For the academics/writers in the crowd.
Call for Panel Papers for the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's 29th Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 13-16, 2008
Panel: "Plastocritical/Plastomanifesto: Exploring the Possible"
The purpose of this panel will be twofold: to provide plastocritical readings and to launch plastomanifestos. The plastocritical works will explore the lives and works of potential past/present/future experimental writers, while the plastomanifestos will explain possible directions that one might one to write in but not actually be inclined to write. The objective of both plastocritical pieces and plastomanifestos is to explore what is possible in experimental writing without actually having written it, so potentially plastomanifestos could transform into manifestos, while plastocritical pieces could not, even though they could provide political, historical, social, and psychological commentary and direction for potential texts.**(***)
**This session, of course, would be the first plastocritical/plastomanifesto session ever.
*** Plasto comes from the ancient Greek work plastos, which means something that is molded or fabricated, and it can also mean something which is false.
Please send 250 word abstracts to Bill Allegrezza at wallegre@iun.edu by Oct 1st.
(After writing the panel abstract, I came across Paul Hoover's
"Course Description" in this
article. Great stuff, and funny.)
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