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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 13:31:59 +0000
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From: Carol Colatrella
Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT WILL ALSO APPEAR IN THE MLA
JOBLIST
AND IN THE CHRONICLE WITHIN THE COMING WEEKS:
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 4-5
tenure-track positions at the rank of assistant professor (except where
noted; for all positions, however, we will in extraordinary cases
consider
candidates at the rank of associate or full professor). All new
faculty
will 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 Friday, November 3
(except
where noted); this deadline will be strictly observed.
FACULTY POSITIONS AVAILABLE
1) Film Studies: 1 position (film history/theory/video production).
The
committee seeks candidates with expertise in the practical and
theoretical
aspects of the relation of film to other electronic visual media -
including video, animation, digital graphics, and multimedia. Send
letter
and CV to Prof. J. P. Telotte, Film Studies Search Committee.
2) Electronic Communication: 1 or 2 positions (graphics and/or
professional communication). The committee seeks candidates with
expertise
in the practical and theoretical aspects of graphic design, theories of
visualization, and/or professional communication. Candidates who pass
the
initial screening will be asked to submit a portfolio of recent work.
Send
letter and CV to Prof. Jay Bolter, Electronic Communication Search
Committee.
3) Cultural Studies: 1 or 2 positions (science and technology
studies).
The committee seeks candidates with expertise in the cultural studies
of
science and technology, with an emphasis in eighteenth-century or
American
studies. Candidates working on modes of visual representation are
especially welcome. Send letter and CV to Prof. Alan Rauch, Cultural
Studies Search Committee.
4) American Studies: 1 associate professor position (science and
technology studies). The committee seeks candidates with proven
scholarly
record of accomplishment in American cultural studies of science and
technology. Candidates working on modes of visual representation are
especially welcome. Send letter and CV by October 30 to Prof. Richard
Grusin, American Studies Search Committee.
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0165
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 11:51:35 -0300
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From: "Eric S. Rabkin"
Subject: Plea for Unsub Help
For list managers only (all others, please delete and accept my
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I am very sorry to write this to the list but because of changes at my
University, I cannot unsubsribe via LISTSERV even though litsci-l msgs
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I appreciate your help. Please look for me under all possible names:
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:22:04 EDT
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From: Noel Gough
Subject: Help on an Einstein quote
I've seen a quote attributed to Albert Einstein to the effect that (this
is
paraphrasing from memory): 'What counts can't always be counted and
what
can be counted doesn't necessarily count'. Does anybody know (a) if
Uncle
Albert really said/wrote it and/or (b) source details for the quote?
Thanks
Noel Gough
Contact details for 1 September-30 November 1995:
Noel Gough
MSTE Royal Bank Fellow
Faculty of Education
Queen's University
Kingston Ontario K7L 3N6
Canada
Internet: goughn@educ.queensu.ca
(613) 542 6275 (home)
(613) 545 6000 extn 7242 (office)
(613) 545 6584 (fax)
After 30 November 1995:
Noel Gough
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Deakin University
662 Blackburn Road
Clayton Victoria 3168
Australia
Internet: noelg@deakin.edu.au
Telephone area code: 03 (International: +61 3)
9244 7368 (desk)
9244 7286 (messages)
9562 8808 (fax)
9836 8241 (home)
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:07:27 -0500
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From: "Frank E. Durham"
Subject: Re: Einstein quote
Noel Gough asks about a particular quotation attributed to Albert
Einstein.
The substance of the statement does not sound like Einstein: he was not
given to breeziness, nor to antinumeracy.
My reason for responding, though, is not to suggest that Prof. Gough
contact
the Einstein Library at Princeton. Rather it is to comment on
"Einstein
Said" as a social phenomenon of a certain repetitive sort. I see
more and
more pithy statements attributed to him, statements ranging sometimes
far
beyond Einstein's actual interests. No doubt someone will bring all
these
together in the way scholars have produced critical studies of the
aggregation of aphorisms around the names of Mark Twain and Abraham
Lincoln,
two 19th century American victims of the practice. Of course Benjamin
Franklin is another example.
I wonder if there is some critical minimum number of suspicious quips
required to lure the wary historian. For that earlier source of
wisdom,
Pythagoras of Samos, the requisite number should be--but has not
been--one,
since he published nothing nor had any Boswell. My favorite anecdote
about
Pythagorean wisdom sayings involves the one that formed the epigraph to
Samuel Jackson Bate's biography of Samuel Johnson (I don't have the
book
here, but I could look it up if you wish). I wrote to Bate to inquire,
disingenuously, as to his source for a Pythagoras quotation. He wrote
back
graciously to say that he had gotten it from a work by Erik Erickson,
and
that Erickson had told him that he his (Erickson's) practice was always
to
destroy all notes relating to a book as soon as it was published.
Best wishes,
Frank Durham
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 10:21:10 -0500
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From: "Frank E. Durham"
Subject: Follow-up on Einstein quote
Dear lit-sci list,
Dratted e-mail. As soon as I read my copy of my message about
attribution
of quotations (to Einstein and others), I saw that I had written, not
Walter
Jackon Bate but Samuel Jackson Bate as biographer of Samuel Johnson (and
not
of Walter Johnson). I know that many of you would have corrected the
slip,
but you didn't want to hurt my feelings.
The quotation alleged to Pythagoras by Bate is
What is your warrant for valuing any part of my experience and rejecting
the
rest? . . . If I had done so, you would never have heard my name.
[The ellipsis is a neat touch.]
Now a little lit/sci. I assume that Bate's choice of the epigraph had
to do
with the complexity of Johnson's life. I would guess that not
ignoring/devaluing Johnson's years of crippling emotional turmoil during
his
youth shaped the choice of epigraph in part. This is a lit/sci issue
as
soon as I choose the nonequivalent phrase "Johnson's years of
mental
illness." The question is the authority to define illness.
More than that it is the source of authorization, the license, to define
a
life. When the figure is dead, as Johnson is and Einstein is, the
treatment
is literary whether sentimental or not. But what about my life and
yours?
Who claims authority to define me? On Sunday morning, November 5, at
8:30
a.m. in Los Angeles some of us will be thinking aloud about such issues
as
part of the SLS annual meeting.
Best wishes,
Frank Durham
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 16:40:10 PDT
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From: Benjamin Bratton <6500benb@UCSBUXA.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Call For Papers
Comments: cc: cyst@armory.com
SPEED: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF
TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND SOCIETY
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%%%%%% http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed %%%%%%
email: _speed_@alishaw.ucsb.edu
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%%%CALL FOR PAPERS, October 1995%%%
_SPEED_ provides a forum for the critical investigation of
technology, media, and society. Our intention is to contribute toward
a democratic discourse of technology and media, one that is always
focused upon the material conditions of life that technologies and
media constitute and demand, and yet does not lose sight of the
power of ideas to change those conditions. We feel that as media of
various kinds become more ubiquitous, what it means to live with
and talk about a "medium" changes and expands, and so do the
critical vocabularies of interpreting what those transformations
indicate. Our primary goal in that effort is to foster a cross-
fertilization of ideas between communities of people in the
"academy" and "industry" too often separated, not by
interest or
common concern, but by artificially imposed disciplinary and
organizational boundaries. We think that _SPEED_ is a promising
step toward making these institutional boundaries more permeable,
and a critical politics of "mediated sociality" more
powerful.
Upcoming issues for which we are currently reviewing abstracts and
submissions:
SPEED 1.3: AIRPORTS AND MALLS
Publicity, it seems, is always a matter of circulation. Likewise,
circulation finds itself as a matter of publicity. What then is the
circulation of publicity in a "private space," like a mall, or
an airport?
Where is the social located, if at all? Is it completely a matter of
trajectory, velocity and disappearance; is it or is it not an even more
sinister militarization of what used to be called the "civilian
sector?"
"Malls," whether near a highway off-ramp, or an
"information
superhighway" off-ramp, are more than architectural generica, they
are nodes in the global circulation of commodities, culture and
community. Malls as "places," are where some people go to be
amongst the fruits of other people's invisible labor.
"Airports" as
"places," are where some people go to be themselves
circulated
amongst networks of global circulation, as the content of
transportation-as-medium. We are currently reviewing abstracts for
inclusion in a special transmission of _SPEED_ (non-fiction, fiction,
both; www-specific projects encouraged) that will help answer some
of these questions and conundrums.
SPEED 1.4: SPECIAL ISSUE: ON PAUL VIRILIO
We are currently reviewing abstracts and proposals for articles for a
future transmission of _SPEED_ (WWW-specific projects encouraged)
on the critical significance of the work of Paul Virilio. In extremely
diverse arenas Virilio's cybernetic systems theory of the social has
arranged the horizons of wildly unlikely moments of questioning.
As his vision of interpretation/accusation crosses the spectrum of
disciplinary knowledges (while being at "home" in none), we
now
hear literary critics speaking of the military origins of the
city-state,
newscasters phrasing a "Nintendo War," historians of science
commenting on the phenomenology of electronic banking,
architectural theorists conceiving "the velocity" of airport
space,
and computer industry professionals discussing the political history
of the film projector. Certainly these peculiar arrangements are not to
be entirely credited to (blamed on?) Virilio, but they do suggest that
his vocabulary is significant beyond the relatively narrow concerns
of a "Virilio Studies." We hope, therefore, to both
interrogate and
expand what it is possible to make "Virilio" say.
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** TO SUBSCRIBE TO _SPEED_, send e-mail to
_SPEED_@alishaw.ucsb.edu with "subscribe" in the subject
header.
In addition to receiving all future issues, you will be kept up to date
on developments regarding the journal.
VERSION 1.2 "SCIENCE AND RE-ENCHANTMENT" INCLUDES:
BENJAMIN BRATTON (U.C. SANTA BARBARA)
"INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICSAND POETICS OF THE
FANTASTIC IN AN AGE OF MACHINES"
"TECHNO-PROSTHETICS AND EXTERIOR PRESENCE" A
CONVERSATION WITH ALLUCQUERE ROSANNE STONE
AKIRA MIZUTA LIPPIT (U.N. LINCOLN) "THE DEAD EMPEROR'S
NEW CLOTHES: TELEVISION, JAPAN, AND THE SUBJECT OF
MULTIPLICITY"
SHELI AYERS (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "VIRILE MAGIC:
BATAILLE / BAUDELAIRE / BALLARD"
GALEN MEURER (EMORY UNIVERSITY) "DN2K"
"SEX ON A SILVER PLATTER" A CONVERSATION WITH
MIKE SAENZ
LAURA GRINDSTAFF AND ROBERT NIDEFFER (U.C. SANTA
BARBARA) "CUMING SOON ON CD-ROM: ON THE PROMISE
AND THE PITFALLS OF 'VIRTUAL' PORNOGRAPHY"
ADAM ZARETSKY (U. SALZBURG) "ENDOSYMBIOTIC
FORMATION OF ORGANELLES: THE SPIROCHETAL CASE"
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EDITORIAL BOARD FOR _SPEED_1.2
Benjamin Bratton
Laura Grindstaff
Robert Nideffer
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
Gopher:
Robert Nideffer
World-Wide-Web:
Robert Nideffer
_SPEED_Links:
Benjamin Bratton
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Jason Brown
Robert Nideffer
Gabriel Watson
Adam Zaretsky
SOUND ENGINEERING
Ken Fields
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HOW TO GET _SPEED_
_SPEED_ can be accessed and/or downloaded several different
ways: 1)
World-Wide-Web; 2) Anonymous ftp; or 3) Gopher.
1. To Get _SPEED_ via World-Wide-Web just open the following
URL from within
your favorite Web-browser: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
2. To get _SPEED_ via Anonymous ftp just type the following at
your local
prompt: ftp alishaw.ucsb.edu
--when asked for a login name type: anonymous
--when asked for a password type the first part of your e-mail
address. For
example: myname@nowhere.pcp
--change directories by typing: cd /pub/_SPEED_
--at the ftp> prompt you can type the normal "get" and
"put"
commands. For example: get _SPEED_1.2 (or: mget* to get the whole
directory)
3. To get _SPEED_ via Gopher just type the following at your local
prompt: gopher alishaw.ucsb.edu (you can also type in the IP
address directly as follows: gopher 128.111.222.10)
Once there, you will see the familiar Gopher menu structure with
_SPEED_ being one of your options. At that point you can choose to
browse individual items, or mail them to yourself and/or others.
(You have to Gopher directly to us because the Social Science
Computing Facility at U.C.S.B. where _SPEED_ is archived is not a
registered Gopher server. That's why if you happen to be looking
for _SPEED_ over your regular Gopher server you won't have much
luck finding it. _SPEED_ uses roughly a 65-character line, so your
margins should be set accordingly. Set your font type to Courier, 9pt
if you want to retain formatting after downloading.)
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HOW TO CONTACT _SPEED_
e-mail:
Please send all submissions, criticisms, praise, suggestions, or
anything else you have on your mind to
_SPEED_@alishaw.ucsb.edu.
We want to hear from you!
snail-mail:
If for whatever reason you need to communicate with us via the U.S.
Postal Service, please send your correspondence to:
_SPEED_
c/o Robert Nideffer
Department of Art Studio
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA. 93106
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions to the journal can be made by electronic mail
(preferred), on disk (please indicate the program and operating
system used), or by hard-copy (not preferred). No matter what form
your submission takes, please:
--do not use any special characters
--use endnotes instead of footnotes. To indicate an endnote in the
body of your text set it off like this: "blah, blah,
blah."[1]
--use the MLA (Modern Language Association) format for references
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ISSN 1078-196X
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:28:58 PST
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From: Katherine Hayles
Subject: SLS Conference Registration
Dear Colleagues, May I remind those of you who will be attending the
SLS
conference Nov. 2-5 in Los Angeles that the deadline for hotel
registration is fast approaching. The Radisson is now full; the
Holiday
Inn has graciously extended their deadline for registrations through
October 22 (extended from October 20). If you have not registered by
this date, you may not be able to find a room at the conference hotels.
You can register by calling the Holiday Inn directly at 310-476-6411 or
fax at 310-472-1157. Thanks for your attention. Katherine Hayles
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 21:40:59 -0700
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From: Wayne Miller
Subject: 1995 Conference Final Program on the Web
Hi,
The program is available via the World-Wide Web at the following URL:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/sls/finalprog.html
By the way, I invite everyone attending (or not attending) to bring (or
send) a Literature and Science syllabus on a Mac or PC (DOS) disk.
There'll
be a drop box for your contributions, and I will see that they are added
to
the Literature & Science Syllabi OnLine Database (otherwise
available at:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/sls/syllabi/). Thanks -
Wayne
/-----------------------------------------------/
Wayne Miller
Germanic Languages 2326 Murphy Hall
Humanities Computing Facility 343 Kinsey Hall
University of California, Los Angeles 90095
(310) 206-2004 Fax: (310) 825-7428
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 11:13:46 -0500
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From: Will Wagers
Subject: Math Terms in Theolo/Philo
I am interested in identifying math terms -- i.e. same and different
(other), odd and even -- which either were or became theological or
philosophical terms in ancient or Hellenistic Greek.
Is there a work which deals specifically with such terms?
Can anyone add to my meager list?
Any guidance you can provide is appreciated.
Thanks, Will
Will Wagers
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 10:40:08 -0400
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From: David Porush
Subject: Re: Math Terms in Theolo/Philo
Dear Will,
I've got some work on the metaphysical status of the idea of
rational numbers among the Pythagoreans if you're interested.
David
David Porush, Professor
Language, literature & communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York 12180 USA
e-mail: porusd@rpi.edu
tel: (518) 276-6467
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Nature was finished from the moment it invented the human brain.
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 11:49:51 -0400
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From: John Young
Subject: Re: Math Terms in Theolo/Philo
Responding to msg by porusd@RPI.EDU (David Porush) on
>Nature was finished from the moment it invented the human
brain.
David,
Your sig-gram on brain dooming nature, prompts this excerpt
from an article "God's Utility Function," by Richard
Dawkins in November 1995 SciAm:
"So long as DNA is passed on, it does not matter who gets
hurt in the process. Genes don't care about suffering,
because they don't care about anything.
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world
is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that
it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals
are being eaten alive, many others are running for their
lives, whimpering with fear, others are being slowly
devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all
kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. It must
be so. If there is ever a time of plenty, this very fact
will automatically lead to an increase in population until
the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.
In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind
physical forces and genetic replication, some people are
going to get lucky, and you won't find rhyme or reason in
it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has
precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at
bottom, nothing but pitiless indifference. As the unhappy
poet A. E. Housman put it:
For nature, heartless, witless nature
Will neither care nor know
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to
its music."
Biolograms hotzoning the inpenitents, eh? SciFright
Dawkinses acackling at luridly lucrative Fangs and War on
the Discovery (!) Channel -- fearing ravenous gene-clad
kids.
John
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 12:44:05 -0600
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From: Brian Noble
Subject: Wanted: Accomodation at L.A SLS meetings
I'm a cash-strapped graduate student from Alberta looking for billeted
or
shared accomodation at the L.A. SLS meetings, arriving Nov 2 and leaving
Nov 6.
If anyone is interested or can help out, please contact me, Brian
Noble,
ASAP at .
[P.S. A quick aside.
I'm an anthhropologist blending social and literary approaches to
nature/culture production in dinosaur, evolutionary, primate, whale,
and
anthropological discourses. I mostly work with museums, popular film
and
literature, television nature broadcasts, pulp, university teaching,
and
cyber media where science and public discourses hybridize. Anyone
interested in corresponding on these topics is invited to get in touch
at
any time in the future. My paper at the L.A. meetings is in a Latour
session and deals with nature/culture hybridizing in confused
evolutionary
master narratives in one of the major introductory anthropology
textbooks
in North America. Cheers.]
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:06:06 -0500
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
i'm posting all of you to provide a bit of advance notice that the list
address for litsci-l will be changing in the next two months... the vmd
machine on which this list is located is being retired by u of i at
urbana-champaign's ccso group in january 1996 (it's going down,
fittingly,
on the same day as hal), hence litsci-l is being relocated to the
following
address:
litsci-l@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu
(listserv address will become listserv@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu)
note that these new addresses are NOT CURRENTLY ACTIVE...
AFTER we're set up at the new address, all mail sent to the old address
will be forwarded to the new address through late december...
so please be prepared over the next month or two for a bit of technical
this & that... i'll post all of you with another notice as we near
the
switch-over date (yet to be determined precisely by ccso)...
those of you who are involved with _decodings_, please note these
changes
in list address (to become effective january 1996)... and note my new
email
address
amato@charlie.acc.iit.edu
one VITAL thing more: i may (may) run into a hang-up here, to wit: u
of i
at u-c requirements are that listowners be members of the u of i at
urbana-champaign community, which in fact i no longer am... the
university
has been kind enough to allow me to remain as listowner lo these past
three-four years as a faculty member here at iit in chicago...given
that
we're going through these list relocation gyrations, though, i have a
hunch
somebody in the ccso group may object to my non-faculty status... and
if
this happens, i don't have much to stand on... SO: i'd like each of
you
who are members of sls to search your souls and consider whether in
fact
you and your organization can maintain an sls listserv in the event i'm
forced to drop out of the picture... i must admit that, after four years
of
doing this, i could use a break... but i'll continue as listowner IF
there
appear to be no hang-ups with u of i at u-c...
ok, apologies for the interruption, back to your (ir)regularly
scheduled
programming...
joe (amato)
listowner
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:00:39 -0500
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From: "Frank E. Durham"
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
At 12:06 PM 10/23/95 -0500, Joe Amato wrote:
> I'd like each of you
>who are members of sls to search your souls and consider whether in
fact
>you and your organization can maintain an sls listserv in the event
i'm
>forced to drop out of the picture... i must admit that, after four
years of
>doing this, i could use a break... but i'll continue as listowner IF
there
>appear to be no hang-ups with u of i at u-c...
This problem might be resolvable at SLS Los Angeles next week. I have
suggested to the Executive Committee that broader questions, of lit/sci
home
pages, electronic virtual journals, and maybe flatlining as a promising
way
of life should be considered then. The SLS westerners, and whoever else
is
able to dally in L.A. past noon on Sunday Nov. 5, should discuss these
matters at the wrap-up session. Will you be there, Joe?
Best wishes,
Frank Durham
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:51:54 -0500
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
frank, no, sadly, i'll have to miss this year's sls... first time in
years,
and the reason is simple: my funding situation forced me to choose
twixt
sls and a 'reunion' conference at my grad. institution...
anyway... i would appreciate anybody who attends the wrap-up posting me
with news as to what all is said re the electronic component of sls...
it
seems to me that sls should move more fully into these spaces...
in the meantime, i'll continue to post to all, as i say, as to what all
is
transpiring regarding list relocation...
all best,
joe
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 16:20:35 -0500
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From: "Frank E. Durham"
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
At 02:51 PM 10/23/95 -0500, Joe Amato, listmaster, wrote:
> no, sadly, i'll have to miss this year's sls..
>anyway... i would appreciate anybody who attends the wrap-up posting
me
>with news as to what all is said re the electronic component of
sls... it
>seems to me that sls should move more fully into these spaces...
>
>in the meantime, i'll continue to post to all, as i say, as to what
all is
>transpiring regarding list relocation...
Those litsci-l subscribers who won't be at SLS may want to take up
Joe's
request right away. Joe, what would be the specs for a machine that
could
house the list?
Also, I am sure that everyone joins me in expressing thanks to Joe for
his
contributions over these years.
Best wishes, list(en)ers.
Frank Durham
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 18:16:53 -0500
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
thanks frank!...
as to who can house a listserv list such as litsci-l, the matter is
pretty
straightforward from a technical-institutional standpoint: your home
institution has simply got to be willing and able to run and maintain
listserv software (or the equiv.) on one of its mainframes... check
with
your computer admin. folks---they'll generally have a quick response
(even
if they *do* run listserv lists, they may want your list to meet
various
criteria before they set it up for you)...
unfortunately, my current institution, illinois institute of
technology,
does not support such software... hard to believe, i know---but we're
in
the midst of all sorts of organizational changes, in any case, and
email
service itself has been far from reliable...
i might also mention that listowners, depending on the institution,
have
varying degrees of responsibility... in general, my responsibility has
been
to add and delete subscribers manually, to answer list inquiries, and
to
change list settings when necessary (occasionally, to eliminate spam
and
the like)... typically, this is pretty routine stuff---BUT it can
become
quite time-consuming when you run into multiple address problems... in
which event a listowner becomes a bit of a detective, trying to figure
out
which subscriber account is producing bounced messages... improvements
in
listserv software (which now includes an auto-delete utility) have
eased
some of this... but i would be remiss were i not to indicate that there
is
usually some appreciable online time involved in such a commitment, esp.
at
startup, and esp. working with the computer admin. stuff....
joe
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 12:30:28 +0000
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From: "Dr C.R. Sutton"
Subject: SLS Conference acknowledgements
In-Reply-To: <199510230047.BAA09304@listserv.rl.ac.uk> from
"Katherine Hayles"
at Oct 17, 95 07:28:58 am
Dear Kate,
Thank you for your Email reminder about hotels for the meeting. I am
already booked into the Holiday Inn and am very much looking forward to
the
meeting. However, I have had some small anxieties about earlier messages
sent,
which I think I should mention to you.
Enrolment for this event required four different messages - to Jay
Labinger with abstracts, to the hotel, to yourself with registration
fee, and
to Johns Hopkins Univ. Press (Natalie Garrity) over membership of the
Society.
Way back in July I had immediate acknowledgements from Jay and from the
hotel,
but not beyond that. In the case of Johns Hopkins I sent on 21 July
1995 a
letter with $46 cash - which was perhaps not wise - and when I checked
in
September Natalie Garrity said they had no trace of it, so I paid again
by
credit card. To you, also on 21 July, I sent an International Money
Order for
$95 (order number 611 41 074656). As the Baltimore letter went astray, I
hope
you did in fact get this. Would you please confirm?
Yours sincerely,
Clive Sutton
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Dr C.R. Sutton
School of Education,
University of Leicester.
Leicester LE17RF. U.K.
Email: CRS@LEICESTER.AC.UK
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:10:19 -0400
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From: Sidney Perkowitz
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
In-Reply-To: <9510231716.AA27284@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
As we're planning the 1996 SLS meeting, it's especially obvious how
useful it is and will be to have list service available as an addition
to
regular e-mail, DECODINGS, and face-to-face connection. So let me weigh
in
along with Frank and Joe to suggest that maintenance of the list, if it
can't continue in its present form, be made an SLS priority -- along
with
whatever new network features seem valuable.
We've benefitted by having Joe voluntarily run the list, and owe him a
big "Thank you" from the organization.
Sid Perkowitz
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:40:02 -0400
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From: Kevin LaGrandeur
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
In-Reply-To: <199510232316.SAA14813@charlie.acc.iit.edu>
Joe:
Is mailserv software equivalent enough to mailserv stuff for our
purposes?
--Kevin LaGrandeur
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:41:49 -0400
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From: Kevin LaGrandeur
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
In-Reply-To: <199510232316.SAA14813@charlie.acc.iit.edu>
Oops! I meant are mailserv and listserv software sufficiently
compatible
for our purposes?
--Kevin LaGrandeur
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 13:52:46 -0500
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
kevin, w/o pretending to be the expert here, i would say in brief that
what
we need is software that permits for automated distribution of mail to
and
subscription/signoff of a large number of people (currently 300+), as
well
as archiving... there are thousands of listserv lists in
existence---best
bet is to work a request for same through your systems folks, like i
say,
and expect some initial resistance... you may, uhm, attempt to seduce
them
with the prospect of international visibility (b/c of sls)... i'm not
intimately familiar with mailserv software, so i'll pass on verifying
whether it's adequate for our needs...
joe
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From: F.Volta@AGORA.STM.IT
Subject: A NEW WWW PAGE.
Franco A. Volta announces the setting up of a new WWW page by the
C.I.R.T.
- International Center for Retrieval of New, Ancient and Rare Books.
This page gives an up-to date list of new italian books on:
1. Archaeology, Antiquities and Classical Philology.
2. Art, Architecture
The web pages are still in construction.
More links to come:
-Geography, Geology.
-Economics, Sociology.
-History, Philosophy.
-Library Science.
-Literature, Linguistics.
-Mathematics, Computer Science.
-Technology, Engineering, Physics, Astronomy.
-Cinema, Music.
-Manuscripts (microfilms)
-Incunabula (microfilms)
-XVI-XVII-XVIII Centuries (microfilms)
-Herakles Project
The address is:
http://italia.hum.utah.edu/gruppo/volta/cirt.html
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All contacts and requests of information must be addressed to:
Franco A. Volta
C.I.R.T. : International Center for Retrieval
of New, Ancient and Rare Books.
Fax: 0039 6 4826073
E-mail: f.volta@agora.stm.it
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From: Felice Aull
Subject: Annotated Bibliography announcement
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
ON-LINE DATABASE OF LITERATURE AND MEDICINE
1995 printed edition
An Annotated Bibliography for the Medical Humanities
Written by the Editors and Annotators
Produced at New York University School of Medicine and Medical Center
Fiction, poetry, prose
468 annotations
266 authors represented
119 Keywords
Annotations include Keywords, Summary, Commentary, Publication
Information
Indexed in 10 different categories:
Keyword
Genre
Era
Author
Physician Authors
Men Authors
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Asian, African-American, Latina/Latino, Native-American Authors
Title
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Examples of Keywords: Acculturation, Disease and Health. Genetic
Engineering, History of Science, Memory, Nature, Religion, Society,
Technology, War and Medicine
Editorial Board:
Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine
Jack Coulehan, M.D., M.P.H., Stony Brook Health Sciences Center
Carol Donley, Ph.D., Hiram College
Martin F. Kohn, Ph.D., Northeastern Ohio Universities College of
Medicine
Jan Marta, M.D., Ph.D., University of Toronto
Lois LaCivita Nixon, Ph.D., M.P.H., U. of South Florida College of
Medicine
Richard M. Ratzan, M.D., University of Connecticut Health Center
Marian Gray Secundy, Ph.D., Howard University College of Medicine
Harriet Squier, M.D., M.A., Michigan State University College of Human
Medicine
Nancy D. Taylor, Ph.D., Greenville Hospital System, Greenville, SC
James S. Terry, Ph.D., University of Washington
Delese Wear, Ph.D., Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Missoula, Montana
John A. Woodcock, Ph.D., Indiana University
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 05:21:35 -0400
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From: Andrew Russ
Subject: Re: Math Terms in Theolo/Philo
I can give you a slight lead. I found an interesting paperback in
a series of books on magic/occult. It was called "Sacred
Geometry",
and went into the meanings of things like irrational numbers,
platonic surfaces, and logarithmic spirals. With compass and
straight edge exercises. It's hardly an authoritatvie academic
source, but had some interesting information. Unfoirtunately i
can't track down/look up any more info. Except i recommend the
author's last name was Lawlor.
andrew
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 11:18:34 -0400
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From: John Young
Subject: Green Lit
The New York Times Magazine, October 29, 1995, pp. 52-53.
The Greening of the Humanities
Deconstruction is compost. Environmental studies is the
academic field of the 90's.
By Jay Parini (Poet, novelist and the Axinn Professor of
English at Middlebury College)
I knew something was up when, a year ago, two of my best
students at Middlebury College, in Vermont, told me
sheepishly that they were abandoning English for
environmental studies. They were not the first to go. "A
few years ago, we had only a handful of students, maybe
four or five majors per year," said John Elder, a professor
of both English and environmental studies at Middlebury who
has become a guru in the latter program. "Now we have a
hundred or more majors, and it's growing."
This is quite a shift for a small college, and Middlebury
is not alone. There are similar stories from professors at
Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Swarthmore, the University of
Nevada at Reno and elsewhere.
This interest reflects genuine concern over the
environment; as a field it makes special sense, considering
what has happened in the academy over the past few decades.
The activism of the 1960's gave way, in the mid-70's, to
various interest groups gathered under the rubric of
"theory" -- literary and cultural theory, that is. These
advocates of what is loosely called post-structuralism were
mostly apolitical despite their rhetorical fervor;
activism, by the 80's, was generally "out" on most
campuses.
Environmental studies marks a return to activism and social
responsibility; it also signals a dismissal of theory's
more solipsistic tendencies. From a literary aspect, it
marks a re-engagement with realism, with the actual
universe of rocks, trees and rivers that lies behind the
wilderness of signs.
Environmental studies began in the sciences -- geology,
biology, meteorology -- but it has widened its embrace to
include humanities and social sciences. To find out how
environmental studies connected to literature, my field, I
attended a gathering in the Colorado Rockies this summer
the first conference of the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment. On the plane from Denver to
Fort Collins, I sat beside a rumpled looking man in his
50's with a black mustache and peculiar beard; he looked
Lke an English professor, and he was. Prof. Barton St.
Armand, who teaches at Brown, was also attending the
conference. I asked him if environmerltal studies was the
latest fad in academe.
"Absolutely not," he said. "This is a new place in the
curriculum. Students like it because it taps into some very
basic concerns, and teachers of literature like it because
they're bored with theory. Literary theory wasn't real.
Nature is tangible." He paused to reflect. "We're seeing a
return to realism, to exact and esthetically pleasing
descriptions of nature."
The first morning of the conference, I met my colleague
John Elder for breakfast at a pancake house in Fort
Collins. Scott Russell Sanders, an essayist, sat across
from us in the booth, beside Prof. Lawrence Buell, who
teaches at Harvard. Professor Buell's latest book, "The
Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the
Formation of American Culture," has become the standard
work on the subject, and a pioneering example of what is
being called "ecocriticism."
Since arriving in Fort Collins, I'd been hearing about
ecocritics. I asked Professor Buell if he was one. "Let's
just say there is such a thing as ecocriticism," he said.
"We've gotten used to character, theme and plot; it's the
sense of place that is ignored or slighted. The ecocritics
are trying to remedy that."
Eating pancakes with these men was intimidating. All three
are magnificent specimens of the human animal: sinewy, tall
sun-tanned. Obviously, much can be said for getting out of
the classroom. They all climb mountains and run on country
roads. I can't imagine any of them smoking.
We strolled together through the leafy, modern Colorado
State campus to the Lory Student Center, now jammed with
youngish professors. I sipped hot cider with a Mormon
mountain climber whose shaved head rerninded me of Mr.
Clean; he stood between an aging hippie from Santa Cruz,
Calif., in colorful, billowing trousers, and a robust
Irishman who had recently spent more than a year by himself
in a cabin in Maine -- a la Thoreau. "You're the first
people I've talked to in a long time," he said.
Between sessions, I met Cheryll Glotfelty, a conference
organizer. A wiry, intense woman with eyes like diamond
chips, she compared the beginnings of ecocriticism to the
feminist movement. "They began by rediscovering early or
neglected texts by women," she said. "Then they reexamined
the classics, reading Henry James, for example, from a
feminist perspective. Then came the phase of theory: seeing
how language itself constitutes reality. In much the same
way, ecocritics are rediscovering early writers, rereading
the classics from a 'green' perspective and beginning to
frame their subject in a theoretical way."
Perhaps there is something new under the sun, and it is the
sun itself. As David Orr, a professor of environmental
studies at Oberlin, has noted "Our subject, to borrow a
phrase from Alfred North Whitehead, is life in all its
manifestations.' We study cities as well as forests, and
one of our main interests is design: how to live in ways
that are ecologically sound as well as esthetically
pleasing. In this sense, it's tremendously practical as a
subject. Environmentalism is, ultimately, a question of
design -- of ethical design."
I collared a recent graduate of environmental studies at
Middlebury, Eric Odell, to see why he chose this major. He
is lean and blond, and exudes a coiled energy. "I started
by majoring in biology," he said, "but saw pretty quickly
I didn't want to spend all my time in the lab. I wanted to
relate to people, to get outside and learn about the world.
Environmental studies wasn't only the natural sciences, and
I liked that. At some point, I wondered if everything would
connect, but it did in the end." He also pointed out that
environmental studies is often a good undergraduate major
for students who want to work eventuaUy in forestry, waste
management, environmental law and city planning.
The interdisciplinary aspect of environmental srudies is
alluring. In the last 20 years, progressive college
faculties have argued for more permeable departmental
boundaries. But professors seem instinctively territorial.
Environmental studies offers a natural place for various
branches of knowledge to meet, where connections are
celebrated. "It is no accident," Orr said, "that
connectedness is central to the meaning of both the Greek
root word for ecology, *oikos*, and the Latin root word for
religion, *religio*."
Orr believes that ecological destruction is just another
product of what he considers our "bad" education. "It
should be no surprise that we end up with many childish
adults equipped with high technology. A person graduates
from Harvard or Yale or the Colorado School of Mines with
obligations to no place in particular. Their knowledge is
mostly abstract, equally applicable in New York or San
Francisco." Education, he added, "ought to allow for
bonding to the natural world."
But how to establish this bond? "I think we begin by
teaching about the physical environment," Elder said. "The
geology, the weather patterns, the plants and animals that
thrive in a particular region. But we also need to include
human beings as part of the landscape, which means paying
attention to indigenous cultures and stories of
immigrations." Like almost everyone I have talked to on
this subject, Elder referred to recent nature writing as
one of the liveliest corners in contemporary American
culture. "We have a renaissance on our hands," he said,
mentioning the work of Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, John
McPhee, Scott Russell Sanders, Barry Lopez, Vicki Hearne,
Terry Tempest Williams and Gretel Ehrlich.
A few weeks later, I stopped by home in Bristol, Vt. As the
son of a Baptist minister, he is quietly charismatic, with
a high forehead and steady gaze: I don't wonder why
students at Middlebury flock to him. We talked outside, in
the long shadow of the Bristol Cliffs, as he put the
finishing touches on a cedar canoe called The Tribute,
which he has been building for some months in memory of his
father, who died last year. I asked him about the relation
of environmental studies to English. "It doesn't make sense
to have English departments anymore," he said. "The
traditional model in education has been cosmopolitanism.
I've come to prefer a concentric and bioregional approach
to learning. I'm not in any way suggesting that we forget
the classics, but it makes sense -- educationally -- to
begin with local writing; then you expand, adding layers of
knowledge -- and not just literary knowledge. When you come
to a poem by, say, Robert Frost, its meaning is a lot
richer if you understand what a good naturalist Frost was.
He understood his particular landscape, the human
communities that arose within it and their interrelations.
This is true of most great writers."
What about the so-called culture wars? Is environmental
studies entering the fray? "There are some who want to get
involved in that battle," Elder said, "but I don't think
it's essential. Why the field is so attractive has more to
do with the common ground it provides -- quite literally --
for humanists and scientists to come together. The
discipline began as a response to problems and controversy,
but it has moved beyond that; we're trying to teach a form
of attention to the landscape, to the whole environment,
human and natural."
He stood back to inspect his canoe, which was nearly ready
to launch "To a degree," he said, "the work of
intellectuals in our time is the work of grieving, but it's
not just lamentations. I call it 'creative grieving.' We've
come to a moment when we can think about loss, can absorb
the extent of the damage done and perhaps engage in real
action."
[Insets]
Readings: Edward Abbey, "Desert Solitaire." Annie
Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." Robert Finch and
John Elder, editors, "The Norton Book of Nature
Writing." David Orr, "Earth in Mind." Mitchell
Thomashow, "Ecological Identity." Terry Tempest
Williams. "Refuge."
Top Courses: "Literature of the Wilderness" (David
Robertson, Universiry of California at Davis). "The
Ecohistory of New England" (Noel Perrin, Dartmouth
College). "Representing the Other: Animals in
Literature" (Cheryll Glotfelty, University of Nevada at
Reno). "Environment and society (David Orr, Oberlin
College). "Environmental Visions and Environmentalism"
(Donald Swearer, Swarthmore College). "Radical
Environmentalism" (Stephanie Kaza, University of
Verrnont).
Gurus: Lawrence Buell, Harvard University. William
Cronon, University of Wisconsin at Madison. John Elder,
Middlebury College. Cheryll Glotfelty, University of
Nevada at Reno. David Orr, Oberlin College. David
Robertson, University of California at Davis. Donald
Swearer, Swarthmore College. Louise Westling, University
of Oregon at Eugene.
[Photo] John Elder, a professor of both environmental
studies and English at Middlebury College, in the cedar
canoe he made himself.
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:17:15 -0500
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From: Richard Seltzer
Subject: Internet-on-a-Disk #13 available now
Comments: To: edutel@rpitsvm.bitnet, literary@ucf1vm.bitnet
Issue #13 of Internet-on-a-Disk is now available at
http://www.tiac.net/users/samizdat
or by email on request (seltzer@samizdat.com)
This free issue includes:
o pointers to public domain electronic texts
o Web notes -- Central Source Yellow Pages, Travel Time Trip Planner,
Envirolink Network, MendelWeb, Trace Research, Web Digest for
Marketers,
and the Internet Index
o Other Educational Resources -- Primary Destination New Hampshire,
Quest! Live from the Stratosphere, Washington Social Studies,
International Honors Program, Newton's Apple, and The Armchair
Scientist (Lo Scienziato in Poltrona)
o Curious Technology -- Free Services Page from NetMind, URL-minder,
NetBuddy, Tiger Map Service, Excite, Webwhacker, Netscape Navigator
2.0,
and Workgroup Web Forum
o New Business Models -- Cartoonist By-passes Syndicators; A New Kind
of
Advertising
o Features --
"Hit-vitations": What's Going On and How Do You Play This
Game?
How to Publicize a New Web Site Over the Internet
o Movie Notes -- review of "Hackers"
o Letters to the Editor -- comments on changing nature of publishing
and
the fate of authors, finding Robert's Rules of Order on-line, and
"The
Real Tomorrowland"
o Real Results -- announcing the start of a directory of successful Web
sites, with info on what they are trying to do and how they do it
(if you wish to be listed, send email to seltzer@samizdat.com and
request
results.txt)
Best wishes.
Richard Seltzer
seltzer@samizdat.com
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:14:38 -0800
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From: "Jay A. Labinger"
Subject: Re: Electronic Book Review
Announcing a new journal on the Internet:
The *Electronic Book Review,* an on-line journal and working forum
promoting literary innovation on the Internet, is soliciting articles
for
the Winter of 1996.
Issue #1, appearing in November 1995, features essays and reviews by
Mark
Amerika, Linda Brigham, Carolyn Guyer, Paul Harris, N. Katherine
Hayles,
Michael Joyce, Peter Krapp, Marcos Novak, Joseph Tabbi, and Walter
Vannini. Several of these essays will appear simultaneously in print,
as a
special focus of the *American Book Review*. To facilitate print-screen
collaborations, and as a service to writers whose primary domain is
print,
EBR will regularly share reviews with ABR, roughly two per issue.
For Issue #2, we are organizing an e-mail essay forum around an
original
essay by Michael Berube, "Cultural Criticism and the Politics of
Selling
Out." Essays received by January 10, especially those concerned
with the
political economy of the Internet, will be considered for inclusion in
this
forum. Additional features are planned on post-feminist women's
writing
and the electronic future of poetry and literary fiction.
For future issues, EBR is soliciting critical writing not only on, but
*in*
hypertext. We are interested especially in exploring narratives whose
logic is
as much visual as verbal, and we prefer thoughtful overviews, polemics,
and
review essays to evaluations of single works.
EBR will be stored at and distributed from the Alternative-X web site:
http://www.altx.com/ebr
Inquires should be sent to:
Joseph Tabbi
English Department
University of Illinois-Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7120
e-mail address: jtabbi@uic.edu
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:25:50 -0600
Reply-To: Society for Literature and Science
Sender: Society for Literature and Science
From: Joe Amato
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
well folks, i know this comes on the eve. of the litsci-l conference,
and
on halloween to boot, but the official word is that litsci-l MUST find
a
new home... i've gone back & forth with the u of i at u-c ccso
group, and
there is simply no alternative here---given that i'm no longer with u of
i,
and given that litsci-l has no local (read "u of i at u-c")
subscribers,
the list has got to move, period.
so we'll be disconnected sometime in the next two months, surely by the
first of january at the latest (i'm trying to find out precisely
when)...
hence we needs MUST find a new home PRONTO!!!!...
i implore those of you with decent computer facilities (you probably
know
who all you are) to check and see if you can support this effort at
your
institution... a listserv-based list (or the equiv., such as a
'majordomo'
appl.) is absolutely essential to keeping the dialogue going, a
dialogue
that a group like sls needs (and imho needs more of) in order to stay
vital...
any volunteers?... please feel free to post me direct at
...
please, feel free to use *this* space to work out this urgent issue...
i
would also appreciate it if those of you who are going to the
conference
would make it a point of alerting the sls community as to how important
this is (and please---let me know what all transpires!)...
thanks for staying tuned, for listening...
best,
joe (amato)
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:56:57 -0600
Reply-To: Society for Literature and Science
Sender: Society for Literature and Science
From: Joe Amato
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
quick followup to my last post:
we have at least ONE MONTH here, but perhaps not much more, according
to
the powers-that-be...
so we need collectively to move on this...
joe
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 22:03:45 +0000
Reply-To: Society for Literature and Science
Sender: Society for Literature and Science
From: Robert Maxwell Young
Subject: Re: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...
>well folks, i know this comes on the eve. of the litsci-l
conference, and
>on halloween to boot, but the official word is that litsci-l MUST
find a
>new home... i've gone back & forth with the u of i at u-c ccso
group, and
>there is simply no alternative here---given that i'm no longer with
u of i,
>and given that litsci-l has no local (read "u of i at
u-c") subscribers,
>the list has got to move, period.
>
>so we'll be disconnected sometime in the next two months, surely by
the
>first of january at the latest (i'm trying to find out precisely
when)...
>
>hence we needs MUST find a new home PRONTO!!!!...
>
I have been in a somewhat analogous position, being based at netcom,
which
is, for no apparent reason, sinking beneath the waves. I was welcomed
with
open arms by my own university, Sheffield, but I have not yet found out
how
keen they are to have lists which don't have a local connection. Of
course,
as a subscriber to this list, _I'm_ a local connection, so I/we could
try.
They have taken on my list pronto and graciously, along with another
(also
moderated by a faculty member). I asked today about others and will let
you
know the reply. You can approach the relevant person yourself, though,
Richard Gilbert, at R.Gilbert@sheffield.ac.uk
There is another: St Johns in NY has an energetic list
entrepreneur, Bob Zenhausern, who was also very welcoming and took on
my
Science-as-Culture list, which is, after all, close to this one in
subject
matter. He has brought in over a hundred lists, something which makes me
a
bit uneasy, but my experience so far has been okay. I applied late
last
week, and it's on line today (Sheffield was as prompt, mind you).You
can
approach him at DRZ@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
I'd be inclined to approach Sheffield first, just because there is
no empire there, and Richard has been helpful. I fear that Zenhausern's
empire will get overpopulated, which is what happened at netcom (though
he
insists that he can handle anything...)
Mention my name in both contexts and let me know how you/we get on.
Best wishes, Bob Young
__________________________________________
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| Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies,
| Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies,
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