Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:34:11 -0500
To: <deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org>
Subject: [D-G] Fw: New Journal / Call for Papers. "Semiophagy: Journal


Dear group,

the second link
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/locate/emospa

goes to another journal, "emotion of space".

The cite of Thousand  Plateaus in
http://www.semiophagy.com
shows that word-ingestion is meant, which is
something like my second interpretation below.

The title "Patpaphysik" is from Jarry,  french literat and written  pretty
young, not a physicist as one may expect.
"Existential" semiotics (the science of signs in a very general sense,
with Umberto Eco as most prominent scholar), sounds very
interesting too.

semiophag reminds of bacteriophag - which in turn
gives a "a parallel evolution" wit our "mind" rhizome as
bacteophafg induces sickness, maybe a parallel evolution and an
improvement of the immune system.

But the titlemakers  may have had more the more brute and direct
association of intellectuals in mind,
reading a lot of books and thereby "eating a lots of signs"
or semiotics - like a phagocyte.

Eating semiotics is probably more common now, because
mass media, as invoked by Deluze for the cinema, are full of signs
and semiotics to.

Greetings Harald Wenk


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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Drohan" <drohadoctorn-AT-gmail.com>
>To: <EGSCovertOps-AT-yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:04 AM
>Subject: [D-G] New Journal / Call for Papers. "Semiophagy: Journal
>ofPataphysics and Existential Semiotics
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>*------------------------------*-----------------------------
>*
>Call for Papers
>SEMIOPHAGY: JOURNAL OF PATAPHYSICS AND EXISTENTIAL SEMIOTICS
>*
>For more information:
>http://www.semiophagy.com
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/locate/emospa
>Online submissions: doctordrohan-AT-gmail.com*
>
>------------------------------ * *-----------------------------
>
>New Journal for 2009!*
>
>*Semiophagy is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, artists, and
>activists to engage in semiotics, broadly construed. More than abstractly
>saying what signs are generally, Semiophagy pushes the concept of the sign
>toward questions of praxis. Instead of asking 'what' a sign is, it
>questions
>'how' we discover and interpret signs in the first place.*
>
>*Semiophagy aims to trace the being of signs from their phenomenological
>emergence to their existential significance, asserting that insofar as all
>signs must be interpreted, the search for every sign's meaning is a
>creative
>urge expressed as art. This includes but is not restricted to
>philosophical
>and critical inquiries, visual works, pataphysical experiments,
>manifestos,
>comics, spoof ads and articles, dada, ethical treatises, as well as the
>history and myth of semiotics itself.*
>*For possible publication in Spring of 2009, submissions to**
>Semiophagy**MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 1ST, 1009.
>
>**Semiophagy is a blind, peer-reviewed publication. For more information,
>or
>to submit a piece, please contact doctordrohan-AT-gmail.com.**
>
>*
>
>
>--
>Dr. Christopher M. Drohan, MA, PhD
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