[ecrea] CFP Reminder: IVC Issue 24 - "Vulnerability"

*InVisible Culture*

“Vulnerability” – Issue 24

For its twenty-fourth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal 
for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that 
explore the concept of vulnerability.

Almost two weeks after Thomas Eric Duncan’s plane landed in Dallas from 
Liberia in late September, the Centers for Disease Control announced the 
first case of Ebola in the United States. News feeds immediately jumped 
at the report, the Dow Jones plunged 266 points and petitions to ban 
flights from Ebola-stricken countries have since been circulating across 
social media platforms. From ISIS to the crisis in Ukraine to employment 
security, the media’s pronouncement of threats posed by vulnerabilities 
(and certain invisibilities) are ubiquitous. It is worth considering, 
however, what the stakes are in maintaining such rhetoric, and whether 
it is possible to imagine alternatives. As urgency slips into a 
normative state of being, for Issue 24, we would like contributors to 
explore the various meanings of vulnerability. Are there critical 
practices which uniquely encourage or discourage vulnerability? Can we 
imagine vulnerability as a position of power? How does visual culture 
hold accountable social or political processes that produce states of 
precarity? What are the stakes in protecting technological 
vulnerabilities? How does the diffusion of images enable personal and 
social vulnerabilities?

We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings 
of vulnerability. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not 
limited to:

• Vulnerability in artistic or scholarly production
• Labor, shelter, healthcare, and economic precarities
• Biological, affective, and political contagion
• Climate change and the environment
• International trade and policy agreements
• Network and technological vulnerabilities
• Sharing and distribution of personal information
• Political transparency
• States of emergency, endangerment, crisis, war, and risk
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Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines 
from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to 
(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com)> by March 20th, 
2015. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.*

*Creative/Artistic Works*
In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in 
other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the 
theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning 
acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or 
contact (ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com)>.

*Reviews*
InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, 
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review 
proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact 
(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com)>.

*Blog*
The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will 
accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. 
For further details, please contact us at (ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com)> with the subject heading “blog submission.”

* InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a 
student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in 
an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, 
and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore 
changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog 
across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.