[Commlist] Transformations Issue 37 cfp: Idealism and Contemporary Film Theory: Subjectivity, Politics, Technics

*Call for Papers*

*Idealism and Contemporary Film Theory: Subjectivity, Politics, Technics*

This issue of /Transformations/ seeks to explore idealism as a positive 
influence on and ongoing relevance to contemporary developments in film 
theory and analysis (broadly understood). With a particular interest in 
the extent to which Idealist philosophy continues to inform contemporary 
theories of lived experience, cognition, imagination, morality and 
politics, the issue will explore the way this seminal philosophical 
movement has helped shape our understanding of spectatorial 
subjectivity, cinema as revolutionary tool, and film as a technology or 
‘technique’. The issue will suggest that despite the attempts of film 
theorists to denounce, suppress or /negate /the formative role of 
idealism in twentieth century thought, many of its key insights into the 
relationship between human subjectivity, mediation and the non-human 
world remain relevant to our present moment and the place of screen 
media in it.

The editors invite contributions from researchers and scholars on 
relevant topics including, but not limited to:

  * Idealism and theories of embodied spectatorship (Sobchack, Marks,
    Barker, Bruno etc.)
  * Cinema, subjectivity, and the question of technics [technē]
    (Stiegler, Nancy, Derrida etc.)
  * Idealism and the new realisms and object-oriented approaches to
    cinema (Meillassoux, Shaviro, Harman)
  * The role of idealism in dialectical film theories (McGowan,
    Rancière, Žižek)
  * Idealism, schemata, cognitivist, and quantum approaches to the
    moving image
  * /Naturphilosophie/and ecocritical film theory
  * Idealism, the philosophy of language and psychoanalytic film theory
  * Idealism, freedom, and the politics of the cinematic imagination
  * Moral philosophy and film theory’s ‘ethical turn’

*>> Abstracts*(200-400 words) are due 17^th April 2023, with a view to 
submit articles by 21^st July 2023.

*>>> Abstracts*should be forwarded to: (editor /at/ transformationsjournal.org) 
<mailto:(editor /at/ transformationsjournal.org)>



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