topics like anti-Semitism, and Jewish
history in the 1930's and 1940's, as well as related themes
in the history of WW2, Germany, and international diplomacy.
2. We are especially interested in reaching college teachers of
history who already have, or plan to teach courses on the
Holocaust. In 1991-92, there were 265 college faculty in
the US and Canada teaching courses on the Holocaust (154 in
History departments, 67 in Religion, and 46 in Literature).
An even larger number of professors teach units on the
Holocaust in courses on Jewish history (taught by 273
faculty) and World War II (taught by 373), not to mention
many other possible courses. Most of these professors own
PC's, but do not use them for e-mail. We hope our list will
be one inducement to go on line. _HOLOCAUS_ will therefore
actively solicit syllabi, reading lists, termpaper guides,
ideas on films and slides, and tips and comments that will
be of use to the teacher who wants to add a single lecture,
or an entire course.
3. H-Net is now setting up an international board of editors to
guide _HOLOCAUS_ policy and to help stimulate contributions.
4. _HOLOCAUS_ is moderated by Jim Mott (JimMott@spss.com), a
PhD in History. The moderator will solicit postings (by e-
mail, phone and even by US mail), will assist people in
subscribing and setting up options, will handle routine
inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. The
moderator will also solicit and post newsletter type
information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings
of sessions at conventions). It may prove feasible to
commission book and article reviews, and to post book
announcements from publishers. Anyone with suggestions
about what _HOLOCAUS_ can and might do is invited to send in
the ideas.
5. The tone and target audience will be scholarly, and academic
standards and styles will prevail. _HOLOCAUS_ is affiliated
with the _International History Network_.
6. _HOLOCAUS_ is a part of H-Net, a project run by computer-
oriented historians at the U of Illinois. We see moderated
e-mail lists as a new mode of scholarly communication; they
have enormous potential for putting in touch historians from
across the world. Our first list on urban history, _H-
URBAN@UICVM_, recently started up with Wendy Plotkin as
moderator. _H-WOMEN_ is in the works, with discussions
underway about other possibilities like Ethnic, Labor, and
US South. We are helping our campus Jewish Studies program
set up _JSTUDY_ (restricted to the U of Illinois Chicago
campus, for now), and are considering the creation of _H-
JEWISH_, also aimed at academics, but covering the full
range of scholarship on Jewish history. If you are
interested in any of these projects, please e-write Richard
Jensen, for we are now (as of late April) in a critical
planning stage.
7. H-Net has an ambitious plan for training historians across
the country in more effective use of electronic
communications. Details of the H-Net plan are available on
request from Richard Jensen, the director, at:
campbelld@apsu
or
u08946@uicvm.uic.edu
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NewJour-L@e-math.ams.org
NewJour-L aims to accomplish two objectives; it is both a list
and a project.
FIRST:
NewJour-L is the place to *announce* your own (or to forward
information about others') newly planned, newly issued, or
revised *ELECTRONIC NETWORKED* journal or newsletter. It is
specially dedicated for those who wish to share information in
the planning, gleam-in-the-eye stage or at a more mature stage of
publication development and availability.
It is also the place to announce availability of paper
journals and newsletters as they become available on electronic
networks. Scholarly discussion lists *which regularly and
continuously maintain supporting files of substantive articles or
preprints* may also be reported, for those journal-like sections.
We hope that those who see announcements on Bitnet, Internet,
Usenet or other media will forward them to NewJour-L, but this
does run a significant risk of boring subscribers with a number
of duplicate messages. Therefore, NewJour-L IS filtered through
a moderator to eliminate this type of duplication.
It does not attempt to cover areas that are already covered by
other lists. For example, sources like NEW-LIST describe new
discussion lists; ARACHNET deals with social and cultural issues
of e-publishing; VPIEJ-L handles many matters related to
electronic publishing of journals. SERIALST discusses the
technical aspects of all kinds of serials. You should continue
to subscribe to these as you have done before, and contribute to
them.
SECOND:
NewJour-L represents an identification and road-mapping
project for electronic journals and newsletters, begun by Michael
Strangelove, University of Ottawa. NewJour-L will expand and
continue that work.
As new publications are reported, a NewJour-L support group
will develop the following services -- planning is underway & we
ask that anyone who would like to participate as below, let us
know:
-A worksheet will be sent to the editors of the new
e-publication for completion. This will provide detailed
descriptions about bibliographic, content, and access
characteristics.
-An original cataloguing record will be created.
-The fully catalogued title will be reported to national
utilities and other appropriate sites so that there is a
bibliographic record available for subsequent subscribers or
searchers.
-The records will feed a directory and database of these
titles.
Not all the of the implementation is developed, and the work
will expand over the next year. We thank you for your
contributions, assistance, and advice, which will be invaluable.
SUBSCRIBING:
To subscribe, send a message to: LISTSERV@e-math.ams.org
Leave the subject line blank.
In the body, type: SUBSCRIBE NewJour-L FirstName LastName
You will have to subscribe in order to post messages to this
list.
To drop out or postpone, use the standard LISTSERV
(Internet) directions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
For their work in defining the elements of this project and
for their support to date, we thank:
Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa, Advisor
David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society, Systems &
Network Support
Edward Gaynor, University of Virginia Library, Original
Cataloguing Development
John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library, Systems
& Network Support
Birdie MacLennan, University of Vermont Library,
Cataloguing and Indexing Development
Diane Kovacs, Kent State University Library, Advisor
We anticipate this will become a wider effort as time passes, and
we welcome your interest in it. This project is co-ordinated
through:
The Association of Research Libraries
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
e-mail: osap@cni.org (Ann Okerson)
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popcult@camosun.bc.ca Popular Culture
The POPCULT list is now in place. It is open to analytical
discussion of all aspects of popular culture. The list will
not be moderated. Material relevant to building bridges
between popular culture and traditional culture will be very
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John W. Hartman Center
for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
Special Collections Library
Duke University
TRAVEL-TO-COLLECTIONS GRANTS 1993-94
Three or more grants of up to $1000 are available to
(1) graduate students in any academic field who wish to
use the resources of the Center for research toward
M.A., Ph.D., or other postgraduate degrees; (2) faculty
members working on research projects; or (3)
independent scholars working on nonprofit projects.
Funds may be used to help defray costs of travel to
Durham and local accommodations.
The major collection available at the Hartman Center at
the current time is the extensive Archives of the J.
Walter Thompson Company (JWT), the oldest advertising
agency in the U.S. and a major international agency
since the 1920's. It is anticipated that the
advertisements (1932+) and a moderate amount of agency
documentation from D'Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles
(DMB&B) will be available for research by autumn 1993.
The Center holds several other smaller collections
relating to 19th and 20th century advertising and
marketing.
REQUIREMENTS: Awards may be used between November 15,
1993 and December 31, 1994. Graduate student
applicants (1) must be currently enrolled in a
postgraduate program in any academic department and (2)
must enclose a letter of recommendation from the
student's advisor or project director. Please address
questions and requests for application forms to:
Ms. Ellen Gartrell, Director
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and
Marketing History
Special Collections Library
Duke University
Box 90185
Durham NC 27708-0185
Phone: 919-660-5836
Fax: 919-684-2855
email: egg@mail.lib.duke.edu
DEADLINES: Applications for 1993-94 awards must be
received or postmarked by September 30, 1993. Awards
will be announced by the end of October.