paraoia in print!

[Diana York Blaine]

Couldn't help but think of my Pynchon pals when I saw this call for
papers.

Diana

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 ..:.:.:>>>   D E A D L I N E  E X T E N D E D  <<<:.:.:..

      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:                   "$NW@$"
            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 Borders:  Ethnic Purity, Eugenics,
                and the Disappearance of Nuclear Arsenals.
  ->>	FBI, CIA & NSA.        
  ->>	Nationalism as Political Paranoia 
  ->>	Tightening the Borders:  Xenophobia, Economic Racism.

                     
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        Possible forms of submission include but are not limited to:
        manuscripts (limit 20 pages) reviews, critical essays,
        interviews and/or first hand accounts, photographic works,
        and all manner of digital work formatted for the WWW.


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     :..:>:>  SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE FOR PRINTED ANTHOLOGY  <:<:..:
     :....:>:>:>:>       IS NOW MARCH 15, 1997      <:<:<:<:....:
        
   (digital-only or web work may be submitted in an ongoing basis)
         
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   Thresholds is an annual anthology emphasizing new approaches to
   cultural criticism that interrogate gender and sexuality,
   ethnicity, aesthetics, and popular culture. T:vc was established
   eleven years ago at UC-Santa Barbara to promote dialogue among
   intellectuals and cultural activists by publishing non-technical
   and provocative papers of interdisciplinary interest.


Please send submissions to:
			THRESHOLDS: viewing culture volume 11
			2607 SOUTH HALL
			UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
			SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106

For submission guidelines or general information, please email:
			thresholds at alishaw.ucsb.edu

For web-based submissions/questions, please email:
			6500meka at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
			or
			messiah at arts.ucsb.edu