[ecrea] CFP Media and Transport (SCMS New Orleans)

> This panel seeks papers that
> interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to
> rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a
> metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of
> physical mobility, movement between worlds, and even emotional ecstasy.
> Understanding the term in this way can lead to fruitful new ways of
> understanding media technologies.
>
> In a cultural historical vein, some scholars, such as Ben Bachmair and
> Lynn Kirby, have called attention to the pervasiveness of transportation
> preceding and accompanying the omnipresence of communication devices in
> which the culture of the transportation system paves the way for the
> ensuing media form. More broadly, theorists such as El Lissitsky and
> Rudolf Arnheim have analogized forms of transportation to forms of
> communication, and still others, chiefly Marshall McLuhan include
> vehicles of all sorts as media. This panel defines media broadly to
> include visual and aural forms with electronic, digital, and mechanical
> systems of production and transportation.
>
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> Possible topics include (but certainly are not limited to):
>
> ·       Transportation as metaphor for
> media (information superhighway)
>
> ·       Transportation as analog for
> aesthetic experience (e.g. Schivelbusch’s Railway Journey)
>
> ·       Historical relationship between
> transportation and media forms (e.g. railroad and film)
>
> ·       Media forms on transportation
> systems (wifi on airplanes, tvs in automobiles)
>
> ·       Media theories which rely on
> transport metaphors or analogs (e.g. the writings of Rudolf Arnheim,
> Walter Benjamin, Harold Innis, El Lissitsky, Fillippo Marinetti, Marshall
> McLuhan, or Paul Virilio)
>
> ·       The aesthetics of
> transport
>
> ·       Media and transport as technologies
> of space-time mastery and control
>
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> Please send 300-500 word abstracts by August 9 to
> (Stephen_Groening /at/ brown.edu)
>
>
> Stephen Groening
>
> Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
> Brown University
> Department of Modern Culture and Media
> 155 George Street
> Box 1957
> Providence RI 02912-1957
>
> (Stephen_Groening /at/ Brown.edu)