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[ecrea] Journal of humanistic research

Thu Sep 10 13:01:50 GMT 2009



Academic Quarter

Journal of humanistic = research

In the autumn of 2010 a new peer reviewed, online = journal will be published with humanistic research. The aim of the journal is to = meet the demand for critical publication of topics from the humanistic and cultural-scientific research tradition from the Danish universities. The journal will cover current themes, and at the same time it will seek to = create a high standard of good communication and publication of research within = the humanities. The journal has a wide scope, but each issue concentrates on specific themes. Articles will be in Danish and English. =

Flesh - Call for = articles

?And your very flesh shall be a great = poem,? Walt Whitman wrote in the introduction to Leaves of Grass from = 1855. Before Whitman flesh has been a means of communication and understanding = from Kafka?s penal colony and David Cronenberg?s new flesh to = modern bodily decoration and aesthetic surgery. The human rational faculty is = limited by the body, but only if it is seen as such. Modern neurological = cognition research has emphasised what art and culture have known all along. We = also use our bodies when we think.

The body is not just part of thinking, but also a = plastic unit that can be modelled almost at will, whereas flesh in other ways = denotes decay. The process of aging is in itself an area of fear, but it is an = open question how domineering flesh will remain. The possibilities of = technological prolongation of life are increasing.

Flesh and the body are a pivotal point for many = media genres. Laura Mulvey has called pornography, melodrama and horror bodily genres, and she has referred to their bodily effects. Flesh is at the = centre also of many other genres. Where the horror genre deals with the = resurrection of the flesh in spite of vulnerability and decay, the crime genre has = its point of departure in penetration of flesh. The crime, murder, is also the discontinuation of flesh.

Flesh, however, is not only human, even though it = is the human meeting point with animal forces. Flesh is also meat, though we do = not need it so live. Meat is an expression of human pleasure. Meat when = eating, and flesh when loving. It is truly exciting to see what the result = will be when flesh becomes the focus of cultural studies and academic research. =

We call for articles within the framework as it is described above with focus on changeable flesh, its relationship to = technology, flesh as aesthetic platform (eroticism and food), in films and the media = and seen together with thinking.

Articles
Suggestion for articles, including an abstract of 150 words, to be = mailed to J=F8rgen Riber Christensen ((riber /at/ hum.aau.dk)) and Kim Toft Hansen = ((kimtoft /at/ hum.aau.dk)) no later than 1 December 2009. Accepted articles ? using the = Harvard System Style Sheet ? to be mailed to the editors no later than 1 = March 2010. Articles will then be peer reviewed anonymously. The articles = should be around 15,000-25.000 keystrokes. The issue will be published in the autumn 2010.



Journal website

http://www.akademiskkvarter.hum.aau.dk/firstEng.html.



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