Greetings Announcing a new discussion list and website resource for media-culture-politics! PULP CULTURE WEB RESOURCE The Pulp Culture Collective is developing a web resource for scholars using the web to explore the nexus of theory/research/praxis in media and cultural studies. Theory here is broadly understood to encompass a range of thinkers --from Suzie Bright to Habermas to Zizek. Our pages devoted to individual theorists aren't merely "links to sites on the net," but are organized links to biography, bibliography, research archives, webliography, interviews, teaching resources, organizations/institutes. We hope to provide, eventually, a fully annotated guide to theory/research/praxis on the internet. We also recommend our Habermas pages at http://www.flash.net/~oudies/habermas.htm. We are also currently working on pages for Slavoj Zizek and Slovenian School Theory pages. If you would like to let us know about your site or about a mailing list, please write us at [log in to unmask] Below, we have also included information about our associated mailing list, Pulp Culture, that might be of interest as well. We have included, below, information about the Pulp Culture Mailing List which you might find interesting. Thank you, Ken Mackendrick Kirsten Nielsen Jordan Hayes * Sex positive feminism and analyses of women in the media * Politics and Porn * Film Studies v. Cultural Studies * The University of Toronto Teaching Assistant Strike * A slowly percolating discussion of Butler's _The Psychic Life of Power_ [offset by the strike!] 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 and fray and to explore the fissures at Pulp Culture send a subscription message to: [log in to unmask] In the body of the message type, subscribe pulp-culture. Please note that Pulp Culture is an active list with 50-150 posts per day. There's a lot of energy, excitement, argument --but most of all good-natured camaraderie and fun. You may prefer to receive to the digest version, even so. If you'd like the daily digest version type, subscribe pulp-culture-digest in the body of a message sent to [log in to unmask] 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 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite