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[ecrea] cfp: Camera Obscura special issue on collectivity

Tue Sep 16 22:51:15 GMT 2014




CAMERA OBSCURA: FEMINISM, CULTURE, AND MEDIA STUDIES

Call for Submissions:
Collectivity


For the fortieth anniversary of /Camera Obscura/, we invite submissions on the theme of collectivity.

Collectives often emerge in periods of crisis in response to new social, economic, and technological conditions. /Camera Obscura/’s feminist editorial collective has functioned in this way since its beginnings in the 1970s, a time when many forms of cooperative action proliferated. In this period, collectives formed around issues of gender, race, and politics, with many organizing around forms of media production. In the last ten to fifteen years, a growing constellation of collectives, many international, has emerged, configuring artists and activists in new political and cultural formations. These collectives are a response to developments like the growing impact of digital media and mobile technologies, new paradigms of relational aesthetics, new configurations of labor and precarity, and the rise of neoliberal policy, which has worked to erode the public sphere and shared resources in favor of the idea of individual responsibility. In contrast, the theory and practice of collectivity emphasize participation, consensus, and working toward common goals. However, as anyone who has been part of a collective knows, these formations are never free of difficulty and disagreement—difficulties that relate to issues of communication as well as to the very dynamics of gender, sexuality, class, race, and multinationalism that demand collective responses.


Topics might include, but are not limited to:

 Conceptualizing “collectivity,” “cooperation,” and “commons”

Historically specific investigations of past and still-functioning collectives

The affective economies of collectivity

The analysis of films, videos, or other media objects produced through collective action or participation

The cultural, discursive, and economic structures that underlie and produce collectivity

Collectivity and forms of labor and media

The temporality of collectivity

Collectivity and utopianism

The relationship of technological change to collectivity

The relation of collectivity to identity, individuality, and subjectivity

Transnational forms of collectivity

Collaboration, microtopias, communities of practice, and the space of the commons

Swarms, multitudes, and political uprising

Specific dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in collective formations


We welcome both essay-length submissions and shorter writings appropriate to our “In Practice” section. Please visit http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/ for our complete submission guidelines. Submissions and queries should be sent to (cameraobscura /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu) <mailto:(cameraobscura /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu)>. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2014.

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Athena Tan
Managing Editor, CAMERA OBSCURA: FEMINISM, CULTURE, AND MEDIA STUDIES
Ph.D. Candidate, Film and Media Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

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