<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div><i>Culture, Theory and Critique </i>is excited to announce the following CFP for a Special Issue on Militarization and Pleasure, guest edited by Amy Gaeta and Alex Adams. Abstracts (350 words) are due April 1, 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>Please find the full details copied below.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Culture, Theory and Critique</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i>Professor Greg Hainge</i></div><div><i>Editor in Chief</i></div><div><i>Culture, Theory and Critique</i><br></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CTCJournal" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.imgbox.com/Xmmslu0Y.png"></a>   <a href="https://twitter.com/CTCJournal" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.imgbox.com/KHzPDqwf.png"></a><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Culture, Theory and Critique: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SPECIAL ISSUE ON MILITARIZATION & PLEASURE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How do we enjoy our everyday militarization? This special issue will investigate the production, experiences, and problems of the pleasure that we derive from cultural products that uphold the values and logics of militarization and securitization. We contend, first, that cultural products and practices are actors embedded in global processes of empire and capital. Second, we observe that recent civil unrest and state responses to it have made<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>more people than ever aware that militarism plays a normalized and pleasurable role in their everyday life. Apart from the obvious extension of military culture and technology (i.e.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Call of Duty,</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>personal drones, camouflage fashion), this special issue will explore less visible and non-obvious sites in which pleasure helps condition subjects to become complicit with their own and others’ militarization and the wider systems that enable it. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In other words, how can we, and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>can we</i>, laugh with Brooklyn 99 and still attend Black Lives Matter rallies on the same day?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We plan to explore how pleasure is a channel through which militarization occurs in the rhythms and rituals of everyday life, including consumption, epistemologies and reasonings, desires, aesthetics, and more. This collection of essays will reflect on how militarization and pleasure queer and/or reinforce one another without seeking to resolve inherent contradictions or rationalize the messy affects of pleasure; we want to get into the intractably contradictory and complicit character of pleasure and explore potentialities for resistance. What can we<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>do</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the contradictory pleasures we find in militarized values, processes, and practices at work in our daily lives? </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We ask whether and how we are surviving now in<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>what Berlant (2011) calls “crisis ordinary”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and imagine what it might mean to flourish and find joy amongst the “everywhere war” (Gregory 2011). This issue hopes to contribute nuanced understandings of the pleasure-militarization relationship, expand perceptions of militarized aesthetics, and theorize new modes of immanent critique and resistance that allow for pleasure without projecting fantasies of innocence or exceptionalism. We welcome contradictions and disagreements within this dialogue as long as we share the common aim to provide new theoretical vantage points on and terminologies for pleasure as a social catalyst that motivates desire, structures subjectivities, and obscures the militarization of the everyday.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scholars from any humanities or social science discipline, especially those engaged in interdisciplinary work, are encouraged to contribute 350-word abstracts with a short bio note to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:militarizingpleasure@gmail.com">militarizingpleasure@gmail.com</a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">by<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>1st April 2022.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Authors should expect a response by 1st May, and full articles will be due on September 1st for publication in early 2023 (or earlier online). We respect the unpredictable schedules and needs we all differently have and will try to make accommodations where possible. Authors needing extensions for the abstract and/or paper submission should contact the editors at the email address above.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We expect articles to fall into the three categories. Suggestions for papers could include but are not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1: What is Militarization to/in/with Pleasure Now? </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conceptualizations of the relationship between militarization and pleasure</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Militarization with specific reference to pleasure & the ‘non-martial’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Methods and affirmations of knowing, discovery, & enquiry (e.g. ‘fake news’)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Confluence of identity politics and the relational roles of militarized subjects. How are subjects differently militarized due to race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc.?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2: Immanent Critique: Implicated and Contradictory Subjects</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Material cultures, food, domesticity, fashion, media/texts, & leisure </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Everyday use of military medicine & diet and fitness practices (e.g., meal substitute drinks, ‘warrior fitness’) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Domesticized & democratized military technology (e.g., home surveillance tech, smartphones, Alexa) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Culture and aesthetics of and around sex and violence</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Commodification of revolutionary aesthetics and language & performative activism</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3: Policing Pleasure: Resistance, Unconscious and Conscious, to Militarization</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mutual aid, grassroots activism, & forms of protest (e.g. carnival, drag, Rest for Resistance)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contestatory/activist texts, media, practices, & social media tactics </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Forms of critique (e.g., trolling, satire, stand up comedy, memes)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="fon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