S P E E D
AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND SOCIETY
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
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* 1. Announcement of Issue 1.4, special issue on Paul Virilio
* 2. About SPEED
* 3. Calls for Papers/Participation:
Terminals: Identities of Death/Technology. (DEADline Aug. 1, 1997!!!)
Information Labor issue.
Technology and Sexuality issue.
* 4. Upcoming Guest Edited Issues
* 5. How to Contact SPEED
* 6. Please redistribute.
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* 1. Announcement of Issue 1.4, special issue on Paul Virilio
SPEED is pleased to announce that our special issue on Paul Virilio is
now available. Point your browser to:
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
for this and all issues of SPEED.
Paul Virilio is the preeminent theorist of the configurations of
globalization and technology, the mass-mediation of the city, the
militarization of architecture, the virtualization of cinema, the
simulation of transportation and the mechanization of social space.
His work necessarily crosses boundaries between the technical and the
moral, the ecological and the aesthetic. For Virilio, politics is a form
of the technical, just as the technical is political. Between the two
lies the art of war – and the necessity for radical critique – not
just of the institutions of mechanization, but of the unguided
derangements of space and time that they afford us. For Virilio, the
great danger is not technology's amorality, but the popular passivity
that projects all capacity for judgment onto fantastic dreams of a final
inertia.
Issue 1.4 of SPEED collects critical reflections on the work of Virilio
in French, English, Japanese, Dutch, German and Italian, and includes
contributions from James Der Derian, Jun Tanaka, Niels Brugger, Lev
Manovich, Fabian Winkler, Kiesuke Oki, Mick Drake, Patrick Crogan,
Olivier Auber, Ian Robert Douglas, Linda Brigham, Shawn Wilbur, Filippo
Bianchi, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Magasumov Aidar, Studiozone, Pat Lichty
and Jon Epstein, and Paul Virilio.
Paul Virilio currently teaches at l'Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in
Paris. His recent published works include La Vitesse de Liberation,
L'Art du Moteur which has been translated as The Art of the Motor by
Julie Rose and published by University of Minnesota Press, and La
Machine de Vision also translated by Julie Rose and published by Indiana
University Press. Many of his earlier works including L'Espace Critique,
L'Aesthetic de la Disparation, Vitesse et la Politique, La Defense
Populaire et La Lutte Ecologique have translated into English and
published by Semiotext(e).
* 2. About SPEED
SPEED is produced and edited by Benjamin Bratton and Robert Nideffer at
the University of California, Santa Barbara.
SPEED is an electronic journal of technology, media and society, a
high-end multidisciplinary, multimedia and multilinguistic forum for the
exploration of the cutting edge technologies of everyday life.
Electronic Artists, Sociologists, Architecturalists, Novelists, Computer
Scientists, Journalists, Media Theoreticians, Humanists and Social
Critics of all stripes and backgrounds have made SPEED into one of the
smartest (and most unpredictable) projects on the web.
SPEED has been recognized for numerous awards including "Humanities Site
of the Year" by The Net magazine, and several others for design and
editorial excellence.
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
* 3. Calls for Papers/Participation:
Terminals: Identities of Death/Technology. (DEADline Aug. 1, 1997!!!)
[…]
TERMINALS: IDENTITIES OF DEATH/TECHNOLOGY
Terminal: the final, the last, the closing.
Terminal: the killing malady.
Terminal: the office of the future.
Terminal: either end of an electric circuit, transportation line,
station or city.
Terminal: the last and most complete value or form given to an
expression.
Terminal: from Latin, terminus, a boundary.
Terminal: the certainty of death.
Terminal: a remote device, a station, an interface, a node, a machine of
thought; a prosthetic territory into which the cogito of transnational
capital escapes.
Terminal: the site haunted by the vehicle/host from which it came.
Ecology: technology as a source of death. Death as the moment by which
the social body becomes most completely technologized – made into an
inert assemblage of organs.
SPEED is currently preparing a special issue "Terminals: Identities of
Death/Technology" and SEEKS SUBMISSIONS of currently completed or near
completed works that address this subject. SPEED is a multimedia and
mulitingual forum for the development of electronic theory, art and
politics. Works of all technical genre and form are welcomed.
This issue of SPEED is being developed in coordination with a special
limited release Book/CD-ROM (2000 copies, shipped to libraries
worldwide, published through UC Inter Campus Arts).
[…]
* 4. UPCOMING GUEST EDITED ISSUES:
We are currently planning three guest-edited issues:
A. A Night in the Life of American Television
B. Multi-User Environments
C. Japanese Media and Urban Theory
These three special issues will redefine the future of the web, and
perhaps the future of humankind itself. By integrating state-of-the-art
pyramid marketing flim-flam with retro-futurist neologisms, SPEED will
solve the problems of society by virtualizing them.
* 5. HOW TO CONTACT SPEED
Please send all submissions, criticisms, praise, suggestions, or
anything else you have on your mind to:
speed@arts.ucsb.edu
If for whatever reason you need to communicate with us via the U.S.
Postal Service, please send your correspondence to:
SPEED
c/o Benjamin Bratton
Department of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
SPEED
c/o Robert Nideffer
Department of Art Studio
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
