[Commlist] CfP: Science Fiction From the Margins

*CfP: Science Fiction From the Margins*

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine 
right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human 
beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our 
art, the art of words.

- Ursula LeGuin, 2014

Science fiction includes a myriad of thematics from futurism, 
technology, transhumanism, apocalypse, other-worldliness, 
interspeciality, alterity and to history. As a result, its’ texts and 
images bear more of a ‘family resemblance’ than a generic codification. 
However, at the core of science fiction is an imagining of the world as 
other than it is­—whether that be by space travel, super-powers, or 
magic. This special issue of /Panic at the Discourse/, “Science Fiction 
 From the Margins,” seeks to think and imagine the world otherwise with 
care and focus to marginalized understandings, ontologies, and 
epistemologies.

The guest editors invite submissions on topics including, but not 
limited to:

  * Science fiction as minority pedagogy and methodology
  * Troubling the history of science fiction as a genre/mode of film,
    literature, politics, etc.
  * Instrumentalization of science fiction as theory and politics
  * Engaging science fiction as ‘cult’ or ‘low’ art in film, television,
    literature, comics, art, and other mediums, thinking about how they
    challenge the boundaries of their respective media
  * Imagining alternative histories and/or futures of racial formations
  * Exploring real life science fictional phenomena (cloning,
    speculations about alien life, advanced forms of AI) and the
    anxieties produced by these phenomena
  * Examining how dystopian fiction has engaged/failed to engage with
    forms of political domination
  * Connections between form and minority politics including but not
    limited to dispossession, exile, displacement, and racialization
We welcome submissions from a range of disciplines including, but not 
limited to: Philosophy, Literary Studies, Film and Media Studies, Women 
and Gender Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Black Studies, Cultural 
Studies, and Indigenous Studies. All submissions should be written for 
an interdisciplinary audience.

Additionally, we accept a wide range of submissions from poetry, visual 
art, creative writing, reviews, and traditional scholarship. Traditional 
articles must be between 4000-6000 words and reviews a maximum of 750 words.

All submissions will undergo a review process by the publication 
editorial team. Works selected for publication will receive editorial 
queries for revision. Publication will be contingent on satisfactorily 
resolving all queries. Included images must be high resolution and have 
accessible descriptions. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain 
image permissions. Use Chicago style endnotes for any citations. Please 
include a brief author bio of no more than 50 words. Authors retain all 
rights to their work. Email the publication if you have a work you are 
unsure about.

Send all submissions to (panicatthediscourse /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(panicatthediscourse /at/ gmail.com)> with the subject line 
“Submission: Article Title” by *May 1st, 2022*.Visit our website 
https://www.panicdiscourse.com/ <https://www.panicdiscourse.com/> for 
any further information or to view previous issues.


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