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Saw Laurie Anderson last night at Royce Hall (UCLA). Wow.

A thought to restart the blog

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. -- Raoul Vaniegem

CFP: &Now 2008--A Festival of Innovative Literature and Art

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (<----click there!>)

&NOW gathers together two things in their constant motion: writers inventing form, and the forms that are already “the past” as soon as those writers move on to their next invention. To gather the moving requires the grace of contingency.

We are a conference that calls itself a festival because we festivate the confrereity of our common difference. &NOW comes together to give meaning to words or ask words to give meaning to us, both of which always fail!

In that failure, resides the richness of our ignorance.
Even its radiance.The product of radiant ignorance is art. This is not new. How we do it is &NOW.
The product of ignorant radiance is the unpronounceable word: human.

&NOW is the not then that never passes.

&NOW is the letters of the names of all its conferees scrambled into a zetabet.

&NOW is not an anti-conference because transgression defers recognition.

&NOW stands in the danger zone between popular culture & the elitism of native intuition.

&NOW has fun at no expense; for free, like words are, no charge.

&NOW is the ampersand that signs a sign for a sign signaturing the presence of the present in the past.

&NOW is a message to narrativity signifying that all is well

&NOW is a message from narrativity simplifying that nothing ends, well or ill.

&NOW: a sentence that contradicts itself/ /&/, so contradicting, sets a standard for comprehending love /&/ religion /&/ nature /&/ politics as portrayed by the fictionalists beginning this year two thousand seven anno domini.

&NOW is a literary movement without authors that comes into view for 3 days biennially -0041067% of time- so that those authors without whom this literary movement does exist gather to keep literature in motion.

&NOW is theater that has moved off the stage but continues in search of the seven props it needs to make the emotion of the action live to make live action mind

&NOW redefines the halls of academe that they be no longer safe from the fear of the ampersand and/or the chaos of a now.

&NOW arrives 200 years after Ivahoe, 100 years after Freud, 50 years after Picasso, Elvis & Faulkner, and fourteen years after www., it arrives kicking its limbs screaming its lungs in voice & gesture that articulate arrival.

&NOW includes all those art•lit•ists from New York to Los Angeles for whom the medium is the muscle but traveling eastward from New York eastward with a sweep spread from 0° North to 180° South to catch every language in its net woven of the pre-linguistic thought of the world’s current 250,000 child-soldiers as they sleep.

&NOW exists that the gag of terror not create silence.

&NOW recalls commerce as a form of interaction outside the monetary systems while it rings the bell.

&NOW rings the bell to open trading on each day’s aesthetic market then listens all day to the bellringing echo /&/ then goes home after the dayclosing bell reinaugurates the sound•syllable that begins the invocation at the outset of each fiction-act.

&NOW, recognizing that its murderer’s lurk in the shadows turn on the darkness to expose them to a fright.

&NOW is ’04(NotreDame)•’06(Lake Forest)’08 (Chapman) toward infinitum: a quantum equation designed to utter irresolution.

Rebecca Goodman
Martin Nakell
Vahid Norouzalibeik
Davis Schneiderman
Sophocles
Steve Tomasula

CFP: Queer People 4--The Whole History of Sexuality

Christ’s College,
Cambridge
July 9-12, 2008

Plenary speakers will include Valerie Traub; Paul Julian Smith; George Haggerty.

Please send abstracts on any aspect of the histories of sexualities (no cut-off dates) by 30th October 2007 to: Dr Caroline Gonda, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge CB2 1RL and Dr. Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester, West Hill, Winchester SO22 4NR

CFP: Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy

This is a general call for webtexts for Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. Kairos welcomes contributions from scholars pursuing a wide variety of digital issues and approaches from theory to praxis in our Topoi, Praxis, Reviews, and Interviews sections.

Kairos publishes "webtexts," which means projects developed with specific attention to the World Wide Web as a publishing medium. We do not suggest an ideal standard; rather we invite each author or collaborative writing team to think carefully about what unique opportunities the Web offers. Some projects may best be presented in hypertextual form or in multimedia.

The journal's editorial process is one of the most unique aspects of publishing with Kairos. For the Topoi section, the review process includes three tiers: review by the editors, collaborative review by the editorial board, and one-on-one mentoring by the editors for third-stage texts in need of revision.

For all other journal sections, the editorial process includes review by editorial staff to determine the quality and appropriateness of the submission for publication in Kairos and then a thorough review by editorial board members assigned to the section

For more information, please see our guidelines.

come work with shehun....

CSU San Bernardino
Department of English
http://english.csusb.edu

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition
Tenure-track position. We seek to hire a rhetoric and composition specialist with preparation and experience in assessment, WAC, and/or WID, effective Fall 2008. Ph.D. in English or Rhetoric and Composition Studies required at time of appointment. Secondary specialty is open, but demonstrable interest in critical pedagogies, critical race studies, writing center practice, and/or computers and writing is a plus. Successful candidates will demonstrate an ability to teach undergraduate writing courses, as well as specialized courses in their areas of interest at both the undergraduate and graduate level (in our M.A. in English Composition program). Normal teaching assignment is 3 courses per quarter, with possibility for release time. Candidates are expected to show evidence of promise in scholarship and evidence of commitment to and success in teaching. Salary is competitive. Benefits package includes coverage for domestic partners. Interview at MLA. Please send letter and c.v. only by November 1 to Rong Chen, Chair, English Department, California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 University Pkwy, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397. California State University is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diversified workforce.

More pictures taken while on the road to Syracuse

America: Churches, graffiti, cars, empty space and porn.