CFP -- Panic + Paranoia (fwd)

[Joe Varo]

Found the following in my email box and thought it might be of interest to
PYNCHON-L readers who might not subscribe to any of the Spoons Mailing
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Joe


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Subject: CFP -- Panic + Paranoia

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        T H R E S H O L D S: v i e w i n g  c u l t u r e 
                --=| Volume 11 Special Issue |=--

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     From militia movements and conspiracy theories,
           to the US-as-gated-community;
                   from madhouses and asylums to exile
                            and ethnic cleansing;
  P A N I C   A N D  P A R A N O I A  have emerged
       as primary sociocultural logics of the 90s.
            This special issue of T:vc will take "Panic and Paranoia"
                in their broadest senses as a departure point
                        for investigations in diverse media,
                                and across disciplines.

                 -----==<< POTENTIAL TOPICS INCLUDE >>==-----

  ->>   "Homosexual Panic"
  ->>   Drug use and Community/Marginality.
  ->>   Internet as Tool of Fascist, Communist, Pedophile,
           Hacker Supervillans.
  ->>   New World Orders:
           UN "dominance"           ud$$$$$$$$Nou
  ->>   Fears, Phobias            :$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$i
           and Rituals.           $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$L
  ->>   Aliens/Invasion:          $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$E
           Fear of                4$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$F
           Implantation.           $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  ->>   Millenarianism:             $6"'*$$$$$*"'B"
           Earthquakes, Fires,       #Nuu.$$6.uu$"
           Floods.                    "$$$$B$$$P
  ->>   Urban Safety:                   "$wWw$"
           The Razor                      "*"
           in the Apple
  ->>   Monsters, Dementia, Hysteria:  Historical Transformations.
  ->>   Access unbounded:  Reading Personal Data Files:
           "It knows when you are sleeping...".
  ->>   Musical Movements:  Gangsta Rap, Raves,
           and Alternative Communities.
  ->>   Downsizing, Perma--temps, Lifetime Job Insecurity.
  ->>   Mega-mergers creating Indominable Trans-nation-state
           Corporate Hives.
  ->>   Inner City Surveillance and Gated Communities:
           Fear of the Inner City.
  ->>   Redefining International Borders:  Ethnic Purity, Eugenics,
           and the Disappearance of Nuclear Arsenals.
                                                                ..
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  ->>   FBI, CIA & NSA      $$$$$$"     ""         $$$$$;
  ->>   Nationalism as        $$"                   $$$$
	   Political Paranoia                        ""
  ->>   Tightening the Borders:
           Xenophobia, Economic Racism.

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