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gseigwor | 1 May 2004 04:54

RE: once again, teaching suggestions?

>> At risk of being annoying with my occasional requests for teaching
>ideas:
>>
>> Has anyone had success introducing Agamben (Homo Sacer) or 
Hardt &
>Negri
>> (Empire) to new undergraduates? Any secondary readings or
>applications of
>> the theory to recommend?

Ha!  Well, 'success'  teaching Agamben &/or H&N's _Empire_ to new 
undergrads (i.e., freshmen)?  Don't know about that, but I've managed to 
get some 
distance perhaps along somewhat similar directions.  And I think that Ron 
Greene told me once that he taught bits of _Empire_ to high school 
students [is that right, Ron?], which I've more than once tried to imagine ...

But a few of things to suggest:

Deleuze's two essays on 'control societies' at the end of _Negotiations_ 
(my freshmen class finished with these two essays this semester and 
they tackled their thematics as one of their take-home essay questions 
with some real insight -- in fact, this msg is a pause from grading them),

Michael Hardt's essays 
(pre-Empire) on "Global Societies of Control" (in _Deleuze and Guattari: 
New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture_) and "The Withering 
of Civil Society" (in the journal *Discourse* 20.3, pp.139-152),

chapters from Nick Dyer-Witheford's _Cyber-Marx_ (and/or his on-line
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Daniel Rubinstein | 2 May 2004 01:04
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Re: once again, teaching suggestions?


On 30 Apr 2004, at 18:26, Benjamin Chappell wrote:

> At risk of being annoying with my occasional requests for teaching 
> ideas:
>
> Has anyone had success introducing Agamben (Homo Sacer) or Hardt & 
> Negri (Empire) to new undergraduates? Any secondary readings or 
> applications of the theory to recommend?
>
> It's high time to assemble a bibliography of these kinds of things. 
> Maybe one of those Amazon lists: "So, you want to rock undergraduate 
> minds..."
>
> thanks for any suggestions
> Ben
>

Agamben's "Homo Sacer" - i suggest  examining a traditional 
shut-them-up computer game in the light of the two concepts of the 
'bios politicos' and 'zoe sacer'. the player, the avatar, is 'bios 
politicos' killing him is unlawful and sacrificial. The non playable 
characters (NPC) are pure zoe - they can be killed and their death is 
not sacrificial. In this light a computer game is a concentration camp 
phantasy.  This paradigm is also applicable to many news items. for 
example, yesterday's news about British and American soldiers torturing 
and humiliating Iraqis - clear case of defining who is the zoe - a 
being with no political rights whose existence is purely for the 
pleasure of the bios...
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Jeffrey Weinstock | 2 May 2004 18:51
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Rocky Horror and Popular Culture

I have space for two more essay inclusions in my _Reading Rocky Horror: The 
Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture_ volume and I would very much 
like them to be informed by contemporary understandings of cultural studies. 
  If anyone on the list would like more information or is interested in 
pitching an idea, please contact me at <Jeffrey.Weinstock <at> cmich.edu>.  List 
members are welcome to forward this message to others for whom it might hold 
interest. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
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Kirsty Robertson | 4 May 2004 01:19

CFP: (Image)ining Resistance

Apologies for cross posting, please distribute widely.

(Image)ining Resistance

CALL FOR PAPERS

Editors: Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
	Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

We are seeking contributions for a collection of essays tentatively titled
(Image)ining Resistance. Our aim is to encourage interdisciplinary approaches
and critical examinations that address the use of visual imagery in social and
activist movements throughout history. From banners embroidered for suffragette
actions, to the impact of photographs taken in Soweto in 1976, to political
puppets created for recent global justice demonstrations, the intersections
between visual culture and activism relate a rich history with transnational
and transideological import. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, as
are essays addressing a wide range of historical periods, geographic regions
and protest actions. 

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

- the image as a tool of persuasion
- the image as a site of resistance
- “activist” art
- anarchist art
- media coverage of protests and demonstrations
- protest as performance
- culture jamming
- historical analyses of art and protest
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Rita Felski | 4 May 2004 15:10
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CFP: Beauty

Feminist Theory announces a forthcoming special issue
on beauty, to be edited by Claire Colebrook and Rita
Felski. Essays are invited that move beyond the now
well-established critique of the beauty myth to
develop new perspectives on the question of beauty and
gender. Possible topics might include: the beautifying
of the home via interior decor and design;  make-up,
fashion, and bodily transformations as ways of
reconstructing the self; feminist perspectives on the
"beauty boom" in literary and art criticism (Scarry,
Steiner, Hickey, Donoghue); feminist interpretations
of the philosophy of beauty; re-evaluations of "male
gaze" theory and its reduction of beauty to a fetish;
male beauty and the making-over of masculinity (the
"metrosexual"); non-visual theorizations of beauty in
musicology and other fields; cross-cultural beauty
practices.  Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words
and should be addressed to an international and
interdisciplinary readership familiar with current
debates in feminist theory. Feminist Theory uses the
Harvard referencing style. The deadline for
submissions is July 15 2005. Please send your
manuscript, with diskette, to Rita Felski, English
Department, University of Virginia, 219 Bryan Hall,
P.O. Box 400121. Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121 or
e-mail it to rf6d <at> virginia.edu (Word Perfect or Word
only).
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Rick Dolphijn | 4 May 2004 18:17
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symposium: the garden of eating, experiencing the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze in cultural practices

_THE GARDEN OF EATING_

experiencing the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze in cultural practices

ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM-VISSER ‘T HOOFT GEBOUW (FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY)

AT THE OOSTMAASLAAN 950 IN ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

29 MAY 2004- 13.00/17.00

ENTRANCE: FREE

At this one-day event, some of the worlds most well known Deleuze 
scholars, artists, and cultural philosophers will enter the ring to 
battle each other and the audience. The starting point of the various 
discussions will be the ontology of consumption, the thinking of life 
between the one who eats and the one being eaten. It is a point of 
departure that allows us to think in what way the thoughts of Gilles 
Deleuze can help us in thinking the practices of everyday life. It 
allows us to (re)create concepts like culture, capitalism, the State, 
the self, the event, the masculine and the feminine and the major and 
the minor to name a few. In performing a Deleuzian stance, we intend to 
/do/ /theory/.

The explorations will not be undertaken by means of lectures or 
presented papers. Through short statements, through poetry or through 
any other medium available we will explore every dimension of the real, 
we will try to construct any concept that is able to present itself 
through the everyday act of eating. It will be an event of the 
micropolitical, the microethical, the microaesthetical… By exploring the
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Sophie Cartwright | 7 May 2004 13:47
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Sounding Out 2 update

Dear all,
This is just to let you know that registration is now open for the Sounding Out 2 Conference (July 8-10th
2004, University of Nottingham, England).
The conference will begin with a special presentation by Ioan Allen, Academy Award recipient and
vice-president of Dolby Laboratories.
The full conference programme, registration details, information about location, speakers, and more
are available from the conference web site at:
http://www.soundfile.org/sound 
May I take this opportunity also to remind you that there is an early bookers discount for those who register
by May 15th 2004.
Thanks and apologies for cross-postings!
Gianluca Sergi
Dr Gianluca Sergi
Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Tel. 0115-8467466
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Perry Nodelman | 7 May 2004 18:17
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Children's Literature Association Conference

Conference Chair: Mavis Reimer
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9
Canada

m.reimer <at> uwinnipeg.ca
FAX (204) 774-4134
Phone (204) 786-9185

Conference Dates: June 9 - 12, 2005

Paper Call/Appel à communications

    In June 2005, the Children's Literature Association will meet
at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People in Winnipeg, Canada.  The
theme for the conference is Performing Childhood.  We particularly
invite proposals for papers and panels exploring the conference
theme, although all scholarly papers on texts for young people will
be given careful consideration.

    The theme, Performing Childhood, invites the exploration of
the interrelationships of performance and children's literature,
including such topics as

*    the ways in which theories of performativity like the one
developed by Judith Butler might throw light on childhood and on
texts for children.  As well as explorations of the constructions of
gender and sexuality in children's literature, we encourage
considerations of what theories of performativity might suggest about
the depictions and construction of childhood.  Does children's
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bwatson | 7 May 2004 19:26
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Re: Sounding Out 2 update


Sophie Cartwright <arxsjc <at> nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:Dear all,
This is just to let you know that registration is now open for the Sounding Out 2 Conference (July 8-10th
2004, University of Nottingham, England).
The conference will begin with a special presentation by Ioan Allen, Academy Award recipient and
vice-president of Dolby Laboratories.
The full conference programme, registration details, information about location, speakers, and more
are available from the conference web site at:
http://www.soundfile.org/sound 
May I take this opportunity also to remind you that there is an early bookers discount for those who register
by May 15th 2004.
Thanks and apologies for cross-postings!
Gianluca Sergi
Dr Gianluca Sergi
Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Tel. 0115-8467466
E-mail: gianluca.sergi <at> nottingham.ac.uk 

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bwatson | 7 May 2004 19:29
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What does this mean

Dear Fellow listsevers,

I am deeply confused and frustrated by the silence on
this listserv around recent events in Iraq. When the
Lord of the Rings came out the listserv exploded with
commentary for days. Now it's virtually silent. I have
no way to make sense of this. What kind of statement
is one to take away from this silence? Is this what
cultural studies in the U.S. is about? Movies makes us
 yell out and real life makes us quiet? 

	
		
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