Call for Papers
For the on-line portion of the
Federation Rhetoric Symposium: Emerging Rhetorics
to be held at Texas Woman's University, spring 1999
Panel Title: Rhetorical Approaches to Genres at the Close of the Millennium
Description of Panel: Seeking convention-length papers (8-10 pages) dealing
with rhetorical approaches to contemporary genres as "progress as product"
and focusing on this phenomenon in a particular work or within a particular
genre itself. As the twentieth-century comes to a close, the looping effect
of progress in technoscience, theory, and society/culture is (re)generated
in such products--or genres--as film, music, television programming, and
World Wide Web pages/sites. This phenomenon can be seen in the popularity of
techno-thrillers, techno music, and cyberculture in the 1990s; however, the
prevalence of the "theory-technoscience-social matrix loop" extends beyond
mass media into localized writings, such as e-mail; scientific and academic
writings; and corporate reports. (See N. Kathryn Hayles Chaos Bound, Donna
Haraway).
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: simulation or similacra,
the denatured human or cyborg, chaos theory, hyperreality, hypertextuality,
hyperreality, robotics, artificial intelligence, interface theory, virtual
communities and identities. Papers focusing on rhetorical approaches to
postmodernity for the new millennium will also be considered.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: March 15, 1999; responses will be swift.
Description of Conference Format: All papers will be placed on-line and will
be discussed exclusively via panel-specific listservs April 30-May 7, 1999.
The live portion of this annual event will take place at Texas Woman's
University, in Denton, Texas, on Friday, April 30, 1999 with keynote
speakers Susan Stanford Friedman, Cynthia Selfe, and Kermit Campbell. The
on-line portion will consist of papers posted as Web pages with moderated,
panel-specific listserv discussions for one week, hosted by TWUMOO beginning
April 30, 1999.
For Further Information about the symposium, visit
http://www.twu.edu/federation/rhetoric/default.html
Please send paper proposals electronically to Kim Allison at
kallison@harbrace.com or audovera@iglobal.net. Please e-mail Kim Allison at
the above addresses with questions about the panel.
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