Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:18:32 -0500 From: Dick Dale <dick-AT-planet93.com> Subject: Re: Detours and Delays - call for submissions (fwd) PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR LIST. THANK YOU! At 09:49 AM 11/25/96 -0500, you wrote: >Forwarded message: >>From G.Peaker-AT-derby.ac.uk Wed Nov 20 11:58:33 1996 >Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:56:52 GMT >Message-Id: <199611201656.QAA19928-AT-unix2.derby.ac.uk> >X-Sender: aart579-AT-unix1.derby.ac.uk >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >To: spoon-announcements-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU >From: G.Peaker-AT-derby.ac.uk (Giles Peaker) >Subject: Detours and Delays - call for submissions >Cc: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com> > > > A Call for Submissions. > > DETOURS AND DELAYS > An Occasional e-journal of Aesthetics and Politics > http://art.derby.ac.uk/~detours/detours.html > >The aim of this journal is simple to state and very difficult to achieve: >to gather together that which is truly interesting in current criticism, >critical theory, art and new media. Its field of interest lies in the >relations of aesthetics and politics, both historical and contemporary. >From its inception as a philosophy of sensory response, the aesthetic has >had complex and contradictory political histories. In speaking of art, >aesthetics speaks of many other things as well, indeed at times becomes the >very means of speaking the ethical and political. With the current revival >of interest in aesthetics, the time is ripe for an engagement with its >pasts and an exploration of its difficult and unpredictable present. >Detours and Delays is intended to play a role in this endeavour. > >The forms in which this exploration takes place will be, it is hoped, >diverse, and not solely that of text (although text is of importance). The >medium of the Web, after all, presents us with both new possibilities and >new limitations. The title of this journal, like so many epigrams, is taken >from Walter Benjamin. From the same source, we might also take the reminder >that style is a form of thought. Rigour is vital, but need not be frozen >into the lumpen prose of academic jargon. > >The orientation of Detours and Delays is unashamedly to the left, but with >no time for contemporary pieties or received ideas. The journal should not >contain the textual genuflections which, unexamined, can pass for politics, >(this is certainly not to exclude the politics of the text). The aim is to >provide a place for discussion, debate, information and reflection. There >is no line, although there may well be themes (and developments). > >Submissions are warmly invited , and anyone who is interested in co-editing >the journal is welcome to contact the editors, as is anyone who would like >to mirror the site. Detours and Delays will, it is hoped, include >(international) reviews of books, exhibitions, events etc., as well as a >correspondence page, a linked archive area and a links page. Submissions, >suggestions and responses of these kinds are welcome, as are submissions in >forms other than text. See the submissions details at the site for >supported formats. The release of new editions will be erratic, depending >on submissions and the time available to the editors. If you wish to be >mailed when a new edition is released, please see the subscription page at >the site. Submissions should be sent to detours-AT-art.derby.ac.uk or disc >to the address below. >(Please circulate to anyone who might be interested) > >Giles Peaker >Historical and Theoretical Studies, School of Art and Design >University of Derby. Britannia Mill, Mackworth Road. Derby DE22 3BL (U.K.) >(01332) 622222 ext. 4063 G.Peaker-AT-derby.ac.uk >Editorial collective Detours and Delays. An Occasional Journal of >Aesthetics and Politics. >http://art.derby.ac.uk/~detours/detours.html > > > > > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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