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Journal and Book Announcements:
1) _AXE: E-mail Newsletter
2) _The Centennial Review_
3) _College Literature_
4) _FineArt Forum_
5) _F.A.S.T._
6) _Future Culture_
7) _Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative_
8) _GNET_: An Archive and Electronic Journal
9) _The Internet Companion_
10) _The Law and Politics Book Review_
11) _NOMAD_
12) _Non Serviam_
13) _Poetics Today_
14) _Positions_
15) _Public Culture_
16) _PYNCHON NOTES_
17) _Sub Stance_
18) _TapRoot_
19) _XB_
Calls for Papers and Participants:
20) SUNY PRESS: _Postmodern Culture_
21) HERMIT 93
22) The Experience of Theory: Literary Symposium organized by
and for young scholars--call for papers addressing the
experience of theory
23) Montage 93: International Festival of the Image--call for
work from independent producers for an exhibition of
electronic time-based media.
24) 1993 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and
Science--call for papers
25) Simulation & Gaming: An International Journal of Theory,
Design, and Research"--call for papers
26) Simulation & Gaming: An International Journal of Theory,
Design, and Research"--call for Guest Editorships
Conferences and Societies
27) Video Positive 93
28) NARRATIVE: An International Conference
Networked Discussion Groups
29) _ORTRAD-L_
30) _SEMIOS_L_
31) _SOCHIST_
32) _INTERDIS_
1)---------------------------------------------------------------
_AXE: E-mail Newsletter_
A quarterly electronic journal dedicated to contemporary
French Language, Modern and Postmodern Literature (Quebec,
Belgium, Switzerland, Africa, and Caribbean). Published
essentially in French.
To subscribe to the journal, send the command SUB AXE-LIST
Firstname Lastname (where these are the first and last names of
the individual subscriber) bt electronic mail to the addressee:
LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA
Electronic subscribers will receive instructions on how to
order a list of available articles, how to retrieve full texts of
these articles, and how to cancel subscriptions. To make access
to the journal more manageable, access is provided to individual
articles rather than entire issues. However, interested readers
may order all articles from an issue. Inquiries for the list
should be sent to Janusz PRZYCHODZEN at McGill University in
Canada (CXZN@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA).
AXE-TALK is the AXE Journal discussion group. Subscriptions
to AXE-TALK are independent of subscriptions to AXE-LIST; if you
are not a discussion group subscriber and would like to be, send
command SUB AXE-LIST Firstname Lastname by electronic mail to the
address:
LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA
A directory of all AXE-LIST articles are available on
Comserve. To obtain the list, send the following command to:
LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA: INDex AXE-LIST
2)---------------------------------------------------------------
_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.
Issues now available:
Fall 1991: _Discourses of Mourning, Survival, and Commemoration_
Articles by James Hatley, Donald Kuspit, Tony Brinkley, and
Joseph Arsenault, Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr., Peter Balakian, R.K.
Meiners, Louis Kaplan, Haqns Borchers, Morris Grossman, Berel
Lang, David William Foster; Poetry by Dimitris Tsalouman, Sherri
Szeman, Walter Toneeo, Henry Gilfond, Elizabeth R. Curry, Peter
Balakian.
Winter 1992: _Cultural Studies_ Articles by Douglas Kellner,
Eyal Amiran, John Unsworth, and Carol Chaski, Steven Best, Janet
Staiger, Jeffrey Seinfeld, Charles Altieri, Tony Barnstone;
Poetry by Hillel Schwartz, Robert Hahn, Michael Atkinson, John
Hildebidle.
Spring 1992: Articles by Stephen Gill, Peter Baker, R.M. Berry,
Carole Anne Taylor, Michel Valentin, Edward M. Griffen, Robert
Erwin, Ronald Hauser, Karl Albert Scherner (trans. Ronald
Hauser), Diana Dolev and Haim Gordon, Albert Feuerwerker, Donald
Lammers, Ileana A. Orlich.
Subscription rates: 1 year/$10.00 2 years/$15.00
Single Issue/$5.00
(postage outside the US: please add $3.00)
Make checks payable to:
_The Centennial Review_
312 Linton Hall
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East Lansing, MI
48824-1044
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_College Literature_
A Triannual Literary Journal for the Classroom
Edited by *Kostas Myrsiades*
"In one bold stroke you seem to have turned _College Literature_
into one of the things everyone will want to read."
Cary Nelson
My sense is tat _College Literature_ will have substantial
influence in the field of literacy and cultural studies."
Henry A. Giroux
A journal one must consult to keep tabs on cultural theory and
contemporary discourse, particularly in relation to pedagogy."
Robert Con Davis
Forthcoming issues:
Cultural Studies: Theory, Praxis, Pedagogy
Teaching Postcolonial Literatures
Europe and America: The Legacy of Discovery
Third World Women
African American Writing
Subscription Rates: US Foreign
Individuals $24.00/year $29.00/year
Institutional $48.00/year $53.00/year
Send prepaid orders to:
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West Chester, PA 19383
4)---------------------------------------------------------------
FINEART FORUM GETS NEW PUBLISHER
FineArt Forum, the international electronic newsletter, is now
being published by the Mississippi State University/National
Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computational
Field Simulation (MSU/NSF ERC). Its new editor is the English
artist Paul Brown, a member of the MSU Art Faculty.
Founded in 1986, FineArt Forum is one of the longest established
electronic news letters for the arts. It is distributed monthly
via the Internet and provides the artworld with information about
new developments and opportunities in art & technology. For the
past six years it had been published by the International Society
for Arts Science and Technology (ISAST) on behalf of the Art,
Science and Technology Network (ASTN). However in November 92
ISAST lost grant income which supported the newsletter, and the
MSU ERC offered to take the title over. ISAST will remain the
distributor, sending it out to subscribers along with its own
on-line publication, Leonardo Electronic News.
The MSU ERC has been supporting art and technology since it was
founded in 1990. It runs a number of interdisciplinary courses
involving computer animation and electronic imaging. Last year's
student animations were widely exhibited and appeared on
television both in the USA and overseas. Last summer Paul Brown
joined the faculty, in a joint appointment with MSU's Department
of Art, to develop new opportunities including a graduate
program in Computational Design.
Brown had previously founded the UK's National Center for
Computer Aided Art & Design and later helped establish
Australia's Advanced Computer Graphics Center. As an artist he
has been working with computers for almost twenty years and has
exhibited and published in Europe, Australia and the USA.
"I have been writing about art & technology for a long time and
jumped at the chance to edit FineArt Forum", he explained.
"It's an ideal vehicle for exploring new forms of electronic
publication. Also many more people from the artworld now want
to learn about this new area and there's a growing demand for
sources of information".
FineArt Forum is distributed on, or around, the 1st of the month.
Subscribers also receive Leonardo Electronic News on the 15th.
To participate you need access to the Internet (which is
available via many of the commercial networks). Send an e-mail
message to: fast@garnet.berkeley.edu with the content: SUB
FINE-ART your-email-address, first-name, last-name, and postal
address.
Like a lot of the network publications it's free.
For further information and images contact: Paul Brown Editor,
FineArt Forum MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center PO Box 6176
Mississippi State MS 39762-6176 601 325 2970 601 325 7692 fax
brown@erc.msstate.edu
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_F.A.S.T_
Fine Art, Science and Technology Electronic Bulletin Board and
Data Base
Current Developments in the Application of New Technology
to the Arts Around the World
* Calendar of Worldwide Events
* Electronic Newsletters: Leonardo Electronic News
* Sections on Holography, Space Arts
* ISAST Member News
* Job Listings
* Directory of Resources: Grants, Fellowships, Funds,
Organizations
* Bibliographies and Book Lists
* Words on Works: A special section where subscribing
artists describe new artworks.
*Profiles of Organizations
F.A.S.T. (Fine Art, Science and Technology Electronic Bulletin
Board) covers all applications of Science and Technology to the
Arts. Topics include computer graphics and animation,
applications of artificial intelligence to the arts, applications
of computers to music, holography, robotics, telecommunications
and art, video, computer literature, and new materials in the
arts.
The Directory includes artist-in-residence programs and a list of
curators who are interested in art which uses technology.
In addition, F.A.S.T. contains an archive of FineArt Forum
newsletters so that subscribers may review back issues.
The F.A.S.T. Bulletin Board not only allows rapid access to
information, but also allows subscribers direct contact with
other subscribers interested in the application of new
technologies to the arts.
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
The F.A.S.T. Database is updated weekly. Leonardo Electronic
News is published monthly (the 15th). A 1-year subscription to
F.A.S.T. (expiring one year from date of your activation access
to F.A.S.T.) may be obtained electronically for $40 (individuals)
and $100 (Educational Libraries). ISAST members are entitled to
a discount subscription rate of $20.00/year. Leonardo Electronic
News may be delivered by surface mail for an additional charge of
$55.00/year for members and $65.00/year for non-members.
In order to subscribe to F.A.S.T., the user must have access to
The WELL conferencing system. This system uses the phone lines
to transmit information thus a modem is also necessary. There is
a charge for subscribing to this as well as access charges from
the phone company. The WELL is the system on which we post
Leonardo Electronic News, and the various bulletin boards and
calendars for F.A.S.T..
The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) is centered in the San
Francisco area with an international access through Compuserve.
The WELL includes private electronic mail, public and private
conferences, and storage files. Information about the WELL is
available via e-mail at info@well.sf.ca.us or by calling (415)
332-4335 or writing The WELL, 27 Gate Five Road, Sausalito, CA
94965. When you subscribe to The WELL, please mention that you
are doing so in order to have access to F.A.S.T., we get a small
credit for each referral.
Reduced access charges are available via PC Pursuit and
Compuserve Packet Network. Contact The WELL for further
information.
It is also possible to receive F.A.S.T. on diskettes. Each
diskette (5 1/4/ MSDOS diskettes, ASCII text, double-sided,
double-density) contains all of the information on F.A.S.T. for
the current quarter. This includes three issues of Leonardo
Electronic News, the calendars, selections from Laser News, Words
on Works, Space Art News, Member News, the organizations and e-
mail directories, the latest bibliography and the job listings.
Each diskette is $17.00 for members and $25.00 for non-members,
annual subscription rates (four diskettes) are $60.00 for members
and $90.00 for non-members.
For additional information about ISAST, or to become an ISAST
member. contact:
ISAST (International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and
Technology)
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Email: fast@garnet.berkeley.edu
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email to fast@garnet.berkeley.edu (internet) or FAST@UCBGARNE
(bitnet).
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_FutureCulture_
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ahawks@mindvox.phantom.com
While no article that attempts to document an entire emerging
subculture can be complete, I will do my best to give you enough
complete and accurate information to get you on your way to the
future.
This article will focus mainly on cyberpunk culture, rave
culture, Industrial, po-mo, virtual reality, drugs, computer
underground, etc.. Basically, the elements that make up the
developing techno-underground, the new edge, the technoculture.
Included in this article will be: suggested readings--books
magazines, zines, requisite authors, BBSes devoted to relevant
topics, corporations and merchandise geared toward the techno-
aware, Internet e-mail addresses for figure-heads in this area,
suggested music and movies/videos, FTP sites, etc..
Contact on Internet: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu.
7)---------------------------------------------------------------
_GENDER, LANGUAGE, AND MYTH_
Essays on Popular Narrative
edited by *Glenwood Irons*
_Gender, Language, and Myth_ is a collection of fourteen papers
on popular romance, detective, western, science fiction and
horror. Authors included are Jean Radford, Tania Modleski, and
Leslie Fiedler (on romance); Marcus Klein, John Cawelti, and Jane
Tomkins (on the western); Glenwood Irons, Scott Christianson and
Umberto Eco (on detective and espionage); and Harold Schecter,
Carol Clover, and Robin Wood (on horror).
University of Toronto Press
50.00/cloth (Cdn)
18.95/paper (Cdn)
8)---------------------------------------------------------------
_GNET: an Archive and Electronic Journal
Toward a Truly Global Network
Computer-mediated communication networks are growing rapidly, yet
they are not truly global--they are concentrated in affluent
parts of North America, Western Europe, and parts of Asia.
GNET is an archive/journal for documents pertaining to the effort
to bring the net to lesser-developed nations and the poorer parts
of developed nations (Net access is better in many "third world"
schools than in South-Central Los Angeles). GNET consists of two
parts, an archive directory and a moderated discussion.
Archived documents are available by anonymous ftp from the
directory global_net at dhvx20.csudh.edu (155.135.1.1). To
conserve bandwidth, the archive contains an abstract of each
document, as well as the full document (Those without ftp access
can contact me for instructions on mail-based retrieval).
In addition to the archive, there is a moderated GNET discussion
list. The list is limited to discussion of documents in the
archive. It is hoped that document authors will follow this
discussion, and update their documents accordingly. If this
happens, the archive will become a dynamic journal. Monthly
mailings will list new papers added to the archive.
We wish broad participation, with papers from nuts-and-bolts to
visionary. Suitable topics include, but are not restricted to:
descriptions of networks and projects
host and user hardware and software
connection options and protocols
current and proposed applications
education using the global net
user and system administrator training
social, political or spiritual impact
economic and environmental impact
politics and funding
free speech, security and privacy
directories of people and resources
To submit a document to the archive or subscribe to the moderated
discussion list, use the address gnet_request@dhvx20.csudh.edu
Larry Press
9)---------------------------------------------------------------
_THE INTERNET COMPANION_
A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking
Tracy LaQuey
Editorial Inc.
Software Tool & Die
and
The Online Bookstore (OBS)
Are Pleased to Announce...
The first simultaneous electronic and print publication of a
major new book: _The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to
Global Networking_ by Tracy LaQuey with Jeanne C. Ryer (Addison-
Wesley, $10.95.
Online copies of Vice-President-elect Al Gore's Forward and the
first two chapters of this best-selling book are available via
anonymous FTP from:
world.std.com
in the directory:
/OBS/The.Internet.Companion/
Further chapters will be released in the future. See README
and COPYRIGHT files in that directory for more details. Direct
comments and questions about the book can be sent to:
internet-companion@world.std.com
This pioneering effort is a step in bringing together the on-line
electronic and print media, enabling authors to explore new
avenues of publishing their works. Comments, inquiries, etc.
welcome. Send to:
obs@world.std.com
10)-------------------------------------------------------------
_THE LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW_
The _Law and Politics Book Review is now available on the gopher
server at Northwestern University:
gopher@nwu.edu.
Choose "Northwestern University Information" on the first menu
and "Law and Politics Book Review" on the next menu.
Herbert Jacob
Northwestern University
Voice Mail (708) 491-2648
e-mail mzltov@nwu.edu
11)--------------------------------------------------------------
_NOMAD_
An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities, Arts, and
Sciences
_Nomad_ publishes works of cross-disciplinary interest, such as
intermedia artwork, metatheory, and experimental writing. The
journal is a forum for those texts that explore the undefined
regions among critical theory, the visual arts, and writing. For
information, contact:
Mike Smith
406 Williams Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
e-mail:
Paul Rutkovsky
12)--------------------------------------------------------------
_NON SERVIAM_
The Radical Electronic Newsletter dedicated
Stirner's Philosophy of Egoism
Editor: Svein Olav Nyberg
_Non Serviam_ is an electronic newsletter centered on the
philosophy of Max Stirner, author of "Der Einzige und Sein
Eigentum" ("The Ego and Its Own"), and his dialectical egoism.
The contents, however, are decided upon by the individual
contributors and the censoring eye of the editor. The aim is to
have somewhat more elaborate and carefully reasoned articles
than are usually found on the news groups and lists.
Introductory file:
"Non Serviam!"--"I will not serve", is known from literature as
Satan's declaration of his rebellion against God. We wish to
follow up on this tradition of insurrection.
In modern times, the philosophy of the individual's assertion of
him//herself against gods, ideals, and human oppressors has been
most eloquently expressed by Max Stirner in his book "Der Einzige
und Sein Eigentum".
Stirner, whose real name was Johann Kaspar Schmidt (1805-56),
lived in a time dominated by German Idealism, with Hegel as its
prominent figure. It is against this background of fixation of
ideas that Stirner makes his rebellion.
For the more formal part, though the letter is centered on
philosophy and ideas, articles on topics relevant to true egoists
will also be admitted. The prime requirement is that the
articles are not on-line ranting, but serious attempts to convey
something of interest and relevance. Articles on literature
through the ages are fine, stories will be welcomed if they are
appropriate, and I even think I might fall for an article on
french cuisine made easy... However: If in doubt whether an
article will accepted, ask ne by personal mail first. A waste of
time is a waste of time.
I hope to be able to make each of the issues of the newsletter
thematic, that is we will have one main theme in each issue. The
main theme is not meant to be the sole content, however, but more
of an inspiration for writing.
Editor and List owner: solan@math.uio.no
13)--------------------------------------------------------------
_Poetics Today_
Edited by Itamar Even-Zohar
International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and
Communication
Subscription Rates:
Individuals: $28
Institutions: $56
Single Issue: $14
(Add $8 for subscription outside of the US)
Send Check, money order, credit card number to:
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_POSITIONS_
East Asia cultural critique offers a new forum of debate for all
concerned with the social, intellectual, and political events
unfolding in East Asia and within the Asian diaspora. Profound
political changes and intensifying global flows of labor and
capital in the late twentieth century are rapidly redrawing
national and regional borders. These transformations compel us
to rethink our priorities in scholarship, teaching, and
criticism. Mindful of the dissolution of the discursive binary
East and West, _POSITIONS_ advocates placing cultural critique at
the center of historical and theoretical practice. The global
forces of that are reconfiguring our world continue to sustain
formulations of nation, gender, class and ethnicity. We propose
to call into question those still-pressing, yet unstable
categories by crossing academic boundaries and rethinking the
terms of our analysis. These efforts, we hope, will contribute
toward informed discussion both in and outside the academy.
_POSITIONS_ central premise is that criticism bust always be
self-critical. Critique of another social order must be self-
aware as commentary on our own. Likewise, we seek critical
practices that reflect on the politics of knowing and that
connect our scholarship to the struggles of those whom we study.
All these endeavors require that we account for positions as
places, contexts, power relations, and links between knowledge
and knowers as actors in existing social institutions. In
seeking to explore how theoretical practices are linked across
national and ethnic divides we hope to construct other positions
from which to imagine political affinities across the may
dimensions of our differences.
_POSITIONS_ is an independent refereed journal. Its direction is
taken at the initiative of its editorial collective as well as
through the encouragement from its readers and writers.
To subscribe to the triannual magazine beginning in Spring 1993
write to:
Mr. Steve A. Cohn
Journals Manager
Duke University Press
6697 College Station
Durham, NC 27708
To submit a manuscript send three copies to:
Tani E. Barlow
Senior Editor
94 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
or e-mail: Barlow@sfsuvax1.edu.
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_PUBLIC CULTURE_
Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge
Engaging critical analyses of tensions between global cultural
flows and public cultures in a diasporic world.
Fall 1992 issue (Vol. 5, Number 1): "ON WRITING THE POSTCOLONY"
* Hindu/Muslim/Indian Faisal Fatehali Devji
* The Habit of Ex-Nomination Anannya Bhattacharjee
Nation, Woman and the Indian
Immigrant Bourgeois
* Narrativizing Postcolony Tejumola Olaniyan
* The Banalities of Interpretation David William Cohen
* Save the African Continent V.Y. Mudimbe
* The Magic of the State Michael Taussig
* Mbembe's Extravagant Power Judith Butler
* The Vulgarity of Power Michel-Rolph Trouillot
* Disempowerment. Not. John Pemberton
* Can Postcoloniality be Decolonized? Pernand Coronil
* Machiavellian, Rabelaisian, Dain Borges
Bureaucratic?
* On the Power of the Banal Michele Richman
* Prosaics of Servitude and Achille Mbembe
Authoritarian Civilities (Trans. Janet Roitman)
_Public Culture_ is now published by the University of Chicago
Press and will move from two to three issues per year. For the
general reader the subscription rate will necessarily change from
$10 dollars per year to $25. For students it will remain at $5
per issue or $15 dollars per year. _Public Culture_ trusts that
readers will continue to enjoy this enhanced publication.
Forthcoming special issues will include one guest edited by Lila
Abu Lughod on television in the Third World and another guest
edited by Benjamin Lee on public cultures/public spheres in which
China figures prominently.
Write to:
_Public Culture_
University of Chicago
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
tel. (312) 702-0814 and (312) 702-5660
fax. (312) 702-9861
E-mail CBRE@midway.uchicago.edu
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_PYNCHON NOTES_
Editors
John M. Krafft
Miami University--Hamilton
1601 Peck Boulevard
Hamilton, OH 45011-3399
E-mail: jmkrafft@miavx2.bitnet or
jmkrafft@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu
Khachig Tololyan
English Department
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06457-6061
Bernard Duyfhuizen
English Department
University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
E-mail: pnotesbd@uwec.bitnet or pnotesbd@cnsvax.uwec.edu
_PYNCHON NOTES_ is published twice a year, in spring and fall.
Submissions: The editors welcome submissions of manuscripts
either in traditional form or in the form of text files on floppy
disk. Disks may be 5.25" or 3.5"; IBM-compatible, Microsoft
Word, and WordPerfect 4.1 or later. Manuscripts, notes and
queries, and bibliographic information should be addressed to
John M. Krafft.
Subscriptions: North America, $5.00 per single issue or $9.00 per
year (or double number); Overseas, $6.50 per single issue or
$12.00 per year, mailed air/printed matter. Checks should be
made payable to Bernard Duyfhuizen--PN. Subscriptions and back-
issue requests should be addressed to Bernard Duyfhuizen.
_PYNCHON NOTES_ is supported in part by the English Departments
of Miami University--Hamilton and the University of Wisconsin--
Eau Claire.
BACK ISSUES
_PYNCHON NOTES_ has been published since October 1979. Although
most back issues are now out of print, they are available in the
form of photocopies.
Nos. 1-4: $1.50 each; Overseas, $2.50
Nos. 5-10: $2.50 each; Overseas, $3.50
Nos. 11-17: $3.00 each; Overseas, $4.50
No. 18-19: $7.00; Overseas, $10.00
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No. 22-23: $9.00; Overseas, $12.00
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Khachig Tololyan and Clay Leighton's _Index_ to all the names,
other capitalized nouns, and acronyms in _Gravity's Rainbow_ is
also available.
_Index_: 5.00; Overseas, $6.50
All checks should be made payable to Bernard Duyfhuizen--PN.
Overseas checks must be payable in US dollars and payable through
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_PYNCHON NOTES_ is a member of CELJ
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_Sub Stance_
Edited by *Sydney Levy and Michel Pierssens*
Published: 3/year ISSN: 0049-2426
_Sub Stance_ promotes new thoughts by leading American and
European authors which alter the perception of contemporary
culture--be it artistic, humanistic, or scientific. The journal
represents literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, art
criticism, and film studies.
Rates: Individual (must pre-pay) $21/yr.
Institutions $68/yr.
Foreign postage $ 8/yr.
Airmail $25/yr.
We accept MasterCard and Visa. Canadian customers please remit
7% Goods and Services Tax.
Please write for a free brochure and back issue list to:
Journal Division
University of Wisconsin Press
114 North Murray Street
Madison, WI 53715 USA
Tel: (608) 262-4952
FAX: (608) 262-7560
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_TAPROOT_
Edited by Luigi-Bob Drake
Reviewers: Deidre Wickers, Jake Berry, Bill Paulauskas, Nico
Vassiliakis, Bob Grumman, Tom Beckett, Roger Kyle-Keith, and
Luigi-Bob Drake.
Fall 1992 Issue 1.1
_TapRoot_ is a quarterly publication of Independent, Underground,
and Experimental language-centered arts. Over the past 10 years,
we have published 40+ collections of poetry, writing, and visio-
verbal art in a variety of formats. In August of 1992, we began
to publish _TapRoot Reviews_, featuring a wide range of "Micro-
Press" publications which are primarily language-oriented. The
printed version appears as part of a local (Cleveland Ohio)
poetry tabloid, _The Cleveland Review_. This posting is the
electronic version, containing all of the short reviews that seem
to be of general interest. We provide this information in the
hope that netters do not limit their reading to E-mail & BBSs.
Please e-mail your feedback to the editor, Luigi-Bob Drake, at:
au462@cleveland.freenet.edu
Requests for e-mail subscriptions should be sent to the same
address--they are free. Please indicate what you are requesting.
Hard-copies of _The Cleveland Review_ contain additional review
material. In this issue, reviews & articles by John M. Bennett,
geof huth, Micheal Basinski, Tom Willoch--as well as a variety of
poetry, prose, and grafix.
_TapRoot_ is available from: Burning Press, P.O. Box 585,
Lakewood OH 44107--2.50 pp. Both the print & electronic
versions of TapRoot are copyright 1992 by Burning Press,
Cleveland. Burning Press is a non-profit educational
corporation. Permission granted to reproduce this material FOR
NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES, provided that this introductory notice
is included. Burning Press is supported, in part, with funds
from the Ohio Arts Council.
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_XB_
A bibliographic database of the literature of xerography,
(photo)copier art, electrostatic printing, and electrographic
art, seeks data and materials about the form copy art & the use
of duplicative printing technologies for cultural or artistic
purposes by artists or non-artists for input into the Procite
bibliographic software for Macintosh. An ongoing art
information-information art project, _XB_ requests submissions
especially in machine-readable form but also in other media
formats: periodicals, serials, newspaper and magazine clippings,
exhibition announcements and catalogs, monographs, search
printouts and information on disk. All these are of interest. A
copy of the completed bibliography or the database on diskette
(Procite databases work equally well on Mac or IBM) to each
contributor along with some sort of documentation of the process
and a list of participants.
Submissions via mailways, telephone, or Bitnet/Internet/Well:
_Xb_
c/o Reed Altemus
email: IP25196@portland.maine.edu or
raltemus@well.sf.ca.us
mail: 16 Blanchard Road
Cumberland Ctr., Maine 04021-97 USA
phone: (207) 829-3666
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Announcement and Call for Submissions
_POSTMODERN CULTURE_
A SUNY Press Series
Series Editor *Joseph Natoli*
Editor *Carola Sautter*
We invite submissions of short manuscripts that present a
postmodern crosscutting of contemporary headlines--green politics
to Jeff 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, from 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 "postmodern 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
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HERMIT '93
An International Art Symposium
under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of Culture
1st June - 30th June, 1993
Plasy, Czechoslovakia
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A Call for Sound Installations, Sculptors, and Fine Artists.
GROWTHRINGS:
time - place - rhythm - light - matter - energy
from Baroque till present.
The theme of the second international symposium-meeting-
exposition and workshop in the Ancient Cistercian monastery in
Plasy (West Bohemia) will be the stimulation of interrelations
between the seeing and hearing, between the past and the
present,between centrum and province, high and low, matter and
energy, between people and their cultural and natural
environment.
Artists, musicians, and intermedia artists from Czechoslovakia,
the Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Australia, Germany and Great
Britain too part in the first symposium HERMIT '92. However,
while HERMIT '92 was mainly focused on artists from the CSFR,
Netherlands, and Belgium, this year's selection will be
multicultural. Beside artists from Western and Eastern Europe,
fine artists and musicians from other continents and ethnic
cultures will be in attendance.
The installations, sound sculptures, and performances were mostly
realized directly in the complex of this former monastery founded
in 1142. The convent contains many different spaces--from dark,
mysterious, subterranean cellars with underground water systems
to light chapels and huge corridors. The ideal sonic conditions
of the interiors were used for many sound installations and music
performances. The four floor interior of the granary, with its
early gothic King's chapel and old tower clock, are considered by
artists to be outstanding exhibition space for contemporary art.
The program will be divided into sections:
1) SOUND INSTALLATION AND MUSIC PERFORMANCES.
The scope of musical styles and genres will range from
interpretations of baroque music, to authentic folklore and
experimental contemporary. This part of the symposium will
consist of exhibition held in the convent, the large concert
hall in the former refectory, the chapel of St. Benedict and
of St. Bernard, and the corridors of the first floor of the
granary (check on this). Further, the work of some of the
sound artists and musicians will be presented in workshops.
3) DISCUSSIONS:
Theoretical issues will be formally raised in a series of
lectures, discussions and workshops addressing different
aspects of the Baroque tradition from the perspective of
mondial fine art, architecture, music, philosophy, ecology,
history, and the transformation of the Baroque heritage in
modern society. Discussions are open to the public.
Invited participants should send their proposals for HERMIT 2
with documentation at least three months prior to the beginning
of the Symposium. Deadline is April 1, 1993.
The contribution fee is 150 DM. The organizers of HERMIT 93 will
take care of accommodations for active participants. The minimal
time spent in Plasy is 7 days, maximum is 2 months.
Contact:
The HERMIT Foundation.
curators: Jana Sykyrova
The Monastery of Plasy,
33101 PLASY,
Bohemia.
(tel) 0942-182-2174
(fax) 0942-182-2198
Milos Vojtechovsky
Binnenbantammer Straat 15,
1011 CH Amsterdam
Holland
(tel) 020-62575-69
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Announcement and Call for Papers
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THE EXPERIENCE OF THEORY
Literary Symposium organized
by and for young scholars
*********************************
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
September 24-26, 1993
Defining THEORY is becoming increasingly difficult in the age of
postmodernism, where the impact of philosophical theory on
literary research during the 70s and 80s is now supplemented by
the demand for an orientation towards history, culture, science,
society and politics.
In a number of workshops, we propose to discuss THEORY AS
EXPERIENCE--as a process influencing our perception of literary,
critical, and scholarly activity. How does theory, as
experience, enhance our understanding of the literary work? In
what ways does theory enable us to experience art as becoming
rather that being, and, conversely, how does theory prevent us
from experiencing the text as something dynamic rather than
static? The discussion of theory as experience opens new modes
of evaluating theory, thus in extension contributing to the
formation of a theory about theory.
We call for papers focusing on THE EXPERIENCE OF THEORY;
experience here may be the experience of studying, of teaching,
of researching, of theorizing, of reading, of writing, of
enjoying, etc..
We invite participants from Europe and the USA and expect to have
guest speakers from Scandinavia and Great Britain.
The registration fee of SEK 200 also covers all meals and
accommodations for those who accept to stay with a fellow
student. On request we can undertake to send lists of hostels
and hotels.
Prospective participants are invited to contact us no later than
31st January, 1993; and submit papers by 31st March, 1993.
David Dickson Claudia Egerer Hans Werner
Mail: University of Gothenburg
Department of English
The Experience of Theory
S - 412 98 GOTHENBURG
Sweden
E-mail: egerer@eng.gu.se
werner@eng.gu.se
Fax: int+46 (0)31-773-47-26
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Call for Work
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MONTAGE 93:
International Festival of the Image
July 11 through August 7, 1993
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Montage 93: International Festival of the Image, is inviting
independent producers to submit work for an exhibition of
electronic time-based media. Work will be screened at Montage
93, July 11 through August 7, 1993.
Goals
The goals of Montage 93 are to celebrate the fusion of arts and
technology in contemporary image making and to explore the future
of the visual communications. The International Video Etc.
Festival is seeking new electronic time-based work created by
independent producers worldwide.
Review Procedure
All work will be reviewed by a committee of curators,
programmers, and makers. The committee will attempt to assemble
an exhibition that reflects the current state of the visual time-
based electronic arts. Notification of acceptance or rejection
will be made by June 1, 1993.
Submission Guidelines:
Visual time-based electronic media including video, computer
graphics/animation, multimedia*, and hypermedia* are eligible.
* Work must be exhibitable as a single channel videotape.
All work must be submitted on videotape, in any of the following
NTSC formats:
3/4 UMatic, VHS, S-VHS, BETA, Video8, Hi8.
Maximum length of any title is 58 minutes.
Submission Procedures:
Each maker must include a resume.
Each title must be accompanied by a statement.
Each title must be accompanied by a copy of the Entry and Release
Form printed below.
Tapes mailed from within the United States will be returned only
if accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope. Tapes
mailed from outside the United States will be returned only if
accompanied by a self addressed envelope and an international
money order in U.S. dollars for the cost of return mail.
Tapes mailed from outside the United States should be marked:
"No commercial value. Educational Material."
***Tapes must be received by May 1, 1993.
Send tapes, statement, resume, and Entry and Release Form
together to:
Montage 93: Video Etc. Festival
31 Prince Street
Rochester, NY, USA 14607-1499
Please note:
Do not send masters, originals, or irreplaceable materials.
Montage 93 will make every reasonable attempt to safeguard tapes,
but is not responsible for loss or damage.
Maker is responsible for any copyrighted material within the
title.
*****************************************************************
Video Etc.
Entry and Release Form
A copy of this form must accompany each title. Please print or
type.
Name____________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________
City____________________________________________________________
State_________________________________Zip/Postal Code___________
Country_________________________________________________________
Phone_________________FAX________________E-Mail_________________
Provide the following information for each title:
Title___________________________________________________________
Original, Medium, and Format____________________________________
Completion date_________________________________________________
Running time____________________________________________________
Format: (circle one) Z3/4 UMatic VHS S-VHS Beta 8mm Hi 8
________________________________________________________________
Your signature authorizes Montage 93 to duplicate your work for
exhibition at Montage 93.
STATEMENT
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This will be edited for use in program notes and/or a catalog.
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Call For Papers
***********************************
1993 Annual Meeting of the Society
for Literature and Science
***********************************
Back Bay Hilton
Boston, MA
November 18-21, 1993
Theme: "Possible Worlds, Alternate Realities: Literature and
Science as World-Making"
To include such topics as:
*Rhetoric and Reality
*Anthropological Discourse and the "Other"
*Images and Visual Representation in Science and Technology
*Technology, Embodiment, Knowledge
*Constructing the Natural and the Artificial in Science,
Technology, and Literature
*Literary Strategies and the History of Science
*Virtual Realities
*The Representation of Nature and Science and the Rhetoric
of Popular Culture and Film
*Primitive and Postmodern
*The Garden and the Wilderness
*God and Nature
*Illness Narratives and the Rhetoric of Biomedicine
*Discovery and Colonization
*Ecology and Politics
*Orderly Disorder
Proposals must include:
1. Full names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses
(if available)
2. Full titles and one-page abstracts for all papers
3. Titles/themes and name of coordinator for all seminars
and special panels
Send abstracts for individual papers or proposals for seminars or
special panels to:
Alan Kibel
Literature Department
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
Due date for abstracts and proposals is March 1, 1993.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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_Simulation and Gaming_
An International Journal of
Theory, Design and Research
****************************
_Simulation and Gaming_ (Sage Publications) is the world's
foremost journal devoted to academic and applied issues in the
fast expanding fields of simulation, computerized simulation,
gaming, modeling, play, role-play and active, experimental
learning and related methodologies in education, training and
research.
The broad scope and interdisciplinary nature of _Simulation &
Gaming_ is demonstrated by the variety of its readers and
contributors, as well as its Editorial Board members, such as
sociologists, political scientists, economists, psychologists and
educators, as well as experts in environmental issues,
international studies, management and business, policy and
planning, decision making and conflict resolution, cognition,
learning theory, communication, language learning, media,
educational technologies and computing. Manuscripts are welcome
at any time.
Before submitting a manuscript, potential authors should write
for a copy of the Guide for Authors, enclosing a self-addressed,
sticky label and $2 in stamps (in USA only).
Write to:
David Crookall
Editor
S&G
Morgan Hall
Box 870244
U of AL
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
To subscribe:
Sage Publications
2455 Teller Road
Newbury Park, CA 91320 USA
Bonhill Street
London EC2A 4PU
UK
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Call for Guest Editorships for Theme Issues of
_Simulation & Gaming_
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From time to time a special theme issue of S&G is prepared by a
Guest Editor. Special issues in preparation or that have already
appeared deal with business, debriefing, evaluation,
ethnomethodology, military gaming, cross-cultural communication,
and entrepreneurship.
In principle, any theme can be proposed for a special theme
issue, as long as it is important and of interest to a wide range
of readers.
If you would like to offer your services as a Guest Editor,
please send:
- a one page proposal (justifying the theme, outlining the
rational, identifying possible authors and sub-topics)
- a short resume (one page)
- notes on any previous editorial experience
- name, address, telephone numbers and e-mail address(es)
(the latter is essential)
to
crookall@ua1vm.bitnet or
crookall@ua1vm.ua.edu or
David Crookall
Editor S&G
PO Box 870244
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
Subscription inquiries about S&G should be directed to:
Sage Publications
PO Box 5084
Newbury Park, CA 91359 USA
tel: (805) 499-0721
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VIDEO POSITIVE 93
The U.K.'s International festival of creative video and
electronic media art.
In 1993 VIDEO POSITIVE is back with the most substantial and
extraordinary program of electronic art ever seen in Britain.
VIDEO POSITIVE 93 presents several newly commissioned video
installations combined with the welcome restaging of some of the
best works from around the world. This is complemented by
colorful local projects and an equally vigorous and significant
program of screenings, seminars, live art commissions and special
events.
Installation Program
The centerpiece of VIDEO POSITIVE 93 is an extensive installation
program held at Liverpool's premiere galleries (the Tate Gallery
Liverpool, the Bluecoat, Open Eye and Walker Galleries) and
several public sites across the city.
The international element involves the presentation of 15
installations, 8 of which are world premiers, from artists
including Lei Cox, Agnes Gegedud, Simon Robertshaw, Barbara
Steinman, Andrew Stones, Cathy Vogan and Richard Wright.
The Collaboration Program
This progressive and successful program continues to transform
Liverpool's public sites with works produced by local people
which are both incisive and popular.
Coordinated by video artist Louise Forshaw, the thriving
Collaboration Program has introduced several fresh initiatives in
1993. The presentation of 8 installations and an exciting
screening program involves double the number of events compared
with previous years.
Screenings
Important European events of the early 90's provide the
inspiration for a program package which looks at issues of
British cultural identity within recent video art.
Other highlights have been programmed in conjunction with the
Film & Video Umbrella, London. These include new and recent
computer graphics and animation Video works by Jean-Luc Godard,
Bill Viola, David Blair, The Wooster Group, The Collaboration
Program and contemporary programs of music and sound featuring
work by David Byrne.
Performances
Continuing Moviola's tradition of commissioning collaborations
which cross artforms, the festival presents a series of live art
projects which combine performance, music and new technologies.
Seminars
VIDEO POSITIVE 93 has created the ideal atmosphere for an
expressive and vibrant celebration of the contemporary artform of
electronic art. The seminar program provides an outstanding
opportunity for critical discussion in an international context.
Topics for discussion in 1993 include gender and technology, the
experience of black artists working with video and new
technologies, the festival's Collaboration Program and the
impact of science and engineering upon electronic media art and
design.
Special Events
VIDEO POSITIVE 93 also hosts a wide range of miscellaneous events
and activities including workshops with artists, displays of
state-of-the-art equipment and technology including virtual
reality, workshops for curators, special launches, presentations
and the Festival Club.
Mailing and Information
For a free color brochure (available March, 1993) and information
about advance bookings, etc., write to:
MOVIOLA,
Bluecoat Chambers,
School Lane,
Liverpool L1 3BX,
U.K.
Tel (UK) 051-709-2663
Fax (UK) 051-707-2150
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NARRATIVE:
An International Conference
*****************************
April 1-4, 1993
Albany, NY
Sponsored by: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The Society
for the Study of Narrative Literature.
Co-Sponsors: Siena College and Russell Sage College
Affiliates: Skidmore College, Union College, The College of
Saint Rose, The State University of New York-Albany
Major Speakers:
*Houston Baker, Jr. University of Pennsylvania,
Center for the Study of
Black Literature and
Culture
*Don Bialostosky University of Toledo,
English-Rhetoric
*Thomas Laquer Univ. of Calif-Berkeley,
History
*Carolyn Merchant Univ. of Calif-Berkeley,
Conservation and Resource
Studies
*Tania Modelski Univ. of So. Calif,
English-Film
The conference is an interdisciplinary forum to discuss all
aspects of narrative theory and practice. Papers on narrative in
any genre, period, nationality, discipline, and media (film, art,
popular culture) will be considered. The committee especially
welcomes topics involving inter-disciplinary methods or cross-
cultural perspectives. The presentation should be in English and
the focus should be on narrative.
Submit papers (no more than 10 pgs. [2500 words]) or abstracts
(at least 500 words) and a short vita. Proposals for panels of 3
or 4 papers are encouraged. Panels of particular interest with
only 2 papers will also be considered. Organizers should include
a statement on the focus of the panel; and papers or abstracts
for all participants. Panel organizers may give a paper in the
session they propose. We regret that we are unable to return
submissions.
Alan Nadel, Conference Coordinator
Department of Language, Literature, and Communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
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_ORTRAD-L_
ORTRAD-L seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for open
discussion and exchange of resources in the general field of
studies in oral tradition. All those interested in the world's
living oral traditions (e.g., African, Hispanic, Native American,
etc.) or in texts with roots in oral tradition (e.g., the Old and
New Testaments, the Mahabharata, the Iliad and Odyssey, Beowulf,
etc.) are invited to join the conversation. This list should be
useful for specialists in language and literature, folklore,
anthropology, history, and other areas.
To subscribe, send the following command to
LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.BITNET or LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU:
SUB ORTRAD-L your _full_ name
Submissions to the list should be sent to:
ORTRAD-L@MIZZOU1.BITNET or ORTRAD-L@MISSOURI.EDU
Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
301 Read Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Tel (314) 822-9720
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_SEMIOS-L_
A new electronic discussion group has been formed for those
interested in semiotics, visual language, graphic design and
advertising, deconstruction, the philosophy of language, and
others curious about the process of communication. The core
issue that ties all of these disciplines together is the
production and interpretation of signs.
To become a part of _SEMIOS-L_, send the following command from
your computer:
From a Bitnet loation:
TELL LISTSERV AT ULKYVM SUBSCRIBE SEMIOS-L (Your Name)
From an Internet site:
To: Listserv%ULKYVM.Louisville.edu Subscribe SEMIOS-L (Your Name)
In the first two weeks of operation, _SEMIOS-L_ already had over
one hundred members from four continents. The group welcomes new
voices.
Steven Skaggs
SEMIOS-L List Manager
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SOCHIST on LISTSERV@USCVM
New Social History List or LISTSERV@VM.USC.EDU
Briefly, this list will address three aspects of what is called
the "New Social History":
1) Emphasis on quantative data rather that an analysis of prose
sources.
2) Borrowing of methodologies from the social sciences, such as
linguistics, demographics, anthropology, etc..
3) The examination of groups which have been ignored by
traditional disciplines (i.e. the history of women,
families, children, labor, etc.).
To subscribe, send e-mail to:
LISTSERV@SCVM.BITNET or listserv@vm.usc.edu
with the single line in the BODY of the e-mail:
SUBSCRIBE SOCHIST your full name.
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_Interdis_
Welcome to the INTERDIS e-mail discussion list. The idea behind
this list is to facilitate national (and international)
discussions of issues of interest to people working and teaching
in interdisciplinary contexts. It is my hope that the list will
be a source of lively, thought provoking discussion of issues
relating to integrating perspectives and pedagogical issues
associated with interdisciplinary work. It should also be a good
place to discuss papers, books, films, and exercises from
interdisciplinary perspectives. Please forward this message to
colleagues you think may be interested in the list. They can put
themselves on the list automatically by sending e-mail to:
LISTSERV@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU
The message should read SUB INTERDIS
To post comments to the list, e-mail
INTERDIS@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU
Feel free to begin posting comments today. I look forward to our
continuing dialogue.