From: L-Soft list server at St. John's University (1.8c) To: Ian Pitchford Subject: File: "SCI-CULT LOG9607" Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 12:24 PM ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:35:00 BST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: alex scott-samuel Subject: whose epidemiology, whose health? --Part9607010900A Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII *********************************************************************** Alex Scott-Samuel EQUAL (Equity in Health Research and Development Unit) Department of Public Health University of Liverpool Whelan Building Liverpool, UK L69 3BX email alexss@liverpool.ac.uk telephone (44)151-794-5569 fax (44)151-794-5588 *********************************************************************** --Part9607010900A Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; name="SWING2.TXT" EQUAL - the Equity in Health Research and Development Unit presents Whose epidemiology, whose health? a talk by Steve Wing Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina (author of 'Limits of epidemiology') on Wednesday 3rd July 1996 from 4.30-6.15pm, Room B09, Whelan Building basement, University of Liverpool coffee / tea from 4.00 Further information from Alex Scott-Samuel, EQUAL, Dept. of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX - phone 0151-794-5569; fax 0151-794-5588; email alexss@liv.ac.uk --Part9607010900A-- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:01:04 BST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Richard Hull Organization: Manchester University and UMIST Subject: SaC: (Fwd) STS Postdoc Announc ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 14:33:39 -0400 Reply-to: Perspectives on Ethical Issues in Science and Technology From: AFOWLER Subject: STS Postdoc Announc To: Multiple recipients of list AAASEST Subject: Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in S&TS 1997-98 Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Available in Science & Technology Studies 1997-1998 A Mellon Foundation postdoctoral teaching-research fellowship is available in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. While in residence at Cornell, postdoctoral fellows hold department affiliation, and have limited teaching duties and the opportunity for scholarly work. Applicants are encouraged from any of the four component fields of Science and Technology Studies: sociology of science and technology; history of science and technology; philosophy of science and technology; politics and policy of science and technology. The postdoctoral teaching-research fellowship will begin July 1, 1997 and offers a stipend of $28,000. Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree after September 1991. Applicants who will receive the Ph.D. degree by June 30, 1997 are eligible to apply. Fellowships are limited to citizens of the United States, Canada, or those with permanent U.S. residency cards. To apply, please contact: Ms. Agnes Sirrine, Program Administrator Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships Cornell University A.D. White Center for the Humanities 27 East Avenue Ithaca, NY 14853-1101 Telephone: (607) 255-9274 All application materials (including letters of recommendation) must be postmarked on or before January 4, 1997. Awards will be announced in February 1997. For further information about the Department of Science & Technology Studies, please contact Lillian Isacks, Administrative Assistant, Department of Science & Technology Studies, 726 University Avenue, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850-3995. Telephone: (607) 255-6234. Fax: (607) 255-0616. E-mail: li10@cornell.edu. S&TS homepage address: http://www.sts.cornell.edu/CU-STS.html. Lillian Isacks, Graduate Field Assistant Dept. of Science & Technology Studies Graduate Field Office 726 University Avenue, Room 205 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 Internet: li10@cornell.edu WWW: http://www.sts.cornell.edu/CU-STS.html Telephone: (607) 255-6234 Fax: (607) 255-0616 _____________________________________________________________________ Richard Hull CROMTEC (Centre for Research on Organisations, Management & Technical Change) Manchester School of Management, UMIST PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK Tel: +44 (0)161 200 3401 Fax: +44 (0)161 200 3622 email: Richard.Hull@umist.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:40:29 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: SPEED: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND SOCIETY SPEED: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND SOCIETY ----------------------------------- http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed *** _speed_@alishaw.ucsb.edu ----------------------------------- Bulletin: June, 1996: Please Forward *** 1. SPEED 1.3: AIRPORTS AND MALLS HAS ARRIVED 2. CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON PAUL VIRILIO 3. CALL FOR PAPERS: FETISHISM: HOW CYBORGS FUCK? 4. ABOUT SPEED/ WHAT, WHO, HOW? ----------------------------------- "Postmodern cyber criticism collides with cyber cool in this smart, savvy, and, dare I say, hot looking journal of technology, media, and society. The intention of _SPEED_ "is to contribute toward a democratic discourse of technology and media, one that is always focused upon the material conditions of life that technologies and media constitute and demand, and yet does not lose sight of the power of ideas to change those conditions." That is, wired culture gets self-reflexive, and it's about time." --from GNN, on-line Whole Internet Catalog 1. SPEED 1.3: AIRPORTS AND MALLS HAS ARRIVED "The globe shrinks for those who own it; for the displaced or dispossessed, the migrant or refugee, no distance is more awesome than the few feet across borders or frontiers." -- Homi K. Bhabha. "This version of the SPEED periodical/software concerns the transformation of social space by information technologies, and the value of dystopian mapping practices in accounting for the re- locations of personalized politics that those transformations demand.... "A sheer centralization of aesthetics signals an empowered domain of inhabited information. Perhaps no social space serves to exemplify this development more so than the airport. It stands for the globalization of participant space under the sign of hegemonic capital circulation, and of the standardization of capital and circulation under the sign of information. The mechanical and totemic work that it does in such service wishes to succeed at, and complete, a utopian theater. But something is still messy. For Us, the story that it, as a place, tells about itself and asks us to play a part in, suffers a vanity of false resolution and improper closure. Its utopian infantilization of our bodies which it mediates does not finally succeed in convincing us that the global system of temporized space it links is quite truly so seamless and resolved. For most, this was never even a question. For all, this is part of the rude claim made by the infomatic revolution in the built environment....." -- from "SUR-Urbia: An Introduction to Airports and Malls." VERSION 1.3 "AIRPORTS AND MALLS" INCLUDES: BENJAMIN BRATTON (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "SUR-Urbia: AN INTRODUCTION TO AIRPORTS AND MALLS" JOHN THACKARA (NETHERLANDS DESIGN INSTITUTE) "LOST IN SPACE - A TRAVELER'S TALE" BOBBY RABYD (BROWN UNIVERSITY) "AIRPORT NOVEL" JUSTIN STINCHCOMBE (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "FLY AWAY LITTLE BIRDIE" JEFF GATES (EYE to I) "IN OUR PATH: ESSAYS" JASON BROWN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) AND GABRIEL WATSON (ECHO IMAGES)"PROSTHESIS" MARK BURCH (UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII) "PLATEAUS OF CONSUMPTION: THE BIOSEMIOTICS OF CONSUMER FASCISM" CARINA YERVASI (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) "PRE/SUB/URBAN SPRAWL: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARISIAN PASSAGE AS URBAN MALL" JENNIFER SMITH (McMASTER UNIVERSITY) "THE MALL IN MOTION: A NARRATIVE STROLL THROUGH THE OBSTACLE COURSE" "THE FLESH MADE IMAGE, LONG LIVE THE NEW IMAGE" A CONVERSATION WITH JEFF HARRINGTON OF iDEAL oRDER/PSYCHIC TV "BIOSPHERE 3: AUDIENCE WITH/OF THE MALL OF AMERICA" A CONVERSATION WITH HERB SIMON OF SIMON AND ASSOCIATES WITH ARTWORKS BY: JEFF GATES (EYE to I) "IN OUR PATH" ROBERT NIDEFFER (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "TERMINAL CIRCLES" JASON BROWN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "MOVING PICTURES" MICHELLE WAKIN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "FOR YOUR SAFETY" ----------------------------------- 2. SPEED 1.4: SPECIAL ISSUE: ON PAUL VIRILIO We are currently reviewing abstracts and proposals for articles for a future transmission of _SPEED_ (WWW-specific projects encouraged) on the critical significance of the work of Paul Virilio. In extremely diverse arenas Virilio's cybernetic systems theory of the social has arranged the horizons of wildly unlikely moments of questioning. As his vision of interpretation/accusation crosses the spectrum of disciplinary knowledges (while being at "home" in none), we now hear literary critics speaking of the military origins of the city-state, newscasters phrasing a "Nintendo War," historians of science commenting on the phenomenology of electronic banking, architectural theorists conceiving "the velocity" of airport space, and computer industry professionals discussing the political history of the film projector. Certainly these peculiar arrangements are not to be entirely credited to (blamed on?) Virilio, but they do suggest that his vocabulary is significant beyond the relatively narrow concerns of a "Virilio Studies." We hope, therefore, to both interrogate and expand what it is possible to make "Virilio" say. ----------------------------------- 3. SPEED 1.5: FETISHISM: HOW CYBORGS FUCK? "Object Relations" becomes a difficult strategy for love in a virtualizing world. Difficult, but still preferred. "Fetishism: How Cyborgs Fuck?" will cut between the technologies of fetishism and the fetishisms of technology -- from the techno-eroticism of B/D and S/M to the B/D and S/M of postmodern advertising. Future Sex? Yes, thank you. As long as we can keep our black patent-leather Newton PDA's! "That's a big hard drive you've got there, General!" The issue is desire, or rather desire transformed into technology's modes of enframing and poesis. The moments that these actions are made for "devices" ("ooh, it's so smooth") and not "technologies" ("we've got 98% efficiency, sir") become even more to the point. This issue will include projects relating to, but not exclusive to, Cyborg Studies, techno-psychoanalysis, transfeminism, S&M Studies, CyberSex, the cinematics of just-in-time alienation, and all other general economies of dissemination. WWW-based proposals are particularly encouraged. ----------------------------------- 4. ABOUT SPEED SPEED provides a forum for the critical investigation of technology, media and society. Our intention is to contribute toward a democratic discourse of technology and media, one that is always focused upon the material conditions of life that technologies and media constitute and demand, and yet does not lose sight of the power of ideas to change those conditions. We feel that as media of various kinds become more ubiquitous, what it means to live with and talk about a "medium" changes and expands, and so do the critical vocabularies of interpreting what those transformations indicate. Our primary goal in that effort is to foster a cross- fertilization of ideas between communities of people in the "academy" and "industry" too often separated, not by interest or common concern, but by artificially imposed disciplinary and organizational boundaries. We think that _SPEED_ is a promising step toward making these institutional boundaries more permeable, and a critical politics of "mediated sociality" more powerful. ----------------------------------- EDITORIAL BOARD FOR SPEED 1.3 Benjamin Bratton Laura Grindstaff Robert Nideffer TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION Interface Design: Jason Brown Robert Nideffer Links and Links Text: Benjamin Bratton .GIF and .JPEG: Jason Brown Robert Nideffer Adam Zaretsky MIDI: Ken Fields .AIFF and .AU: Ken Fields Nathan Freitas Robert Nideffer JAVA and VRML Scripting: Nathan Freitas Terminal Modeling: Rand Eppich ----------------------------------- ** TO SUBSCRIBE TO _SPEED_, send e-mail to _SPEED_@alishaw.ucsb.edu with "subscribe" in the subject header. In addition to receiving all future issues, you will be kept up to date on developments regarding the journal. ----------===============---------- HOW TO CONTACT _SPEED_ e-mail: Please send all submissions, criticisms, praise, suggestions, or anything else you have on your mind to: _SPEED_@alishaw.ucsb.edu. snail-mail: If for whatever reason you need to communicate with us via the U.S. Postal Service, please send your correspondence to: _SPEED_ c/o Robert Nideffer Department of Art Studio University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA. 93106 ----------===============---------- ISSN 1078-196X ---------------------- Benjamin Bratton Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara 6500benb@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu SPEED: An Electronic Journal of Technology, Media and Society http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed speed@sscf.ucsb.edu ---------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 10:30:16 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: _Wavelength_ magazine & Science, Society & Media Course http://science.btc.uwe.ac.uk/~waveleng/home.html Science, Society and the Media at the University of the West of England. Wavelength on the Web. _Wavelength_ magazine carries articles which explore the historical, social and cultural contexts of science. It also carries fiction and more 'traditional' science features. Wavelength is produced in conjunction with the BA degree in Science Society and the Media at the University of the West of England, Bristol. About SSM: Science, Society and the Media is a BA degree which looks at science in a cultural context. It presents key ideas in science and asks what role these ideas play in our everyday lives and how these roles have evolved historically. The degree is taught jointly by the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Applied Science. It offers a unique opportunity to approach science through the methods of the humanities in order to study the meanings, contexts and representations of this powerful body of knowledge. For more information on the course contact the admissions tutor Alex Easton, e-mail: a-easton@uwe.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0)117 9656261 ext. 2491. I am external examiner for this course. It is really interesting and well-taught. __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:25:12 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: History of Social and Behavioural Sciences X-cc: h.g.davies@sheffield.ac.uk Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences To: listserv@yorku.ca Body of Message: sub CHEIRON your name __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:25:21 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Tile.net/Lists Index of email forums Tile.net/Lists provides an index of email forums on all subjects. You can search it by description, name, subject, host country, sponsoring organization: http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/index.html The science lists are at: http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/science2.html Most of the lists on our guide were not there, but the following ones (not on our guide) were there. The index only includes Listserv lists, none from Majordomo or Listproc. You cen go directly to them by html from the Tile.net site. AAASEST - Perspectives on Ethical Issues in Science and Technology AAASMSP - AAAS Minority Perspectives on Ethics in Science and Technology CHEIRON - Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences CSSSFAC-L - Center for the Study of Science in Society Faculty Discussion Group CSSSSEM-L - Center for the Study of Science in Society Seminar List EARLYSCIENCE-L - History of Science Society - Early Science Interest Group H-NEXA - H-Net Network on Science and Culture MEDSCI-L - Medieval Science Discussion List SCIPOL-L - Science Policy Discussion Group STPP - Science, Technology, and Society Discussion and Networking Group WISENET - Women In Science and Engineering NETwork __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:46:21 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Alberto Isaac Jimenez Valle Subject: About phisics Could some of you tell me how does a neutrino can interact with a proton to form a neutron and electron if it is a lepton, isn't it suppose that a lepton (as the neutrino) can't interact because it doesn't feel strong nuclear energy? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:16:34 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Frank E. Durham" Subject: Re: About phisics At 02:46 PM 7/8/96 -0400, Alberto Isaac Jimenez Valle wrote: > Could some of you tell me how does a neutrino can interact with a proton >to form a neutron and electron if it is a lepton, isn't it suppose that >a lepton (as the neutrino) can't interact because it doesn't feel strong >nuclear energy? _________ The weak interaction extends to protons and neutrons--witness free neutron decay. Frank Durham ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:15:38 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Alberto Isaac Jimenez Valle Subject: Pregunta Alguien podria decirme que es la antimateria? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 15:44:03 -0700 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Brian Chabun Subject: Re: Pregunta de antimateria At 05:15 PM 7/9/96 -0400, you wrote: > Alguien podria decirme que es la antimateria? Aqui ... unas explicaciones en ingles... The basics of anti-matter aren't too difficult. Anti-matter can be modelled as matter in negative time. Bombarding hydrogen (protons) with neutrinos yields neutrons and positrons (electrons with a positive charge, anti-electrons), which happens in decay products from nuclear reactors. What are probably more interesting are negative protons (anti-protons), which annihilate with protons. Since e=3Dmc¬2 and protons are 1800 times more massive than electrons, proton/anti-proton annihilation produces considerably more energy per reaction than electron/anti-electron annihilation. Anti-protons can be produced by accelerating protons and slamming them into targets.=20 Coupled microwave cavities have a characteristic resonant frequency. Due to opposite charge sign, matter and like antimatter, say hydrogen and anti-hydrogen, curve in opposite directions in the presence of a magnetic field. Parallel ion streams of matter and antimatter could be injected into a cavity of a coupled resonant microwave cavity pair. With correct velocity and spacing between the streams, the streams would collide at the peak of the electromagnetic resonance, triggering a matter-antimatter reaction which would reinforce the electromagnetic resonance. This total annihilation process would effectively convert mass directly into electromagnetic energy. If current (electricity) is desired, the microwave energy from the resonant cavities could be used to drive a cyclotron.=20 --------------------------------------------------------------- History of Antimatter 1898=20 A.Schuster surmises the existence of antiatoms, with properties exactly opposite to those of ordinary atoms; antiatoms should attract each other gravitationally, but might be repelled by ordinary matter=20 1928=20 P.A.M.Dirac proposes the existence of positively charged electrons, nowadays known as anti-electron or positron=20 1932=20 C.D.Anderson discoveres the 'positive electron' while measuring cosmic rays in a Wilson chamber experiment=20 1955=20 O.Chamberlain, E.Segr=E8, C.Wiegand, and T.Ypsilantis discover the antiproton=20 1995=20 Antiproton and positron combined to antihydrogen for the first time=20 ------------------------------------------------------------ FIRST ATOMS OF ANTIMATTER PRODUCED AT CERN In September 1995, Prof. Walter Oelert and an international team from J=FCli= ch IKP-KFA, Erlangen-Nuernberg University, GSI Darmstadt and Genoa University succeeded for the first time in synthesising atoms of antimatter from their constituent antiparticles. Nine of these atoms were produced in collisions between antiprotons and xenon atoms over a period of three weeks. Each one remained in existence for about forty billionths of a second, travelled at nearly the speed of light over a path of ten metres and then annihilated with ordinary matter. The annihilation produced the signal which showed that the anti-atoms had been created.=20 Ordinary atoms consist of a number of electrons in orbit around an atomic nucleus. The hydrogen atom is the simplest atom of all; its nucleus consists of a proton, around which a single electron circulates. The recipe for anti-hydrogen is very simple - take one antiproton, bring up one anti-electron, and put the latter into orbit around the former - but it is very difficult to carry out as antiparticles do not naturally exist on earth. They can only be created in the laboratory. The experimenters whirled previously created antiprotons around the CERN* Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR), passing them through a xenon gas jet each time they went around - about 3 million times each second. (see scheme of the experiment) Very occasionally, an antiproton converted a small part of its own energy into an electron and an anti-electron, usually called a positron, while passing through a xenon atom. In even rarer cases, the positron's velocity was sufficiently close to the velocity of the antiproton for the two particles to join - creating an atom of anti-hydrogen (see diagram of the principle) .=20 Three quarters of our universe is hydrogen and much of what we have learned about it has been found by studying ordinary hydrogen. If the behaviour of anti-hydrogen differed even in the tiniest detail from that of ordinary hydrogen, physicists would have to rethink or abandon many of the established ideas on the symmetry between matter and antimatter. Newton's historic work on gravity was supposedly prompted by watching an apple fall to earth, but would an "anti-apple" fall in the same way? It is believed that antimatter "works" under gravity in the same way as matter, but if nature has chosen otherwise, we must find out how and why.=20 The next step is to check whether anti hydrogen does indeed "work" just as well as ordinary hydrogen. Comparisons can be made with tremendous accuracy, as high as one part in a million trillion, and even an asymmetry on this tiny scale would have enormous consequences for our understanding of the universe. To check for such an asymmetry would mean holding the anti-atoms still, for seconds, minutes, days or weeks. The techniques needed to store antimatter are under intense development at CERN. New experiments are currently being planned, to capture antimatter in electrical and magnetic bottles or traps allowing for high precision analysis.=20 The first ever creation of atoms of antimatter at CERN has opened the door to the systematic exploration of the anti world.=20 * CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, Turkey, the European Commission and Unesco have observer status.=20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:42:22 -0500 Reply-To: jlhollin@mailbox.syr.edu Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: jude Subject: Re: Pregunta de antimateria ACK, IS THAT SAFE? :> I'd actually be interested in hearing about potential consequences of such exploration (for good or bad). \jude -- Jude Lynell Hollins Doctoral Student, Cultural Foundations of Education Syracuse University 844.5 Sumner Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 315-423-3734 jlhollin@mailbox.syr.edu http://web.syr.edu/~jlhollin/ joseki1@aol.com Charter School Researching web-site http://csr.syr.edu/ Work: Educational Resource Center, SU School of Education 315-443-3800 http://soeweb.syr.edu/ erc@sued.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:57:42 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Ecopsychology News Subject: SCICULT New Approach to Cross Gender Issues Hello, A new approach to nature and culture is developing called ecopsychology. It offers a saner view of human culture and of nature as culture. There have been recent developments to use this context to address cross gender issues. It is interesting to note that the workshop pioneer, Will Keepin, was once a mathematical physicist for 15 years until he blew the whistle on a corrupt company that had employed him. He then switched to psychology. His dissatisfaction with physics is directly connected to the prevailing culture in the field under which he wilted. Consequently, he is working towards transforming this culture through this effort and others. Below is some information about an innovative approach to gender therapy I think you might find valuable. I also have an article(41K) which describes these workshops in detail. "Gender and racial relations in Western societies are dysfunctional and unsustainable in their current forms. In particular, the domination and exploitation of women is precisely mirrored in the domination and exploitation of the Earth's natural ecosystems... Vital changes have been inspired by the women's liberation and gay rights movements over the past 30 years, as well as the men's movement in the past decade... It [the article] describes a new form of exploratory work for promoting deep healing between men and women in an ecological context. Ten prototype workshops have been held in the United States and Australia over the past three years, and the results are highly encouraging... We have accumulated considerable anecdotal data from participants about their experiences in our gender workshops... The anecdotal feedback has been illuminating and helpful for further development of the prototype workshops..." A systematic analysis of this data needs to be conducted, and a formal evaluative procedure needs to be applied to assess the efficacy of this work. Nevertheless, some preliminary patterns in participants' responses are summarized in this article. Amazing, profound changes in individuals' behavior toward others and nature occur readily in this context. Please feel free to email me for more info about these results at claudir@hubcap.clemson.edu See the workshop information below. Cheers, Claudia * + + + + Join ECOPSYCHOLOGY at listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu + subscribe ecopsychology firstname lastname + "Integrating Mind and Nature" >|< >|< claudir@hubcap.clemson.edu GENDER AND ECOPSYCHOLOGY: HEALING BETWEEN WOMEN, MEN, AND THE EARTH July 27 - August 1, 1996 Shenoa Retreat Center (near San Francisco) You are invited to an unusual gathering of women and men for exploration and healing of our relationships with eachother and with the Earth. Over the past 25 years, the women's and men's movements have created a powerful context for women and men--separately--to address gender issues, heal their wounds, and make new choices. Now, there is an urgent need for mutual healing modalities that include both sexes and a diversity of lifestyle preferences. Restoring balance between women and men is fundamental to restoring balance to our relationship with the Earth. Join us--whether straight, gay, or bi --for intensive exploration and healing as we reawaken the fundamental unity that underlies our apparent separation. Content of the workshop: * ecopsychology: bridging ecology, psychology, and spirituality * experiential breathwork for accessing inner wisdom * councils, group process work, movement, ritual * ecofeminism, feminist psychology, and the new male psychology * same-sex groups for in-depth exploration with others of same gender WORKSHOP FACILITATORS Will Keepin, PhD, Director of Integral Sustainability Associates, has co-facilited over a dozen gender healing workshops in US and Australia Johanna Johnson, MA, LPC, Integral Sustainability Associates, psychotherapist specializing in sexual abuse, chronic trauma and spirituality Allen Kanner, PhD, co-author of _EcoPsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind_ Amy E. Fox, BA, co-founder of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine REGISTER early, before June 15, 1996 for reduced expenses! Some partial scholarships are also available. For more information, contact Claudia at claudir@hubcap.clemson.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:30:02 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Alberto Isaac Jimenez Valle Subject: Top quarq Have you imagine what would happen if scientist proved that top quarq doesn't exist? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:32:42 EDT Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Stephen Subject: Re: Top quarq In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:30:02 -0400 from HUH? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 23:36:22 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "C. Rodine" Subject: Re: Top quarq > Ours is now on the Tuesday.... But I'm afraid that I'll be leaving on > Friday morning.... I'm glad I decided to arrive at the beginning, I would have been cross had the organisers' neglect in communicating the revised schedule resulted in my missing out on what Shiela J described as a kind of showcase for the Cornell approach. > (By the way, does it make any sense to anyone that the meeting starts at > 2:00 in the afternoon?) I suppose they intended to let people go early on Friday so as to miss the crush, or get transatlantic flights, or something. And they didn't have sessions enough to fill another whole day .. > See you there, in any case. You bet. Cheers, Craig ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 23:39:41 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "C. Rodine" Subject: Apologies I just mis-sent a reply to personal correspondence to the list by accident. Please ignore, and sorry for the glitch. Craig Rodine Cambridge HPS ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:36:54 +0200 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Hobson Sherren Subject: intro: Sherren Hobson Ciao ... I see I am the seventh Italian to enter the Cult list ... and truth to tell, I am English: I just happen to live and work here, in Torino. I met you, Bob, a couple of decades ago, at one or two of the Radical Science Journal seminars in Freegrove Road. How many others are there on the list, now, who had their lives positively influenced by those discussions, and by Bob's "Science is Social Relations" ? I contributed to SaC 14, with a piece on FIAT's cultural revolution. My interest was, and still is, a critique of so-called Total Quality Management. I opened with some references to Marco Revelli's analysis of FIAT. As the other 6 Italians will know, Revelli has recently "moved on", as Bob would say, to a much more developed analysis of post-fordism (in "Appuntamenti di Fine Secolo", Rossanda and Ingrao) and of "Le Due Destre", i.e. the two right-wings of Italian politics. Apart from the specific questions of post-fordism and so on, I am extremely interested in a critique of metaphors, especially those which use scientific language to legitimate the existing power structures: hence my subscription to SaC. I haven't read all the logs yet, but I liked Bob's quotation of Lukacs (1923), and Cherie Rawlins' observation <> I'll come back to that, and add some similar gramscian "puzzles" ... for those who agree that such observations, in their specific historical contexts, are fascinating and useful departure points for discussion of present-day issues: especially for Sci-Cult issues. Finally, a practical "puzzle": who pays for this free lunch ?! i.e., who picks up the tab for these "subscriptions"? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:48:40 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Re: Sherren Hobson's question re finance Welcome to Sheren, who asks who pays. If he means who pays for the operation of the forum, the answer is St Johns University, a Catholic institution in New York. The person behind the forums on stjohns is a member of the Psychology Dept., Bob Zenhaursern (presumably not a Catholic), who has persuaded his university to provide the disc space and facilities. My own university, Sheffield, also sees the point of doing this sort of thing (but only for its own staff). They pay for the forum's web site. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html where articles for discussion are kept. Sheffield's main web site is among the top 5% in the world in number of 'hits', and that's good for the PR and prestige of the institution. The web site of the centre where I work http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ had over 2000 hits in June. There is a guide to forums and sites of potential interest to science-as-culture subscribers at http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/hpsss.html Suggestions for additions are very welcome. If he means who pays for the print version of the journal, I suppose the answer is that Process Press and Guilford Publications do, since there are not yet enough subscriptions to make it profitable, which is why I ask again that every subscriber to the forum please subscribe to the journal. Information is at: ttp://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html#science Back issues are available to subscribers at bargain rates. A full list is at that site, as are contents of future issues. Please give us your support. The journal isn't at all expensive. Any suggestions for helping to increase subscriptions would be most welcome. >Ciao ... > >I see I am the seventh Italian to enter the Cult list ... and truth to >tell, I am English: I just happen to live and work here, in Torino. > >I met you, Bob, a couple of decades ago, at one or two of the Radical >Science Journal seminars in Freegrove Road. >How many others are there on the list, now, who had their lives >positively influenced by those discussions, and by Bob's "Science is >Social Relations" ? >I contributed to SaC 14, with a piece on FIAT's cultural revolution. My >interest was, and still is, a critique of so-called Total Quality >Management. I opened with some references to Marco Revelli's analysis of >FIAT. As the other 6 Italians will know, Revelli has recently "moved >on", as Bob would say, to a much more developed analysis of post-fordism >(in "Appuntamenti di Fine Secolo", Rossanda and Ingrao) and of "Le Due >Destre", i.e. the two right-wings of Italian politics. > >Apart from the specific questions of post-fordism and so on, I am >extremely interested in a critique of metaphors, especially those which >use scientific language to legitimate the existing power structures: >hence my subscription to SaC. > >I haven't read all the logs yet, but I liked Bob's quotation of Lukacs >(1923), and Cherie Rawlins' observation <weeds... Who defines weeds? Seems to me that a plant is a "weed" only if >we don't want it in our garden...>> > >I'll come back to that, and add some similar gramscian "puzzles" ... >for those who agree that such observations, in their specific historical >contexts, are fascinating and useful departure points for discussion of >present-day issues: especially for Sci-Cult issues. > >Finally, a practical "puzzle": who pays for this free lunch ?! i.e., who >picks up the tab for these "subscriptions"? Robert Maxwell Young robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Road, London N7 9RQ, England. tel +44 171 607 8306. fax +44 171 609 4837. Home page: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/index.html Citizen: 'What are you rebelling against?' Brando: "Whadda ya got?' ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:52:12 -0700 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: MARCO AURELIO Subject: unsubcribe me Unsubscribe me Marco Aurelio Costa Pierobon