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M/C - Media and Culture | 1 Jul 2004 02:06
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M/C: 'open' issue now available

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1 July 2004

                         M/C - Media and Culture
   is proud to present issue three in volume seven of the award-winning

                               M/C Journal
                  http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

             'open' - Edited by Felix Stalder & McKenzie Wark

Since the rebranding of Free Software into Open Source in 1998, "open" has
become the buzzword for all things progressive on and off the Internet.
Open Law, Open Hardware, Open Culture, Open Publishing, Open Access or Open
Archives are just some of the many concepts which are being retooled to
serve the more or less defined public good in the Information Society. 

Yet, at the same time, multinational corporations have become major actors
in the Open Source Software area and commercial publishers are beginning to
seriously look into Open Access models. In the background of the recent
enthusiasm with "open" lurks the "Open Society" concept of Karl Popper,
whose political preferences for Margaret Thatcher's neoliberalism are well
known.

'Open' takes a critical look at this concept of the "open". Is it a
temporary buzzword that signifies nothing but an astute sense of
salesmanship? Is it an alternative social concept, or just yet another step
in making capitalism ever more flexible? What is it that makes something
"open" and are some projects more "open" than others? Is "open" always
better than closed? How does "open" relate to areas where we might value
closure, for example,  personal privacy? Can we imagine an even more open
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M Wolf-Meyer | 1 Jul 2004 20:08
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Breaking Up, Flirting, and Other Secrets of the Academy

I'm interested to read people's stories of "breaking up" with advisors,
conducting academic "flirting," and having "affairs" with advisors other
than one's own -- stories about negotiating academic relationships (the
generally non-sexual kind) and the awkwardness that often arises in the
academy due to emotional/intellectual investment.  No need to name names, of
people or institutions.

Thanks in advance,

Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Department of Anthropology
University of Minnesota

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
www.reconstruction.ws

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Erika Johnson-Lewis | 2 Jul 2004 19:44
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Growing-up


Hello, 

I'm writing to see if anyone could recommend to me work done on narratives
of growing-up, particularly on the idea of "getting it together" and taking
responsibility.  If anyone could help me out that would be great.  

Thanks in advance, 

Erika Johnson-Lewis
GTA Interdisciplinary Humanities
Florida State University

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M. Deanya Lattimore | 3 Jul 2004 19:11
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Growing-up

Hi Erika!  I've used Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" and then had students 
write their own pieces uses the same rhetorical patterns; students tend 
to come up with some great observations about not just the 
surface-level but also the hidden lessons that they've brought with 
them.  Even learning to name those hidden things turns the exercise 
into a kind of "getting it together" and taking responsibility exercise.

let me know what you find!
deanya lattimore
http://www.deanya.com/

On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 12:00  PM, 
cultstud-l-request <at> mailman.acomp.usf.edu wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:44:47 -0400
> From: "Erika Johnson-Lewis" <alewis246 <at> comcast.net>
> Subject: [cultstud-l] Growing-up
> To: "'Cultural Studies'" <cultstud-l <at> mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
> Message-ID: <20040702173238.401D45C6CC <at> mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
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> Hello,
>
> I'm writing to see if anyone could recommend to me work done on 
> narratives
> of growing-up, particularly on the idea of "getting it together" and 
> taking
> responsibility.  If anyone could help me out that would be great.
>
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david silver | 4 Jul 2004 01:21

what are CULTURAL STUDIES scholars doing on SEPTEMBER 11?

Folks,

Here is a project that might interest some cultural studies scholars.

The September Project is a coordinated effort to get people to gather in
public places like libraries on Saturday, September 11.  There, they will
engage in talks, deliberations, and performances about democracy and
citizenship.  We are here http://www.theseptemberproject.org

In the States, we are working with 101 libraries, schools, and colleges in
23 states.  A map http://www.com.washington.edu/september/map.asp
Participating libraries include public libraries, primary and secondary
school libraries, academic libraries, libraries for the hearing and
visually impaired, and juvenile hall libraries.

Spain's El Proyecto Septiembre has stretched the project outside the US.
They are here http://septiembre.ciberpunk.org.  If you do not know
Spanish, you can translate it by cutting and pasting the URL into this
site http://babelfish.altavista.com  With help from our friends in Spain,
we are in contact with folks interested in setting up similar projects in
Chile, Italy, Portugal, Uruguay, and Venezuela.  We expect Canada and the
Netherlands to set up projects soon. International hosts are planning
events that focus on issues that matter to them.

Our goal is to have 1000s of public spheres on Saturday, September 11,
2004.  We believe that this is a way for all of us, the people, to assume
an active and creative role in defining, shaping, and expressing what
this day means to us.  Having the events take place on September 11 --
perhaps one of the most contested entities in our times -- is a natural.
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bwatson | 4 Jul 2004 06:53
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Re: Growing-up

I find Zami by Audre Lorde is very on target in the
sense of taking us through the process of moving from
the childhood perspective into the adult's view of
responsibility. 

bahiyyih

--- "M. Deanya Lattimore" <mdlattim <at> syr.edu> wrote:
> Hi Erika!  I've used Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" and
> then had students 
> write their own pieces uses the same rhetorical
> patterns; students tend 
> to come up with some great observations about not
> just the 
> surface-level but also the hidden lessons that
> they've brought with 
> them.  Even learning to name those hidden things
> turns the exercise 
> into a kind of "getting it together" and taking
> responsibility exercise.
> 
> let me know what you find!
> deanya lattimore
> http://www.deanya.com/
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 12:00  PM, 
> cultstud-l-request <at> mailman.acomp.usf.edu wrote:
> >
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Michael Vari | 4 Jul 2004 16:45
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Bush 2000 Campaign Speeches

Hi all,

I'm working on a historical study of presidential candidate rhetoric,
but I'm having trouble gaining access to the 2000 speeches,
particularly Bush's. I wonder if anyone knows of an archive I could
access with the 2000 campaign speeches. I'm using the Annenberg/Pew
archive for 1952-1996. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike Vari
University of Illinois at Chicago

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Meredith Jones | 5 Jul 2004 07:19
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Re: Growing-up


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Tapas Ray | 5 Jul 2004 11:26
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American photography

Hello.

I am forwarding a "cry for help" from a friend in the USA. I will really
appreciate it if you can share some of the information she wants.

Thank you.

Tapas Ray
Calcutta (India)

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This is a cry for help--

I am working on a book called American Photography which is an oversize 400
page book of full page photos from personal and published work from
2003-2004.
It is the book's 20th year anniversary. I am building up the content of the
book with quotes about 'still' photography, starting with recent ongoing
dialogs
in newspapers, magazines, documentary films and television about:
-the blending of fine and commercial photography (i.e. fashion photographs
and photojournalism being shown in museums),
-the change in photojournalism's role since 9/11 and the publishing industry
or publics response to it and
-the 'american' response to images today vs. that in other cultures

Have you written yourself or come across any content we could excerpt
relating to these ideas--or other ideas relevant to the state of american
photography?
I would greatly appreciate the help--even if it is just a referral to a
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M. Deanya Lattimore | 5 Jul 2004 21:13
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CFP: Research Network Forum at CCCC

I'm passing along the call for papers for next year's Research Network 
Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.  If 
you have any questions, email myself (I manage the website and help 
with the forum) or Risa Gorelick, whose email is given below.
	Forgive cross-postings.  Please distribute widely.  Please encourage 
graduate students to participate as work-in-progress presenters (a 
great place to bring theses & dissertations) and for established 
faculty to serve as discussion leaders and /or presenters.
Thank you!
Deanya Lattimore

 
ResearchNetworkForum atCCCC
March 16, 2005

San Francisco,California

Homepage:  www.rnfonline.com

 

CFP: The Research Network Forum was founded in 1987 by Charles Bazerman 
and others as a pre-convention workshop at CCCC. The RNF is an 
opportunity for published researchers, new researchers, and graduate 
students to discuss their current research projects and receive 
responses from new and senior researchers. The forum is free to CCCC 
convention participants. You need not be a work-in-progress presenter 
to attend (though we'd love to have you present!).

As in past years, the 2005 RNF will feature two plenary sessions, one
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