Please post the following announcement:
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CFP: Walter Benjamin and aura (2/28/99, essay collection)
For an upcoming publication entitled Benjamin's Blindspot we are seeking
1000 - 2000 word essays that address Walter Benjamin's concept of aura. We
are especially interested in works that explore "blindspots" in both
Benjamin's thinking about aura AND critics' interpretations of Benjamin's
thinking on aura. Areas of interest may include: the place of the artist
in Benjamin's chronology of the decline of aura; The relationship of aura
to the creative epiphany, including the dark or destructive epiphany; The
relationship of Benjamin's aura to ritual and why he condemns them both;
The confusion in both Benjamin and his critics about the "site" of aura;
The future of aura after Benjamin.
We are also interested in essays that do not address Walter Benjamin
directly but that refer to the artist's relationship to aura, epiphany, or
ritual in ways that are outlined above. Deadline: February 28, 1999. The
Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 1708 Berkeley Street, Santa Monica, CA
90404 or institute@pacificnet.net.
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Thank you.
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