[ecrea] CFP Reminder, InVisible Culture Issue 24: Vulnerability

Please take a look at the CFP for InVisible Culture Issue 24: 
"Vulnerability," on our website. Attached, you can find our new CFP in 
pdf. Feel free to share and circulate it widely!

“Vulnerability” – Issue 24

For its twenty-fourth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal 
for Visual Culture invites scholarly

articles and creative works that explore the concept of vulnerability.

Almost two weeks after Thomas Eric Duncan’s plane landed in Dallas from 
Liberia in late September, the

Centers for Disease Control announced the first case of Ebola in the 
United States. News feeds

immediately jumped at the report, the Dow Jones plunged 266 points and 
petitions to ban flights from

Ebola-stricken countries have since been circulating across social media 
platforms. From ISIS to the crisis

in Ukraine to employment security, the media’s pronouncement of threats 
posed by vulnerabilities (and

certain invisibilities) are ubiquitous. It is worth considering, 
however, what the stakes are in maintaining

such rhetoric, and whether it is possible to imagine alternatives. As 
urgency slips into a normative state

of being, for Issue 24, we would like contributors to explore the 
various meanings of vulnerability. Are

there critical practices which uniquely encourage or discourage 
vulnerability? Can we imagine

vulnerability as a position of power? How does visual culture hold 
accountable social or political

processes that produce states of precarity? What are the stakes in 
protecting technological

vulnerabilities? How does the diffusion of images enable personal and 
social vulnerabilities?

We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings 
of vulnerability. Possible

topics of exploration include, but are not limited to:

• Vulnerability in artistic or scholarly production

• Labor, shelter, healthcare, and economic precarities

• Biological, affective, and political contagion

• Climate change and the environment

• International trade and policy agreements

• Network and technological vulnerabilities

• Sharing and distribution of personal information

• Political transparency

• States of emergency, endangerment, crisis, war, and risk

Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines 
from the Chicago Manual

of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to 
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by March

20th, 2015. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.


Many thanks!

InVisible Culture
503A Morey Hall
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu



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