Just got this from another list. Not sure what to make of it, but thought some might be interested.
~Elise From: Sha Lar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All, My name is Sha LaBare and I'm a grad in the History of Consciousness department(UCSC)where I work on science fiction as a mode of awareness and production. I'm writing you to post a strange kind of "call for papers" for a strange kind of project - see below. Remain in light, Sha Lar XENOMORPH: ALIEN AGENCY (Xaa) provides an internet home for innovative, experimental work on and in the science fiction mode. Sf is not only a genre, but also a mode of awareness and production particularly relevant in these First Days of the 21st century. In the recent past, the sf genre has produced unprecedented "sf fx" in the able handminds of Gwyneth Jones, Ken Macleod, Octavia E. Butler and many others. At the same time, sf has exploded beyond the limits of genre and begun to make waves in fields as disparate as music, art, critical theory, architecture, and politics. Sf theory, for example, has left the confines of "SF Studies" per se and taken new forms in the work of Donna Haraway, Jean Baudrillard, and Manuel Delanda. SF music and art, too, have produced exciting sf agents like Sun Ra, Ebon Fisher, and the Center for Tactical Magic. Sf technoscience should of course be very familiar to futurists; the sf mode productions of K. Eric Drexler, Hans Moravec, and Nicholas Negroponte spring to mind. And, of course, the sf mode is wider still: Xaa aims to bring these and other strands of sf mode activity together, focusing especially on sf fx, anthropocentrism, ecological ethics and alien agency, among other possible topics. Neologistic by nature, Xaa actively seeks new ways of thinking, speaking, writing, worlding, and playing. Submissions are open to any and all, in all fields, disciplines, and media; an interest in thinking the future before it gets too late is the only requirement. For our first edition, we are accepting short texts (300 word maximum) and small widgets (images, video, etc), with preference for the experimental and creative. The idea is to open up questions that you don't know how to answer. Deadline for First Edition: September 20, 2006. contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ALSO: Xaa is looking for a web designer to collaborate (for "free") on the look and feel of the site. I can and will do this myself if need be, but I'd rather find some innovative web worker to collaborate with. _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
