j_spot: Journal of Social and Political Thought

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j_spot: Journal of Social and Political Thought

http://www.yorku.ca/org/spot/jspot/
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http://www.yorku.ca/spot/jspot/
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j_spot is a new, interdisciplinary, electronic journal focusing on a
wide  range of intersections between theory, politics, culture, and
social  justice.  In light of contemporary political and intellectual
conditions  in  late capitalist society, j_spot aims to expand the space
for  interdisciplinary  critique, innovation, and originality.  Already
situated in the rapidly evolving nexus of technologically mediated
social and political change  a transformative nexus which itself must
not  escape critique  j_spot aims to give free rein to the crucial,
critical  energies that aim beyond a deadly acceptance of the status
quo.

*************     Contents of No. 1    *************

Vol. I, No. 1 / April 1999
"Strategies of Critique":  A Retrospective
http://www.yorku.ca/org/spot/jspot/volino1/contents.htm
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"Manifesto!"
j_spot Editorial Collective

"From One End to the Other"
Gregory Cameron, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York
University

"The Metaphorical Body of Justice:  Re-turning to Augustine and Kant"
Mark Cauchi, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York
University

"Rationalities in Philosophy and the Possibility for Social Change"
G. Elijah Dann, Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre
Dame

"Subjection and Responsibility"
Steve D'Arcy, University of Toronto

"Catastrophe, Chaos, Complexity, Theory"
Richard Day and Guy Letts, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Simon
Fraser University

"The Israeli Right:  Nationalism, Militarism and Messianism"
Roni Gechtman, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

"The Hamilton Plastimet Fire:  A Political Anatomy of an Environmental
Disaster"
Cheryl Lousley, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto

"'Primitive Societies':  Imperialising Interpretations And The Spectre
of Relativism"
Patrick J.J. Phillips, Graduate Programme in Philosophy, York University

"From Sex-Vixens to Senators:  Representation in Nazi Porn and the
Discourse of the American Right Wing"
Barb Serfozo and Henry Farrell, Centre for German and European Studies
and Department of Government, Georgetown University

************    Call for Submissions    ************

http://www.yorku.ca/org/spot/jspot/volino1/cfs.htm
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j_spot no. 2:   m a t e r i a l   /   b o d i l y   /   s t r a t a

        Deadline for papers:  June 1, 1999*

"The material bodily principle is contained not in the biological
individual, not in the bourgeois ego, but in the people, a people who
are continually growing and renewed. / The cosmic, social, and bodily
elements are given here as an indivisible whole."
     Mikhail Bakhtin, _Rabelais and His World_ [1984  (1965) (p19)]

The body is social, material, historical; a stratified whole, grotesque
and carnal?  Whose critical theory effectively empowers, redresses,
incarnates, the material, bodily strata?  For this issue of j_spot we
ask for essays that attempt to strafe the bodily armour of critique.

Contact:

j_spot Editorial Collective
spot@yorku.ca
or
S714 Ross Building, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto
Canada    M3J 1P3