Call for Articles
Crossings
A Journal of Philosophical, Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies
Special Topic:
"Unlocking Discipline from Disciplinarity" - Deadline: July 1, 2000
In the last thirty years, critical "theory" has repeatedly (de)constructed
modern disciplinary discourses by transversing social, political, and
economic systemic lines across the landscape of cultural production.
While contemporary thinkers have gotten a lot of mileage out of these
modes of critiquing discursive structures, we sense the impending
realization of an aporia in the midst of this vital work. It seems that
several questions present themselves: Have we stopped thinking discipline
as a series of discursive practices? Can we still speak of discipline in
a world of increasing "multiculturalism" and mobilized capital? Is is
possible to map a history of this shift, and if so, what impedes and
distracts our critical attention? One might consider addressing the
failure to think the possibility of a radical disciplinarity offered to us
by the work of Deleuze and Guattari. For example, how might we reconsider
discipline, in the strongest sense, in a world of machinic assemblages?
Have we read Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus but failed to read
Capitalism and Schizophrenia? How does the analysis of desire differ from
a more conventional analysis of power? What falls to the wayside and what
is over-invested in this fundamental shift? Can we still speak of
discipline once the engine of power-desire is running at full throttle?
If so, what does discipline become after burning this particular rubber?
Possible article topics might include:
~Prisons and carceral institutions
~Academic freedom
~A politics of seeing
~"Classical" institutions
~Sado-Masochism
~Constructed bodies and flows of desire/power
~A Deleuzian activism?
~Identity
~Sexuality
~Commodification
~Teaching desire-power
~What is an Audience?
~Subjectivity and desire-power
Open Topic: Crossings also invites articles on any "counter-disciplinary"
subject (not necessarily fitting announced special topics), articles
concerned with questions of literature, philosophy, history, culture, and
gender that originate from any historical period. A general concern of
Crossings is the theme of resistance and how university communities might
influence sites of cultural production and the future of education in
order to offer alternatives to apparatuses of hegemony and prohibitive
modes of knowledge production--to think the stakes involved in offering
such alternatives, and the politics pertaining to foundational critiques.
Submissions: Manuscripts should be submitted SASE and in duplicate (and
if possible on an IBM compatible 3 1/2" disc, WordPerfect or Microsoft
Word for Windows). Please use Chicago Manual of Style Author/Date/Endnote
citation format. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, with endnotes,
tables, charts, maps, etc., on separate pages. Submit to: Crossings,
Department of English, Binghamton University, Box 6000, Binghamton NY,
13902-6000. Send all inquiries to this address, or E-mail us at
xings@binghamton.edu. For additional information regarding the journal,
visit the Crossings website at http://english.binghamton.edu/crossings.
Subscriptions: Subscription rates are $11.00 individuals, and $21.00
institutions. Crossings is an annual publication. Send all
correspondence concerning subscriptions to: Crossings Subscriptions,
Department of English, Box 6000, Binghamton University, Binghamton NY,
13902-6000.
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