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litsci-l-digest        Saturday, March 22 2003        Volume 01 : Number
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In this issue:

     MIT press book announcement
     E-Poetry Event

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:29:37 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: MIT press book announcement

From David Weininger (dgw@mit.edu):

I thought readers of the Society for Literature and Science might be
interested in this book.  For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262134217

Modernity and Technology
edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg

Until recently there has been surprisingly little overlap between
technology studies and modernity theory. The goal of this ambitious book
is to lay the foundations for a new interdisciplinary field by closely
examining the co-construction of technology and modernity.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I lays the methodological
groundwork for combining studies of technology and modernity, while
integrating ideas drawn from feminism, critical theory, philosophy,
sociology, and socioeconomics. Part II continues the methodological
discussion, focusing on specific sociotechnical systems or technologies
with prominent relations to modernity, such as the Internet,
surveillance, infrastructures, and the western technologies adopted in
China and Japan. Part III introduces practical and political issues by
considering alternative modes of technology development and offering
critiques of modern medicine, environmental technology, international
development, and technology policy. The book as a whole suggests a broad
research program that is both academic and applied and that will help us
understand how contemporary societies can govern technologies instead of
being governed by them.

Thomas J. Misa is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute
of Technology. Philip Brey is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Andrew Feenberg is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State
University.

Contributors
Philip Brey, Paul N. Edwards, Andrew Feenberg, David Hess, Haider A.
Khan, David Lyon, Barbara L. Marshall, Thomas J. Misa, Arthur P. J. Mol,
Junichi Murata, Arie Rip, Johan Schot, Don Slater.

6 x 9, 376 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-262-13421-7


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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:43:44 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: E-Poetry Event

              Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 575.
      Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                  www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                    Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu 


        Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:48:30 +0000
        From: "Charles Baldwin" 
        Subject: Reminder: E-Poetry 2003 Festival

E-Poetry 2003

An International Digital Poetry FestivalWest Virginia University,
Morgantown
April 23-26, 2003

Inquiries and proposals may be sent to the organizers at the e-mail
addresses below. All participants must register to attend E-Poetry 2003
by
April 8, 2003. Registration and information are available at the
E-Poetry
2003 Website: http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2003/

It is our pleasure to announce E-Poetry 2003: An International Digital
Poetry Festival, the second event in the acclaimed E-Poetry series
inaugurated in Buffalo in April 2001. E-Poetry is a series, directed
by
Loss Pequeo Glazier from the University at Buffalo, which provides an
artist and practitioner-oriented series of events in the spirit of some
of
the early poetry festivals, such as the Vancouver Poetry Festival,
1963,
and the Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965. The series allows artists
the
opportunity to engage the state of their art and to advance its
possibilities through dialog, performance, and peer interaction.

We are doubly pleased to announce the host institution for this year's
event, West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. In collaboration
with
E-Poetry 2003's co-director, Sandy Baldwin, we are planning a rich and
varied three and a half days of digital poetry, conversation, and
artist-oriented scholarship, in the inviting setting of West Virginia.
E-Poetry 2003 extends the frontiers opened with E-Poetry 2001, adding
numerous new voices and engaging new visions to the festival. This
year's
focus is on the "poetry" in "E-Poetry".

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this event! Morgantown is
5
hours from Buffalo, 1 hour from Pittsburgh, 3 hours from Washington DC,
and
5 hours from New York City. We recommend you find the best airfare
available to Pittsburgh.

Plan to join us in Morgantown to celebrate this next articulation of
the
potentials of E-Poetry!

Loss Pequeo Glazier, E-Poetry Director (glazier@buffalo.edu)
Sandy Baldwin, E-Poetry 2003 Co-Director
(charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu)

Loss Pequeo Glazier, Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and Sandy
Baldwin,
Dept. of English, West Virginia University

Co-sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo) and the
Center
for Literary Computing (WVU)

Sandy Baldwin
West Virginia University
Assistant Professor of English
359 Stansbury Hall
304-293-3107x452
Coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing
203 Armstrong Hall
304-293-3871
charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu 

www.clc.wvu.edu 

www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin
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