[ecrea] CFP im@go n. 12 > Images of humankind

im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary (www.imagojournal.it 
<http://www.imagojournal.it>)

Call for Papers (n. 12): Images of Humankind
/Editors:/ Valentina Grassi & Pier Luca Marzo


Humankind imaginative tension has always been oriented towards the 
conquest of images able in the first place to represent it, to map the 
indefinite territory of its nature and essence. It is through these 
imaginative cartographies that the humankind has looked, without any 
success, for some pathways leading to the real self. The existential 
question “who am I?” has cyclically shown how a map is not a territory. 
Still, this identitary wandering is what has transfigured humankind via 
a genuine /pluriverse /of images cast from social and historically 
determined /Weltanshauungen/. Thanks to these, being the only animal to 
be ashamed of its own body, humankind has per-formed its nature with the 
skin of culture and has become the flesh of its images through body 
technologies, clothes, jewelry, make-up, tatooes, body piercing etc. 
During these processes, images of the human are embodied, interpreted 
and deformed till they go back to the instability of an identitary human 
void. From this, an imaginative ecosystem between mind and body, inner 
and outer, individual and society was born generating an ongoing 
becoming flux. Our tradition of thought has provoked a significant 
variation in this ecosystem of images of the human. From Modernity 
onwards, the life of the images of the human has started to secularize, 
to be geometric following a prospective plan already originating in the 
Humanism. Indeed, the aesthetic forms of the modern age do nothing but 
convey images of men and women organized following a teleological and 
not theological vanishing point. Humankind is not anymore God’s own 
image and likeness but the image and likeness of human’s will to power. 
Human creatural image gives way to a co-presence of the human as creator 
and created, /homo creator /and /homo materia/along a path still be to 
explored.

Moving from this constellation of meanings and through transdisciplinary 
approaches, the aim of Im@go n.12 is to understand how images of 
humankind are produced by:

  * social utopia and dystopia;
  *   the archetypic dimension entailed by the images of the human;
  * the logic of market production and consumption;
  * anthropocentric and ethnocentric perspectives;
  * scientific knowledge;
  * bio-technological modellings of the human;
  * the dualism animal/human;
  * the semantic area building the complementary axis female/male;
  * medial products and exchanges;
  * symbolic and aesthetic universes of our daily life (fashion, art,
    pop-culture, sub-culture etc.);
  * the religious dimension;
  * representations thickening around self-care.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: *September , 3^th , 2018*
Communication to the authors: *September 10^th , 2018*
Deadline for submission of papers: *October, 22^th , 2018*
Referees communications: *November, 12^th , 2018*
Deadline for submission of final revision: *November, 26^th , 2018*
Proposals may be submitted in Italian, English, Spanish and French, and 
sent simultaneously to: (rivistaimago /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(rivistaimago /at/ gmail.com)>; (valentina.grassi /at/ uniparthenope.it) 
<mailto:(valentina.grassi /at/ uniparthenope.it)>; (marzop /at/ unime.it) 
<mailto:(marzop /at/ unime.it)>.






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