[Air-l] space

[Kathleen Fitzpatrick]

Hi, Greg.  I've submitted a proposal for AOIR, entitled "The Myth of 
the Global:  Imagined Geographies of Cyberspace," and am in the process 
of completing the article that this paper will be drawn from.  In it, 
as a means of interrogating the treatment of "space" in cyberculture 
theory, with particular interest in that theory's relationship to 
processes of globalization, I begin by tracing postmodernism's 
obsessions with mapping and relating those to more recent, more 
explicitly geographical considerations of network cartographies.  All 
this theoretical and critical background is accompanied by readings of 
the work of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, particularly as they 
develop and alter their understandings of cyberspace from their early 
novels (Neuromancer and Snow Crash) through their more recent fiction 
(Pattern Recognition and Cryptonomicon).

I'd be happy to send you a more formal proposal for this article, or 
the article itself once it's completed, if you're interested.  I'd also 
be happy to send on any other information you might require.

Thanks for considering this special issue; I think it's a worthy topic, 
and one that demands a deeper critical treatment.

Best,
Kathleen

--
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Department of English/Media Studies Program
Pomona College
kfitzpatrick at pomona.edu


On Feb 5, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Greg Elmer wrote:

> _Space and Culture_ would welcome proposals for a special issue on 
> this "Space" thread (since there seems to be much interest). Please 
> contact me offlist. See link to the journal below.
>