Robert,
Many thanks for the offer of help.  I'll get back to you soon with a
schedule of talks that you can include on the Center for Theory webpage.

best,
ben

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From: Center for Theory
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Sent: 8/23/2004 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: update on Fast Capitalism:  Volume One (and beyond)

Ben,
That's great! With Eagleton's _After Theory_ I thought all was lost.
What is the schedule and I will update the websites!
Robert

Ben Agger wrote:

>I hope that you all had a good summer.  This should be an eventful
autumn,
>on many fronts.  Sometime during the fall semester we should be posting
the
>first number of the new electronic journal, Fast Capitalism
>(www.fastcapitalism.com).  Over the summer we have received and
reviewed
>many submissions.  As of now, we have accepted nine papers for the
first
>number of the journal:
>
>Doug Kellner, "Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle"
>
>Hannah Rippin, "Simple Concept, Mobile Outcome:  The Mobile Phone in
>Everyday Life"
>
>Jack Shuler, "Ever Onward:  The Frontier Myth and the Information Age"
>
>Robert Goldman et al, "Speed Scapes:  Representing Time-Space Relations
in
>Corporate TV Ads"
>
>Robert Hassan, "Timescapes of the Network Society"
>
>Norman Denzin, "The War on Knowledge and Truth under Fast Capital"
>
>Robert Williams, "Politics and Self in the Age of Digital
Re(pro)ducibility"
>
>Charles Lemert, regular column called "Slow Thoughts on Old Subjects,"
the
>first installment of which will be on "Niebuhr's America"
>
>Emanuel Smikun, "Valuable Objects and their Differentiation in Social
Space
>and Time"
>
>
>This is shaping up to be a truly international journal; authors of the
nine
>accepted papers work in academic settings on three continents.
>
>We are already planning the second and third numbers of the journal.
In
>addition to publishing regular article-length contributions in those
>numbers, we will also run symposia on "Port Huron at 40" (interviews
with
>founders of SDS and the New Left including Tom Hayden, Mark Rudd, Todd
>Gitlin and Dick Flacks) and on "The Internet and Academic Life."
>
>I hope to see all of you at our informal symposia during this coming
>academic year.  If you wnat to present your work in a friendly setting,
>please let me know.
>
>
>