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Nicholas Ruiz III | 1 Jan 2010 15:42

January 2010 on -empyre-: The Art of Complicity


happy new year -empyre-

'tis an art to complicity some say... 

The accepted, and then, the unacceptable? A book like -Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue,' and then, a book like
'The Coming Insurrection'; an altar panel like Martini's 'Annunciation',and then a piece like Dali's
ink drawing from 1956, 'Annunciation'...transgression of the boundaries of our assent and complicity,
in our creative practices, in our lives, and in our immortalities...Handel's 'Messiah' and Trent
Reznor's 'The Hand that Feeds'...what difference some centuries make, and how we do walk the walk, and
talk the talk, no? 

Where do we place our pessimisms, our hopes, or educations in rebellion, our acceptances?
Do our arts and lives straddle the commercial horse of enterprise with an infirmity? Enter the gauntlet or
throw it down? Perhaps the stakes are less than this?

It's January 2010. On the one hand, let us not take ourselves too seriously in what Sam Sparrow has aptly
called our 21st century life - but on the other hand, let's not sell ourselves short. Where Fukuyama once
declared history's end, Baudrillard reclaimed 'l'illusion de la fin.' We proceed with the full gravity
of events - and the dark matter and energy of non-events as thought and theory.

In other words, what is the enduring love and art of complicity?

our guests:

Gerry Coulter is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bishop’s
University in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. He is editor of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.

Johanna Drucker is the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books,
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Terri He | 1 Jan 2010 14:29
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Any lit on teenage girls/women's sexual autonomy?

Hello,

I am personally *not* engaged in this topic, and yet one of the students at
our graduate institute is. She's planning on doing studies on contemporary
teenage girls' sexual autonomy in Taiwan. One of her problems is that there
are not so much done in this area in Taiwan. At the same time, she is
completely overwhelmed by the amount of English she has to deal with when
she looks it up in the contemporary Western literatures. So I am hoping to
give her a hand by posting this message here and see if anyone would be
willing to offer some ideas or suggestions as to where to start or look?

She's thinking about doing interviews with both teenage girls and high
school teachers. So it might be a more education-based or related research.

Thank you in advance.
Terri

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Sarah L. Rasmusson | 1 Jan 2010 19:05
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Re: Any lit on teenage girls/women's sexual autonomy?

Hi Terri:
At a small college two years ago, I taught the first ever Girls Studies course there, and did a lot of
bibliography work to be able to deal competently with girls' sexuality and agentic desires (ie. not
cultural representations of girls as sexy, etc.).

Here's a short list, especially drawing from high school ethnographies for your student: 

        
Best, Amy L. (2000) Prom
Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture.
Routledge.          
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. 1998. The
Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York. Vintage.

        
Fisher, Caitlin. (2002)
Ch.2, “The Sexual Girl Within: Breaking the Feminist Silence on Desiring
Girlhoods,” Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire. Ed. Merri Lisa Johnson. NY: Four
Walls Eight
Windows, 53-63.
Tolman, Deborah L. (1998,
2003) Ch.7, “Daring to Desire: Culture and the Bodies of Adolescent Girls,” The
Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior. 2nd. Rose Weitz, editor. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 100-121. 

White, Emily. (2003) Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the
Myth of the Slut. Berkeley Trade. 

Fine, Michelle. 1988. “Sexuality, Schooling and Adolescent
Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire,” Harvard Educational Review, 58, 29-53.
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Norm Denzin | 2 Jan 2010 00:51

QI2010 Abstract Submission Deadline 15 January 2010

This is a reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the 6th
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2010) has been extended to
15 January 2010. To submit an abstract(s) for papers, posters, or panels,
please visit the link below:

http://www.icqi.org/participation.html

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Markus Wiemker | 2 Jan 2010 13:11
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2nd CfP: Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games. Hong Kong, June 17-21, 2010. Extended Deadline: January 31th, 2010

2nd CfP: Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital)
Games. Hong Kong, June 17-21, 2010. Extended Deadline:
January 31th, 2010

- Apologies for cross posting -

Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games

Proposals are invited for PRESENTATIONS at the 8th
International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference. The
next Crossroads conference will be held in Hong Kong, June
17-21, 2010.* http://www.crossroads2010.org

Session: Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital)
Games

The organizer seeks proposals covering all aspects of
gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can
address analog and digital games and all theoretical and
methodological approaches are welcome.  

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-	The relationship between Cultural Studies and
(analog and digital) games
-	Identity construction, representation of race,
class, gender and sexuality in games 
-	Gaming culture, game cultures and game communities 
-	Ideology in game design or production
-	Game advertising and marketing 
-	Regulation, youth protection, censorship and
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Doug Henwood | 4 Jan 2010 03:27
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new radio product

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version.]

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December 31, 2009 David Himmelstein on the emerging Democratic health  
reform schemes • Dennis Brutus on South Africa (repeat of July 2008
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Kate Egan | 4 Jan 2010 20:01
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Reminder: CFP: The Cult of Personality: Constructing and Defining the Cult Film Star

Apologies for cross-posting.

 *The Cult of Personality: **Constructing and Defining the Cult Film Star*

Edited by Kate Egan and Sarah Thomas (Aberystwyth University, UK)

Proposals are invited for contributions to an edited collection on cult film
stars. The term ‘cult film star’ has been employed, and used as a
common-sense term, in publicity and popular journalistic writing for at
least the last twenty-five years (for instance, in Danny Peary's 1991
reference book, *Cult Movie Stars*).  However, what makes cult film stars or
actors distinct or different from other film stars has rarely been
addressed, with the cult star label often being attributed to particular
stars or actors in a rather arbitrary or random way. This edited collection
aims to contribute to two key areas of debate and enquiry within film
studies - star studies and cult film studies - by bringing together
contributions focused on case studies of particular film stars/actors who
have been considered to have a particular ‘cult’ appeal (whether actors or
stars associated with Hollywood filmmaking, independent filmmaking or
cinemas beyond Hollywood). The question that should unite all contributions
to the book is: what are the industrial, performance-related,
formal/aesthetic, cultural or discursive processes that inform the naming of
particular film actors as ‘cult actors’ or ‘cult stars’? Consequently, we
are happy to receive contributions that employ methods associated with:
textual analysis, analysis of star performance, star labour, historical
reception studies and/or audience research.

Questions that could be addressed in contributions may include, but are not
limited to:
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Corey Dzenko | 4 Jan 2010 23:38
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*Reminder* CFP- Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas

Please help circulate this call for papers, which is available below in both
English and Spanish.  Apologies for any cross-postings.

CALL FOR PAPERS

*Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas*, Volume III

Deadline for Submissions: January 16, 2010

*Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas *is an annual publication
produced by graduate students affiliated with the Department of Art and Art
History at the University of New Mexico.  *Hemisphere* provides graduate
students the opportunity to publish articles, recent exhibition and book
reviews, and interviews pertaining to all aspects and time periods of the
visual and material cultures of North, Central, South America, the Caribbean
and related world contexts.

We seek completed 20-30 page papers from advanced Ph.D. students, and 5-10
page reviews and interviews from M.A. and Ph.D. students, for publication in
the peer-reviewed Volume III of *Hemisphere*.  We accept submissions written
in English or Spanish.

Topics of past articles include:

*the commemoration of death and celebration of life at the Temple of the
Inscriptions, C.E. 683, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico; *civic architecture and
colonial social formation in 16th century Santo Domingo, Hispaniola; the
construction of Brasilidade, or a notion of “Brazilness,” at the 1939 New
York World’s Fair; Cantinflas’ subversion of hegemonic structures through
his performances in Mexican cinema; memory and exile in Abelardo Morell’s
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Seeta Peñ–a Gangadharan | 5 Jan 2010 04:36
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Journalism Diversity Symposium

(Apologies for cross-postings)

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Announcing *News and Inclusion: Journalism and the Politics of 
Diversity, *a symposium at Stanford University, March 4, 2010, featuring 
scholars from Australia, Finland, Singapore, Canada, The Netherlands, 
England, and the United States.  Focusing on the role of journalism in 
multicultural societies, panelists will take up the challenge posed by 
political theorist Iris Marion Young when she asked, "What are the norms 
and conditions of inclusive democratic communication under circumstances 
of structural inequality and cultural difference?"

The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is 
required. http://comm.stanford.edu/newsandinclusion

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D.Philips | 5 Jan 2010 18:36
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RE: Simondon Conference (Paris, May 2010)

Never heard of him - but would this be a good excuse to go to Paris and
renew contacts with the American university?

Very depressed - Duke don't want Theme Parks.  Need strategy.

Dxxx

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Subject: [cultstud-l] Simondon Conference (Paris, May 2010)

Gilbert Simondon: Transduction, Translation, Transformation
A Two-Day International Conference at the American University of Paris
May 27-28, 2010
Paris, France

In recent years, the work of Gilbert Simondon has received greater
attention both in France and internationally following the
re-publication of his work over the past decade. The importance of
Simondon's thought to the work of French philosophers including Gilles
Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler has become increasingly discussed and
analysed both in France and in the English-speaking world. At the same
time, Simondon's work has been taken up on its own terms, recognized for
the unique contributions that he made to the philosophy of technology,
phenomenology and social philosophy. Forthcoming translations of his
major works into English will surely instigate a long-overdue
introduction of his work within a much broader international community
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