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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
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>From: G.Peaker-AT-derby.ac.uk (Giles Peaker)
>Subject: Detours and Delays - call for submissions
>Cc: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
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>
>                                                  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
>
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