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digest 1996-10-02 #001



11:23 PM 10/1/96 -0700
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

Daily SLS Email Digest
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Date: 1 Oct 1996 07:26:41 -0700
From: Carol Colatrella 
Subject: jobs in writing, race studies, and graphics
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC)
is
participating in the fundamental reconfiguration of the role of higher
education in an increasingly technological, multicultural environment.
Currently offering a master's degree in Information Design and
Technology
(IDT), a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, and Culture (STAC),
and
a minor in Women in Science and Technology (WIST), LCC is also
responsible
for providing courses in literature, communication, and culture to all
Georgia Tech undergraduates.  In keeping both with our current programs
and
with an eye toward developing a PhD program in the history, theory, and
practice of technologies of representation, we seek to fill 3-4
tenure-track positions at the rank of assistant professor (in
extraordinary
cases consider candidates at the rank of associate or full professor). 
All
new faculty should share LCC's commitment to interdisciplinary work at
the
theoretical and applied levels, as well as to the integration of new
electronic technologies into humanities and communication education. 
We
are especially interested in considering applications from women and
minority candidates.  Applications must be postmarked by November 1;
this
deadline will be strictly observed.
FACULTY POSITIONS AVAILABLE:
1) Writing:  1 position (PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, or Writing
Studies).
The committee seeks a candidate to help coordinate our freshman writing
curriculum.  Experience working in and administering computer-assisted
writing programs is required.  We prefer candidates whose research
concerns
the teaching of writing and rhetoric in relation to the textual, oral,
and
visual modes of representation made possible by new electronic
environments.  Send letter and CV to Prof. Richard Grusin.
2) Technical Communication:  1 position (PhD in Technical or
Professional
Communication).  The committee seeks a candidate to help develop our
undergraduate curriculum in technical communication.  Experience working
in
electronic environments is required.  Experience with executive or
continuing education is desired.  We prefer candidates whose research
concerns the relation of technical and professional communication to
the
textual, oral, and visual modes of representation made possible by new
electronic environments. Send letter and CV to Prof. Richard Grusin.
3) Cultural/Media Studies of Race and Ethnicity:  1 position (PhD in
appropriate discipline).  The committee seeks candidates in cultural
and/or
media studies of race and ethnicity, specializing in science and
technology.  Preferred research areas are African-American science and
technology studies and/or race and ethnicity studies of new media.
Candidates working in non-Western science are also encouraged to apply.
Send letter and CV to Prof. Carol Colatrella,.
4) Graphic Design and Multimedia Production: 1 position (PhD or MFA in
appropriate discipline).  The committee seeks candidates who have
experience teaching screen-based graphic design and multimedia
production
in a cultural theory framework.  Candidates should have extensive
experience producing creative multimedia applications.  Candidates who
pass
the initial screening will be asked to submit a portfolio of recent
work.
Send letter and CV to Prof. Anne Balsamo.
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Atlanta, Georgia  30332-0165
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Date: 1 Oct 1996 07:40:40 -0700
From: DNEHL@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU (Linda D. Henderson)
Subject: "Energy to Information" symposium
[All domestic _COnfigurations_ subscribers should receive the printed
brochure on this symposium this week.]
From Energy to Information: Representation in Science, Art, and
Literature
The University of Texas at Austin, April 3-5, 1997
A symposium/workshop co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Modernism
Dept. of Art and Art History, UT) and the Center for Interactive Arts
Studies (College of Fine Arts, UT)
Co-organized by Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Dept. of Art and Art History,
UT,
and Bruce Clarke, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University, with Richard
Shiff, Director, Center for the Study of Modernism, UT
This interdisciplinary symposium/workshop provides a unique opportunity
to
examine the representation of scientific concepts ranging from energy
to
information in the art and literature of modern and postmodern culture. 
By
the later nineteenth century, thermodynamics and electromagnetism had
radically challenged prevailing conceptions of physical reality.  Many
innovations in modern art and literature are rooted in the rapid
cultural 
reception of scientific ideas such as entropy and X-rays, a situation
paralleled in our time by the wide interest in information technology
and 
virtual reality.  The goal of the conference is to give contemporary
researchers in the humanities and sciences an enhanced appreciation of
the
historical contexts of and theoretical connections among scientific
ideas,
technological developments, and cultural productions in the later 19th
and
20th centuries.
The symposium/workshop offers two plenary addresses by distinguished
scholars: historian and critic W. J. T. Mitchell and Nobel
prize-winning
physicist and chemist Ilya Prigogine.  Five panels will bring together
scholars from the fields of history of science, art, and literature (as
well
as media studies, anthropology, and architecture in certain cases) to
investigate practices of representation and inscription in scientific
texts
and illustrations and in literary and artistic images at particular
historical moments.  Two-hour sessions, with 30-minute papers presented
by
the three speakers, will allow ample time for full audience discussion. 
By
regrouping panelists with graduate students and audience members,
lunch-time
focus groups will provide the opportunity of meeting invited speakers
and 
discussing topics related to their specific interests.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, April 3, 1997
5:45-6:50  Registration/Reception (Art Building Lobby)
7:00  First plenary address: W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago,
"Dinosaurs Decoded" (Art Auditorium, 1.102)
Friday, April 4, 1997
All remaining conference sessions will be held at Thompson Conference
Center, adjacent to Art Building and Fine Arts Building.
8:30-9:30  Registration (Coffee/Refreshments)
9:30  Panel: "The Cultures of Thermodynamics" (Moderator:
Bruce J. Hunt, UT)
Norton Wise, Princeton University (History of Science),
"The Gender of Energy and Time"
Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University (Literature), "Models of
Energy: Entropy and Space from H. G. Wells to Yevgeny
Zamyatin"
Charlotte Douglas, New York University (History of Art),
"Energetic Abstraction, or the Forces of Representation"
11:30-1:00  Lunch (including focus groups with panelists)
1:00  Panel: "Ether and Electromagnetism: Capturing the Invisible
(Moderator: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University )
Bruce J. Hunt, University of Texas (History of Science), "Lines of
Force, Swirls of Ether"
Ian F. A. Bell, University of Keele (Literature),"Modernist
Energies: Ezra Pound and the Ether-eal"
Linda Dalrymple Henderson, University of Texas (History of Art),
"Vibratory Modernism:  Early 20th-Century Art and the    
Ether"
3:00-3:30  Break (Coffee/Refreshments)
3:30  Panel: "Traces and Inscriptions: Diagraming Forces"
(Moderator: Linda Dalrymple Henderson, UT)
Robert Brain, Harvard University (History of Science),
"'The Language of the Phenomena Themselves': The
Graphic Method and the Instruments of Scientific
Modernism"
Charles Altieri, Berkeley (Literature), "Force as Meaning:
Abstraction and the Limits of Representation"
Douglas Kahn, University of Technology, Sydney (Media Arts),
"A Portrait of Beethoven Repeated 50 Times Per Second"
5:30-5:55  Break (Wine and Cheese)
6:00  Second plenary address: Ilya Prigogine, University of Texas and
Free University, Brussels, "Nature as Construction"
7:30  Cocktails/Cash Bar (University of Texas Alumni Center Ballroom)
8:00  Dinner and Party
Saturday, April 5, 1997
9:00-9:45  Coffee/Refreshments
9:45    Panel: "Representing Information"
(Moderator: Wayne Andersen, Professor at Large, MIT)
David Tomas, University of Ottawa (Anthropology), "On the
Imagination's Horizon Line: Mechanical Drawing and
Babbage's Calculating Engines"
N. Katherine Hayles, UCLA (Literature), "The Android, the
Paranoid and the Schizoid: The Anxiety of Boundaries in
Second-Wave Cybernetics and Philip K. Dick's Fiction"
Kristine Stiles, Duke University (History of Art), "Parallel
Worlds: Representing Information at the Intersection of
Art, Technology, and Psychic Phenomena"
12:00 Lunch
1:30  Panel "Virtual Spaces/Virtual Bodies"
(Moderator: Michael Benedikt, Architecture, University of Texas)
Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University (History of Science),
"The Virtual Edge: Postmodern Surgery"
Gregory Ulmer, University of Florida (Literature), "The Visual
Mood in Online Authoring"
Marcos Novak, University of Texas and UCLA (Architecture),
"After Territory"
3:30-4:00  Break (Refreshments)
4:00  Formal Wrap-up Session (Richard Shiff, University of Texas, and
W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago)
5:00  Closing Reception
Further information on the conference will be made available at the
"Energy
to Information" website,
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/centrifuge/e2i.html.  To
obtain copies of registration materials, e-mail to
nrgy2inf@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu or send requests to Energy to Information
Symposium, c/o Center for the Study of Modernism, Dept. of Art and Art
History,
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712-1104 (tel: 512-471-7757).
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Dept. of Art and Art History
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX  78712-1104
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Date: 1 Oct 1996 12:34:21 -0700
From: amato@charlie.cns.iit.edu
Subject: fyi...
thought it appropriate to post you all to let you know that my take on
the
sokal affair is available in the newest issue of the _electronic book
review_ (along with a lot of more interesting stuff!) at
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr3/reviews.htm
it's linked to my (far too testy) response to michael berube (in the
same
issue)...
anyway, be interested in any and all feedback...
best,
joe (amato)