[ecrea] Transmediating Cultures? Transdiscplinary Conference

Call for Papers


TRANSMEDIATING CULTURE(S)?

Transdisciplinary Conference


                               Szczecin University, Department of English
                              Szczecin (Poland), November 17-19, 2016

„Medium is the message,” as Marshall McLuhan asserted in his seminal 
1964 work entitled Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. In so 
doing he simultaneously blurred the line between the traditionally 
envisioned, binary notion of the content and form.  Forty two years 
later, in 2006, Henry Jenkins clearly demonstrated, via his widely 
acclaimed Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, the 
medium/message rapport to be a process, not an endpoint. In consequence, 
this representational cultural model has also assumed its own agency 
thus becoming performative of broadly understood cultural workings. In 
2016, with culture transmedialization – popularly conceived of as 
“transition in the making” – being a fact of life, McLuhan’s famous 
statement could, accordingly, be re/configured in the following way: 
“how is (cultural) message trans/mediated?”
Interfusing human life to the point of making it a (post)human mode of 
(post)cultural production, the trans/mediated (cultural) message can 
appear as, primarily, a peculiar affective practice, enabling a more 
effective cooperation of all cultural agents. However, such an apparent 
“affection-image,” to paraphrase Gilles Deleuze, of culture, might be 
perceived as but a audio-visual trick played on us by those who 
economically control the culture industry. In effect, the resulting 
“cultural franchise” can also crop up as a performance of concrete 
knowledge and hence a “political demonstration” of/against what in the 
idiom of Michel Foucault is a “cartography of power.”
For the purpose of pondering over these and other questions, we would 
like to invite all who want to explore the multiple – theoretical and 
practical – transdisciplinary ways in which transmediality activates, 
questions, complicates, re/formulates, de/stabilizes etc. cultural 
productions.

SUBMISSIONS & DEADLINES
We invite abstracts of up to 300 words, to be sent in MS Word and Pdf 
format to:

 (transmediatingcultures2016 /at/ gmail.com)


Abstracts should be received by: March 14, 2016
Acceptance notifications will be sent out by April 10, 2016



Conference organizers:
Justyna Stępień, PhD
Beata Zawadka, PhD

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