[Commlist] CFP: Media Aesthetics

# Call for Papers - communication+1
## Volume 11 - "Media Aesthetics"

communication +1 is seeking proposals for Volume 11, "Media Aesthetics."
Co-edited by Hank Gerba and Zachary J. McDowell.

In our age of ubiquitous computation, “sense and the senses turn to 
eyewash.”(1) Or so proclaimed Friedrich Kittler, fearing that the 
operationalization of boolean logic, materialized and ever-miniaturized 
in the transistor, would sever the connection between media and the 
human senses. Digital communication between machines would pass 
seamlessly below the threshold of perception, which would only ever be 
rendered in the strictest computational sense. Must theories of media 
and communication abdicate the body as a locus of theoretical inquiry?

Despite the micro-temporality of computational media, this collection 
aims to reintroduce media of all kinds to the sensory by asking after 
the relationship between media and aesthetics. We understand aesthetics 
broadly, following M. Beatrice Fazi, who writes that “aesthetics is 
[here] understood in a manner that is more in keeping with its 
etymological roots––which lie in the term aisthesis––and it is thus 
conceptualized as a theory of sensory knowledge.”(2)With this 
definition, the collection hopes to provide a space in which the sensory 
can refocus critical and political questions of embodiment, mediation, 
and subjectivation.

This collection seeks engagement with and between the many existing 
species of media studies and communications. By focusing on the 
aesthetic, we also hope to expand the study of media and communication 
beyond their traditional institutional and methodological boundaries. We 
strongly encourage intersectional and interdisciplinary engagements with 
the aesthetic as it functions theoretically, methodologically, 
spatially, institutionally, historically, and in relation to the study 
of media and communication.

Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by December 1, 
2023 to [(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com)>].
Upon invitation, full-text submissions will be due April 15, 2024, with 
expected publication in Fall 2024. The expected length of the full 
submission is between 6k and 10k words.

## About the Journal
Started in 2011, the aim of communication +1 is to promote new 
approaches and open new horizons in the study of communication from an 
interdisciplinary perspective. We are particularly committed to 
promoting research that seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to 
explore new frontiers of theoretical activities linking the study of 
communication to both established and emerging research programs in the 
humanities, social sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to 
rigorous scholarship, communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its 
primary objective is to create a space for thoughtful experiments and 
for communicating these experiments.

We are a DOAJ-listed Platinum Open Access Journal.
We require *no payment from the authors* (no APC) and never charge for 
access.
We are part of the Open Humanities Press.

The journal's website is https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/ 
<https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/>.

## Editors
Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst <br>
Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago

## Advisory Board

Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago

Lisa Åkervall, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais

Jimena Canales, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Bernard Geoghegan, Kings College, London

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University

Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine

Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom

Jussi Parikka, Aarhus University, Denmark

John Durham Peters, Yale University

Amit Pinchevski,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Florian Sprenger, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Jonathan Sterne, McGill University

Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder

Christina Vagt, University of California Santa Barbara

Greg Wise, Arizona State University



## References
1: Kittler, Friedrich. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Translated by 
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Stanford, CA: Stanford 
University Press, 1999, 1.

2: Fazi, M. Beatrice. Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, 
and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics. Washington, DC: Rowman & 
Littlefield, 2018, 9.
live long and prosper,


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