[ecrea] CFP: InVisible Culture, "Beyond Love" Issue 29

“Beyond Love” – Issue 29

For its twenty-ninth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for 
Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that 
address the complex and multiple meanings of love.

According to Freud, “it is always possible to bind together a 
considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people 
left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.” Is 
love beyond us? Whether it connotes a delusion, state, obsession, 
rupture, failure, family, intimacy, or self, love eludes and mystifies. 
Mutable, primordial, and accumulable, it persists as a permanent 
horizon, accessible to everyone. In recent events the demand for love 
has emerged again and again, echoing the the failed and cyclical nature 
of past desires. Even as past desires are fulfilled--either by the 
state, the family, physically, spiritually--the hope for love remains, 
its forms and conceptions ever changing.

For IVC 29, we invite contributors to explore visual representations and 
contestations of the concept of love. What does love look like? How is 
it displayed? What are the conditions and/or/of possibilities for love? 
Where do we locate love’s value? Can love bear witness to violence? Are 
love, erotics and abjection mutually exclusive? What distinguishes love 
as either ideal or rational? Who or what dictates this categorical 
distinction and how do these types of love appear? We welcome papers 
that interrogate/excavate/trace love as concept and/or practice in 
visual culture.

Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines 
from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu) 
<mailto:(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu)> by January 15, 2018. 
Inquiries should be sent to the same address.

Creative/Artistic Works
In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting works 
in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the 
theme as it is outlined above. Please submit creative or artistic works 
along with an artist statement of no more than two pages to 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu) 
<mailto:(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu)>. For questions or more 
details concerning  acceptable formats, go to 
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute 
<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/> or contact the same address.

Reviews
InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, 
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review 
proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute 
<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/> or contact 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu) 
<mailto:(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu)>.

Dialogues
The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will 
accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. 
For further details, please contact us at 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu) 
<mailto:(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu)> with the subject heading 
“Dialogues submission.”

*InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a 
student-run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in 
an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, 
and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore 
changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog 
across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.

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