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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 14:40:54 -0800
From: 6500benb-AT-ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Benjamin Bratton)
Subject: SPEED: An Electronic Journal of Technology, Media and Society; Call For Papers



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 SPEED: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND SOCIETY

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                  http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed

                  email: _speed_-AT-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 1.3/1.4: 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 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 1.5: 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_-AT-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 POLITICS
     AND 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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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-AT-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_-AT-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, co-editor
     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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