I am posting this for a colleague, so please respond to the address at the bottom of the call rather than to me. WORK/SPACE: VISUAL RELATIONS INCORPORATE PARALLAX a new journal (University of Leeds) which seeks to initiate alternative forms of criticism, announces a special issue on gender and space that takes the "Office" as its focus of investigation. The office is daily reconfigured by the rapid electronic exchange of information, by the movement from downtown skyscrapers to suburban "campuses," by several genderations of urban renewal projects, and by gender and identity politics of employemnt. An office is no longer (necessarily) an urban, architectural, or corporate site; rather, it is a spatial organization of labor whose relations of power are often visually encoded. As we presently conceive it, the theoretical stakes of this issue of PARALLAX are two-fold. On the one hand, we want to extend a notion of gendered spectatorship, articulated by feminist film theory, beyond cinema to architecture, urban space, and work environments. On the other hand, we want to mark bodily and cultural differences hidden within Foucault's critique of vision as an apparatus of power. Historically, these two forms of criticism (the psychoanalytic film theory and the discursive mapping of social geographies) have not met productively in theory or practice. By opening a discussion about visual relations in corporate space, we anticipate an innovative exchange between theories, disciplines, and styples of inquiry. This is a call for interdisciplinary papers, long and short articles, interviews, reviews of books, conferences, and related visual, architectural, and media events. We envision studies of the office in the broadest sense: for example, kinship models of company organization, the ways in which sex and capital flow between neighboring financial and sexwork districts, the semiotics of corporate waste as cultural or racial memory, the identity politics of corporate logos and urban skylines, or the spectacle of office glamour in cinema. We welcome submissions about visual practices that address corporate culture as well as innovative hsitorical projects, such as clerical fashion and surveillance in the 1920s or lunchtime window shopping practices of secretaries and stenographers in the 1930s. Issues five of PARALLAX will be produced in conjunction with a multi-sited art exhibition in San Francisco, Fall 1996 and a session at CAA (College ARt Association), New York City, February 1997. Send inquiries, papers, works-in-progress, 1-2 page abstracts by May 31, 1996 to Stephanie Ellis Humanities Institute University of California, Davis Davis, Ca 95616-8612 (916) 758-8438 [log in to unmask] Catherine Greenblatt 20 Oakwood Street #3 San Francisco, CA 94110 [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]