[ecrea] Transformations cfp: New Immaterialities

CFP: Issue 25
New Immaterialities

Transformations is calling for submissions for Issue 25: New Immaterialities

This special issue of Transformations will examine the various ways in 
which immateriality is encountered, invoked, conceptualised and 
investigated in cultural theory and research. It explores how the 
immaterial is reconfigured within changing materialisms.

Amidst well-entrenched materialism, the concept and term ‘immateriality’ 
regularly features in cultural research and theory.  New media arts and 
the virtual have all been understood, without irony, to be involved in 
the ephemeral and the immaterial. Forms and forces often imagined as 
incorporeal, such as spectres and hauntings, provide metaphors for 
historical and cultural processes. The immaterial may be theorised as 
the absence of material or that which material holds forth as 
possibility. It may be described as a changed approach or re-imagining 
of matter.  In this context the bodied and disembodied are not opposed 
but reciprocally permeable, posing questions as to the new places and 
practices by which immateriality emerges and the new explanatory 
purposes it serves.

We invite submissions in the areas of philosophy, critical, cultural and 
media studies, and creative arts research. Possible topics include:

– the immateriality of new media practices and the virtual
–  immateriality 18 years on from Lyotard’s ‘Les Immateriaux’ exhibition
– the dematerialisation and rematerialisation of the art object
– curating immaterial arts and heritage
– the immaterial, the insensible and the imperceptible
– hauntings and spectres of postcolonial and other histories
– immateriality and singularity
– immateriality and the time-image
– immaterial labour
– immaterial communication, such as clairvoyance and telepathy.

Abstracts (500 words) due: 15 November, 2013
Authors notified:  1 December, 2013
Article submission: 15 March, 2014.

Please send abstracts and correspondence to (erika.kerruish /at/ scu.edu.au)

For submission guidelines and to view Transformations online go to: 
http://www.transformationsjournal.org.


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