[csaa-forum] Walter Benjamin and the Virtual - cfp Transformations

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations is seeking abstracts for the following issue:


Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of
Global Culture

What does Walter Benjamin offer for critical thinking and creative practice
in an age increasingly mediated by virtual technologies?

Much Benjaminian scholarship proposes a Benjamin at best ambivalent to, and
at worst, in recoil from modernity. Yet, recent critical thinkers such as
Giorgio Agamben and Jean-Luc Nancy provide new possibilities in approaching
the analysis of contemporary culture inspired by Benjamin's insights and
arguments. These suggest innovative ways of reading and incorporating
Benjamin, ways that re-engage an active configuration between politics, art,
and representation in response to the shift from mass to global culture.

Increasingly it seems possible to reconsider the role art can, and may be
already playing, in such a configuration. This issue of Transformations
seeks submissions that address these ideas. In the light of Benjamin's
thought, and those who take that thought further, we want to look at what
the concept of virtuality- the tendency in mediated contexts towards
disembodied interactions and ways of being human-- does to Benjamin's ideas
of politics, art, and media?

Call for abstracts: abstracts of 500 words due end of November 2006

Papers due: March 2007

Publication: mid 2007

Submissions: Submissions should be sent to the
Issue editor: John Grech, at
John.M.Grech at alumni.uts.edu.au
Or alternatively, to the
General editor: Warwick Mules at
w.mules at cqu.edu.au

Details can be found at the Transformations web site at
http://transformations.cqu.edu.au


Regards

Warwick

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Dr. Warwick Mules
General Editor, Transformations     http://transformations.cqu.edu.au
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education
Central Queensland University
Bundaberg Campus
Bundaberg Queensland 4670
Australia

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
School of English, Media and Art History
University of Queensland
Australia

Phone: 07 41507142
Fax: 07 41507090
Mobile: 0412292541
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