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                                   CYLINDER

               the society for the philosophy of tools and space


   We are an interdisciplinary and "multinational" organization, small but
growing, dedicated to thoughtful discussion about and research into issues
concerning tools and space.  Currently, we maintain a membership list and
circulate a short newslwetter.  But our future plans call for expansion - a
number of conferences and a journal are possible in the next few years.
Within the scope of our society, members have raised diverse and fascinating
issues for consideration, including but not limited to the following:

- Architectural theory and practice
- Media theory
- Virtual Reality and its impact upon society
- The role of equipment in Heidegger: the tool and truth in _Sein und Zeit_
- Bergson; Levinas and the concept of hypostasis
- Baudrillard & Virilio: speed, the simulacrum and "crystal revenge"
- Marx: from use- to exchange-value; the deterritorializating movement of
  capital and surplus-value
- Deleuze/Guattari: desiring machines, paranoid machines, miraculating
  machines, celibate machines
- The mechanics of the dreamwork in psycho-analysis
- Poetics of space a la Bachelard
- Figural and rhetorical aspects of the tool in literature; the delirious
  machines of Poe, Kafka, Ballard, and Borges
- bolo'o'bolo and other political theories of reterritorialization
- Transit technology and urban planning
- Infrastructure catastrophies: the Chicago freight tunnel flood
- The iconology of computers, especially the Macintosh
- A philosophy of toys
- The tool/toy of language and its (dys)function: the Zen koan, the joke

Now we want what you have to offer...
Membership is free.  Just send your name and address to be placed on our list.

                                   CYLINDER
                         c/o Graham Harman, secretary
                      Philosophy Dept., DePaul University
                                Chicago IL, USA
                                     60614
                           email: cylinder@uiowa.edu

Cylinder is associated with the National Toolbelt Society: Marcel E. Yarnow and
Raven Zachary, executive co-directors.
                         
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   Cylinder:  The International Society for the Philosophy of Tools and Space
         Raven Zachary, Director of Information   <cylinder@uiowa.edu>        
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