_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.
VERSION 1.2 "SCIENCE AND RE-ENCHANTMENT" INCLUDES:
BENJAMIN BRATTON (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICS
AND POETICS OF THE FANTASTIC IN AN AGE OF MACHINES
"TECHNO-PROSTHETICS AND EXTERIOR PRESENCE" A CONVERSATION WITH
ALLUCQUERE ROSANNE STONE
AKIRA MIZUTA LIPPIT (U.N. LINCOLN) "THE DEAD EMPEROR'S NEW
CLOTHES: TELEVISION, JAPAN, AND THE SUBJECT OF MULTIPLICITY"
SHELI AYERS (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "VIRILE MAGIC: BATAILLE /
BAUDELAIRE / BALLARD"
GALEN MEURER (EMORY UNIVERSITY) "DN2K"
"SEX ON A SILVER PLATTER" A CONVERSATION WITH MIKE SAENZ
LAURA GRINDSTAFF AND ROBERT NIDEFFER (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "CUMING
SOON ON CD-ROM: ON THE PROMISE AND THE PITFALLS OF 'VIRTUAL'
PORNOGRAPHY"
ADAM ZARETSKY (U. SALZBURG) "ENDOSYMBIOTIC FORMATION OF
ORGANELLES: THE SPIROCHETAL CASE"
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EDITORIAL BOARD FOR _SPEED_1.2
Benjamin Bratton
Laura Grindstaff
Robert Nideffer
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
Robert Nideffer
World-Wide-Web:
Robert Nideffer
Benjamin Bratton
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Jason Brown
Robert Nideffer
Gabriel Watson
Adam Zaretsky
SOUND ENGINEERING
Ken Fields
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HOW TO GET _SPEED_
_SPEED_ can be accessed and/or downloaded several different ways: 1) World-Wide-Web; 2) Anonymous ftp; or 3) Gopher.
1. To Get _SPEED_ via World-Wide-Web just open the following URL from within your favorite Web-browser: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
2. To get _SPEED_ via Anonymous ftp just type the following at your local prompt: ftp alishaw.ucsb.edu
--when asked for a login name type: anonymous
--when asked for a password type the first part of your e-mail address. For example: myname@nowhere.pcp
--change directories by typing: cd /pub/_SPEED_
--at the ftp> prompt you can type the normal "get" and "put" commands. For example: get _SPEED_1.2 (or: mget* to get the whole directory)
3. To get _SPEED_ via Gopher just type the following at your local prompt: gopher alishaw.ucsb.edu (you can also type in the IP address directly as follows: gopher 128.111.222.10)
Once there, you will see the familiar Gopher menu structure with _SPEED_ being one of your options. At that point you can choose to browse individual items, or mail them to yourself and/or others.
(You have to Gopher directly to us because the Social Science Computing Facility at U.C.S.B. where _SPEED_ is archived is not a registered Gopher server. That's why if you happen to be looking for _SPEED_ over your regular Gopher server you won't have much luck finding it. _SPEED_ uses roughly a 65-character line, so your margins should be set accordingly. Set your font type to Courier, 9pt if you want to retain formatting after downloading.)
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HOW TO CONTACT _SPEED_
e-mail:
Please send all submissions, criticisms, praise, suggestions, or anything else you have on your mind to speed@arts.ucsb.edu. We want to hear from you!
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
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions to the journal can be made by electronic mail (preferred), on disk (please indicate the program and operating system used), or by hard-copy (not preferred). No matter what form your submission takes, please:
--do not use any special characters
--use endnotes instead of footnotes. To indicate an endnote in the body of your text set it off like this: "blah, blah, blah."[1]
--use the MLA (Modern Language Association) format for references
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ISSN 1078-196X