WANTED
REVIEWS EDITOR
As part of a planned expansion of the Culture Machine site, we are seeking to appoint an editor to run the reviews section of the journal.
If appointed, you’ll oversee all aspects of the reviewing process: from selecting material for review, through obtaining review copies from publishers, to commissioning reviews and dealing with readers’/authors’ responses (Culture Machine is inter-active, remember). As the journal is electronic, the idea is for most communications to be carried out electronically, so you can be living and working in any part of the world. And you don’t necessarily have to be a whiz with the technology: as well as email and the Web, you’ll just need to have access to and be able to use simple tools such as Netscape Composer. Other than that we don’t have a set of fixed requirements for either the post or the reviews section. In line with Culture Machine’s experimental nature, we prefer to remain open to the possibility of the surprising and the unforeseen (which is why we’re advertising the post, and not just giving it to one of our friends, colleagues or students). So go on, surprise us.
Quite simply, the person (or persons) with the most interesting and exciting idea for a reviews section for Culture Machine gets the job. The post is unpaid, and will mean a fair amount of work. It will also be a regular demand on your time. But on the plus side, you get to put on your c.v. that you’re reviews editor of an international, refereed journal of culture and theory. And as Meaghan Morris says:
Editing journals is perhaps the most direct way in which new scholars can influence or change a professional agenda… it allows you to promote the kind of work you care about in a visible and organized way, and it gives you a platform from which to offer alternative models of what your discipline should be doing… Editing gives you licence to experiment, fool around, make mistakes in good company, and take risks a lone researcher might be rash to contemplate. … this ‘licence’ is becoming more, not less, important as professionalization proceeds.
Applications of no more than 1,500 words, outlining your ideas for the reviews section of the Culture Machine site, and accompanied by a c.v., should be sent to:
Culture Machine, c/o Dave Boothroyd and Gary Hall, School of Law, Arts and Humanities, University of Teesside, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK.
E-mail: g.hall@tees.ac.uk, d.boothroyd@tees.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: Feb. 2000
In the
meantime, the editors invite focused review articles on
any aspect of culture and theory for publication in
future editions of Culture Machine.
The editors are also currently seeking review articles for the following:
Ansell-Pearson, Keith (1999) Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze. London: Routledge.
Botting, Fred (1999) Sex, Machines and Navels: Fiction, Fantasy and History in the Future of the Present. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Coyne, Richad (1999) Technoromanticism. M.A.: M.I.T. Press
Critchley, Simon (1999) The Ethics of Deconstruction, 2nd Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Marcus, Laura (1999) Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
McQuillan, Martin et al (1999) (eds) Post-Theory: New Directions in Criticism. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.
McRobbie, Angela (1999) In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion and Popular Music. London and New York: Routledge.
Wortham, Simon (1999) Rethinking the University: Leverage and Deconstruction. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Chen, Kuan-Hsing (1998) (ed.) Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.
Striphas, Ted (ed.) (1998) Cultural Studies, 12, 4 ('The Institutionalization of Cultural Studies' issue).
Ansell-Pearson, Keith (1997) Viriod Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition. London: Routledge.
Golding, Sue (ed.) (1997) The Eight Technologies of Otherness. London and New York: Routledge.
Hables Gray, Chris (1997) Postmodern War. London and New York: Routledge.
Haraway, Donna J. (1997)Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse. London and New York: Routledge.
Kamuf, Peggy (1997) The Division of Literature or The University in Deconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
McRobbie, Angela (1997) Back to Reality: Social Experience in Cultural Studies. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Plant, Sadie (1997) Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture. London: Fourth Estate.
Cultural
Values: The Journal of the Institute for Cultural
Research, Lancaster University.
Please note: all contributions to the journal will be refereed anonymously.
Once published on the Internet, responses (ideally of between 500 and 4,000 words) to these reviews will be sought and published alongside the original review.
Anyone who has material they would like to submit to the journal for publication is invited to contact the editors via email link. (We reply to all serious mails).
Authors
should follow the procedures outlined in the
'Submissions' section when preparing their review
articles which should normally be no more than 5,000
words in length.