Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 07:24:29 -0400 From: owner-spoon-announcements ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 96 18:22:31 PDT From: Benjamin Bratton <6500benb-AT-ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu> To: spoon-announcements-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Subject: SPEED: Airports and Malls Sender: owner-spoon-announcements-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Benjamin Bratton <6500benb-AT-ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu> [NOTE: Spoon-Announcements is not a list; it's a mechanism for distributing information of potentially general interest to all subscribers of the Spoon Collective's mailing lists without bombarding them with cross-postings.] SPEED: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND SOCIETY ----------------------------------- http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed *** _speed_-AT-alishaw.ucsb.edu ----------------------------------- Bulletin: June, 1996: Please Forward *** 1. SPEED 1.3: AIRPORTS AND MALLS HAS ARRIVED 2. CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON PAUL VIRILIO 3. CALL FOR PAPERS: FETISHISM: HOW CYBORGS FUCK? 4. ABOUT SPEED/ WHAT, WHO, HOW? ----------------------------------- "Postmodern cyber criticism collides with cyber cool in this smart, savvy, and, dare I say, hot looking journal of technology, media, and society. The intention of _SPEED_ "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." That is, wired culture gets self-reflexive, and it's about time." --from GNN, on-line Whole Internet Catalog 1. SPEED 1.3: AIRPORTS AND MALLS HAS ARRIVED "The globe shrinks for those who own it; for the displaced or dispossessed, the migrant or refugee, no distance is more awesome than the few feet across borders or frontiers." -- Homi K. Bhabha. "This version of the SPEED periodical/software concerns the transformation of social space by information technologies, and the value of dystopian mapping practices in accounting for the re- locations of personalized politics that those transformations demand.... "A sheer centralization of aesthetics signals an empowered domain of inhabited information. Perhaps no social space serves to exemplify this development more so than the airport. It stands for the globalization of participant space under the sign of hegemonic capital circulation, and of the standardization of capital and circulation under the sign of information. The mechanical and totemic work that it does in such service wishes to succeed at, and complete, a utopian theater. But something is still messy. For Us, the story that it, as a place, tells about itself and asks us to play a part in, suffers a vanity of false resolution and improper closure. Its utopian infantilization of our bodies which it mediates does not finally succeed in convincing us that the global system of temporized space it links is quite truly so seamless and resolved. For most, this was never even a question. For all, this is part of the rude claim made by the infomatic revolution in the built environment....." -- from "SUR-Urbia: An Introduction to Airports and Malls." VERSION 1.3 "AIRPORTS AND MALLS" INCLUDES: BENJAMIN BRATTON (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "SUR-Urbia: AN INTRODUCTION TO AIRPORTS AND MALLS" JOHN THACKARA (NETHERLANDS DESIGN INSTITUTE) "LOST IN SPACE - A TRAVELER'S TALE" BOBBY RABYD (BROWN UNIVERSITY) "AIRPORT NOVEL" JUSTIN STINCHCOMBE (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "FLY AWAY LITTLE BIRDIE" JEFF GATES (EYE to I) "IN OUR PATH: ESSAYS" JASON BROWN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) AND GABRIEL WATSON (ECHO IMAGES)"PROSTHESIS" MARK BURCH (UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII) "PLATEAUS OF CONSUMPTION: THE BIOSEMIOTICS OF CONSUMER FASCISM" CARINA YERVASI (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) "PRE/SUB/URBAN SPRAWL: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARISIAN PASSAGE AS URBAN MALL" JENNIFER SMITH (McMASTER UNIVERSITY) "THE MALL IN MOTION: A NARRATIVE STROLL THROUGH THE OBSTACLE COURSE" "THE FLESH MADE IMAGE, LONG LIVE THE NEW IMAGE" A CONVERSATION WITH JEFF HARRINGTON OF iDEAL oRDER/PSYCHIC TV "BIOSPHERE 3: AUDIENCE WITH/OF THE MALL OF AMERICA" A CONVERSATION WITH HERB SIMON OF SIMON AND ASSOCIATES WITH ARTWORKS BY: JEFF GATES (EYE to I) "IN OUR PATH" ROBERT NIDEFFER (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "TERMINAL CIRCLES" JASON BROWN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "MOVING PICTURES" MICHELLE WAKIN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "FOR YOUR SAFETY" ----------------------------------- 2. SPEED 1.4: 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. ----------------------------------- 3. SPEED 1.5: FETISHISM: HOW CYBORGS FUCK? "Object Relations" becomes a difficult strategy for love in a virtualizing world. Difficult, but still preferred. "Fetishism: How Cyborgs Fuck?" will cut between the technologies of fetishism and the fetishisms of technology -- from the techno-eroticism of B/D and S/M to the B/D and S/M of postmodern advertising. Future Sex? Yes, thank you. As long as we can keep our black patent-leather Newton PDA's! "That's a big hard drive you've got there, General!" The issue is desire, or rather desire transformed into technology's modes of enframing and poesis. The moments that these actions are made for "devices" ("ooh, it's so smooth") and not "technologies" ("we've got 98% efficiency, sir") become even more to the point. This issue will include projects relating to, but not exclusive to, Cyborg Studies, techno-psychoanalysis, transfeminism, S&M Studies, CyberSex, the cinematics of just-in-time alienation, and all other general economies of dissemination. WWW-based proposals are particularly encouraged. ----------------------------------- 4. ABOUT SPEED 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. ----------------------------------- EDITORIAL BOARD FOR SPEED 1.3 Benjamin Bratton Laura Grindstaff Robert Nideffer TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION Interface Design: Jason Brown Robert Nideffer Links and Links Text: Benjamin Bratton .GIF and .JPEG: Jason Brown Robert Nideffer Adam Zaretsky MIDI: Ken Fields .AIFF and .AU: Ken Fields Nathan Freitas Robert Nideffer JAVA and VRML Scripting: Nathan Freitas Terminal Modeling: Rand Eppich ----------------------------------- ** 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. 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. 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 Department of Art Studio University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA. 93106 ISSN 1078-196X ---------------------- Benjamin Bratton Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara 6500benb-AT-ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu SPEED: An Electronic Journal of Technology, Media and Society http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed speed-AT-sscf.ucsb.edu ----------------------
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