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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:09:05 -0500
From: "M. Michael Schiff"  <mmschiff-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: 1. new issue j_spot: no. 3, "Ethics & Debt (Or, Debt to the Other)"; 2. call for no. 5 MOVEMENT


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j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought
http://www.yorku.ca/jspot

in this message:
1. *Announcing* j_spot:  Vol. I, no. 3, "Ethics & Debt (Or, Debt to the Other)" now online -AT- http://www.yorku.ca/jspot
2.  *Call for submissions* for no. 5
j_spot invites submissions for Vol. I, no. 5, entitled "MOVEMENT".  See the call below.
Submissions to mailot:j_spot-AT-yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/cfs5.htm

1.  Please Distribute to All and Sundry (with apologies for cross and multiple postings)

3 for 3:  the editorial collective of j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought is pleased to announce the publication of its third issue, entitled "Ethics & Debt (Or, Debt to the Other)." Issue no. 3 is available on-line at:    http://www.yorku.ca/jspot

j_spot is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed electronic journal focusing on a wide range of intersections between theory, politics, culture and social justice.  In light of contemporary political and intellectual conditions in late capitalist society, j_spot aims to expand the space for interdisc
iplinary critique, innovation and originality.  Already situated in the rapidly evolving nexus of technologically mediated social and political change--a transformative nexus which must itself not escape critique--j_spot aims to give free rein to the crucial, critical energies that aim beyond a de
adly acceptance of the status quo.

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	Ethics & Debt (Or, Debt to the Other)
	j_spot, Vol. I, no. 3
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"Traditional ethical theory depends on a subject that functions as a ground-zero for a moral calculus.  After modernity, in a theoretical space determined by the destabilization and absence of an absolute subject, the very possibility of a moral calculus and a moral economy becomes uncertain."
(Kathryn Walker)

Contents:
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Chris Anderson-Irwin, "Beyond Economy, or the Infinite Debt to the Other:  Caputo and Derrida on Obligation and Responsibility"
"No economic system of reciprocal relations between self and other, of debt, repayment, and equality between participants, could comprehend the violence and brutality such acts involve, nor could it begin to address the damage done to the victims."

Margaret Gibson, "Guiltless Credit and the Moral Economy of Salvation"
This essay "considers the debt-structure and bondage of sin...and discusses the gender economy of patriarchal monotheism and divine masculine incarnations which are secured and mediated through women, women's flesh and the genealogical sacrifice of the mother-daughter couple."

Joanna Zylinska, "Sublime Speculations:  The Economy of the Gift in Feminist Ethics"
"My sublime speculations are...an attempt to trace a feminist ethics, an ethics which would spring from the aporias of capitalism and the precarious foundations of modern subjectivity."

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Comments and inquiries to j_spot should be addressed to: jspot-AT-yorku.ca

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2. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:  j_spot, Vol. I, no. 5:  "MOVEMENT" | *Deadline:*  October 1st 2001

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j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought
http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/cfs5.htm
contact us:  mailto:j_spot-AT-yorku.ca

Change, growth, development, destruction, progression, regression, chasing tail, nervous twitching, involuntary muscle movement, running, dancing^Åmovement.

What is movement? What does movement mean in a social and political context? How do we move? Individually? Collectively? Aesthetically? Purposefully? Playfully? How can movement articulate existence? History? Freedom? Nature? Embodiment?

Running and rushing we barrelled ourselves into the twenty-first and now here--at the CFS for issue 5 of the journal of social and political thought--we pause to reflect on the very way of approach and invite art, hypertext, video or photo essays, poetry, prose fiction and academic articles that d
eal with the general theme of ^Ñmovement.'

For issue no. 5 of j_spot, entitled "MOVEMENT" we encourage submissions 
between and across disciplines that address or expand upon the above 
concerns.  Please consult the j_spot Guidelines for Contributors:  
http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/guidelines_for_contributors.htm  for submission 
format and specs. 

All submissions should be sent to j_spot-AT-yorku.ca, preferably as a 
WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, or html file attachment, along with relevant 
original graphics or media, by October 1st, 2001. You may send a URL for 
hypermedia submissions.  For large graphic files or audio files, query 
first.
mailto:j_spot-AT-yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/cfs5.htm
j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought

PLEASE NOTE ALSO that j_spot always welcomes submissions and book reviews 
outside specific issue themes.

j_spot is currently soliciting REVIEWERS for submitted work.  Should this 
prospect be of interest to you, please email us at jspot-AT-yorku.ca a brief 
description of your areas of expertise.  Visit our reviewers page for 
more info: http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/call_for_reviewers.htm

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The j_spot Editorial Collective:
Caitlin Fisher		caitlin-AT-yorku.ca
Mike Palamarek	mikashy-AT-yorku.ca
M. Michael Schiff	m-AT-mmichael.com
Kathy Walker		kathyw-AT-sympatico.ca

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