Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
—Dick Cheney August 26, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
—Ari Fleischer January 9, 2003
McKenzie: Mr Perkins, what took place there yesterday is a total/disgrace and/and Mr Perkins, there is no way you can pinpoint a soldier to say dat dis is de soldier dat did it because the soldiers doan carry numbers! The soldiers doan carry anyting dat you can i/dentify dem to say dat dis is de man oou/oou did it! M/M Mr Perkins, what I am saying to you is not fictitious, it is not done to score political points, it is someting dat took place, I am speaking about REALITY, someting dat took place yesterday.
—Kamau Brathwaite, Trench Town Rock
My problem presupposed that I couldn't judge because I didn't know what the facts were. All I had, or could have, was a series of different perspectives, and so nothing that would count as an authoritative source on which moral judgments could be based. But, as I have just shown, I did judge, and that is because, as I now think, I did have some facts.
—Jane Tompkins, “ ‘Indians’: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History”
If you are a reader of Chain, we would be pleased to read your work for Chain 12: FACTS.
We are interested in work that begins from fact. Numbers. Testimonies. Litanies of various gross domestic products. Scientific formulas. Art that addresses pesticide load in corporate farming. The poetry of charts and resource usage comparison. Maps of colonization. The prosody of statistics. We will welcome all genre and disciplinary considerations of hard data: visual art, writing, new media, non-fiction, essays, actions, debates. In this time of contradictory information, how do know facts, how do we circle around them, how do we act on them?
Please be aware that we can only print visual images in black and white.
Submissions will be read by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr. We welcome cover letters or notes where you discuss how your work relates to the topic. If your work begins from a certain fact, perhaps explain this to us in your
letter.
Send two copies of your submission and two copies of your cover letter to
CHAIN (c/o Jena Osman)
English Department
Temple University
Anderson Hall (022-29)
1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090.
Deadline: December 1, 2004
If you have questions, send them to josman@temple.edu and spahr@hawaii.edu.
But please, NO email submissions (we tend to lose them).
Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your work returned. Do not send us originals.
We read work in December and then reply in early February at the latest.
See also . . . http://www.temple.edu/chain
—Dick Cheney August 26, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
—Ari Fleischer January 9, 2003
McKenzie: Mr Perkins, what took place there yesterday is a total/disgrace and/and Mr Perkins, there is no way you can pinpoint a soldier to say dat dis is de soldier dat did it because the soldiers doan carry numbers! The soldiers doan carry anyting dat you can i/dentify dem to say dat dis is de man oou/oou did it! M/M Mr Perkins, what I am saying to you is not fictitious, it is not done to score political points, it is someting dat took place, I am speaking about REALITY, someting dat took place yesterday.
—Kamau Brathwaite, Trench Town Rock
My problem presupposed that I couldn't judge because I didn't know what the facts were. All I had, or could have, was a series of different perspectives, and so nothing that would count as an authoritative source on which moral judgments could be based. But, as I have just shown, I did judge, and that is because, as I now think, I did have some facts.
—Jane Tompkins, “ ‘Indians’: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History”
If you are a reader of Chain, we would be pleased to read your work for Chain 12: FACTS.
We are interested in work that begins from fact. Numbers. Testimonies. Litanies of various gross domestic products. Scientific formulas. Art that addresses pesticide load in corporate farming. The poetry of charts and resource usage comparison. Maps of colonization. The prosody of statistics. We will welcome all genre and disciplinary considerations of hard data: visual art, writing, new media, non-fiction, essays, actions, debates. In this time of contradictory information, how do know facts, how do we circle around them, how do we act on them?
Please be aware that we can only print visual images in black and white.
Submissions will be read by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr. We welcome cover letters or notes where you discuss how your work relates to the topic. If your work begins from a certain fact, perhaps explain this to us in your
letter.
Send two copies of your submission and two copies of your cover letter to
CHAIN (c/o Jena Osman)
English Department
Temple University
Anderson Hall (022-29)
1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090.
Deadline: December 1, 2004
If you have questions, send them to josman@temple.edu and spahr@hawaii.edu.
But please, NO email submissions (we tend to lose them).
Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your work returned. Do not send us originals.
We read work in December and then reply in early February at the latest.
See also . . . http://www.temple.edu/chain
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