[ecrea] CFP - CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

  CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture


  Special Issue


  Belief in Contemporary Global Capitalism


  Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2018

/CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture///is planning a special 
issue on “Belief in Contemporary Global Capitalism”—an urgent issue in 
today's global capitalist world that requires more dialogue among 
scholars within and across disciplines. For this thematic issue, we 
emphasize the complexity of relations among three topics: belief, 
contemporary global capitalism, and subjectivity/consciousness. What 
belief systems emerge from, correspond to, or fit contemporary global 
capitalism? What specific beliefs serve as supplements to or even fuel 
the expansive global economy in our allegedly “post-ideological” era? 
How can today’s capitalist system be thriving on these either 
concomitant or counter-capitalist beliefs? In addition, how do today’s 
beliefs alter our relations to the other, to nature, and to the world? 
And how are some beliefs reshaping the notion of subjectivity and 
consciousness, affecting the way we think and feel? Most of all, what 
subjectivity might mean in the matrix of today’s belief and the 
disciplinary power of global capitalism?

Papers are invited to explore the intersections of belief, contemporary 
global capitalism, and subjectivity/consciousness. Papers are encouraged 
to examine not only literary works or film but also social media.

Corresponding to contemporary global capitalism, beliefs--religious, 
ideological, political, social, literary, scientific, or 
technological--include but are not limited to:

­­– Ecology: ecological crisis, organic food, green products

– New Age spiritualism: meditation, alternative medicine, astrological 
cycles, the Age of Aquarius

– Science and technology: cognitive science, artificial intelligence, 
big data

– Culture/politics: positive thinking, new materialism, identity 
categories (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation), fluid identity, 
cyborg, multitude, neo-liberalism

– Prefix “post-” terms: post-ideology, post-race, post-humanism, 
post-feminism (lipstick feminism, DIY feminism)

Please submit papers of 6000-7000 words by 15 January 2018 to Prof. Fu- 
Jen Chen at (fujen /at/ faculty.nsysu.edu.tw) 
<mailto:(fujen /at/ faculty.nsysu.edu.tw)>. Papers should include an abstract 
of no more than 200 words and a works cited. For the style of the 
journal please consult 
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=clcweblibrary

Articles published in the journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and 
Culture are double-blind peer reviewed and indexed in the International 
Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, the Thomson 
Reuters ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scopus, etc.


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