Fwd: Call for Papers and Creative Works: InVisible Culture, Issue 21: "Pursuit"

From: Anderson, Joel Neville <[email protected]>

Dear H-FILM subscribers,

Please circulate the latest CFP for my graduate program's journal,
InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (pasted below).

Best regards,

Joel Neville Anderson
PhD Student, Visual and Cultural Studies
University of Rochester


http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/cfp-invisible-culture-issue-21-pursuit

InVisible Culture
Issue 21 - "Pursuit"

For its twenty-first issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for
Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address
the topic of pursuit . We encourage authors and artists to reflect on the
meaning and mechanics of pursuit across broad ranging phenomena. This term
is meant to address two larger and related concerns. First, it prompts a
discussion about matters of narrative, aesthetics, and medium, including
topics as specific as the ‘chase film’ and crime narratives, to those as
seemingly abstract as failure, paranoia, and process.

Second, the word pursuit is meant to direct thinking toward a number of
more clearly socio-political concerns, including, but not limited to, the
topics of work and profession. In his new book, 24/7: Late Capitalism and
the End of Sleep , Jonathan Crary worriedly observes that in the current
global paradigm “the highest premium is placed on activity for its own
sake,” and that it is the pursuit of sleep that stands as the most
meaningful form of resistance in this context. We offer the term pursuit as
a thematic framework for considering the manifold forms our embeddedness in
a fully-networked, around-the-clock habitus can take, and how these forms
bear not only on our positions as workers, professionals, and laborers, but
also as active subjects.

We welcome papers and artworks that address, complicate, and expand these
models of pursuit . Some possible topics of exploration are (but not
limited to):
    * Purpose and purposelessness, means without ends
    * The “pursuit” of media: transmediality; new media; medium
specificity; the myth of total cinema; pursuit of perfect software (FOSS,
cloud storage, smartphone apps, etc.)
    * Paranoia, surveillance, cyberstalking
    * Detective fiction
    * Gaming culture
    * Futurity and speculation
    * Surpassing subject/object conditions
    * Praxis
    * Realism, mimesis
    * Labor, work, vocation, craft, profession
    * Modernism/contemporaneity
    * Failure
    * Nostalgia
    * Utopias and heterotopias
    * Pursuit and politics: feminism, Occupy, Arab Spring; political
investments in academia or other professional contexts
    * Agonism

Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from
the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by January 1st, 2014 at 11:59pm EST.
Inquiries should be sent to the same address.

Creative/Artistic Works
In addition to written materials, Invisible Culture is accepting work in
other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme
as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning
acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or
contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.

Reviews
InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book,
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review
proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.

Blog
The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will
accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For
further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com
with the subject heading “blog submission”.

* InVisible Culture (An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture) is a
peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and
political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural
objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they
emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to
which they contribute.
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