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From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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Date: 12 Aug 1996 03:58:14 -0700
From: Robert Maxwell Young 
Subject: _Science as Culture_ no. 25 has appeared
_SCIENCE AS CULTURE_
Volume 5, Part 4 (No. 25)
has appeared in the US and will soon elsewhere.
CONTENTS
'The water closet: public and private meanings' by  Marja Gastelaars
'Sex in the age of virtual reality' by Slavoj Zizek
'Naming the heavens: a brief history of earthly projections, Part I:
nativizing Hellenic science' by  Scott L. Montgomery
'Farm pollution as environmental crime' by  Philip Lowe _et al_.
'Contested expertise: plant biotechnology and social movements' by
Derrick
Purdue
Reviews:
_Media Freedom: The Contradictions of Communications in the Age of
Modernity_
by Richard Barbrook, reviewed by John Barker
_Contested Technology: Ethics, Risk and Public Debate_, edited by Rene
von
Schomberg, reviewed by Alison J. Hill
_Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture_ by Oliver James, reviewed
by
Vincenzo Ruggiero
_SaC_ 26 will include:
'Reducing AIDS risk: a case of mistaken identity?' by Simon Carter
'The Californian Ideology' by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
'A spoonful of blood: Haitians, racism and AIDS' by Laurent Dubois
'Naming the heavens: a brief history of earthly projections, Part II:
nativizing Arab science' by Scott L. Montgomery
_SaC_ 27 will include:
'The corporate suppression of inventions, conspiracy theories and an
ambivalent
American dream' by Stephen DeMeo
'Death comes alive: technology and the re-conception of death'
by Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane
'Inoculating gadgets against ridicule' by Mike Michael
'Sperm stories: romantic, entrepreneurial and environmental narratives
about treating male infertility' by Kirsten Dwight
In future issues:
'Designing flexibility: science and work in the age of flexible
accumulation' by Emily Martin
'Healthy bodies, healthy citizens: the anti-secondhand smoke campaign'
by
Roddy Reid
'Israel's first test-tube baby' byDaphna Birenbaum Carmeli
160pp. _Science as Culture_ is published quarterly by Process Press Ltd.
in
Britain: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html
and Guilford Publications Inc. in North America: info@guilford.com.
For information about subscriptions and a list of back issues (half
pri9ce
to subscribers),
go to: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html#science
The journal has an associated email forum:
science-as-culture@sjuvm.stjohns.edu. To join, send message To:
listserv@sjuvm.stjohns
Body of message: SUB SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE  yourfirstname yourlastname
A web site associated with the journal and forum holds articles from
back
issues of the journal, as well as submissions under consideration (not
obligatory), whose authors may benefit from constructive comments for
purposes of revisions before the hard copy is printed, as well as
longer
piece not suitable for the email format which forum members may wish to
discuss:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html
__________________________________________
Robert Maxwell Young:  robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk  26 Freegrove Rd., London
N7
9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306  fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic
Studies, University of  Sheffield. Home page and writings:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/  Process Press publications:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html
'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus
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Date: 12 Aug 1996 08:58:37 -0700
From: ENGROSEN@ACS.EKU.EDU
Subject: Requesting Course Linkup at Advanced undergrad/grad level.
Hi Folks:
I just wanted to announce that I will be teaching a course on the role
of contingency in 20thC Science, philosophy, literature, music, drama
and visual arts this Fall on Tuesday evenings from 6-9pm.
Works for class discussion and group presentations include Prigogine,
Order Out of Chaos; Cambell, Grammatical Man; Nietzsche, Birth of
Tragedy,
Notes on Rhetoric, and Truth and Falsity;
Bergson, Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution; Henry Adams,
Education;
poetry by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams Snyder; music by Stravinsky,
Ives, Cage and Charley Parker (and other jazz); fiction by Woolf,
Joyce,
Kerouac, Pynchon; art by Duchamp, Beuys, Rauschenberg and Johns...
I will be using a discussion list, moo sessions and web sites and I am
still looking for more courses to hook my course up with, for the
purposes of expanding the conversation and even building collaborative
projects across classes.
Bruno Clarke and I ran a joint course last spring semester and it was
pretty successful: the students all really enjoyed the extended
classroom concept.  So the discussion list already exists, the moo
rooms
are already constructed, and all that is needed are web links.
please send a message to engrosen@acs.eku.edu
mer
Martin E. Rosenberg
English
EKU
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Date: 12 Aug 1996 11:44:57 -0700
From: Jaishree Odin 
Subject: Course Link-Up for an Upper Division Honors Colloquium.
Hi Everybody!
I will be teaching an upper division honors colloquium (not
more than 12 students) this fall on tuesdays (1:30-4:00--Hawaii time).
It
is an interdisciplinary course on social, cultural and literary
implications of electronic textuality and electronic networks. In
addition
to readings on hypertext theory and fiction, the course will also
include
texts by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Paul Auster, Leslie Silko,
Richard Lahnam, Brenda Laurel, and Shirley Turkle. We will also discuss
essays--Hayles, Markley, Brandes etc. that deal with real/virtual
debate.
We will have a web site and an electronic discussion list. I am
interested in linking up my course with a course that covers similar
topics/issues. The link-up could provide students with an extended
space for discussion through a common listserv, IRC, or MOO sessions.
If anybody is interested, please get in touch with me privately.
Jaishree Odin
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Jaishree Odin
Liberal Studies  Program
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii