Hi all This is a time limited mailing list associated with Jordan Crandall's ongoing art projects on militarization. See the schedule below and also how you can join in the discussions, which start very soon. Please circulate to any interested people, groups, mailing lists etc. Best wishes John http://underfire.eyebeam.org/ <http://underfire.eyebeam.org/> Under Fire Mailing List Submitted by Under Fire Agent on Thu, 2006-08-03 13:50. To subscribe to the mailing list, click here or send an email to: [log in to unmask] to unsubscribe to the mailing list send an email to: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Schedule Submitted by Under Fire Agent on Thu, 2006-08-03 13:32. OCT 16 - OCT 21 PRELUDE AMIR PARSA OCT 22 - OCT 28 WAR INFRASTRUCTURES ALAIN JOXE with JOHN ARMITAGE and PAUL N. EDWARDS Intervention: KELLER EASTERLING (on the global industry of subtraction), RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE (on the act of 'turning a deaf ear') Insertions: MANUEL DELANDA (on war ecologies); CHALMERS JOHNSON (on military baseworlds) OCT 29 - NOV 4 VIOLENCE AS SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCE LORETTA NAPOLEONI with JAMES DER DERIAN and NABEEL ZIAD Intervention: TREVOR PAGLEN (on stealth installations) Insertions: MAHMOOD MAMDANI (on the legacy of the Cold War and the roots of terror); EYAL WEISMAN (on architectures of occupation) NOV 5 - NOV 11 CULTURAL FICTIONS AND SYMBOLIC REALITIES NEGAR MOTTAHEDEH with RYAN BISHOP, RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM, and ANANYA VAJPEYI Intervention: CALEB WALDORF (on the ecologies of suspicion) Insertions: JEAN BAUDRILLARD (on the irreducible singularity); TERRY EAGELTON (on terror as symbolic form); KLAUS THEWELEIT (on war as symbolic system of desire) NOV 12 - NOV 18 RELIGION, POLITICS, MEDIA, AND WAR MELANI MCALISTER with MARY KELLER, JOHN WILLIAM PHILLIPS, and ANA VALDES Insertion: TALAL ASAD (on the inseparability of modern politics and religion) NOV 19 - NOV 25 SECULARISM AND RELIGIOUS REVIVALISM BARBARA VICTOR with SABA MAHMOOD and HAREL SHAPIRA Insertion: JACQUELINE ROSE (on the Zionist cause) NOV 24 - NOV 25 SEVILLE ENACTIONS TARIQ ALI, GEMA MARTIN MUNOZ, and EYAL WEISMAN with CALEB WALDORF NOV 26 - DEC 2 POWER, SPECTACLE, AND REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS RETORT with IAN DOUGLAS and THOMAS KEENAN Intervention: SLAVOJ ZIZEK(on traversing the fantasy) DEC 3 - DEC 9 VIOLENCE, SENSATION, AND POLITICAL SPACE NIGEL THRIFT with BRIAN HOLMES, ANAHID KASSABIAN, and AMIT RAI Intervention: ARIELLA AZOULAY (on the visual presence of death), RULA HALAWANI (on sites of intimacy) Insertions: BRIAN MASSUMI (on the politics of affect); FRIEDRICH KITTLER (on love) Discussion ==== This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. Please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error. You should also be aware that all electronic mail from, to, or within Northumbria University may be the subject of a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and related legislation, and therefore may be required to be disclosed to third parties. This e-mail and attachments have been scanned for viruses prior to leaving Northumbria University. Northumbria University will not be liable for any losses as a result of any viruses being passed on. ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************