ANN: New issue + CFP - Journal of Mundane Behavior

On behalf of the JMB editorial board, I'm writing to let you know that
JMB 1.2 is now available gratis online at http:/www.mundanebehavior.org.

The contents of that issue, aside from some as-yet-untitled editorial
comments, are as follows:

Scott Schaffer, "Introduction: On Intellectual Inferiority"
John Shotter, "Wittgenstein and the Everyday: From Radical Hiddenness to

'Nothing is Hidden'; From Representation to Participation"
Kelly Train, "Whiteness and White Otherness"
Timothy Dugdale, "The Fan and (Auto)Biography: Writing the Self in the
Stars"
Jackson Maddux, MD, "Tilting at Windmills; or, Why Medicine Needs to
Care About the Everyday World"
Anat Rafaeli and Alona Harness, "Validating Your Merit in Letters of
Applications for Employment"
Joel Schalit, "Unpacking My Record Collection"
Naomi Mandel, "The Mundane and the Limits of the Human: Thoughts on
Hamlet, Roswell NM, and The Jerry Springer Show"

JMB 1.2 features our first set of publicly-oriented essays - a more
conversational tone about affairs of the everyday to complement the
scholarly aspects of our examination of everyday life. We will continue
to engage the understanding of the mundane through a variety of tools,
including photo essays and other works that clearly convey a sense of
the substantial in the ordinary. The issue also features the first of
two artworks by New York artist Mark Kostabi
(http://www.markkostabi.com) as our cover art, which will serve to
stimulate our depiction of everyday life in new and diverse ways.

We have also issued our first special issue call for papers.
Media/Mundania, an issue devoted to the examination of the diverse
relationships between the media and the ordinary aspects of life, will
appear in late February 2001 and will be edited by Myron Orleans,
co-editor of JMB. Papers are invited from scholars of all fields,
informed members of the public, and people who work in the media and are

due to Dr. Orleans by November 1/2000. The call for papers is available
from the front page of the Journal's web site.

We hope you'll enjoy JMB 1.2. May this note find you well....

Scott Schaffer and Myron Orleans, Editors
Journal of Mundane Behavior
http://www.mundanebehavior.org/