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From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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-> MLA Special Session: Letter Sensations and Embodied Life
by Ann Weinstone 
-> MLA Special Session: Letter Sensations and Embodied Life 
(Lit-Sci)
by "Michael Gregory, NEXA/H-NEXA" 
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Date: 13 Dec 1998 08:41:57 -0800
From: Ann Weinstone 
Subject: MLA Special Session: Letter Sensations and Embodied Life



TimesDear Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know about an upcoming Special Session at this
year's MLA.
Letter Sensations and Embodied Life
seeks to open a different kind of conversation about writing and
biological life. We want to ask, in the wake of poststructuralism, how
we can begin to speak about the effects of language on embodied
experience. How do bodies and language transform each other? Does the
body speak or write? Do letters live?
In "Sensible Letters," Vicki Kirby connects Saussure's
fascination with
anagrams, clairvoyancy, and trance induced glossolalia to current
discourses of artificial life. Her reading suggests that the letter may
be possessed by a life force of its own that extends well beyond
conventional ideas about the ontology of language.
Alan Sondheim's "Is There a Body in This Text?" opens up
notions of
physical and psychical constitution to consider interpenetrations of
avatar,  fleshly, and on-line entities.
Ann Weinstone's "On the Junk Beam" suggests strategies of
aliteracy
that might helpfully mutate current poststructuralist/bioinformatic
intensifications of the adequation of writing and making.
Jeffrey T. Schnapp will serve as chair.
The session is number 599 and will take place on Tuesday,
December 29th, 1:45-3:00p.m., Union Square 21, San Francisco Hilton.
Hope to see you there!
Ann Weinstone
Program in Modern Thought and Literature
Building 250
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-2020
e-mail:         weinstne@leland.stanford.edu
office:         650.725.1973
fax:    650.723.1895
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Date: 13 Dec 1998 11:30:09 -0800
From: "Michael Gregory, NEXA/H-NEXA" 
Subject: MLA Special Session: Letter Sensations and Embodied Life 
(Lit-Sci)



Times[Ed.: Are any H-NEXA types going
to MLA in SFO?  If so, please speak up and we could meet.  /mg]
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:41:20 -0800
From: Ann Weinstone <
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know about an upcoming Special Session at this
year's MLA.
Letter Sensations and Embodied Life  seeks
to open a different kind of conversation about writing and biological
life. We want to ask, in the wake of poststructuralism, how we can
begin
to speak about the effects of language on embodied experience. How do
bodies and language transform each other? Does the body speak or write?
Do letters live?
In "Sensible Letters," Vicki Kirby connects Saussure's
fascination with
anagrams, clairvoyancy, and trance induced glossolalia to current
discourses of artificial life. Her reading suggests that the letter may
be possessed by a life force of its own that extends well beyond
conventional ideas about the ontology of language.
Alan Sondheim's "Is There a Body in This Text?" opens up
notions of
physical and psychical constitution to consider interpenetrations of
avatar,  fleshly, and on-line entities.
Ann Weinstone's "On the Junk Beam" suggests strategies of
aliteracy that
might helpfully mutate current poststructuralist/bioinformatic
intensifications of the adequation of writing and making.
Jeffrey T. Schnapp will serve as chair.
The session is number 599 and will take place on Tuesday, December
29th, 1:45-3:00p.m., Union Square 21, San Francisco Hilton.
Hope to see you there!
Ann Weinstone
Program in Modern Thought and Literature
Building 250
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-2020
e-mail:         weinstne@leland.stanford.edu
office:         650.725.1973
fax:    650.723.1895
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