[Commlist] Punk and Philosophy: Call for Chapters

Punk and Philosophy: Call for Chapters

Since the beginning of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural 
Studies’ examining of youth cultures in the 1970s, there has been 
significant debate regarding approaches in how best one can unpack 
notions of formation, analysis and definition. This has led to the 
development of what is often termed as ‘post-subcultural studies,’ which 
has drawn upon a new lexicon of terms, such as ‘scene’ and ‘neo-tribe,’ 
as a means of unpicking the complexities of ‘subcultures.’With these 
debates flourishing, academic approaches to subculture, and punk in 
particular, entered the 21st century in a postmodern mood. Here, new, 
exciting theories of punk have been thriving, including those who have 
argued that the wholesale jettisoning of the word ‘subculture’ was 
premature.

This edited volume seeks to add to the current oeuvre, locating 
subcultural, post-subcultural and punk studies within a framework of 
various philosophical traditions. With the maturing of cultural studies, 
including the innovative use of interdisciplinary explorations of youth 
movements /per se/, much research has pulled upon a variety of new and 
exciting ideas to explore the formation, make-up, and development of 
such movements. One could argue however that, especially with reference 
to punk, there has been a lack of study with regards to the 
philosophical tradition.

Therefore, this volume seeks to re-address this omission: and the 
editors are seeking chapters that use a philosophical approach to gain a 
new understanding of punk, with punk and philosophy being of equal 
importance to the contributions. Here, chapters will be underpinned by 
traditions that include (but are by no means limited to) aesthetics, 
metaphysics, ethics, and ontology.

Chapters may include, but are no means limited to:

  * Greek philosophies (pre-Socratic thought, Plato, Aristotle, and
    Hellenistic philosophy)
  * Medieval philosophy (St Augustine, Neoplatonism, and Thomas Aquinas)
  * Renaissance philosophy (Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and René
    Descartes)
  * Non-Western Philosophical Traditions
  * Decolonialist Thought
  * Diasporic Philosophical Thought
  * The Enlightenment (John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and
    Immanuel Kant)
  * The Idealism of Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and
    Nietzsche
  * Positivism (Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Marx)
  * Continental philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger, Deleuze)
  * Existentialism (Satre and Jaspers)
  * Structuralism and Post-structuralism (Saussure, Foucault, Lacan,
    Baudrillard, etc)
  * Deconstructionism (Derrida)
  * Western Marxism (Adorno, Habermas, Marcuse, Laclau, and Horkheimer)
  * Philosophy of language (Wittgenstein and Strawson).

The editors are keen to emphasize the importance of innovative 
approaches to punk. As such, the text will give voice to those authors 
who are pushing the boundaries of ‘subcultural’ and ‘punk’ studies 
and/or their respective disciplines. The final product will be an 
interdisciplinary philosophical text that elevates contemporary, 
cutting-edge thinking around music subcultural theory with a particular 
focus on philosophical applications to punk.

Each chapter will develop a philosophical approach to subculture while 
applying the author’s chosen concepts to punk. The final product will 
speak from the margins, encouraging the field of subcultural studies to 
once again re-evaluate its theories and incorporate new philosophies 
while using punk as a 'case study' that shows the pragmatic value of 
these innovative ideas.

Please submit a 500 word abstract and a short bio by Tuesday 15^th 
 March 2022. If your proposal is suitable you will be informed of this 
by Monday 4^th April 2022 and you will be asked to submit a chapter no 
later than Thursday 1^st September 2022.

  Please send your submission *TO ALL* of the following:

Edward Avery-Natale-

Mike (Dines-m.dines /at/ mdx.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.dines /at/ mdx.ac.uk)>

Matt (Grimes-matt.grimes /at/ bcu.ac.uk) <mailto:(matt.grimes /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>

We very much look forward to receiving your proposals.

Edward Avery-Natale-Mercer County Community College, NJ

Mike Dines-Middlesex University London

Matt Grimes-   Birmingham City University


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