Pulping Culture <forward>

[Phil Gaines]

Stick it up yours, shameless obnoxious advestiser.

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>From: Danny Mansfield <dandman1 at FLASH.NET>
>To: DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: Pulping Culture <forward>
>Date: Sun, Jan 9, 2000, 3:28 PM
>

> ----fwd----
> Greetings
>
> Announcing a new discussion list and website resource!
>
> 1.  A list reading of Judith Butler's _The Psychic Life of Power_
> 2.  Jerry Falwell and the Christian Right
> 3.  Lacanian theory, Zizek, and Gender Identity
> 4.  Wrapping up a discussion of Blair Witch
>
> The above are just a taste of the conversations crystallizing at Pulp
> Culture.  What is Pulp Culture?
>
> PULP (pulp)  n. 1. the fleshy, succulent part of  fruit; 2. any soft,
> formless substance, as of disintegrated matter, esp. wood fiber used for
> making paper.  v.  to squeeze,  press,  knead.
>
> CULTURE (kul-chur) n.  1.  a society or group characterized by its
> distinctive practices, customs, beliefs; 2. an appreciation for art,
> literature, music;  3. improvement by care or training in a special
> environment.
>
>
> PULP CULTURE:   to press, squeeze, knead, or shape the juicy, fleshy,
> succulent bits of culture, media, and politics.
>
> Pulp Culture is an e-mail discussion list and (eventually) 'zine focusing
> on critical engagements
> with and analyses of media/culture/politics. From the fleshy, sweet acidity
> and pulpy bits of popular media/culture to the tough, bitter rind of
> Culture to the tendinous fibers of the political economy, we want to "pulp
> culture" from a variety of critical, practical and theoretical
> perspectives. Our aim,
> as well, is the reconstruction of theory. That is, we want to "pulp theory"
> in order to interrogate its presuppositions and to examine the conditions
> of its possibility. Discussions at Pulp Culture, then, are intended as
> interventions  in the terrain of ongoing theoretical, cultural and
> ideological-political
> struggles inherent in the production/consumption of media/culture in all
> its forms.
>
> To join the fun, fray and fissures at Pulp Culture send a subscription
> message to:
>
> majordomo at infothecary.org.
>
> In the body of the message type, subscribe pulp-culture.
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> Please note that Pulp Culture is an active list with 25-50 posts per day.
> There's a lot of energy so you may prefer to subscribe to the digest
> version.  If you'd like to subscribe to the daily digest version type,
> subscribe pulp-culture-digest.
>
> To learn more about Pulp Culture check out the rind at
> http://www.flash.net/~oudies/pulp_culture.htm
>
>
>
> See you at Pulp!
>
> Ken Mackendrick, University of Toronto
> Kirsten Nielsen, Infothecary.org
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>                   PULP CULTURE
> a list for the discussion of media/culture/politics
> a Web Resoure: Theory/Research/Praxis
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