CFP: Culture, Theory and Critique (journal)

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CULTURE, THEORY AND CRITIQUE
Call for papers (3) and contents of 43.1.
Unless specified otherwise, please direct all correspondence regarding
CTC to: ctc_at_nottingham.ac.uk  ; apologies for cross-postings.
For full details on _Culture, Theory and Critique_, submission
information, instructions to authors, a free online sample copy and
contents listings from volume 43 on, please visit the journal's website
at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14735784.htm
_Culture, Theory and Critique_ is an interdisciplinary journal for the
transformation and development of critical theories in the humanities
and social sciences. It aims to critique and reconstruct theories by
interfacing them with one another and by relocating them in new sites
and conjunctures. _Culture, Theory and Critique’s_ approach to
theoretical refinement and innovation is one of interaction and
hybridisation via recontextualisation and transculturation. The
reconceptualisation of critical theories is achieved by:
* assessing how well theories emerging from particular spatial,
cultural, geographical and historical contexts travel and translate into
new conjunctures.
* confronting theories with their limitations or aporias through
immanent critique.
* applying theories to cultural, literary, social and political
phenomena in order to test them against their respective fields of
concern and to generate critical feedback.
* interfacing theories from different intellectual, disciplinary and
institutional settings.
_Culture, Theory and Critique_ publishes one special issue and one open
issue per volume.
CALL FOR PAPERS – OPEN ISSUES
Inquiries for open issues should be directed to: ctc_at_nottingham.ac.uk.
Submissions for open issues should be sent to _Culture, Theory and
Critique, Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University
of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Submissions for the open issues
may be sent at any time.
Submissions are subject to peer review.
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE, APRIL 2004 ‘PRACTICES OF ORDINARY AND
EXTRAORDINARY MEDIATION’.
Globalization has allegedly facilitated contacts and brought about new
types of exchanges between individuals and communities: today’s
immigrants, merchants, soldiers, politicians, journalists, but also
neighbours and lovers increasingly have to communicate with subjects or
communities that do not share their culture, their history, or even
their language. They need facilitators, translators, go-betweens (other
humans, or technological or discursive tools). This issue of _Culture,
Theory and Critique_ will examine how practices of mediation are being
reinvented in the context of cultural, social or political encounters.
Contributors are encouraged to explore a whole range of discursive
practices, from the most official forms of negotiation (in the context
of international conflicts for example) to the most ordinary and
apparently banal examples of mediation (translating direction for a
tourist, filling out forms for parents).
Inquiries and submissions should be directed to Professor Mireille
Rosello, WCAS French and Italian, 1859 Sheridan Rd #152, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL 60208-2204, USA; m-rosello_at_northwestern.edu.
Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2003.
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY 2005 ‘NOISE’.
Today, noise is breaking away from the status of undesirable phenomenon
bestowed upon it by traditional communications theory. No longer merely
an undesirable element to be eradicated so as to retain the purity of
the original signal, noise is infecting expression from all realms,
spawning genres and movements, complexifying rather than destroying
semantics. Indeed, noise has become an integral part of our late modern
condition, and not only because of the amount of noise produced by late
industrial and digital societies. It is perhaps only natural that we
attempt to insulate ourselves from this latter noise, but to treat all
noise in this way, to attempt to eradicate *all* forms of noise is
fundamentally to disavow the ground on which our every expression is
transmitted. This issue of _Culture, Theory and Critique_ will aim to
listen to (or look at) noise in all of its guises both literal and
metaphorical, to restore noise to its rightful place and to examine the
ways in which noise can refigure existing theories, theories which also
at times collude in this politics of noise reduction.
Amongst the key issues to be addressed in this volume will be:
* Manifestations of noise in culture (noise music, post-digital music,
static, hiss, snow and other complex frequencies).
* The ‘silent’ noise behind various communicational acts (what is at
stake when mistaking this noise for silence?)
* The construction of meaning (why is it that meaning is challenged by
noise and what does meaning arise from?)
* The politics of noise (does noise indeed signal a new political
economy as Attali claimed? is noise revolt?)
* Noise and hybridity (does hybridity challenge a noiseless economy?)
* Should noise and noisiness be maintained (or perhaps maintained solely
as an outside) or is a politics of noise reduction justified?
* Does noise constitute a possible alterity?
Inquiries and submissions should be directed to: Dr Greg Hainge, School
of Humanities, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
greg.hainge_at_adelaide.edu.au
and to: Dr Paul Hegarty, Department of French, University College Cork,
Cork, Ireland. phegarty_at_french.ucc.ie
Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2004.
JUST PUBLISHED. VOLUME 43.1 May 2002. SPECIAL ISSUE ON ‘EUROCENTRISM’.
Contents:
Chu-Chueh Cheng
‘Imperial Cartography and Victorian Literature: Charting the Wishes and
Anguish of an Island-Empire’, pp. 1-16
Paul Allatson, Adam Le Nevez, Yixu Lu, et al.
‘ “Average Stray Aliens”: An Average Australian Conversation on
Eurocentrism’, pp. 17-32
April R. Biccum
‘Interrupting the Discourse of Development: On a Collision Course with
Postcolonial Theory’, pp. 33-50
Gerhard Richter
‘Sites of Indeterminacy and the Spectres of Eurocentrism’, pp. 51-65
Colin Wright
‘Centrifugal Logics: Eagleton and Spivak on the Place of “Place” in
Postcolonial Theory’, pp. 67-82
Notes on Contributors, p. 83
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