CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed special session,
MLA 2001 (New Orleans, 12/27-12/30/01)
The Information Super-Railway. Literary and cultural relations of the nineteenth century's media and information systems: penny post, photograph, electric telegraph, phonograph, motion picture, bureaucracy, and so on. Literature in the nineteenth-century media ecology.
Possible topics might include:
--the telegraph, the telephone, and the problem of telepistemology
--nineteenth-century remediations of older cultural forms
--discourse networks in the cultural field (Kittler meets Bourdieu?)
--literature in relation to the gathering, processing, and transmission of knowledge
Please send proposals and brief vitae by Mar. 15, 2001, to
rmenke@arches.uga.edu
OR
Richard Menke
Department of English
Park Hall 254
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6205