Symposium

Beginning from the idea that the privileging of spoken language over written language is a mistake (see Phonocentrism), that communicating with written language through a digital apparatus is no more mediated or false than communicating face-to-face with spoken language, I invite you to participate in the first Letters Journal Digital Symposium.

The Symposium will be conducted with Gmail Chat on Wednesday, October 27th at 7 PM EST. To participate, please send your Gmail chat username to lettersjournal(at)gmail.com at any time before the Symposium is scheduled to begin.

The topics for the first Letters Journal Digital Symposium will be: The Limits and Uses of Logic and Fiction. Future topics and dates will be announced during the Symposium and will not be announced publicly. If you wish to participate in future Symposiums but cannot attend the first, please send three sentences explaining both your absence and proposing one future topic.

Each Symposium, in whole or part, may be reproduced in future issues of Letters or on the website you are currently viewing.

Once the collected Symposiums have accumulated a predetermined number of words, participants will march to snow covered fields and shoot down proletarians like partridges. While languishing in prisons for these crimes, participants will pen novels of profound beauty and sadness that will be serialized in Letters Journal until we are all dead.