[Commlist] Chiasma Journal CFP on Ethics

Chiasma #7: “Ethics”

/Chiasma: A Site for Thought/ is pleased to invite submissions for its 
seventh issue, on theoretical and philosophical investigations into the 
concept of ethics. ‘Ethics’ bleeds into our colloquial discourse, 
arising in everyday life through discourse on a multitude of interests: 
Contemporary news media is forever obsessing over the ethics of 
events—including but not limited to the preponderance of military 
weaponry (c.f. Drone strikes) and general war, economic and political 
decision making, religious observation and debate, and (above all else) 
celebrity gossip. Conceptual investigations into the ethical have even 
re-entered popular culture with the popularity of the television show 
/The Good Place/ which asks the question: “who died and put Aristotle in 
charge of ethics?” before moving on from Hellenic ethics to the 
Enlightenment philosophy of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and continuing 
on to the existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. This issue aims to 
investigate not only these threads of the ‘ethical’ within the 
Occidental canon, but to extend this discourse to the diversity of 
theoretical possibility in the area of ethics. Ethics is applicable to 
almost any school of thought, and no matter which philosophical school 
one subscribes to, one must reflect on the ethics of their 
investigation. We welcome submissions from a variety of academic 
disciplines, including communications and media studies.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

-Queer Theory and Ethics: queer phenomenology, psychoanalytic readings 
of queer culture, AIDS activism and awareness, reproductive futurism, 
the ethics of cruising, the queer art of (ethical) failure.

-Ethics vs morality: ethics as action/ethics as act, ethics as 
pragmatics vs. morality as, maxim/rule, implying a material(ity) of the 
ethical.

-The ethics of phenomenology: ethical embodiment, the ethics of 
investigating lived experience.

-Decolonial ethics: post-colonial, Indigenous Critical Theory, Critical 
Race Studies, multiculturalism, globalisation, separatism, anthropology.

-Feminist ethics: engagement and criticism of ‘traditional’ ethical 
stances, a feminist ethics of care, intersectionality and ethical 
approaches to difference

- Trans* ethics: embodiment, acceptance, nonbinary attitudes & 
visibility, relation to feminist and queer ethics/philosophy, and 
representation/aesthetics.

-Ethics and politics: conflict between them, are they distinct? Does 
ethics obscure the question of politics, or “what is to be done?”

-The ethics of various forms of Non-ethics: non-philosophy, psychoanalysis.

-Exploring vitalist ethics of creativity/play, ethics and aesthetics, 
culture industry and ethical consumption.

-Ethics and nonhuman life, environmental ethics, posthuman.

-Technology and ethics: how emerging technologies force us to reconsider 
what is (or is not) ethical.

Articles should be 5,000-10,000 words long, formatted according to the 
Chicago Manual of Style 16^th Edition, and cited with footnotes. 
Articles should include abstracts of ~150 words. Please send 
*anonymized* articles with abstracts (with the subject of email reading: 
“[Author Name], Submission to Issue 7”) 
to*(chiasma.asiteforthought /at/ gmail.com) by January 15, 2020*. Please 
include in the body of the email the name, title, affiliation, and 
correspondence email of the author(s). See 
https://chiasma-journal.com/submissions-guidelines/ for full submission 
details. No APCs/publication fees will be charged for publications.

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