Writing Machines:

Communication, Technology and Literature

UW Comparative Literature Graduate Student Colloquium

April 7th, 2000
Parrington Commons

Keynote speaker: Mark Poster
History, UC-Irvine
"Digital and Print Authors"

Mark Poster is author of such seminal texts as Foucault, Marxism and History, The Mode of Information, and The Second Digital Age. Copies of his most recent publications are available at the Odegaard Reserve Desk and online versions of his earlier books are available in full at Poster's web page (http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/)

Schedule of Events

        9:00-9:10 am: Introductory Remarks (Rob Mitchell)

        9:15-10:45  PANEL ONE: Performance, Ideology, and Identity
        (Moderator: to be announced)
          Mark Farrelly (Drama), "Virtual Bodies: Actors of the Third Kind"
          Alissa Karl (English), "Come and Play: 'Teletubbies,' Technology, and the Subject of Ideology"
          Gordon Potter (CHID), "Towards a Theory of the Inauthentic:
                Virtual Spaces and the Performance of Self"

        10:45-12:15 PANEL TWO: Angst, Rhythm, Sympathy
        (Moderator: to be announced)
          Joseph Tate (English): "From Ovid to Kristeva, from Shakespeare to Lacoue-Labarthe: Theorizing the Materiality of   Poetic Rhythm"
          Robert Mitchell (Comparative Literature): "The Communication of Sympathy: Poetry as Political Technology in the Abolitionist Poetry of Ann Yearsley and Helen Maria Williams"
          Stephanie Martin and Kristin Llyr (Political Science): "Steampunk Angst and Victorian 'Reality'"

        12:15-1:00 LUNCH (and art exhibit from Julie Johnson)

        1:00-2:30 PANEL THREE: Maps, Networking, and Fictional Spaces
        (Moderator: to be announced)
          Erik Christensen (Comparative Literature), "Cartography in Literature from Homer to David Malouf"
          Alex Halavais (Communications), "The Cyberurban Difference Engine"
          Andy Nestingen (Scandinavian), "Ingmar Bergman and Aki Kaurismaki: Literature, Film and Television"

        2:30-4:00 PANEL FOUR: Media Literacy and Shifting Contexts of         Signification
           Moderator: Phillip Thurtle, Lecturer:Communications
          Trevor Elkington (Comparative Literature), "Is Video Film?: Phenomenology and Digital Subjectivity"
          Terry Brooks (Library and Information Science), "When text is reduced to content, where is meaning?: The case of online bibliographic records"
          Gregory Veen (English), "Digital Images and the New Visual Literacy"

        4:00-6:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Mark Poster (History, UC-Irvine),
        "Digital and Print Authors," followed by reception