[-empyre-] elist example here -

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

This might be of interest here - these are announcements (from 1994 on)
for the "Fiction-of-Philosophy" list, started by myself (with the help of
Michael Current, who died July of that year), and later co-moderated; it
became the Wryting list, which is still going strong. The various changes
in the announcement reflect the concerns at the time. The other list
Michael and I started, Cybermind, has also been going strong since the
same date. - Alan


ANNOUNCING   ANNOUNCING   ANNOUNCING   : : :

FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY


A NEW ELECTRONIC FORUM FOR THE DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION OF
PHILOSOPHICAL FICTION, FICTIONAL PHILOSOPHY, AND EVERYTHING
IN-BETWEEN


The FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY: As in the fiction-of-crime, the category
encompasses both `philosophical fiction' and that aspect of philosophy
which encounters fiction as a mode of inquiry. Philosophical fiction
would include the novels of Bataille, Ballard, Gibson, Sartre; works
of Jabes, Michaux, Lautreamont, Karl Kraus; poetry of Lucretius, Susan
Howe, Holderlin; the philosophical micro-narratives of Baudrillard,
Nietzsche, and Barthes; Lingis' exhilerated accounts of the other/
gender, Kathy Acker's deconstruction of sexualities and politics, and
other writers/writings too numerous to mention...

WHY THIS LIST? Because "creative" and theoretic writing are inter-
woven yet distanced by the history of faculties, and because new
formations carry the possibilities of new modes of thinking through
our overheated postmodern cultural terrain.

The list has as goals both the discussion of the FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY
in general or in reference to specific authors; and the presentation
of creative work that may bear on current issues of theory.

FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY: FOP, defined in the older Roget: "...swell,
dandy, exquisite, coxcomb, beau, man about town, spark, popinjay,
puppy, prig, jackanapes, carpet knight, dude" - extended into
situationist, raconteur, flaneur... existing-between, passing for the
_other,_ the spy in the house of love who came in from the cold.

The threads on the list might include presentations and discussions
of creative work by the participants, cross-postings addressing rele-
vant issues, discussions/critiques/group readings of specific literary
works, and discussions of more general issues ranging from the inter-
face between poetry and philosophy, to the narratology of the site of
writing-philosophy (Heidegger's forest, Jabes' desert, Ballard's high-
way).

This list is open to everyone interested in philosophy and theory, on
any level.

FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY is brought to you by the Spoon Collective, a
group of Net citizens devoted to free and open discussion of literary
and philosophical issues on the Internet. Based on the Collective's
philosophy, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT POSTS CONTAINING LANGUAGE OR SUBJECT
MATTER THAT SOME MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE MAY APPEAR ON THE LIST FROM TIME
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Please note that there are no archives available as yet.

Alan Sondheim

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 Fiction-of-Philosophy
Listname: FOP-L@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Owners: Laurie Cubbison cubbison@sage.cc.purdue.edu; Alan Sondheim
sondheim@panix.com; T-Bone Prone tbone@wwa.com
Archived: send the command INDEX FOP-L to LISTSERV@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU.
Level: conversational and academic
How to subscribe: To subscribe to FOP-L, send the following command to
LISTSERV@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU and say in the body of the post: SUBSCRIBE FOP-L
firstname lastname
Description: FOP-L, Fiction-of-Philosophy, is devoted to issues and
presentations of philosophical fiction and fictional philosophy. Both
original texts and critiques are posted. Writers such as Jabes, Blanchot,
Ballard, Cixous, Muller, Lautreamont, and theorists such as Kristeva,
Heidegger, Sartre, Haraway, are considered. The forum is open. (1994)


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WRYTING-L is an email list for  theory and writing, focusing on texts and
comments presented  by the participants. The  list is managed out  of the
Department of History of Art at the  University of Toronto. It is open to
anyone, in  or outside the University.  The object is to  provide a forum
for  writing  and theory  that  may  not fit  within  the  confines of  a
particular discipline, in recognition of the recent interest in operating
between and across theories and genres in the humanities and beyond.

We're  interested  in  all  sorts   of  issues  -  'avant-garde'  pieces,
psychoanalytical, phenomenological, or deconstructive approaches, etc.

Wryting  is cross-platform,  cross-gender, cross-reason;  it may  involve
embodiments of reader and writer,  abstract language, and the collapse of
genre.

WRYTING-L  stems   from  the  older  fiction-of-philosophy   list,  which
presented  work  between  literature  and  theory,  fiction  and  poetry,
philosophy and  lyric, and  so forth. Any  discussion is  welcome. Please
send queries to WRYTING-L-REQUEST@listserv.utoronto.ca.



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