Upcoming issues for which we are currently reviewing abstracts and submissions:
SPEED 1.3: AIRPORTS AND MALLS
Publicity, it seems, is always a matter of circulation. Likewise, circulation finds itself as a matter of publicity. What then is the circulation of publicity in a "private space," like a mall, or an airport? Where is the social located, if at all? Is it completely a matter of trajectory, velocity and disappearance; is it or is it not an even more sinister militarization of what used to be called the "civilian sector?" "Malls," whether near a highway off-ramp, or an "information superhighway" off-ramp, are more than architectural generica, they are nodes in the global circulation of commodities, culture and community. Malls as "places," are where some people go to be amongst the fruits of other people's invisible labor. "Airports" as "places," are where some people go to be themselves circulated amongst networks of global circulation, as the content of transportation-as-medium. We are currently reviewing abstracts for inclusion in a special transmission of _SPEED_ (non-fiction, fiction, both; www-specific projects encouraged) that will help answer some of these questions and conundrums.
SPEED 1.4: SPECIAL ISSUE: ON PAUL VIRILIO
We are currently reviewing abstracts and proposals for articles for a future transmission of _SPEED_ (WWW-specific projects encouraged) on the critical significance of the work of Paul Virilio. In extremely diverse arenas Virilio's cybernetic systems theory of the social has arranged the horizons of wildly unlikely moments of questioning. As his vision of interpretation/accusation crosses the spectrum of disciplinary knowledges (while being at "home" in none), we now hear literary critics speaking of the military origins of the city-state, newscasters phrasing a "Nintendo War," historians of science commenting on the phenomenology of electronic banking, architectural theorists conceiving "the velocity" of airport space, and computer industry professionals discussing the political history of the film projector. Certainly these peculiar arrangements are not to be entirely credited to (blamed on?) Virilio, but they do suggest that his vocabulary is significant beyond the relatively narrow concerns of a "Virilio Studies." We hope, therefore, to both interrogate and expand what it is possible to make "Virilio" say.
BENJAMIN BRATTON (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICSAND POETICS OF THE FANTASTIC IN AN AGE OF MACHINES"
"TECHNO-PROSTHETICS AND EXTERIOR PRESENCE" A CONVERSATION WITH ALLUCQUERE ROSANNE STONE
AKIRA MIZUTA LIPPIT (U.N. LINCOLN) "THE DEAD EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES: TELEVISION, JAPAN, AND THE SUBJECT OF MULTIPLICITY"
SHELI AYERS (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "VIRILE MAGIC: BATAILLE / BAUDELAIRE / BALLARD"
GALEN MEURER (EMORY UNIVERSITY) "DN2K"
"SEX ON A SILVER PLATTER" A CONVERSATION WITH MIKE SAENZ
LAURA GRINDSTAFF AND ROBERT NIDEFFER (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "CUMING SOON ON CD-ROM: ON THE PROMISE AND THE PITFALLS OF 'VIRTUAL' PORNOGRAPHY"
ADAM ZARETSKY (U. SALZBURG) "ENDOSYMBIOTIC FORMATION OF ORGANELLES: THE SPIROCHETAL CASE"
EDITORIAL BOARD FOR _SPEED_1.2
Benjamin Bratton
Laura Grindstaff
Robert Nideffer
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
Gopher:
Robert Nideffer
World-Wide-Web:
Robert Nideffer
_SPEED_Links:
Benjamin Bratton
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Jason Brown
Robert Nideffer
Gabriel Watson
Adam Zaretsky
SOUND ENGINEERING
Ken Fields
_SPEED_ can be accessed and/or downloaded several different ways: 1) World-Wide-Web; 2) Anonymous ftp; or 3) Gopher.
1. To Get _SPEED_ via World-Wide-Web just open the following URL from within your favorite Web-browser: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
2. To get _SPEED_ via Anonymous ftp just type the following at your local prompt: ftp alishaw.ucsb.edu
--when asked for a login name type: anonymous
--when asked for a password type the first part of your e-mail address. For example: myname@nowhere.pcp
--change directories by typing: cd /pub/_SPEED_
--at the ftp> prompt you can type the normal "get" and "put" commands. For example: get _SPEED_1.2 (or: mget* to get the whole directory)
3. To get _SPEED_ via Gopher just type the following at your local prompt: gopher alishaw.ucsb.edu (you can also type in the IP address directly as follows: gopher 128.111.222.10)
Once there, you will see the familiar Gopher menu structure with _SPEED_ being one of your options. At that point you can choose to browse individual items, or mail them to yourself and/or others.
(You have to Gopher directly to us because the Social Science Computing Facility at U.C.S.B. where _SPEED_ is archived is not a registered Gopher server. That's why if you happen to be looking for _SPEED_ over your regular Gopher server you won't have much luck finding it. _SPEED_ uses roughly a 65-character line, so your margins should be set accordingly. Set your font type to Courier, 9pt if you want to retain formatting after downloading.)
e-mail:
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_SPEED_
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Santa Barbara, CA. 93106
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--do not use any special characters
--use endnotes instead of footnotes. To indicate an endnote in the body of your text set it off like this: "blah, blah, blah."[1]
--use the MLA (Modern Language Association) format for references