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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">REMINDER! CFP – apologies for x-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A NEW CONJUNCTURE: MEDIATIONS IN A POST-TRUTH ERA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CFP for a book collection proposal edited by Brett Nicholls and Rosemary Overell <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Our contemporary moment is fixated on arbitrating and articulating ‘realness’. With the spectre of buzzwords like fake news and post-truth we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal, immovable
‘real’ beneath what is positioned as ‘fake’ articulations and discourse. Often the arbitration of ‘reality’ is placed in the hands of the media as well as academics. To be literate and savvy is to be able to ascertain the real from the fake. Nonetheless, media
and, again, academia, are simultaneously blamed as producing the apparent retreat of realness. This edited collection tackles both everyday and theoretical understandings of the real and its intersection with contemporary media, communication and culture. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hall’s (1988) notion of a conjuncture provided a useful starting point for the Birmingham School’s inventive engagement with the rise of Thatcherism and neoliberalism. We propose that the present fixation
upon the real has emerged in a new conjuncture, which, like the Birmingham School in the 1980s, requires new approaches for engaging with our current mediated context. This collection thus asks: what does ‘the real’ now mean in media, communication, and cultural
studies? How do we talk about the real? And why such a concern with the real today? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We invite submissions which engage in a dialogue with how notions of the ‘real’ are taken up, mediated, and made to work in particular ways. This dialogue asks how reality is brandished symbolically or produced
through discourse and representation to mark specific modalities of power. But it might ask too how the desire for the real – as a signifier of a bedrock / universal ‘truth’ – is affective and works beyond the symbolic to produce fantasies of bearable, cognisant
spaces and sites in which the election of Trump, the ubiquity of reality television and an ongoing preoccupation with realness in television, film, and social media. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Articles accepted for the collection thus far:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Laurie Ouellette (University of Minnesota) — ‘Fake President: Telemorphosis and the Performance of Grotesque Sovereignty’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kim Toffoletti (Deakin University) — ‘Sexy Surfers, Selfies, and Social Media – Encounters with Jean Baudrillard, Postfeminism and Post-truth’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Keywords: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">media, communication, conjuncture, real, post-truth, Lacan, Baudrillard, cultural studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Timeline:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstracts of 250-500 words are <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3/">due on January 31 2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Full drafts of 6k-8k words will be <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4/">due on July 31 2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Proposed date for publication is <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5/">December 31 2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Send abstracts to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rosemary Overell <a href="mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz">rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">and Brett Nicholls <a href="mailto:brett.nicholls@otago.ac.nz">brett.nicholls@otago.ac.nz</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rosemary Overell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Media, Film and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dunedin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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