[Air-L] CFP: InVisible Culture Issue 21: "Pursuit" (DEADLINE JAN. 1, 2014)

[Joel Neville Anderson]

Dear Air-L subscribers,

Please circulate the latest call for papers and creative works for Issue 21 of my graduate program's journal, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, on the theme of “Pursuit” (pasted below). The deadline is fast approaching on January 1, 2014. Thank you.


Best regards,

Joel Neville Anderson
PhD Student, Visual and Cultural Studies
University of Rochester

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http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/cfp-invisible-culture-issue-21-pursuit

InVisible Culture
Issue 21 - "Pursuit"

For its twenty-first issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the topic of pursuit. We encourage authors and artists to reflect on the meaning and mechanics of pursuit across broad ranging phenomena. This term is meant to address two larger and related concerns. First, it prompts a discussion about matters of narrative, aesthetics, and medium, including topics as specific as the ‘chase film’ and crime narratives, to those as seemingly abstract as failure, paranoia, and process. 

Second, the word pursuit is meant to direct thinking toward a number of more clearly socio-political concerns, including, but not limited to, the topics of work and profession. In his new book, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep, Jonathan Crary worriedly observes that in the current global paradigm “the highest premium is placed on activity for its own sake,” and that it is the pursuit of sleep that stands as the most meaningful form of resistance in this context. We offer the term pursuit as a thematic framework for considering the manifold forms our embeddedness in a fully-networked, around-the-clock habitus can take, and how these forms bear not only on our positions as workers, professionals, and laborers, but also as  active subjects.

We welcome papers and artworks that address, complicate, and expand these models of pursuit. Some possible topics of exploration are (but not limited to):

Purpose and purposelessness, means without ends
The “pursuit” of media: transmediality; new media; medium specificity;  the myth of total cinema; pursuit of perfect software (FOSS, cloud storage, smartphone apps, etc.)
Paranoia, surveillance, cyberstalking
Detective fiction
Gaming culture
Futurity and speculation
Surpassing subject/object conditions
Praxis
Realism, mimesis
Labor, work, vocation, craft, profession
Modernism/contemporaneity
Failure
Nostalgia
Utopias and heterotopias
Pursuit and politics: feminism, Occupy, Arab Spring; political investments in academia or other professional contexts
Agonism

Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by January 1st, 2014 at 11:59pm EST. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.


Creative/Artistic Works

In addition to written materials, Invisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.


Reviews

InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.


Blog

The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog submission”.


* InVisible Culture (An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute.

http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu