_______ F i l m - P h i l o s o p h y
_______ ISSN 1466-4615
_______ Journal | Salon | Portal
_______ PO Box 26161, London SW8 4WD
_______ http://www.film-philosophy.com
_______ News, 6 July 2002
After September 11: TV News and Transnational Audiences
9 to 11 September 2002, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom
Co-organised by the British Film Institute, Open
University and ESRC.
The news media are central arenas of political conflict
and public debate. The proliferation of satellite news
channels brings new transnational configurations of
audiences into being that may have unpredictable
consequences for states, governance and citizenship.
This conference will bring together academics, journalists
and policy-makers to analyse and evaluate the role
played by television news in mediating the events of
September 11 and ensuing conflicts. It will examine
diverse audiences and competing narratives of causes
and consequences.
CONFERENCE THEMES
* The political management of news agendas and
audiences
* The ethics and aesthetics of representing terror and war
* Collective identifications and grammars of 'othering'
* Transnational news, governance and citizenship
NEW RESEARCH
Presenting the findings of collaborative research on
transnational news agendas and audiences by a team of
some 30 multi-lingual researchers.
Presentations from invited speakers in addition to
analyses of:
* terrestrial and satellite news agendas from around the
world, with evaluation of broadcasters management of
agendas and audiences
* reception of TV news in mono- and multi-lingual
households and families in the UK and elsewhere.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
* Chris Doyle (Communications Officer, Council of
Advancement of Arab-British Understanding)
* Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Professor of Social
Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway)
* Robert Fisk (Middle East Correspondent for the
Independent)
* Frank Gardner (BBC Middle East Correspondent)
* Karim Karim (Acting Assoc. Director, School of
Journalism & Communication, Carleton University,
Canada)
* Tamar Liebes (Professor of Communication, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem)
* Shireen Mazari (Director the Institute of Strategic
Studies, Pakistan)
* Baqer Moin (Head of BBC Persian & Pashto Service)
For further details see:
http://www.afterseptember11.tv
Booking information can be obtained from
Conference Services, University of Wales
Email: [log in to unmask]
General conference enquiries:
[log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.afterseptember11.tv
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From: Adc ltsn <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Shared Visions Conference
The deadline for the Early Bird booking rate for the SHARED VISIONS
conference in Brighton has been extended to 19TH JULY.
This is due to a delay in getting the conference programme up on the
website. The schedule will be available online at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/palatine/shared_visions/ from Monday 8th July. Any
questions please contact Kath Bowden on 01273 642815 or
[log in to unmask]
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"Vakvagany"
directed by Benjamin Meade and Andras Suranyi
The film acts as an "experiment in cinematic language" that "seeks to explore
the meaning and memories created by celluloid images." It has no actors and
no plot, but it does feature commentary by demon dog James Ellroy, filmmaker
Stan Brakhage and psychiatrist Dr. Roy Menninger, who serve as tour guides
giving their own spin of what is happening on the screen.
http://www.vakvagany.com/
http://www.modestyarbor.com/vakvagany.html
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:53:19 EDT
Subject: TALKING PICTURES
To: [log in to unmask]
Talking Pictures at
http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/index.html
has a new article by Robert Castle about Unwatchable movies. Jen
johnston gives a favourable review of Minority Report and there are
plenty more new reviews by her at Talking Pictures. We wil be
including a new article Blood Horizons very soon. We also have our
own online community for discussion and news about film and TV topics.
Nigel Watson
For an intelligent look at film and television visit:
http://www.talkingpix.co.uk
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From: "ALAS" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: e-phos festival Athens Sept 2002 CALL FOR ENTRIES
CALL FOR ENTRIES
''e-phos 2002''
4th International Festival of Film and New Media
2 4 - 30 September 2 0 0 2
Athens, Greece
www.filmart.gr
[log in to unmask]
''e-phos'' is an annual large scale festival dedicated to the exhibition
and promotion of digital arts and creative technology. Organized by the
Athens-based non profit cultural organization ALAS, festival ''e-phos''
is an interdisciplinary happening that aims to support a creative exchange
of experiences and contacts in the sphere of digital creation and to develop
the publics understanding and appreciation of a new audiovisual language
that emerges through the fusion of different mediums and genres.
The festival is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, General
Secretariat for Youth, Hellenic Ministry of Press, Hellenic Organization of
Tourism, Municipality of Athens, Municipality of Argyroupolis
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p r o g r a m s t o a p p l y
1. digital cinema
2. computer animation
3. cd-roms, dvds, websites, artist presentations
4. documentaries on all arts
5. live music events
6. interactive perfomances
see attached document
send entry form and material at
57 ARCHIMIDOUS GR-11636 Athens
attention: Yiannis Skourogiannis
[log in to unmask]
tel: 003010-7520064-5 fax: 003010-7520064
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also download complete form and regulations from www.filmart.gr
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From: caspar stracke <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: LOSSLESS VIDEO A DISCUSSION FORUM
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LOSSLESS VIDEO - a new discussion forum for Video Art
Hello everyone.
For several months I am discussing discussion lists.
Collecting many opinions in regards to the foundation
of a new on-line discussion forum for video art.
As an old Frameworker I once proposed Pip the idea to
split Frameworks in several categories - he was smart
enough not to do it but encouraged me in pursing with
the idea for a discussion forum exclusively on video
art.
Beside Frameworks I have roamed around lists like
Syndicate, Nettime, Thingist, and Rohrpost all of
which discuss new media, all specialized to something
else, video art issues seem to appear (nowadays) only
in very marginalized form.
Considering that almost every special interest group
one can imagine has a forum on the web, it is quiet
surprising that video art, has hardly anything with
similar dedication.* There certainly are local
networks , like UNXposed (London) that serve as a
helpful resource for video artists but it seems, that
there os not a single english discussion forum.
LOSSLESS VIDEO is the attempt top serve as exactly
that.
With the on-going digital makeover of the old (new-)
media categories,one may argue the old-fashioned media
segregation may disappear by itself. Nonetheless it
is frustrating if one finds him/herself permanently
among people with slightly different interests.
In general, most of us as active net users (and our
shitty software) have learned to economize our time on
the web, to filter out as much unwanted information as
possible.
Tht means two or three lists, thats more than enough-
one may decide... With the increase of both,
commercial and art-spamming, many active list
participants have developed a subscribing allergy.
As an alternative to this problem, THE THINGs system
administrator (who will help me to maintain the list)
suggested a combination out of bulletin board and mail
subscription.
Interested parties have the choice to post only on the
board or subscribe to the list.
With the announcement of THE THINGs last newsletter,
we have just launched the forum.
A brief outline with details for the subscription
and/or bulletin board are at:
http://www.videokasbah.net/lossless.html
C.S.
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From: "kyle barnett" <[log in to unmask]>
Apologies for cross-postings...
New Deadline: August 2, 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Transparencies: Technology, Culture, Communication
Friday November 1 and Saturday November 2, 2002
The Texas Union, University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Speakers:
Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D James W. Hay, Ph.D
Frances Yates Professor of Communication Associate Professor
of Cinema Studies
The Annenberg School for Communication University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Transparencies, a graduate student conference at the University of
Texas at Austin, is an invitation to explore implications of both
historically significant and recently emergent technologies from a
critical and cultural perspective. In the beginning of the 21st
century, our constant interactions with technology have become nearly
transparent and problematic in new ways. New forms of transnational
and transcultural identity are supported by global flows of culture.
Provincialism and isolationism emerge in different guises. Cultural
critique and journalism take on new paths and responsibilities.
Vital data flows and banal spam fill "superhighways" running
alongside persistent social and digital divides. How do these
elements interact, and how are they contingent on each other? How do
technologies participate in these "transparencies" that help us
negotiate the micro- and macro-conflicts and contradictions of
everyday life? The conference is an opportunity for scholars in all
disciplines engaged with technology and culture to come together and
share their ideas on these and other topics.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
_ Communication technology and the formation of identity (gender,
ethnicity, nation)
_ Technologies on the border
_ Media, technology, citizenship
_ DIY Communication: Media sabotage and culture jamming
_ Television and Radio's future and their past
_ "Non-traditional" technologies of communication
_ Popular music and technology
_ Cinema as cultural technology
_ Video games, computer games
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, August 2. Abstracts should be 300
words or less. Abstracts may be emailed, or mailed if postmarked no
later than August 2. Electronic submissions encouraged.
Participants will be notified of acceptance or rejection by August
16. Panel submissions cannot be considered. A draft of the
conference program will be made available online.
Complete papers must be submitted by the September 15, 2002. Papers
submitted by the September 15 deadline will be eligible to compete
for a "top paper" award of $500, sponsored by the Technology and
Information Policy Institute.
For more information or for paper submission, please contact
Transparencies Coordinating Committee
Department of Radio-Television-Film
The University of Texas at Austin
CMA 6.118
Austin, TX 78712
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~transpar/
Sponsored by the Department of Radio-Television-Film, Technology and
Information Policy Institute, and Graduate Students in
Radio-Television-Film.
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From: cathy fowler <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: representing the rural in the cinema,
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Call for Papers: Representing the Rural in the Cinema
Proposals are invited for contributions to a collection which will focus
upon the use of the rural space within the cinema. We invite proposals
which take the rural in its widest sense and may include studies of such
films as:
La Terra Trema (Visconti, Italy 1948) Land Without Bread (Bunuel, Spain
1932) Farrebique (Georges Rouquier, France 1948) the work of Albert
Tessier, Symphonie Paysanne (Henri Storck, Belgium 1942-44) Raging Sky and
The Earth (both Youssef Chahine, Egypt 1953, 1968) Earth (Dovzhenko, Russia
1930) Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermano Olmi, Italy 1978) Will there be snow for
Christmas? (Sandrine Veysset, France 1996) Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker,
India 2001) This Filthy Earth ( Andrew Kotting, UK 2001)
We also welcome proposals which treat thematic areas to include:
The Rural
Representations of country folk and country life: images of the regional
picturesque and its capacity both for escapism and nostalgia.
The possibility of rural genres
Dichotomies between city and country, between the traditional and the
modern, between the utopic and dystopic
The place of rural representations in debates around national cinemas:
their revelation of the degree and nature of the nations investment in its
past.
The use of the rural to represent subaltern or minority cultures in Europe,
North America, Latin America and other third world regions whose claims to
national identity are problematic and even controversial.
The use of the rural space to examine archaic customs and rituals connected
to the land.
Peasant cinema(s)
The situation of peasant cinema within the larger context of national
cinemas: i.e. comparisons between local and regional cinemas, and between
dominant and residual cultures.
Peasant culture and its place in definitions of the national (its use of
the rural milieu and its inhabitants as models for a wider national
identity)
Peasant cinema as documentary and/or ethnography: representations and
recreations of the real.
Please send a one-page proposal by July 31st 2002 to Dr Catherine Fowler,
Faculty of Media, Arts and Society, Southampton Institute of Higher
Education, East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YN, United Kingdom. For
further information or to submit via email please contact either Catherine
Fowler: [log in to unmask] or Gillian Helfield
[log in to unmask]
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From: Sarah Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Please post the following announcement
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bfi Publishing are pleased to announce that we will shortly
be publishing the following book:
The New Media Book
Edited by Dan Harries
What will prove to be the lasting impact of New Media on film
and television?
What kinds of transformations of moving image media are
already under way?
The term 'new media' has become an effective catch word both
as a description of the digital delivery of media via the Internet,
DVD, and digital television and as a reference to the 'newness' such
technologies have brought to media more generally. And yet the nature
of this transformation has been over-hyped and too little understood.
The New Media Book provides an accessible, critical
intervention into the field of moving image studies and features
twenty newly commissioned and thought-provoking essays in a format
designed to be of wide use to a range of courses in digital media,
film and television studies.
The book is divided into five thematic sections:
Technologies, Production, Texts, Consumption, and Contexts and
addresses how new media is both embracing and altering the existing
media landscape. Topics discussed include the ways in which we
interact with digital
television, the changing methods of production, distribution
and exhibition within the media industry, and how the histories of
traditional media have influenced the development of new media.
The New Media Book examines the corresponding influences that
traditional media and new media are having upon each other as well as
revisiting central, continuing issues surrounding the moving image
and the contexts in which all the media operate. The collected essays
present and redefine these crucially important topics
providing the most systematic analysis of both change and continuity
in the contemporary media landscape yet published in the field of
screen studies
For more information please visit:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/bookvid/books/catalogue/details.php?bookid=354
And for ordering details:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/bookvid/books/catalogue/order/index.html
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From: Kate Douglas <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: "Self" (e-journal) 8-26-02
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M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au
M/C is currently seeking submissions for the “Self” issue, to be
published in September 2002.
Me? "I" am everywhere. Philosophers, social scientists, behavioural
and medical scientists have been investigating the existence and
significance of individual consciousness, self-perception, self-
promotion and other notions of "the self" for centuries.
The 'self' permeates contemporary culture. Through capitalist
individualism and conservative politics 'self' must be considered
first above the needs of the group - "looking after no. 1". In
therapeutic, religious and consumerist discourses of self-
improvement, self-help or self-actualisation, 'self' is obscured; an
entity which needs to be sought and found, changed or accommodated,
an entity which one needs to become "in touch with". Within these
permutations "self" carries the assumption of its own existence, as
either a stable, unchanging entity or as a contextually sensitive and
dynamic identity. Either way, self is individuality - one's own
interests.
'Self' is commonly a prefix which expresses an action done to one's
self (self-hatred, self-discipline) or which describes an attribute
of an entity (self-concerned, self-contained). It can also be a
suffix, which carries a level of self-reflexivity (myself, yourself).
The editors of M/C invite submissions of no more than 2000 words on
the subject of "self", and welcome various interpretations of the
term. Possible topics include, but should not be limited to "the
first person era", first person media and Reality TV, 'factual'
depictions of self in various media; notions of "true selves" within
auto/biographical acts such as in writing, personal Webpages or
documentary, the cultural celebration of self-awareness and autonomy,
ideas relating to subjectivity and identity politics, social language
behaviour such as im/politeness and its effects on 'self'; identity
play in different media, the contextual variability and multiplicity
of 'self', conflicting identities - for instance "immigrants against
further immigration" groups and gay christians.
But enough navel gazing, send your submissions to M/C!
Editors Felicity Meakins [log in to unmask] and
Kate Douglas [log in to unmask]
Article deadline: 26 August 2002
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From: Martin Barker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: LTSN research project
X-Sophos-Scanned: from [log in to unmask] virus scanned OK
Dear Colleagues
I am writing to ask if you would be interested and willing to help
with a small research project for which I have just received a little
bit of funding from the Art, Design & Communication Learning and
Teaching Subject Network. The aim of the project is to explore ways
of handling the old problem of the clash which is so often
experienced between students' private experiences of and involvements
with films, and the kinds of academic questioning and analysis which
we seek to involve them in, at University. With this letter you will
find a short questionnaire, which I would greatly appreciate you or
an appropriate colleague(s) completing for us.
This is a problem which we have regularly experienced over many
years, as (we know) have many others, and we are looking for ways in
which it can be effectively managed and the two kinds of knowledge
set into a productive relationship with each other. It is obviously
important that, for the sake of contrast, the way we do this
experimentally here is different from any attention you give to it
so that we can investigate what differences, if any, are introduced
by the 'experimental condition'. For that reason, I can't here lay
out how exactly we will be attempting this. However, once the
research is completed, we have committed ourselves in our application
to the LTSN both to publish the methods we have tried out, and to
share all the results in detail with the collaborating institutions.
We are in fact looking for three institutions in all whose first year
intake is large enough to generate statistics which could be compared
with our own (we expect to have over 200 students on our first year
Film course, but are not necessarily assuming numbers as large as
this, on yours). The project, which will last one year, would
involve a small amount of cooperation on your part in encouraging
students on your first year Film course, to fill in a pretty simple
web-based questionnaire, whose web address we would supply to you.
We would need them to complete two questionnaires, one at the
beginning of the year, the other at the end. And obviously it
matters to us to get as high a rate of returns as possible, for the
sake of maximum validity.
This is honestly all we would ask of you, other than asking if we
could swap copies of the details of our respective first year Film
courses, so that we could look at the ways in which your first year
curriculum addresses, if at all, this issue of what we have called
'vernacular involvements' in film. No costs will fall to you,
except the (hopefully small) time-cost of explaining to your students
what this is all about (we would send a few briefing notes to help
with this), and encouraging them to complete the questionnaires.
I am obviously keen to get arrangements set up as soon as possible,
and I would very much appreciate an early reply to this letter. I
will be happy to discuss the idea further with you, if you want more
information my email and phone numbers are as below.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Martin Barker
Professor of Film & Television Studies
Martin Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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From: hector mast <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: new issue of Organdi Quarterly
Would it be possible to circulate this announcement
through the list?
Many thanks
Matthieu Faullimmel
Editor of Organdi Quarterly
Please circulate among your colleagues/friends (Sorry
for cross-posting):
We're happy to announce the launch of Organdi
Quarterly's fourth issue (Can we still talk about
art?), with contributions in English and French by
Stanley Bulbach, Jean Catoire, Nicolas Bacri, Nicolas
Robert, Rmy Oudghiri, Ellen Gorman, Brian D. Crawford
and Malte Schophaus, Edem Awumey and Anton Karl
Kozlovic.
We hope that you will find some interest in this new
issue:
http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue
Best regards
Matthieu Faullimmel
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From: Lucy Curzon <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
PLEASE ANNOUNCE, PLEASE FORWARD
Call for papers:
The online journal _Invisible Culture_
(http//www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html) is seeking
papers of 2500 to 6000 words in length for an upcoming issue on visual
culture and national identity.
The purpose of this issue is to investigate how visual culture can be
analyzed as an expression of national identity, including how questions of
national identity are negotiated through different forms of visual
culture. Visual cuture, in this context, is understood not as a mirror
that reflects national identity, but rather as a complex venue for its
interpretation -- a site through which populations come into
consciousness as members of a particular community.
Topics for papers might include critical analyses of national cinema and
popular culture; representations of class, race, and gender in public art
and architecture; the changing role of museums and curatorial practices in
the twenty-first century; or contemporary art and art criticism after
September, 11th 2001.
The deadline for submissions in August 1, 2002. Please contact Lucy
Curzon by e-mail ([log in to unmask]) for more information. Send
electronic versions of papers to [log in to unmask] Send hard
copies to _Invisible Culture_, 424 Morey Hall, University of Rochester,
Rochester NY, 14627
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Past issues of _Invisible Culture_ include: "To Incorporate
Practice" (Issue 4), "Time and the Work" (Issue 3), "Interrogating
Subcultures" (Issue 2), and "The Worlding of Cultural Studies" (Issue 1).
_Invisible Culture_ also accepts book review submissions of 600 to 800
words.
_Invisible Culture_ has been in operation since 1998, in association with
the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of
Rochester. The present Editors, Margot Bouman, Lucy Curzon, Tai Smith and
Catherine Zuromskis, have revised the journals original mission statement,
with the goal of reaching a broader range of disciplines.
The journal is dedicated to explorations of the material and political
dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and
communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge,
and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they
contribute.
As the title suggests, _Invisible Culture_ problematizes the unquestioned
alliance between culture and visibility, specifically visual culture and
vision. Cultural practices and materials emerge not solely in the visible
world, but also in the social, temporal, and theoretical relations that
define the invisible. Our understanding of Cultural Studies, finally,
maintains that culture is fugitive and is constantly renegotiated.
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From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Announcing Reconstruction Vol. 2, No. 2
Please forward to potentially interested parties:
We are proud to announce the latest issue of Reconstruction (vol.2,
no.2), a journal and online community dedicated to interdisciplinary
thought, at <http://www.reconstruction.ws>.
Included in this issue are:
Alan Clintons Mechanical Angel: Carolyn Forch and the Material
Projection of Messianic History
Roger Dawkins Making Sense of Matter in Deleuze's Conception of Cinema
Language
Alexandra Gansers Spectral Riders: Multiple Heritage and the
(De-)Construction of History in Ken Kesey's Last Go Round
Rares Piloius Hegemony: Methods and Hypotheses
Tracy Willards Tales at the Borders: Fairy Tales and Maternal
Cannibalism
Bilge Yesils Workplace Surveillance, Inc.: Implications on Autonomy
and How the Watched Experience Surveillance Technologies
Liam McNamara on Jean Baudrillards Impossible Exchange (2002)
Rodney Sharkey on Alan Moore & Eddie Campbells From Hell (2000) and the
Hughes Brothers From Hell (2001)
..as well as reviews of music, websites, non-fiction, and fiction.
In line with our efforts to foster intellectual community,
Reconstruction also hosts a message board dedicated to interaction
between authors and readers, and between readers themselves, hoping to
affect a more communal approach to, and understanding of, academic
journals and intellectual thought and action. Please take the time to
participate in this experiment in community.
Additionally, submissions for our Fall issue (September 17, 2002) are
being actively solicited.
Please see editorial guidelines as published on the site for further
information regarding contributions to Reconstruction. All submissions
must be received by August 13, 2002 to be considered for inclusion in
the Fall 2002 issue. Reconstruction is a peer-reviewed journal, soon to
be indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and granted an ISSN.
We are also currently seeking reviewers: If interested, a short email
listing qualifications and interests should be mailed to
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If you would like to receive our newsletter, with important updates, new
reviews, and notifications about calls for papers and forthcoming
issues, please send an email to [log in to unmask] with the
following text in the body of your email: "subscribe reconstruction your
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Thank you in advance for your time and participation.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Davin Heckman, Editors.
http://www.reconstruction.ws
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