BETWEEN
TEXTS AND CITIES
A
themed edition of Writing Visual Culture
CALL
FOR PAPERS
Writing Visual Culture is the journal of the TVAD
research group. It publishes original double-blind peer-reviewed open access
scholarship on all aspects of visual culture, spanning art, design and media.
We are seeking submissions for a new themed edition exploring the relationships
between texts and urban spaces in contemporary society.
The
urban spaces with which this edition is concerned are those of the contemporary,
networked cities that have emerged since the crises of Capitalism of the 1970s.
These contemporary networked cities are inseparable from texts –
-
from
the ideologies that underpin their physical structure, their many organisms,
their policies and functioning;
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from
the production, consumption, and circulation of information and data, which
have turned cities into environments that require to be explored through their
physical presence, as technological artefacts, as textual objects, and as
symbolic entities;
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from
dissenting discourses that resist and challenge the transformations wrought by
processes of Globalisation.
The
aim of this themed edition is to reflect on ways of producing, reproducing,
consuming, and actuating the urban; ways that approach experience and
interpretation of the urban not as discrete activities, but as inseparable from
one another.
We
welcome submissions guided by, but not limited to, the following topics:
·
Analyses of representations (fictional, cartographic,
theoretical) of urban spaces and of the ‘urban experience’;
·
The influence of New Media, Big Data, and imaging
technologies in the understanding of, and action within cities;
·
Ideal cities, utopias, dystopias, heterotopias;
·
Political and economic ideologies and urban spaces;
·
Arts in the city;
·
Textual interventions in urban spaces (graffiti,
advertising, etc.).
Abstracts
of 200 words for papers of 3000-6000 words should be submitted via email to
Daniel Marques Sampaio (d.marques-sampaio@herts.ac.uk) and Michael Heilgemeir (m.heilgemeir@herts.ac.uk) by Monday 1st September 2014.
Abstracts
should make clear the connection between the proposed paper and the theme of
the journal issue.
Completed
papers must be original and not have been published previously or accepted for
publication elsewhere, and be ready to be submitted in late November 2014.
We
welcome also expressions of interest for visual contributions (e.g. videos,
artworks, etc.), as the journal issue is part of a project that will include an
exhibition, the details of which will be published in due course.
Deadline
for submission of 200-word abstracts
|
MONDAY
1st SEPTEMBER 2014
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Deadline
for submission of completed papers
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FRIDAY
28th NOVEMBER 2014
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Publication
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Mid-2015
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Writing
Visual Culture: /https://journals.stca.herts.ac.uk/
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