Call For Papers:'loop' issue of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
Edited by Peta Mitchell and E. Sean Rintel
Papers due: 1 July 2002.
Release: 31 July 2002
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, is an initiative of the Media and
Cultural Studies Centre at The University of Queensland in Australia.
Established in 1998, M/C has successfully grown in international standing
among serious internet journals. Each issue of M/C is themed. For the issue
released on 31 July 2002, the theme is 'loop'.
M/C invites contributions from a broad range of disciplines that make use
of the considerable explanatory power of the notion of the 'loop'. The
'loop' is a pervasive and fundamental metaphor of repetition, denoting both
problem and solution in a number of disciplines, and acting as a cross-over
device between disciplines. To be "in the loop" is to be "in the know", but
what is it about the 'loop' that constitutes knowledge? Moreover, in
displacing the "time's arrow" metaphor of linear progress, does the
recursivity of the loop (exemplified by the concepts of revolution and the
eternal return) paradoxically provide a new and unique challenge to
modernist epistemology, or does it simply indicate a retrospective vision?
We envisage a diverse range of contributions. Authors might wish to explore
active and passive loops, feedback and autocatalytic loops, interconnected
loops, chained loops, and hypercycles (a loop of autocatalytic loops). Also
welcomed are investigations of loopholes, looping in music (both in terms
of the classical rising loops of the well-tempered clavier and modern
techniques of tape and digital looping), the states of being looped (drunk)
or loopy (crazy), and the performance of loops (such as in rituals and
recycling). Authors are invited to discuss potential contributions with
either editor, Peta Mitchell (Peta@uq.net.au) or E. Sean Rintel
(er8430@albany.edu), and are encouraged to submit well in advance of the
due date (1 July 2002).
Contributors are directed to previous issues of M/C
(http://www.media-culture.org.au/archive.html) for article length and style
guidelines. M/C is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal. ISSN 1441-2616
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