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Henry Jenkins <[log in to unmask]>
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                      *CALL FOR ARTICLES*
 
_Hop on Pop: The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture_.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming in 1996.
An Anthology edited by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc.
 
 
                    ***An Inviting Invitation***
 
        For the cyberpunks...technology is visceral. It is not
        the bottled genie of remote Big Science boffins; it is
        pervasive, utterly intimate. Eighties tech sticks to
        the skin, responds to the touch: the personal computer,
        the Sony Walkman, the portable telephone, the soft
        contact lens.
        --Bruce Sterling, "Preface," _Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk
        Anthology_ (1986)
 
    Bruce Sterling's description of the cyberpunks as a new generation
within science fiction seems appropraite for thinking about an emerging
perspective in cultural studies. Like the cyberpunks, these new writers
are interested in the everyday, the intimate, the immediate, rejecting
the monumentalism and the distant authority of the past. Just as the
cyberpunks intervened at the point where science fiction was beginning
to achieve cultural respectability, these new writers are the first to
be able to take for granted the idea that popular culture can be taken
seriously and studied on its own terms, who can operate within an
academic discipline of cultural studies.
 
    We invite you to submit an unpublished article for our upcoming
anthology. The project is designed to trace the above emerging set of
concerns in cultural studies, mapping recent developments in the field.
The actual structure of the book will facilitiate this goal by
providing, first, a substantial introduction which explains and
theorizes what we consider an emerging paradigm and, then, a wide
variety of representative essays which will illustrate the more
theoretical terrain of the introduction in actual practice. The
 volume will include
 a diverse array of thirty to forty essays
exploring aspects of historical and contemporary popular culture ranging
from film to television to music to comic books.
 
Submissions:
 
        Please send a 500 word abstract of your article to:
        Briony Keith, Anthology Coordinator
        Literature Faculty  14N-409
        Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        Cambridge, MA 02139
 
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:  February 1, 1995
 
 
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