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Re: Masthead (fwd)
Alan Sondheim <[email protected]>
'Automobility' - conference: CSTT, Keele Uni, 8-10 Sept 2002
"Steffen G. Bohm" <[email protected]>
THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EMOTIONS
Oliver Grau <[email protected]>
2002 Design Recast / Vacancies in the design department (fwd)
"f," <[email protected]>
Mobile Vulgus
"Techne" <[email protected]>
ISSUE #6, Winter 02, "Art in Public Space and its Relation to the Community"
"www.art-omma.org" <[email protected]>
Interview Yourself 60th Interversary Edition!
Amy Alexander <[email protected]>
call for short report/paper/note on WSF, Porto Alegre
"Steffen G. Bohm" <[email protected]>
WIPOUT PRESS RELEASE
Alan Story <[email protected]>(by way of richard barbrook)
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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:30:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Masthead (fwd)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:27:25 +1100
From: Alison Croggon <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Masthead
Announcing Masthead No. 5 - now up at
http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
Poetry selections: RANDOLPH HEALY, ELIZABETH JAMES, PIERRE JORIS,
TREVOR JOYCE, JACINTA LE PLASTRIER, SOPHIE LEVY, ALAN SONDHEIM,
HARRIET ZINNES
Theatre texts: DAVID BIRCUMSHAW and MARGARET CAMERON
Essays: SOPHIE LEVY on innovative lyric poetry by women, JACINTA LE
PLASTRIER on gender, JOHN KINSELLA on bioethics, RICHARD TOOP on the
controversy around US composer John Adams
Interviews: SLAWOMIR MROZEK by ARNI IBSEN and ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB by
FRANK BERBERICH, translated by PIERRE JORIS
Photographs: JACQUELINE MITELMAN
********
ISLAM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Interview of Tunisian writer Abdelwabab Meddeb by Frank Berberich,
translated by Pierre Joris
"The one who claimed superiority or at least equality cannot grasp
the process that has led him to such weakness when faced with the
century-old opposite, enemy or adversary. ... Nietzsche himself
thought that the Islamic subject was a subject that belonged much
more to aristocratic morality, the morality of affirmation, which
glorifies the one who gives without trying to receive; while the
nature of resentment is to be in the position of the one who receives
but who does not have the means to give, the one who is not
affirmative. Thus the Islamic subject is no longer the man of the
"yes" that illuminates the world and creates a naturally hegemonic
being; from sovereign being he has become the man of the "no", the
one who refuses, who is no longer active but only re-active."
NO ONE BELIEVES PLAYS: AN INTERVIEW WITH SLAWOMIR MROZEK, by Arni Ibsen
"I don't see myself in a context at all because I don't construct my
ego or my self-image. Absolutely not. I know that sounds untrue
because writers usually construct themselves very much in a literary
way, but that's part of the writer's energy. I don't do that. It's an
uninteresting part of the writer's life."
BONE: A MONOLOGUE FOR TWO, by David Bircumshaw
"I have often thought, Bone, of how you would survive without my
assistance. For I am a kindly man, Bone. I recall well how I rescued
you that day, when I used to walk, the last time I walked, when you
were blindly standing by the kerb, pitifully incapable of crossing.
We cannot all cross that road, Bone. I, of course, have no need to
now. But you, Bone? No, not you."
KNOWLEDGE AND MELANCHOLY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION, by Margaret Cameron
"How do you think I have lived? You will not grant me autonomy.
Inert with depression, you insult me. I try to save this house. Oh
the persistent unhappy demands of my life! Anyone would consider
escape. Your instability compromises me. I am afraid of you. In your
house, my 'landlord', I am subject to you. I call witness: be my
guard! I am speaking of 'safe houses'. I cannot let this go
unattended. Your support is getting thin. I ration food. Your visits
brief as Christmas leave me poor. I savour luxuries you leave
everything breaking. You make me cry poor. "
ARE WE SPEAKING (OF) "THE NATURAL LANGUAGE OF MEN"? ANNE CARSON,
KATHLEEN FRASER, GRACE LAKE: INNOVATING LYRIC POETRY, by Sophie Levy
"In a sense, claiming the first person pronoun, as lyric does, is
always a mistake, as the poem works to throw off its disembodied 'I'.
This is especially striking in the work of experimental women writers
like Fraser, who knows that it is as hard to get 'I' into the
sentence as 'she,' when the 'I,' like Echo, is a She. Natural
language - the image in the water - is always shifting, depending on
the perspective from which it is seen. Sometimes the lyric 'I' has to
be disembodied in order to access ways of speaking of who we think we
are."
THE CASE FOR CONTROL, by Richard Toop
"Perhaps the most spectacular contribution to 'The Death of
Klinghoffer' debate came from an academic, Prof. Richard Taruskin, of
the University of California at Berkeley. Taruskin is, by general
consent, one of America's leading musicologists, and probably the
greatest living authority on Russian music. He is also known as a
robust controversialist. On December 9 2001, the New York Times
published a near 3000-word essay of his, entitled 'Music's Dangers
and the Case for Control'; in terms of setting the tone of future
arts discourse in America, it may prove to be as significant as
anything else he has written."
PLAGUES AND BIOETHICS, by John Kinsella
"Quarantine isn't just about keeping diseases out, protecting a
specific geography from physical contamination, but also about the
preservation of "home" values. It is about a mental and spiritual
"purity"."
ART AND GENDER: NOTES TOWARDS A POETIC, by Jacinta le Plastrier
"...the issue of gender - the nature of sexual and gender
separateness - is both too coarse and too polite for poetry - and, by
extension, in the context of this discussion, art.
"Too coarse, because poetry sings into being, which lives in the
mouth of life, in the mouth of death; a large mouth, too large for
such coarseness. Too polite, because poetry sings into being... a
mouth so large it simply annihilates such convention and restraint."
Masthead
arts, culture and politics
http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:21:16 -0000
From: "Steffen G. Bohm" <[email protected]>
Subject: 'Automobility' - conference: CSTT, Keele Uni, 8-10 Sept 2002
THIS IS NOT A NET-EVENT, BUT A CALL FOR A UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE WHICH SOME OF THE NETTIMERS MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN
Call For Interest: Papers, Discussants and Participants
'Automobility'
A conference hosted by the Centre for Social Theory & Technology at Keele University, UK, September 8th -10th, 2002.
Outline
Automobiles, their production, consumption and semiology, have vexed and intrigued theorists, governments, businesses, unions,
protestors and activists from their inception in the late 19th century to the present day. As a figure of the contemporary
landscape, the automobile coalesces the dominant concerns and themes of modernity, whether it be the rationalized, automated
production line of Henry Ford, or the seemingly insatiable appetite for speed and movement that is its counterpoint. As
undoubtedly important as the automobile is, the aim of this conference is to look beyond the car itself to consider the basic
conception of automobility that underlies it. To be automobile is to feel simultaneously autonomous and to have, at least the
potential for, movement. Yet paradoxically the automobile subject is anything but independent and autonomous. The lines of
subjectivization that automobilities traverse draw together complex webs of governance, desire, capital and resistances in order
to produce the phenomenon of an automobile self. Even further, automobility is characterised as much by motility as by mobility:
the potential for movement and independence seems to be indefinitely deferred as a future promise that perpetually reproduces the
desire for automobility.
To explore the idea of automobility further, we invite expressions of interest from across the disciplines, dealing with any of
the questions, issues and difficulties raised by this concept. We would particularly encourage contributions in the following
broad themes, though these should be treated as an open invitation to discussion, rather than a closed statement of focus.
� Automobilising desire. Automobility is a form of auto-eroticism. Inscribed in advertising, film and popular culture the car
performs an extension of the body through which flows are produced and cathected. Speed, sound, sex and violence conjoin in the
most mundane of circuits, whether adolescent performances on the drag-strip or a weekly trip to the supermarket: always political,
always economic, always libidinal and always productive.
� Technologies of automobility. Although the car has long been the paradigmatic technology of automobility, others are parasitic
upon its logic. The internet has been characterised as a super-highway on which one can instantly travel anywhere in the global
village. Laptops and mobile phones now offer instant access to anyone anywhere through voice, text and image � automobility on the
move, as it were. The cinema is a space where the spectacle of movement and speed is projected onto the retinal screen of a mass
audience. More than infrastructural (though that too) these technologies of automobility are technologies of the self, productive
movements of cyborganization that splice and connect, but always in-between.
� Ecologies of automobility. It is all but impossible to consider the automobile without recognising the ecological implications
of this mode of mobilisation: pollution, the �out of town� experience, death and injury on the roads, noise, congestion,
obesity... But already this ecology is wider than �the environment�: it partakes of the whole spectrum of social relations and
forms of subjectivity.
� Logics of automobility. What are the logics of automobility? Is it extensive - power in the hands of the driver? Or do
automobiles open up the intensive, our communicational dependence on forms of logic and perhaps rhetoric? Might the rules of
engagement themselves be changing? How much easier, for example to 'overtake' someone else's position rather than go through all
that wearisome business of rebuttal and refutation. Who has time for all that?
� The human as automotile. Automobility helps surface ideas of embodiment and extension. Narrative, the chorale, there are many
ways to transport the body. In other activities such as walking, painting or reading are we not equally auto-mobile? It is easy to
dwell on the laptop or the car as paradigmatic of contemporary culture but how much are these actually revealing of the human
condition? One moment driving around in our cars, the next moment back in our heads. Or should we be talking here rather about
being auto-motile?
We�ve invited John Urry as a leading writer in the area and the US literary theorist Hillis Miller has already agreed to give a
paper.
Conference Organisation
Indications of interest should be sent to the conference administrator, Tracey Wood ([email protected]), stating whether you
intend to contribute a paper, participate as a discussant or just come along to join in. If you would like to submit a paper,
please include a short abstract of up to 200 words. Abstracts should include full contact details and be sent by email to the
conference administrator by 31 March 2002. Prospective discussants should also include a short (200 words) outline of their
interests so that the convenors can match discussants and papers. Other participants are also welcomed and it is hoped that the
conference will stimulate much productive dialogue.
The cost of the conference will be �225, postgraduates �125 including meals and two nights accommodation. As the conference will
be limited to about 40 places, early registration is encouraged.
Conference Administrator:
Tracey Wood, Keele University - [email protected]
Conference Convenors:
Steffen B�hm, University of Warwick
Campbell Jones, Keele University
Chris Land, University of Warwick
Rolland Munro, Keele University
Matthew Paterson, Keele University
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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:07:16 +0100
From: Oliver Grau <[email protected]>
Subject: THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EMOTIONS
Call for Applications
"THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EMOTIONS"
Summer School of the 'Young Academy' (Die Junge Akademie an der
Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der deutschen
Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina)
September 1st - 8th in Loveno di Menaggio, Lake Como, Italy
The summer school entitled "The Young Academy of Emotions" focuses on
the role of emotions/feelings/sentiments in the representation,
construction, and normative formation of the world. The goal of the
summer school is to foster interdisciplinary discourse and exchange
between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
Towards this goal postdocs from all disciplines who are no more than
five years past their Ph.D. will come together in three workshops
focussing on "emotions and thinking", "the manifestation of emotions",
and "norms and emotions". The summer school will be held in German and
English, and no fees will apply.
Guest speakers include Paul Ekman (University of California), Ronald
DeSousa (University of Toronto), Sigrid Weigel (Freie Universitaet
Berlin), Hans-Juergen v. Bose (Hochschule fuer Musik, Muenchen), and Joseph
LeDoux (New York University, invited), Hans Belting, (HfG Karlsruhe, invited).
Applications should include information about the applicant's field of
study, research interests, a letter of recommendation and a detailed
letter of motivation. Applicants should further indicate a first and
second preference for a specific workshop.
Applications can be send before March 31st 2002 to
Dr. Oiver Grau, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar der Humboldt-Universit=E4t
zu Berlin, Dorotheenstrasse 28, 10117 Berlin,=20
[email protected]
Further information is provided at:
www.diejungeakademie.de/Projekte/projekte.htm.
********************************
DR. OLIVER GRAU
Kunsthistorisches Seminar
Humboldt University Berlin
Dorotheenstr. 28; 10117 Berlin
fon: +49 (0)30 2093-4295 (direct) - 4288 (secr.)
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093-4209
[email protected]
www.arthist.hu-berlin.de/arthistd/mitarbli/og/og.html
www.diejungeakademie.de
**********************************
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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:37:40 +0100 (CET)
From: "f," <[email protected]>
Subject: 2002 Design Recast / Vacancies in the design department (fwd)
sorry for crosspostings ...
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:26:55 +0100
From: Koen Brams <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: 2002 Design Recast / Vacancies in the design department
English ad on top / Nederlandse versie onderaan deze mail
For its international 2002 Design Recast lecture programme
the design department of the Jan van Eyck Academy, post-academic institute
for research and production in fine art, design, theory offers per
immediate:
2 ONE YEAR DESIGN RESEARCH POSITIONS
Designers, design critics, design theoreticians who would bring
- - a keen interest in contemporary design issues
- - (design and/or editorial) publishing experience
- - independent research competence
- - and are sufficient in English
are invited to apply.
Research goals
- - the gathering, organizing, researching and representing of material
relevant to the 2002 Design Recast lecture programme, both in editorial as
well as in graphic formats
- - the articulation and evaluation of this material in print and on-line
publications
- - the editorial organization and design of publicity material
- - the editorial organization and design of the series� proceedings
- - the documenting and archiving of the series� content for the documentation
center, in different editorial formats (paper based and electronic/audio
visual)
Research environment
The research will be conducted in a collaborative multi-disciplinary
environment. The researchers will be offered a grant, a studio and artistic
and technical advice.
Additional information about the programme:
www.janvaneyck.nl/2002designrecast
Additional information about the research positions: [email protected]
Please send your application and cv before March 1, by mail or email, to
Leon Westenberg ([email protected]), with subject reference
�Design Recast�.
Jan van Eyck Academy
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
Netherlands
t +31 (0)43 350 3737
f +31 (0)43 350 3799
Nederlands
Voor het internationale 2002 Design Recast lezingenprogramma
biedt de Jan van Eyck Academie, post-academisch instituut voor onderzoek en
productie op de terreinen beeldende kunst, ontwerpen en theorie, per
onmiddellijk:
2 ONDERZOEKSPLAATSEN VOOR ONTWERPERS, ONTWERPCRITICI EN/OF ONTWERPTHEORETICI
GEDURENDE 1 JAAR
Het vereiste profiel van de onderzoekers:
- -een levendige belangstelling voor hedendaagse ontwerpkwesties
- -uitgeefervaring (ontwerpen en/of redactie)
- -in staat tot onafhankelijk onderzoek
- -een voldoende beheersing van het Engels
Het onderzoek betreft:
- -de inhoudelijke en organisatorische voorbereiding van het lezingenprogramma
- -de redactie en het ontwerp van publiciteitsmateriaal (zowel op papier als
elektronisch)
- -de redactie, het ontwerp, de documentatie en de archivering van de inhoud
van het lezingenprogramma in verschillende redactionele formaten (zowel op
papier als elektronisch/audiovisueel)
De onderzoeksomgeving:
Het onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd in een multi-disciplinaire omgeving. De
onderzoekers ontvangen een beurs, een studio en artistieke en technische
begeleiding.
Voor bijkomende informatie over het programma:
www.janvaneyck.nl/2002designrecast
Voor bijkomende informatie over de twee onderzoeksposities: [email protected]
Stuur je sollicitatiebrief en CV, per post of per email, voor 1 maart naar
Leon Westenberg ([email protected]), onder vermelding van
�Design Recast�.
Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
t +31 (0)43 350 3737
f +31 (0)43 350 3799
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:39:19 -0000
From: "Techne" <[email protected]>
Subject: Mobile Vulgus
MOBILE VULGUS
How do people group together? And what are the methods of containment used
in order to regulate the "vulgar mob"? These are just two of the questions
elicited by Christian Nold in MOBILE VULGUS. Looking at the tactics used by
state forces, in particular , non-lethal weapons and associated training
regimes, he traces the move toward total policing. As such methods have
developed, so on the other side protest tactics have evolved in order to
counteract them. Positioning itself within the counter-tendencies the book
then develops its own methodologies of action. Once aligned under a common
desire this project reveals the potential force a crowd of people hold when
they act as a cohesive whole. At once a textual treatise, a visual manual
and an audio tool, MOBILE VULGUS has developed out of in-depth research,
alongside test situations in Bristol and London.
The website www.mobilevulgus.com contains the full book as a downloadable
PDF as well as complete mp3 tracks of the accompanying audio CD.
MOBILE VULGUS is published by Book Works
128 pages, printed offset, with an audio CD, 170x155mm
ISBN 1870699564, price �7.50
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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:50:26 +0200
From: "www.art-omma.org" <[email protected]>
Subject: ISSUE #6, Winter 02, "Art in Public Space and its Relation to the Community"
our apologies for cross posting; if you don't wish to receive our quarterly newsletter, please reply to this email leaving blank the subject field
w w w . a r t - o m m a . o r g
/ Electronic Journal for the Arts
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In this issue n.6/ winter 02
"Art in Public Space and its Relation to the Community"
Contributions by: Kimberly Chun "Free the Billboards: Billboard Liberation Front's Guerilla Campaign" , Miguel Faleiro "Daniel Buren, May 68: Round and About an Incident" , Miwon Kwon "For Hamburg: Public Art and Urban Identities"
the project room
The "Social Gym" by Nikos Charalambides and "Secrets" by Nayia Yiakoumakis
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Also in past issues
a.. n. 5 : "Cultural Geographies of Space"
b.. n. 4 : "Architecture as a Fiction of Disenchantment"
c.. n. 3 : "Imagined identities in postcolonial literature"
d.. n. 2 : "Internet Politics"
e.. n. 1 : "The Notion of Whiteness "
The Project room
a.. n. 3 : "The Pentacycle", "The Undulator system for an urban(e) community"
b.. n. 2 : " After Schock"
c.. n. 1 : "The Sublime and the Domestic"
for more info please visit www.art-omma.org or email us
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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 21:32:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Amy Alexander <[email protected]>
Subject: Interview Yourself 60th Interversary Edition!
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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:15:44 -0000
From: "Steffen G. Bohm" <[email protected]>
Subject: call for short report/paper/note on WSF, Porto Alegre
dear nettimers,
we at 'ephemera' (www.ephemeraweb.org), the electronic journal for critical dialogues on organization, culture and society, would
be very keen to publish a short but critically reflective report/paper/note on the world social forum, porto alegre, brazil, which
is about to end.
questions that could be of interest are:
what were the main controversies? is there a new sense of hegemony of the anti-globalisation movement developing? what about the
relationship between violence and the organisation of real change? was the WSF about ANTI-globalisation? if not, what sort of
globalisation was being advocated? what are the main theories and assumptions behind 'the movement', can they be challenged? how
was the WSF organised? are such monumental conferences the way forward in terms of organising change?
sorry, these are just some ideas.
if you would be interested in writing something for us, then please get in touch ASAP, as we'd like to include this in the
forthcoming issue.
thanks
steffen
____________________________________________
steffen bohm
editor
ephemera: critical dialogues on organization
ISSN 1473-2866
�all that is solid melts into air�
http://www.ephemeraweb.org
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 01:41:51 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Story <[email protected]>(by way of richard barbrook)
Subject: WIPOUT PRESS RELEASE
WIPOUT Press Release - 24 January 2002
Address: [email protected]
WIPOUT, the international intellectual property counter essay
contest, is entering its latter stages after receiving more than 30 essays
from 12 countries. The closing date for entries is 15 March 2002 so there is
still about seven weeks left to send in your essay, short story, or poem.
Entrants are being asked to address the same topic that the World
Intellectual Property Organisation asked in an essay contest it also
launched in 2001: What does intellectual property mean to you in your daily
life?
All of the essays submitted to WIPOUT to date and the contest rules can
be found on the WIPOUT site: http://www.wipout.net/. Submissions are welcome
in English, French, German and Spanish.
Essays have been received from the US, Canada, Sweden, UK, Finland,
Republic of South Africa, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France,
and the People's Republic of China. The winners will be announced on 26
April 2002, the same day that WIPO announces its winners, and will be judged
by an international panel. The WIPOUT prize fund totals �1500.
We still have available a good supply of the special contest poster
designed by the Los Angeles artist Miltos Manetas. If you would like some
posters mailed to you --- anywhere in the world ----- send your postal
details to [email protected] and you should receive them in a week or so.
To view the colour poster, go to:
http://www.electronicorphanage.com/graphik/design/poster/colour.jpg
The WIPOUT site also includes a section of shorter "point of view"
pieces on the same question that will not be judged.
The contest, which started in September, has generated a lot of
interest and many favourable comments. For example, the WIPOUT site had 1700
visitors in the month of December. Media coverage has included an article in
the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/10/business/10WIPO.html?searchpv=nytTodayhttp
If you are a journalist and would be interested in doing an interview,
send an e-mail to [email protected] with your details.
More than 45 organisations and individuals across the globe have
endorsed the contest (see "endorsers" on WIPOUT for the list).
Best wishes
The co-chairs of WIPOUT
Alan Story, Kent Law School, Canterbury, UK
Lee Marshall, University College Worcester, Worcester, UK.
Debora Halbert, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, USA.
Alan Story
Kent Law School
University of Kent
Canterbury Kent U.K
CT2 7NS.
[email protected]
44 (0)1227 823316
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