[Commlist] CFP “Distracting / Distraire”–Intermédialités no. 51

Journal: Intermédialités / Intermediality: History and Theory of the 
Arts, Literature and Technologies.
Issue 51, “Distracting / Distraire,” guest-edited by Ilinca Iurascu and 
Dante Prado (University of British Columbia).

For more than a century now, distraction has been our aesthetic and 
media-theoretical companion: an analytical category and a subject of 
constant reflection on modernity and collective experiences. Central to 
the canon of the Frankfurt School, its forms and spaces of manifestation 
have repeatedly offered critical platforms for the study of mass 
phenomena, caught between organized stupor and emancipatory trepidation. 
Acting as a sign and signal of historical crises, distraction has been 
interpreted in relation to processes of rationalization as well as via 
techniques of displacement, disruption, fragmentation, and dispersal.

In the centennial year of Siegfried Kracauer’s “Cult of Distraction” 
essay (“Kult der Zerstreuung,” printed in the Frankfurter Zeitung on 
March 4, 1926), this issue of Intermediality is dedicated to situating 
distraction at the intersection of multiple cultural discourses and 
media-technological configurations, and reflecting on its ongoing 
capacity to shift, reorganize, mobilize and redirect the objects of its 
study. We invite proposals, in French or English, related to, but not 
limited to, the following topics:
- cultural histories of distraction beyond modernity
- distraction and new forms of experience
- distraction and non-chrononormativity
- queering distraction
- political economies of distraction
- digital capitalism and distraction
- distraction and/as labour
- the futures of distraction

Starting January 2027, Intermédialités will publish in immediate open 
access.
Intermédialités does not charge authors any publication fees.

Submission details
Proposals (350–400 words), in English or French, should include an 
abstract, a preliminary bibliography (five books or articles), and a 
brief biographical note (5–10 lines). Please send them to both guest 
editors, (ilinca.iurascu /at/ ubc.ca) <mailto:(ilinca.iurascu /at/ ubc.ca)> and 
(dante.prado /at/ ubc.ca) <mailto:(dante.prado /at/ ubc.ca)>, by January 10, 2027.
- Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2027
- Completed articles due: August 1, 2027 (maximum 6,000 words/40,000 
characters including spaces). Articles may include audio, visual, still, 
or animated illustrations; authors are responsible for securing 
reproduction rights.
- Publication: Spring 2028
Full call: 
https://intermedialites.com/en/call-for-papers-no-51-distracting-distraire/ 
<https://intermedialites.com/en/call-for-papers-no-51-distracting-distraire/> 


Contact
Ilinca Iurascu and Dante Prado
(ilinca.iurascu /at/ ubc.ca) <mailto:(ilinca.iurascu /at/ ubc.ca)>
(dante.prado /at/ ubc.ca) <mailto:(dante.prado /at/ ubc.ca)>
University of British Columbia

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