Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS
parallax@leeds.ac.uk
Date: Fri Jun 18 1999 - 09:18:15 CDT
CALL FOR PAPERS
Parallax is seeking papers for its special themed issues due for
publication in 2001.
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the editors for
discussion.
Issue 19: Hot Property
In this increasingly competitive academic environment, Parallax solicits
articles concerning the politics of possession. We welcome papers that
interpret the proper in diverse ways, including through appropriation,
expropriation, and considerations of propriety. You might choose to read
apparently different arenas together, as when Victor Burgin fly-posted
an image connotative of sexual politics in order to generate a critique
of the ownership of material wealth, or by appropriating the discourse
of science to rethink the objects of cultural studies. How persuasively
have the critiques of the appropriation of Capital been re-figured as
the strategic re-appropriation of images, practices, or identities now
affirmatively troped as theft? How is a line drawn between licit and
illicit transactions? What kind of goods might be too hot to handle?
DEADLINE: April 2000
Issue 20: Random Figures
Parallax welcomes submissions for a special issue exploring the role of
contingent factors in the formation of subjects in, of and by critical
theory. Contingency is often unacknowledged but it plays a crucial role
in critical theory, across methodological approaches including
archival/historical analysis, case studies, and textual readings. The
term 'figure' in the title of this issue intends to evoke bodies,
tropes, and numbers as all three meanings take part in the constitution
of subjects. Submissions for this issue should emphasize the
consequences of contingent elements to the constitution of the
subject(s). The term 'subject' is meant in its broadest sense to include
topics which are discussed in theoretical projects as well as people
implicated in these endeavours. Papers may explore, for example, to what
extent theories of subjectivity propose relationships of essential
similitude between a subject and its ‘defining characteristics’ yet make
these claims by contingent and contiguous juxtapositions of arbitrary
signs.
DEADLINE: June 2000
Issue 21: Immanent Trajectories
Try to think immanence...
To say much more than this is to narrow the possibilities, but a little
more needs to be said.
Parallax invites experimental engagement with the wide-ranging debates
surrounding the notion of immanence, or the speculative affirmation of
openness that always seeks to engender the dynamism of that which is
materially expressed, whether the form of expression be philosophical,
aesthetic, literary, etc., or inevitably a combination of these.
You are also encouraged to consider how a critical exercise that
attempts to navigate the indeterminacy and complexity of immanence can
be addressed pragmatically or ethically without falling into generality,
redundancy or quite simply chaos.
DEADLINE: October 2000
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Centre for Cultural Studies
The University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
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