[ecrea] WSQ CFP: Enchantment

Call for Papers

WSQ Special Issue: Enchantment

Special Editors: Ann Burlein&  Jackie Orr


This issue of WSQ attempts to intervene in the present moment by
conjuring the power and seductions of enchantment. How to find and
create places of allure when things seem impossible, when the world
seems impassable, when survival becomes a question for too many? What
possibilities might be needed to imagine a world in which one could
flourish? And what might be the serious and playful role of
enchantments in materializing that world? In queer and feminist
kinship with multiple sites of enchanted practice that already exist
both inside and outside the university, we seek to intensify and
proliferate transformative forms of enchantment that devise escape
routes that are not escapist.



Yet enchantment is a contested strategy, whose ambivalence requires
exploration and investigation. Enchantment is regularly used by the
state and various civil, disciplinary, and capitalist agencies, from
cultures of resistance to corporations to professors. In light of
recent theorizations of “occult economies,” “the magic of the state,”
“queer temporalities,” and “the enchantment of everyday life,” we
invite post-disciplinary re-thinkings that move beyond social logics
and political rationalities toward the magic allurements of power that
captivate and capture. How to negotiate these ambivalent registers so
as to enchant a different series of connections, a different scene of
collective and individual possibilities?



One animating ambition of this issue is to help redefine and expand
critical notions of what 19th century Anglo European societies came to
call ‘the occult.’ Without an understanding of diverse historical
sedimentations of “occult forces,” it is difficult to trace what is
happening with religion, race, sexuality, politics, gender,
militarisms, and commodity cultures at this particular moment in time.
Deeper historical and contemporary accounts of the charmed vitality of
‘the occult’ in so many realms of imaginal culture provide a crucial
contribution to the expanded and revised conceptions of materialism
demanded by the politics of this time.



Collective effervescence, contagious revolutions
Enchanted icons (children, animals, the dark, secrets, divas,
mermaids, saints, dungeons, hybrids, islands)
Haunting and ghostly matters
Allure of utopias and utopian thought
Racialization of figures and spaces of magic
Mysticisms—historical and contemporary, everyday and ecstatic,
affective and political
Seductions of capital (speculative finance, occult ontologies of value)
The sacred and its popular re-purposings
Erotics of power; powers of the erotic
State ‘magic’ (disappearances, torture, terror, rendition, public
secrets)
Militant politics of play
Pagan religiosities, new age spiritualities, new age Orientalisms
Contemporary psychoanalytics of fantasy and the imaginary
Queer practices of be/longings and bondings
Politics of the dead and of death
Science fiction, urban fantasy
Imperialism, colonization, cultural appropriations and ‘enchantment’
Politics and aesthetics of evil
‘When Things Speak’ (speculative realisms, agential realisms, actor
network theory and other animist assemblages)
Yoga, meditation, bodywork, alternative healing practices
Popular cultures of secular enchantment
Drugs and the pharmacologics of ecstasy (legal and non-legal)
Uncanny technologies of vision and embodiment (puppets, avatars,
digital animation)

If submitting academic work, please send articles by October 1, 2011
to the guest editors, Ann Burlein and Jackie Orr (atWSQEnchantmentIssue /at/ gmail.com)
. Submission should not exceed 20 double spaced, 12-point font pages.
Full submission guidelines may be found at: http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/submission-guidelines
. Articles must conform to WSQ guidelines in order to be considered
for submission.

“Classic Revisited” submissions: Two of Audre Lorde’s influential
essays, “Poetry is Not a Luxury” (1978), and “Uses of the Erotic: The
Erotic as Power” (1981) will be the classic texts we revisit for this
special issue. Please send a short commentary (1-2,000 words) on how
you continue to read, teach, re-think, and re-enchant these essays to
the guest editors, Ann Burlein and Jackie Orr, at (WSQEnchantmentIssue /at/ gmail.com)
 by October 1, 2011.

Poetry submissions: Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what
type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note
that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is
notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work
that has been previously published. Please paste poetry submissions
into the body of the e-mail along with all contact information. Poetry
submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor, Kathleen Ossip, at (WSQpoetry /at/ gmail.com)
 by October 1, 2011.

Prose submissions: Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what
type of submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note
that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is
notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work
that has been previously published. Please provide all contact
information in the body of the e-mail. Fiction, essay, and memoir
submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor, Jocelyn
Lieu, at (WSQpoetry /at/ gmail.com) by October 1, 2011.

Art submissions should be sent to WSQ’s art editor, Margot Bouman, at (WSQArt /at/ gmail.com)
, by October 1, 2011. After art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art
must be sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes
all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or
larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS.





Amy Herzog
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Coordinator of the Film Studies Program
Queens College, CUNY
Department of Theatre and the Film Studies Certificate Program
City University of New York Graduate Center
(amy.herzog /at/ qc.cuny.edu)


----------------
ECREA-Mailing list
----------------
This mailing list is a free service from ECREA.
---
To unsubscribe, please visit http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
---
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Postal address:
ECREA
Université Libre de Bruxelles
c/o Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences
CP123, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, b-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
----------------