[ecrea] Walter Benjamin and the Virtual - cfp Transformations

>Transformations is seeking abstracts for the following issue:
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>Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the 
>Age of Global Culture
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>What does Walter Benjamin offer for critical thinking and creative 
>practice in an age increasingly mediated by virtual technologies?
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>Much Benjaminian scholarship proposes a Benjamin at best ambivalent 
>to, and at worst, in recoil from modernity. Yet, recent critical 
>thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben and Jean-Luc Nancy provide new 
>possibilities in approaching the analysis of contemporary culture 
>inspired by Benjamin's insights and arguments. These suggest 
>innovative ways of reading and incorporating Benjamin, ways that 
>re-engage an active configuration between politics, art, and 
>representation in response to the shift from mass to global culture.
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>Increasingly it seems possible to reconsider the role art can, and 
>may be already playing, in such a configuration. This issue of 
>Transformations seeks submissions that address these ideas. In the 
>light of Benjamin's thought, and those who take that thought 
>further, we want to look at what the concept of virtuality- the 
>tendency in mediated contexts towards disembodied interactions and 
>ways of being human-- does to Benjamin's ideas of politics, art, and media?
>
>Call for abstracts: abstracts of 500 words due end of November 2006
>
>Papers due: March 2007
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>Publication: mid 2007
>
>Submissions: Submissions should be sent to the
>Issue editor: John Grech, at
>(John.M.Grech /at/ alumni.uts.edu.au)
>Or alternatively, to the
>General editor: Warwick Mules at
>(w.mules /at/ cqu.edu.au)
>
>Details can be found at the Transformations web site at
><http://transformations.cqu.edu.au>http://transformations.cqu.edu.au
>
>
>Regards
>
>Warwick
>
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>Dr. Warwick Mules
>General Editor, 
>Transformations 
><http://transformations.cqu.edu.au>http://transformations.cqu.edu.au
>Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
>Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education
>Central Queensland University
>Bundaberg Campus
>Bundaberg Queensland 4670
>Australia
>
>Adjunct Senior Lecturer
>School of English, Media and Art History
>University of Queensland
>Australia
>
>Phone: 07 41507142
>Fax: 07 41507090
>Mobile: 0412292541
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