From montefus@hp4.sm.dsi.unimi.it Sun Apr 9 10:40:33 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA27425; Sun, 9 Apr 95 10:40:33 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA20819; Sun, 9 Apr 95 10:40:33 -0700 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA04908; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:36:04 -0700 Received: by hp4.sm.dsi.unimi.it id AA19695 (5.65+/IDA-1.3.5 for scivw@hitl.washington.edu); Sun, 9 Apr 95 19:40:27 +0200 From: Diego Montefusco Message-Id: <9504091740.AA19695@hp4.sm.dsi.unimi.it> Subject: CONF: IAPL VIRTUAL INCORPORATIONS / TEXTUAL SPACES To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 19:40:26 +0200 (METDST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 47294 Status: OR [please, distribute it widely - Thanks!] ANNOUNCING ********************************************* << VIRTUAL INCORPORATIONS / TEXTUAL SPACES >> INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE May 10-13, 1995 Villanova University Contact John Carvalho ********************************************* FEATURED PRESENTERS Kathy Acker Arthur and Marilouise Kroker Allucquere Roseanne Stone Mark C. Taylor N. Katherine Hayles (Virtually) Slavoj Zizek FULL PROGRAM FOLLOWS ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT Transportation and Accomodations REGISTRATION FORM FOLLOWS PROGRAM TRANSPORTATION > Arrival by Air at Philadelphia International Airport. If you have reserved accommodations in Philadelphia, you can (1) hire a cab, the fare is $20, (2) contact any Center City Shuttle (e.g., Philadelphia Airport Shuttle) from the phone board in the baggage claim area, the run every half hour until midnight, the fare is $8, (3) take the regional rail service, SEPTA's R1, to Suburban Station (at 17th Street and JFK Boulevard), the fare is $5, and hire a cab or walk the four blocks to your hotel. If you have reserved accommodations on the Main Line, a cab will cost about $50. You can (1) call the Main Line Limosine Service (800.427.3464); the fare is $18 per person, they leave every 45 minutes, and the trip from the airport takes about 35 minutes. You can also (2) take the regional rail service, SEPTA's R1, to 30th Street Station and connect with SEPTA's R5 (Paoli Local) to the Wayne or Radnor Station; the fare will be $6, the trip will a little over one hour, and it's a five-fifteen minute walk to either hotel from the appropriate station. (If you think you'll want a cab from the station, call the hotel, give them the time your train is scheduled to arrive, and ask them to get a cab there for you.) > Arrival by Rail at Amtrak's 30th Street Station. If you have reserved accommodations in Philadelphia, take a cab from here to your hotel, a ten minute trip. If you have reserved accommodations on the Main Line, connect with SEPTA's R5 (Paoli Local) to the Wayne or Radnor Station. It's a five minute walk to either hotel from appropriate station. If you think you want a cab, call the hotel, give your train's arrival time, and ask them to have a cab there for you. > Arrival by Car. For Philadelphia, use I-95 from the north or south, I-76 and I-675 from the west. Follow the Philadelphia city map to your hotel. For Radnor, use I-276 from the north, I-95 from the south, I-76 from the east or west to I-476. Take the Villanova exit. Proceed west on PA 30 to your hotel. ACCOMMODATIONS Lodging in Philadelphia > The Warwick 17th and Locust 800.523.4210 $95/night, single or double > Doubletree Hotel Broad and Locust 800.222.8733 $99/night, single or double Both hotels are located near the center of Center City. Transportation to the conference site will be by local rail service, SEPTA's R5, Paoli Local. Trains leave Suburban Station (17th and JFK Boulevard) every thirty minutes and arrive on the Villanova campus in 35 minutes. The fare is $3.25 each way. You may purchase a weekly pass for $30 which will be good for the duration of the conference. This plan is recommended for anyone who thinks s/he might want to use the train for off-campus lunches at stops near Villanova. Alternatively, the round-trip fare for such a lunch will cost $4.00. Lodging on the Main Line > The Wayne Hotel Lancaster Avenue, Wayne 800.962.5850 $89.00/night, single or double > The Radnor Hotel Lancaster Avenue, Radnor 800.537.3000 $79.00/night, single or double These hotels are located in nearby suburbs. Both are accessible by the same regional rail service, SEPTA's R5. The trains leave every half hour, it takes six minutes from Wayne and two minutes from Radnor. The walk to the Wayne station is five minutes, to the Radnor station ten-fifteen minutes. Special Note for Physically Challenged Participant The trains are not equipped to help you. We recommend that you use the Radnor hotel and notify us about what assistance you may need. It is possible to be accommodated in Philadelphia if you have use of a private car. Day Care Quality day care may be arranged by contacting Mary Quilter at 610.519.4692. WEDNESDAY, 10 May 1995 12:00-5:00 Villanova Room, Connolly Center REGISTRATION coffee and pastries served IAPL PUBLISHERS BOOK EXHIBIT open Wednesday and Thursday until 6:30, Friday until 4:00 1:30-4:30 Connolly Center (CC), Augustine Center (AC) and Dougherty Hall (DH) 1. ORGANIZED / GENERAL SESSIONS (Asterisk* indicates Organizer) Flux and History in Science and the Arts Thomas Flynn, Emory University (DH North Lounge) Peter Caws, George Washington University, TBA Gregg Horowitz, Vanderbilt University, TBA Thomas Rockmore, Duquesne University, TBA Joseph Margolis, Temple University, Response Ghostlier Incorporations Jean-Michel Rabat,* University of Pennsylvania (CC Radnor Room) Richard Beardsworth, American University, Paris, "World, Gedaechtnis and the Spectral" Michael McShane, University of Pennsylvania, "Haunting Stories" Craig Saper, University of Pennsylvania, "Electronic Media as `influencing machines'" Beryl Schlossman, Carnegie Mellon University, "Swans in the Mirror" Bernard Stiegler, College International, Paris, "Virtual Reality and Phenomenology" Reading Women Reading Postmodern Autobiography Honi Haber, University of Colorado (DH West Lounge) Alison Leigh Brown, North Arizona University, "Foucault's Play" Tamsin Lorraine, Swarthmore College, "Becoming-woman, Becoming-imperceptible? Deleuzean Lines of Flight through Self-preservation" Sharon Meagher,* University of Scranton, "Writing/Reading Barthes as Woman" Kelly Oliver, University of Texas, Austin, "Circumscribing the Alliance: Derrida's Circumfession" Virtual Ethics Within Textual Spaces David Fisher,* North Central College (CC St. David's Room) Victor Yelverton Haines, Dawson College, "The Existential Rhetoric of Being There" Achim D. Koddermann, State University of New York, Oneonta, "Media Ethics in a Vacuum of Rules: Moral Choices from Apocalyptic Tele-Vision to Responsible TV-Use," Peter Baker, Towson State University, "Virtual Ethics: Deconstruction and Film Violence" Neil Easterbrook, Texas Christian University, "PoMo Heterotopia: `This Anarquista Wet Dream Bullshit'" Roy Martinez, Spelman College, "Dabhar, Kierkegaard and Postmodern Thought" Bodies, Politics, Pain Robert Bambic, Bryn Mawr College (DH East Lounge) Linda Dittmar, University of Massachusetts, "Bodies Inscribed: Audio-Visual Plenitude and the Vanishing Point of Sense" Donald Morton, Syracuse University, "Queer Theory, the Body and Libidinal Economy in the `Virtual' Academy of the 1990s" Wes Rehberg, Oswego, NY, "Bodies Under Political Seige and the Texts of Solidarity" Seraphima Roll, McGill University, "Celluloid Pain in the Post-Ideological and Post- Industrial Cinema" Cultural Identity and the Politics of Recognition John Murungi, Towson State University (CC Wayne Room) Eileen Rizo-Patron, Binghamton University, "Hermeneutics as Alchemical Practice: Interpreting the Narrative Art of Jos Maria Arguedas" Robert Harvey, State University of New York, Stony Brook, "A Talpine Subjective Topology" Matthias Konzett, University of Chicago, "Virtual Subjectivity and the Politics of Recognition in Co Contemporary Austrian Jewish Literature" Asha Varadharajam, University of Minnesota, "Colonial Subjects as Sublime Objects in Homi Bhabha" Virtual Spaces Adriana Bontea, State University of New York, Buffalo (CC Haverford Room) Alice Benston, Emory University, "Silence - the Site of Virtual Subjectivity in Chekhov and Beckett" Elinor Fuchs, Harvard University, "Counter-Virtuality: One Solution to the Problem of Presence in Contemporary Theatre" Barbara Woshinsky, University of Miami, Coral Gables, "Spaced Out" Peter Yoonsuk Paik, Cornell University, "The Virtual Spaces of Modern Cinema" Virtually Greek: Ancient Connections Gary A. Scott, Duquesne University (CC Cinema) Anne Frosolono Bowery, Baylor University, "Plato Visits Postmodernity: On the Philosophical Incorporations of Narrative" Maria Cimitile,* University of Memphis, "Virtual God: Dionysus' Time" Jennifer L. Eagan, Duquesne University, "The Disappearance of Woman in Plato and Derrida" Amy Morgan, University of Memphis, "And If Woman Turned Upon Herself? Hegel's Woman, Virtually Antigone" Brian DeMeulle, University of Memphis, "Virtual Aristotle: Heidegger and Levinas on Time" The Mutating Body Rhetoric: Questions of the Virus and the Parisite David Wills,* Lousinana State University (CC Bryn Mawr Room) Arkady Plotnitsky, Vanderbilt University, "Virosites: Viruses, Parasites and the Micro-Epistemology of Translation" John Protevi, Lousiana State University, "Economies of AIDS" C. Colwell, Temple University, "The Virtual Body of Medicine" Jeffrey T. Nealon, Pennsylvania State University, "Junk and the Other: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs and the Inhuman" Incorporating the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds, Virtually K. Malcolm Richards, Bryn Mawr College (AC de Lon Room) Gene Fendt, University of Nebraska, Kearney, "Hamlet's Incorporation of the Accursed Share" Diana B. Altegoer, Old Dominion University, "`The Maker's Guyle': Speaking Pictures in Early Modern Science and Poetry" Butler Waugh, Florida International University, "Performativity, Text and Context: Uninscribed Meanings in Beowulf 2898-3037" Anthony P. Petruzzi, University of Connecticut, "The Disclosive Nature of `Truthe' in Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman" Jeannie Ridings, George Washington University, "The Ocular Proof: The Burden of Desdemona's Body" 5:00-6:30 Connolly Center (CC), Augustine Center (AC) and Dougherty Hall (DH) 2. ORGANIZED / GENERAL SESSIONS (Asterisk* indicates Organizer) Virtual Bodies / Virtual Texts Allegra de Laurentis, State University of New York, Stony Brook (CC Radnor Room) Gregor Campbell, University of Guelph, "Finding the Space of the Body" Samira Kawash, Rutgers University, "Elliptical Kiss: Touching Nancy" Julian Bleecker, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Virtual Subjectivities, Simulation and the Lacanian Real" Creativity, Image and Memory: The Virtual / Actual in Bergson M.A.R. Habib, Rutgers University (CC Wayne Room) Alan Bourassa, Vanderbilt University, "`Man is Never Time's Slave': Heidegger, Bergson and Faulkner's Ecstacy" James W. Kidd, University of San Francisco, "A Virtual Interpretation of Henri Bergson's Cinematographical Method" Joo Heung Lee, Pennsylvania State University, "Bergson and Proust on Memory and the Superfluous" Breathing, Self-Organization and Wayward Simulacra in Beckett Brian Schroeder, Dominican College (CC St. David's Room) Stephen Boa, Universit de Montral, "Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind" Martin E. Rosenberg, Eastern Kentucky University, "Chaos, Duration and Self-Organization in Beckett's Rockaby" Jennifer Jeffers,* Emory University, "The Production of Difference in Waiting for Godot" The Shape of Finitude: Visions of History Ivana Vuletic, University of Pennsylvania (CC Haverford Carl Rapp, University of Georgia, "Concrete History or Mere Hologram: Hegel's Critique of the New Historicism" Jan Mieszkowski, Johns Hopkins University, "Meaning and (Non)Image in Hegel" Richard Leslie, City University of New York, "Chaos as a Visual Paradigm in 1950s London" Imagination, Images, and the Imago Daniel Palmer, Indiana University (CC Bryn Mawr Room) Marshall Gregory, Butler University, "Vicarious Reality/Virtual Reality: Narrative (Re)Constructions of Reality in Fiction and Metaphor" "Vicarious Reality/Virtual Reality: Narrative (Reconstructions of Reality in Fiction and Metaphor" Kerstin Behnke, Northwestern University, "The Virtual Being of the Imaginary" Zsuzsa Baross, Trent University, "The Image and the Imago" Discursive Formations of the Body's Space Elke Heckner, Johns Hopkins University (DH West Lounge) John Caruana, York University, "Skin Ego, Trauma: Protective Shields for the Contemporary World" Robyn Ferrell, Macquarie University, "Word Made Flesh: Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction" Anne Fleche, Boston College, "When a Door is A Jar, or Out in the Theatre: Tennessee Williams and Queer Space" Dreams, Death and "Safe Sex" for Virtual Bodies Moderator, TBA (DH North Lounge) Tace Hedrick, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburgh, "Dreaming Androids: Schizophrenic Ecriture, or How to Represent a Postmodern Body" Kevin O'Neill, University of Redlands, "Descartes' Virtual Body and the Virtual World in Which He Must Live if He Kills Himself" Lisa Lynch, Rutgers University, "Safe Sex with Monsters and Madmen" Virtual Freedoms: New Readings of Schelling Duane Davis, Wabash College (DH East Lounge) Jason M. Wirth, Oglethorpe University, "Virtual Freedom: Schelling and General Economy" Anna Vaughn, DePaul University, "Matter, Necessity, Maternity: Schelling's Plato and the Bond of Nature" Brodie Dollinger, DePaul University, "The Veil of Melancholy: Schelling's Concept of Tragedy" Cognition, Consciousness and Science Thomas Brennan, University of South Alabama (AC de Lon Room) G. Arthur and Danielle Mihram, University of Southern California, "Descartes, the `Mind-Body Problem,' and Cognitive Studies" Paul Miers, Towson State University, "Virtual Illusions and the Neural Matrix: Reconfiguring the "Text" of Consciousness" Tom Cohon, University of North Carolina, "Echo-tour(er)ism: Nietzsche, Materiality and the Rhetoric of Science" IN.S.OMNIA: Virtual Literature and the Play of Writing David Gunkel,* Carthage College (CC Rosemont Room) David Gunkel, Carthage College Robert Siegle, Virginia Polytechnical Institute Rob Wittig, Ligature, Inc. 6:30-7:30 Connolly Center, President's Lounge RECEPTION Sponsored in part by Villanova University Liberal Arts Faculty Helen K. Lafferty, University Vice President, Villanova University, "Official Welcome" THURSDAY, 11 May 1995 8:30-5:00 Villanova Room, Connolly Center REGISTRATION coffee and pastries served IAPL PUBLISHERS BOOK EXHIBIT open Wednesday and Thursday until 6:30, Friday until 4:00 9:00-12:00 Connolly Center (CC), Augustine Center (AC) and Dougherty Hall (DH) 3. ORGANIZED / GENERAL SEMINARS (Asterisk* indicates Organizer) Erecting Small Monuments: The Micropolitics of Felix Guattari Fadi Abou-Rihan,* University of Toronto, and Peter Trnka,* York University (CC Radnor Room) Lang Baker, Trent University, "Notes on the Politics of Transversality" Catherine Griggers, Carnegie Mellon University, "Micropolitics of Biopsychiatry" Garry Genosko, University of Toronto, "Guattari's Anti-Anti-Psychiatry" Bernardo Attias, California State University, "Social Change as Molecular Revolution: A Rhetorical Approach to Marxism and Psychoanalysis" Jonathan Beasley-Murray, Duke University, "Deleuze, Guattari and an Anti-Fascist Politics of the Body" Deborah Root, University of Toronto, "The Despot Physiognomy, `Faciality,' and Imperial Terror" Michael Hardt, Duke University, "Colonial Dialectics and Imperial Hybridity" Psychotropic Bodies David Allison, State University of New York, Stony Brook (CC St. David's Room) Alina Clej,* University of Michigan, "A Delirium without Past: Benjamin's Modernity" Santiago Colas, University of Michigan, "(In)Dependency: The Pathology of Postcoloniality in Latin America" Gyorgy Peter, University ELTE, Budapest, "The Order of Bodies" Philip McReynolds, Vanderbilt University, "Psychotopoi: Merleau-Ponty's Virtual Spaces of Hallucinatory Ambiguity" Zvi Lothane, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "Schreber's Hallucinations: Pharmaka or Phantasy?" Anna Antonopoulos,* University of Calgary, "Addicted Bodies: Virtuality in the Inc. of Tropes, Psychotropes and Zombies" The Body and the Body Politic Panos Alexakos, Pennsylvania State University (DH North Lounge) Jonathan Baldo, Eastman School of Music, "Impolitic Bodies in Coriolanus" Stephen Brown, Southern Illinois University, TBA John Danly, Southern Illinois University, TBA Richard Doyle, Pennsylvania State University, "Cyronics, Coma and the Promised Body" Edmund Jacobitti,* Southern Illinois University, "The Virtual Role of Chance in History" Linda Saladin, Florida State University, "Authoring the Abyss: Seductive and Subversive Figures" Everything Functions: Heidegger's Critique of Technology David Pettigrew,* Southern Connecticut State University (DH West Lounge) Peter Harris, Memorial University, "Technicity, Creativity and a Savious-God" Krystyna Gorniak, Southern Connecticut State University, "Space, Time and Technology" Claudia Drucker, Duquesne University, "Heidegger on Technology as the Accomplishment of Metaphysics" Holger Briel, University of Surrey, "The Virtuous/Virtual Pair: Heidegger and the Frankfurt School on Technology" Midori Matsui, Tohoku University, "The Dwelling House of Being and the Place of Nothingness: Heidegger's Project to Overcome Modern Technology and its Japanese Counterpart" Aaron L. Mishara, Case Western Reserve University, "Do Machines Communicate? Self Reference in Film and Psychosis" Franois Raffoul, State University of New York, Response Dance: In*corpor*ated Physical Languages Christina Sches, Kln (CC Cinema) John Robinson-Appels,* City University of New York, "Incorporated Physical Languages" Katherine Stern, Harvard University, "`Commonality is the Body': Dance Acquisition Across Cultures" Jodi R. Cressman, Emory University, "Notation Systems for Languages" Debra San, Brookline, MA, "Metaphor Runs Both Ways: The Desire for a Materially Substantive Language for Poetry" Lian Martin, Solo Dancing Kasei Inoue, Solo Dancing Katherine Rudolph, DePaul University, "Anatomy and Repetitive Movement" Virtual Hegel John Russon,* Acadia University (DH East Lounge) Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina, "Hegel's `I': the Virtual Hegel of Zizek and Luhmann" David Goicoechea, Brock University, "Love and Resurrection in Hegel and Derrida" Jay Lampert, Howard University, "Hegel in the Future" Andrea Sauder, University of Toronto, "Examples and Examples: Hegel and Derrida on the Exemplarity in the Sublime" Peter Simpson, Laurentian University, "Rise and Schein: the Virtual Logic of Scepticism" John Mayer, Brock University, Response Jennifer Bates, University of Toronto, Response Perspectives on Embodiment Michael O'Donovan-Anderson, Stonehill College (CC Wayne Room) Gail Weiss,* George Washington University, "Distorted Body Images: Corporeal Internalizations and Social Revelations" David Stern, University of California, Berkeley, "The Construction of Bodies" Rosemarie Garland Thomson, University of Arizona, "Freak Shows and Beauty Contests" Rebecca Kukla, Middlebury College, "Cyborg Bodies and Virtual Lovers: Visions of the Body in Contemporary Science Fiction" Sean O'Connell, Albertus Magnus University, "Identity and Desire" Verna Gehring, Hood College, "The Embodied Politics of Thomas Hobbes" Thomas Thierney, Concord College, "Self-Ownership, Self-Preservation and Body Parts" Nancy Barta-Smith, Drake University, "To Hold and Behold: Encountering Merleau-Ponty in the Context of Piaget's Developmental Psychology" Voicing Ethical Considerations in Virtual Terms Natalie Pavlovich, Duquesne University (CC Haverford Room) Hwa Yol Jung, Moravian College, "Caring as Responsibility: The Feminization of Ethics and Political Theory" Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University, "Lord Byron and the Pursuit of Virtue: The Quest for Ethics in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Matt Hartman, Johns Hopkins University, "A Virtual Ethics? Kant and the Virtual Feeling and the Fact of Ethics" Charles Mahooney, University of Connecticut, "Virtual Teleology: The Surreptitious Morality of the Kantian Sublime" John E. Drabinski, University of Memphis, "Alterity and Contextuality in Levinas and Husserl" Scott DeShong, University of Western Ontario, "Phenomenological Aesthetics of Ethics: Jazz and Ellison's Virtually Invisible Man" Ashmita Khasnabish, Ottawa, ON, "Lispector and the Irigarayan Divine" Poetry, Pleasure and the Idea of Pure Fiction Kathryn Casey, Bryn Mawr College (CC Bryn Mawr Room) John Giordano, Duquesne University, "Downstream from Hlderlin: Paths, Realities, Natures" Samuel Kimball, University of North Florida, "`My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach': Cross- Sensory Simulation, Virtual Reality and Whitman's Hypertextual `Song of Myself'" Celia Carlson-De Spain, University of California, Berkeley, "Sexual Icons as Anti-Platonic `Forms' in the Poetry of Williams Carlos Williams" Delia Caparoso Konzett, University of Chicago, "Geographic Movements of American Desire and Minoritarian Becomings: Anzia Yezierska Goes to Hollywood and Zora Neale Hurston Returns to Eatonville" Gregg Lambert, University of California, Irvine, "The Deleuzian Critique of Pure Fiction" Frederik Tygstrup, University of Copenhagen, "The Idea of Prose: On the Poetics of Fiction in Deleuze" Making Books: Balzac, Mallarm, Wittgenstein, Derrida and Bataile Paul N. Murphy, University of Toronto (AC de Lon Room) Hl "THE Book: Preface(s) to the Encyclopedia" Susan B. Brill, Bradley University, "Reading Wittgenstein Reading Actual and Virtual Worlds: Conversivity in Native American Indian Literatures" Tony Brinkley and Joseph Arsenault, University of Maine, "Approaching Actualities: Toward an Indexical Criticism" Thea Harrington, Hilbert College, "Self Writing Self Knowledge: Figural Autobiography" Scott Lee, University of Toronto, "Spaces of Excess: Invaginated Discourse in Balzac's `L'Auberge rouge'" Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, Johns Hopkins University, "`X Marks the Spot': Impossibility and Virtuality in Bataille's `fictions of finitude'" 12:00-1:30 Connelly Center, Rosemont Room BUSINESS MEETING 1:30-4:30 Augustine Center (AC) and Dougherty Hall (DH) 4. PANELS (Asterisk* indicates Organizer) Virtual Subjectivities Dalia Judovitz,* Emory University (DH North Lounge) Steven Z. Levine, Bryn Mawr College, "Virtual Narcissus: On the Mirror Stage with Monet, Lacan and Me" Diana Shafer, Texas Christian University, "The Morphology of the Text: Luce Irigaray's Specular Troping" Albert Cook, Brown University, "New Thresholds, New Anatomies: Transformations of Virtual Subjectivities through Virtual Space" Cathryn Vasseleu, University of Sydney, "Patent Pending: Laws of Invention, Animal Life-forms and Bodies as Ideas" Gabrielle Starr, Harvard University, Response The Pleasure of Your Co. (RSVP): Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva Hugh J. Silverman,* State University of New York, Stony Brook (AC de Lon Room) John C. Coker, University of South Alabama, "Recalling and Reading (as) a Friend ... Virtualities of Friendship: Irony, Temporality, Memory, Promise" Geraldine Finn, Carleton University, "(Dearly) Beloved ... the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International. Ghost Writing in Toni Morrison and Jacques Derrida" Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond, "Seeing Double: Ekphrasis in Foucault and Derrida" Ewa Ziarek, University of Notre Dame, "`Straying Afield of Oneself': The Risks and Excesses of Foucault's Ethics" Diane Pacom, University of Ottawa, Response Virtual Interpretations Massimo Verdicchio,* University of Alberta (DH West Lounge) Branko Aleksic, Universit Europeene de la Recherche, Paris, "Husserl's Phenomenology and its Linguistic Incorporation" Alessandro Carrera, New York University, "Carlo Sini on Virtual Reality" Silvana Carotenuto, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, "Hamlet/Machine: The Ellipsis of Body Sense" Robert Burch, University of Alberta, "Virtual Interpretations -- If not an Outside then a Limit" Hypertexts in Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida and Irigaray Wilhelm Wurzer,* Duquesne University (DH East Lounge) Pleshette DeArmitt, DePaul University, "Of Techn and Touches" David M. Levin, Northwestern University, "What is? On Mimesis and the Logic of Identity and Difference in Adorno and Heidegger" Virginia Blum, University of Kentucky, "Placing the Time of Gender: Train Stations and Other Developmental Locations" Max Pensky, Binghamton University, "The Metaphysics of Tact" 5:00-6:30 Connolly Center Cinema 5. IAPL INVITED SPEAKER Mark C. Taylor, Williams College, "What is (Not) Virtual Reality" Hugh J. Silverman, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Introduction 6:30-7:30 Villanova Room RECEPTION 8:00-9:30 Connolly Center Cinema 6. PLENARY PERFORMANCE Allucqeu John Carvalho, Villanova University, Introduction FRIDAY, 12 May 1995 8:30-5:00 Villanova Room, Connolly Center REGISTRATION coffee and pastries served IAPL PUBLISHERS BOOK EXHIBIT open Wednesday and Thursday until 6:30, Friday until 4:00 9:00-12:00 Connolly Center (CC), Augustine Center (AC) and Dougherty Hall (DH) 7. ORGANIZED / GENERAL SESSIONS (Asterisk* indicates Organizer) SPECIAL DOUBLE SESSION The Virtual and the Actual in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze Constantin V. Boundas,* Trent University (AC de Lon Room) Daniel Smith, University of Chicago, "The Concept of the Virtual in Deleuze" Todd May, Clemson University, "Time and Virtuality" Barbara Godard, York University, "Virtual Bodies: Deleuze and the Quest of Feminist Philosophy" Paul Patton, University of Sydney, "The Virtual and the Idea of Society" Particle Bodies Across Techn and Technology I Lisa Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College (DH North Lounge) Volker Kaiser, University of Virginia, "Twisted Bodies: Fragmentation and Transfiguration in Rilke's Poetry" Martin Schwab, University of California, Irvine, "Lucretius and Atomic Materialism" Tim Murray, Cornell Universitry, "Et in Acadia Video: Poussin' the Image with Martin and Kuntzel" Stephen Barker,* University of California, Irvine, "Videation and Vitiation chez Blanchot and Beckett" Virtual Masculinities Leonard L. Duroche,* University of Minnesota (DH West Lounge) Paul Nonnekes, Red Deer College, "Leonard Cohen's Virtual Masculinities" David Seelow, State University of New York, Old Westbury, "Hyper Real Men: Altered States of Prozac and Cyberpunk" Bruce Gilbert, Mount Saint Vincent University, "Recognition and Transgression" David Thomas, University of California, Davis, "Parody and Masculine Image in Last Action Hero" Joseph O. Aimone, University of California, Davis, Respondent Seductive Images James R. Watson,* Loyola University (DH East Lounge) Daniel J. Selcer, DePaul University, "Passion for the Image" Eva Cherniavsky, Indiana University, "White Skin, Film Noir: Incorporating Rita Hayworth" Eve Bannet, University of Soutn Carolina, "Imaging Possible Worlds" Gertrude Postl, Suffolk Community College, "The Cyborg as Seductive Image: Haraway's Feminist Politics" Fabienne S. Chauderlot, University of California, San Diego, "Thinking the Visible, Telling the Flesh: On the Virtues of Seduction" The Imaginary and the Real: The Virtual Body in Psychoanalysis Charles Shepardson,* University of Missouri, Columbia (CC Radnor Room) Barbara Freeman, Harvard University, "Pedagogy and Psychoanalysis: A True Story" Lyat Friedman, DePaul University, "Virtual Consciousness: Freud's Imaginary Reality and the Transformation of the Bodily" Molly Anne Rothenberg, Tulane University, "Effacing the Body: Virtuality, Lacan's Unreal and the Logic of Capital" Christof Schirmer, Free University, Berlin, "The Signifying Virtual" Corporate Signatures Lisa Zucker,* Universit de Montral (CC St. David's Room) Christophe Lamiot, Rutgers University, "Eug Victor Taylor and Don Wagner, Syracuse University, "No Need to Remember, No Need to Forget" Sue Laver, Montreal, Quebec, "Virtually Human: *Frankenstein* and the Ethics of Body Building" Mark Hansen, Southwest Texas State University, "How do you Techno-Deterritorialize" On Paul Virilio: Technology, Space and the Transpolitical Robert Nideffer,* University of California, Santa Barbara (CC Wayne Room) Benjamin Bratton, University of California, Santa Barbara, "On Paul Virilio: Technology, Space and the Transpolitical" Linda Brigham, Kansas State University, "Transpolitical Technology and the Role of Language: Virilio and Habermas" Allen Shelton, Drake University, TBA Frederic Pallez, Louisiana State University, "Politics of Teratology" Tracy Biga, University of California, Los Angeles, TBA Virtue and Virtuality: The Ethical Space of Language Leo Chanjen Chen, New York City (Level Four, Minuet) Lisa Freinkel, University of Chicago, "Nothing Affirming: The Fiction of Being Human from Sidney to Kant" Jonathan Elmer, University of Indiana, "Making Virtue Virtual: Temporalization and Passibility in The Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs" Michel Chaouli, University of California, Berkeley, "The Virtues of the Dash" Elizabeth M. Dillon,* University of California, Berkeley, "Ectopic Ethics: Dickinson's Dashes and the Elipse of Virtue" Natalie Melas, Cornell University, Response Virtual Technology / Intelligent Machines: Cyborgs and Cybernets in Cyberspace Yun Ja Lassek, New York University (CC Bryn Mawr Room) Hl "Architectural Cyberspace as Virtual Realities: Theory of Design/Postdeconstruction/ Biodegradable Structures and Biome/Liquid Architectonic Apparatus" John Bruni, Villanova University, "Two Parables for the Information Age: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum" William Theaux, Long Island University, "Cybernets, Lacan, and the Freudian Unconscious" Roger Cooper, Duke University, "Cyborg Bodies" Alistair Welchman, University of Warwick, "Virtual Technology, Abstract Control" Heterotopias: De-ecological, Architectural, Ceremonial Spaces David Miller, Michigan Technological University (CC Cinema) Halil Nalcaoglu, University of Massachusetts, "Hetrotopias, Modern and Otherwise: Foucault and the Study of Space" Robert Markley, West Virginia University, "Antiecologies: Information Superhighways and the Myths of Infinite Productivity" Janet Lungstrum, University of Colorado, Boulder, "The Schaufenster as Virtual Advertizing Reality in Weimar Germany" Annette Fierro, University of Pennsylvania, "Tedious Play: The Work of Tadao Ando" Roger Bell, Sonoma State University, "Reading Architectural In-completion: My House 530" Ciro Sandoval, Michigan Technological University, "From Natural to Virtual Landscapes, or The Incor- poration of nature into the Modern Virtual Techno- logical World" 1:30-4:30 Connolly Center (CC), Augustine Center (AC) and Dougherty Hall (DH) 8. ORGANIZED / GENERAL SESSIONS (Asterisk* indicates Organizer) SPECIAL DOUBLE SESSION Abstract Machines and Minoritarian Becomings Dorothea Olkowski,* University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (AC de Lon Room) Robert Johnson, Duquesne University, "Bodies with Minds of their Own" Kathryn A. Kopple, New York University, "Marosa Di Giorgio, Minor Literature in Uruguay" Deepak Narang Sawhney, University of Warwick, "Geopolitics: Antisystemic Movements of Resistance" Chris Kearns, Indiana University, "Becoming Other Through Memories of Vietnam" Teratologies: Virtual Epistemologies and Ontologies Bruno Bosteels,* Harvard University (DH North Lounge) Korrina A. Tsakiridou, La Salle University, "Secular Monsters, Secular Evil: Hieronymus Bosch and the Photographer Joel Peter Witkin" Anne Freire Ashbaugh, Colgate University, "Monstrously Seeking Certainty" Katarzyna Ziabicka, University of Chicago, "The Postmodern Bestiary: Monsters as a Sign of Epistemological Crisis" Loris Mirella, McGill University, "History, Technology and the Dracula Legend: Periodizing the Undead" Virtual Bodies, Textual Bodies, Fleshy Bodies James Hatley, Salisbury State University (DH West Lounge) Edward S. Casey, State University of New York, Stony Brook, "Is the Body a Natural or a Cultural Entity? The Ghost of Embodiment" M.C. Dillon,* Binghamton University, "Virtual Bodies, Textual Bodies, Fleshy Bodies" Martin Gliserman, Rutgers University, "Oscar Hijuelos' Penis and Other Traumata: Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, Novels and the Body" Robert Switzer, American University, Cairo, "Virtual Bodies: Cartesian Metaphysics and Virtual Reality" Merleau-Ponty: Corporeality, Visibility and the Chiasm Wayne Froman,* Geeorge Mason University (DH East Lounge) Veronique Foti!, Pennsylvania State University, "Merleau-Ponty and the Aesthetics of the Screen" Marcy Epstein, University of Michigan, "Phenomenologies of Ability, Phenomenal Abilities: Merleau-Ponty's Body Drama" Lee Horvitz, Miami University, "Virtual Reality as Imagination" Dianne Enns, University of Ottawa, "`We Flesh': Re-Membering the Body Beloved" Raoul Rodriguez-Hernandez, Cornell University, "Seeing Through the Cracks: Towards a Latin American Optics" Spatial Exceptions in Architecture: Special Expressions of Style Wojciech Chojna, University of Ohio (CC Radnor Room) Richard Becherer, Carnegie Mellon University, "Lights! Camera! Action! ..." Anne Landes,* University of San Francisco, "Spatial Exceptions in Architecture: Special Expressions of Style" Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, University of Paris, La Villette, "Daedalus the Hero" Robert Mugerauer, University of Texas, Austin, "Architects and Planners at the Interstice: Between Virtual and Physical Environments" Alterity, Measure and the Good Terrence Wright, Mount Saint Mary's College (CC St. David's Room) Gabriella Bedetti, Eastern Kentucky University, "Candor in Denise Levertov" Laura Tuley, Binghamton University, "Virtual Eros: A Reading of Manical Ethics in Plato and Irigaray" Tim Craker, Mercer University, "The Fragility of Alterity: Ethics, Heteronomy and the Difficulty of Measuring Imitations" Stephen David Ross,* Binghamton University, "Recalling the Good: Reality's Measure" Subjects in / of Philosophy Thoraya Tlatli, Princeton University (CC Wayne Room) Sandor Goodhart, Whitman College, "Subjectivity to Violence: The Mimetic and the Ethical in Girard and Levinas" Grard Bucher, State University of New York, Buffalo, "The Incorporation of Death or the Birth of Human Genius" Jim Winchester, Spelman College, "The Disappearing Self and the Struggle for Visibility" Marco Luis Dorfsman, Colorado College, "On Just Presenting: Lyotard and the Virtuality of Knowledge" Hypermimesis (Beyond Memory): Virtual Memory in Cyberspace Alexander Ulanov,* Yale University (CC Haverford Room) Petar Ramadanovic, Binghamton University, "Virtual Memory: In Plato's and Derrida's Pharmacy" Jeff Fischer, Yale University, "Beyond Memory: Cyberspace and the Postmodern Myth of Transcendence" Giuliana Minghelli, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Junkyards of Memory: Cybertelling as (Re)Membering in Stephano Benni's Terra!" Morten Soby, University of Oslo, "Virtual Reality: Prosthesis for Body and Mind" Robert Kirkbride, Studio Patafisico, "Virtual Vagabondage: Metaphors of Memory in Cyberspace" Virtual Politics: Discipline, Difference, Community and Intensity David Price, Keene College (CC Bryn Mawr Room) Stuart Barnett, Central Connecticut State University, "Belonging: Hegel, Derrida and the Absolute Community" Russel B. Goodman, University of New Mexico, "Alterity, Measure and the Good Society in Emerson and Cavell" Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College, "We Disciplinarians: Foucault's Critique of Contemporary Society" Andrew Norris, University of California, Berkeley, "Virtual Community and Actual Politics: Arendt and Nancy on Being-in Common" Derek Stanovsky, Colby College, "Virtual Politics / Virtual Theories" Wiring / Writing / Rioting Gender Difference Kim Nastick, Bryn Mawr College (CC Cinema) Dianna C. Niebylski, Earlham College, "Woman Rearmed: Body Language and the Reconstruction of Identity in Luisa Valenzuala's Other Weapons" Beatrice Skordili, Syracuse University, "The Instance of the Body, or Reason since Merleau-Ponty" Leigh Gilmore, Ohio State University, "Writing Like a Riot Grrrl: 'Zines and Other Autobiographical NET.WORKS" Felicity Van Rysbergen, University of Melbourne, "Doubles and Doppelgangers: The Body in Cyberspace" 5:00-6:30 Connolly Center Cinema 9. PLENARY PRESENTATION N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles, "Top Down, Bottom Up: Splitting the Difference in the Virtual Subject" Anne Balsamo, Georgia Tech University, Response 6:30-7:30 Connolly Center, President's Lounge RECEPTION Sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium 8:00-9:30 Connelly Center Cinema 10. PLENARY PERFORMANCE Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Concordia University / CTHEORY, TBA John Carvalho, Villanova University, Introduction SATURDAY, 13 May 1995 8:30-5:00 Meeting Level Four, Doubletree Hotel REGISTRATION coffee and pastries served 9:00-12:00 Meeting Levels Four and Five, Doubletree Hotel 11. ORGANIZED / GENERAL SESSIONS (Asterisk* indicates Organizer) Particle Bodies Across Techn and Technology II Fred Evans, Duquesne University (Level Four, Maestro A) Michael Monti and Matt Corey, Binghamton University, "Virtual Exscription: Bataille's Sacrifice of Nature" Bob Perelman, University of Pennsylvania, "Bodies of Writing in Public Space" Michelle Kendrick, Washington University, "Cyberspace and the Technological Real" Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine, "CyberDemocracy: The Internet and the Public Sphere" Virtual Natural Bodies / Natural Virtual Bodies Moderator, TBA (Level Four, Maestro B) Julie C. Hayes, University of Richmond, "Virtual Natural Contagion: Sade on Trial" Kenneth Itzkowitz, Marietta College, "From Plato to Bataille: Economies of Eroticism in Textual Spaces" Ladelle McWhorter,* University of Richmond, "Natural Bodies, Unnatural Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Intensification" Brian Seitz, Queens College, "Where One Ends and the Other Begins: Bodies in Televised Space" Virtual Authors / Virtual Reality Michelle Richman, University of Pennsylvania (CC Haverford Room) Elissa Marder, Emory University, "Answering Machines" Hanna Charney, City University of New York, "Programming the Subject: From the Possible to the Virtual" Claire Nouvet, Emory University, "Split at the Source: The Unborn Author" Evlyn Gould, University of Oregon, "Stephane Mallarme and the Pleasures of Virtual Reality" Cyberbodies, Disembodied Bodies, Mutilated Bodies Merle A. Williams, University of Witwatersrand (Level Five, Sonata 3) Thomas Foster, Indiana University, "The Souls of Cyber-Folk: Virtual Bodies and the Racial Differences in Postmodern Culture" Marcia Ian, Rutgers University, "The Virtual Bodybuilder, or When is a Body Not a Body?" Karl E. Jirgens, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, "The Electronic Dimension: Disembodied Texts and t the Cor the Corpse Morcele" Janice McLane, Morgan State University, "No Voice but of the Silence: A Phenomenology of Self- Mu Mutilation" Narrative and Cognitive Mapping Edward Pluth, Duquesne University (Level Five, Sonata 4) John C. Kelly, University of Western Ontario, "The Virtual Social Sphere: Narrative and Cognitive Mapping in Mapping in the Media Age" Galen Meurer, Emory University, "Fictiverses: Objects in OOA and the Fiction Theory" Candace Lang, Emory University, "Body Language: The Resurrection of the Corpus in Text- Based VR" M.K.H.Meacham, DePaul University, "Virtual Reality: A Proposal for a Reformulation of Terms" Adrian Mackenzie, University of Sydney, "Beyond the Screen: Technology and Desire" Bodies, Being, Identity Paul M. Schafer, DePaul University (Level Four, Rhapsody) Michael Beehler, Montana State University, "Ex-corporate Corpus: The Body Without Being" Deborah Carter Mullen, Christopher Newport University, "Metaphor and Metamorphosis: The Mirror-Play of Text and Flesh" Louis Arthur Ruprecht, Jr., Emory University, "In Sappho's Name: An Exploration of Her Textual Body and the Body of Her Texts" Bennet Schaber, State University of New York, Oswego, "Philosophy in Order to Exist: Cavell avec Althusser" Eva-Maria Simms, Duquesne University, "Why is the Image so Amusing? From Lived Body to Virtual Body in the Life of the Infant" Heidegger and Virtual Reality Moderator, TBA (Level Five, Sonata 5) Pol Vandevelde, Marquette University, "Poetry and Discourse in Being and Time" Karen Feldman, DePaul University, "Irreducibilities and Individuations" William Melaney, Skidmore College, "Genealogies of Representation" Michiko Tsushima, University of California, Berkeley, "Space of Testing Language in Heidegger and Beckett" Krzysztof Ziarek, University of Notre Dame, "Splinters of Experience: Heidegger and Benjamin on the Work of Art in Modernity" 2:30-4:00 Symphony Ballroom, Doubletree Hotel 12. KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE Kathy Acker, San Francisco Art Institute, TBA Michael Berthold, Villanova University, Introduction 4:30-7:00 Symphony Ballroom, Doubletree Hotel 13. 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