*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 We invite you to submit an unpublished article for our upcoming anthology.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 For a fuller description of the project, write to [log in to unmask] - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message