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[ecrea] Special Journal Issue on Philosophies of Time, Media and Contemporaneity
Wed Sep 05 21:25:05 GMT 2018
*Call for Paper for Special Issue of /Philosophies/*
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Philosophies of Time, Media and Contemporaneity
Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2019
Dear Colleagues,
/Philosophies/ is currently inviting submissions for a special issue on
Philosophies of Time, Media and Contemporaneity. In the special issue we
hope to address questions of so-called ‘globality’ and media, paying
particular attention to the way media and mediation may offer new ways
to describe, explore and critically evaluate global temporalities in the
twenty-first century. In general, we want to ask /can close attention to
the function of media offer us new ways to think about time and
temporality, including critical approaches to historiography? /and,
following on from this /what do methods of communication - and
miscommunication – tell us about the contemporary conditions of globality?/
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As the methods of networked communication proliferate and as questions
of the fidelity of information and the political economies of noise
begin to take on new relevance, these questions require close critical
attention. In this special issue of /Philosophies /we seek contributions
from across fields including but not limited to philosophy, media
theory, art history, political theory, digital humanities and cultural
history that engage with questions relating to what Terry Smith
describes as ‘the conditions of contemporaneity’ through a focus on
philosophies of media and time. This involves thinking about the
multiple times that are collected together – and that often cause
conflict – within contemporary societies. This also involves rethinking
the spatial dynamics of the social within info-spheres of various scales
and exploring the multiple global histories now produced by networked
communication and social media. Overall, we are asking contributors to
this special issue to critically explore the function of media in
producing and explaining world histories and temporal experience. We are
also interested in contributions that explore potential sites of
resistance within or outside these new territories for communicative
reality.
The term 'contemporaneity', which we use in this special issue to refer
to the time of the global, is designed to describe the historical
present and is intended to capture an intense depth difference. As a
replacement for the conceptualisation of history found in discussions of
Western modernity, the term contemporaneity has been used in cultural
theory, art theory and philosophy over the last decade or so to discuss
new ideas about the multiple, and often conflicting times, memories and
histories of global, twenty-first century culture.[1]
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/Philosophies_Time_Media_Contemporaneity#_ftn1> Modernity
was described as marked by a type of time that was one-dimensional,
progressive and oriented towards the production of a shared future. It
could be claimed that post-modernity, on the other hand was conceived
as, among other things, the aftermath of this type of time. The term
contemporaneity is a way of both getting beyond the modern concept of a
one-dimensional model of time and also of addressing the experiences of
cultures that did not share in the experience of modernity in the first
place, and thus are not captured by the term post-modernity. It instead
encourages thinking about the present as a conjuncture of other,
multiple and sometimes conflicting versions of time.[2]
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/Philosophies_Time_Media_Contemporaneity#_ftn2>
As Peter Osborne argues, contemporaneity is not simply a way to
conceptualise the coming together of individuals /in /time, but it
represents a way to conceive of the condition of global networks as a
coming together /of /times:
'we do not just live or exist together ‘in time’ with our contemporaries
– as if time itself is indifferent to this existing together – but
rather the present is increasingly characterized by a coming together of
/different but equally ‘present’ /temporalities or ‘times’, a temporal
unity in disjunction, or a /disjunctive unity of present times'
/[emphasis in original].[3]
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/Philosophies_Time_Media_Contemporaneity#_ftn3>
In this special issue authors are invited to address, build on,
challenge or offer alternatives to these accounts of time in order to
focus a discussion of contemporaneity on media and communication
realities. To address the topic of philosophies of time, media and
contemporaneity, we seek contribution that may address (but need not
necessarily be limited to) the following themes:
Contemporaneity/Post-Modernity/Modernity
Conflict, terror, contemporaneity and media
Anxiety, media and contemporaneity
Authority and contemporaneity
Memorialization and contemporaneity
Media archaeologies of time and temporality
Video games and contemporaneity
Theories of coevalness
Communication, time and the other (revisiting Fabian)
Environmental crisis, media and contemporaneity
Media and marginalization/media and boundaries
Media and historiography (Oral, Print, Digital)
Contemporary art and time, as it relates to questions of globality
Rethinking media histories from transnational perspectives
Conflicting histories and media
Non-linear history and media
Multi-temporality and contemporaneity
Cosmopolitanism, temporalities and media
This special issue of /Philosophies/ will address the task of trying to
think through some of the major questions of contemporaneity with an
emphasis on the realities of media and communication, including social
media, video games, contemporary art, film and television. It is the
challenge presented to contributors to begin to investigate the way
changes in the media landscape may affect philosophical thought and may
offer us new ways to both produce and address the time of the contemporary.
[1]
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/Philosophies_Time_Media_Contemporaneity#_ftnref1> See
for instance Terry Smith, “Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity,”
Critical Inquiry 32:4 (2006): 681-707 and Peter Osborne, Anywhere or Not
at All: Philosophies of Contemporary Art (London and Brooklyn: Verso, 2013).
[2]
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/Philosophies_Time_Media_Contemporaneity#_ftnref2> Juliane
Rebentisch, “The Contemporaneity of Contemporary Art,” New German
Critique 42:1 (2015): 223-237, pp. 233-234.
[3]
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/Philosophies_Time_Media_Contemporaneity#_ftnref3> Osborne,
Anywhere or Not at All (above, n. 34), p. 17.
Dr. Timothy Barker
/Guest Editor/
*Manuscript Submission Information*
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Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be
peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the
journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special
issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short
communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short
abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for
announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a
single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant
information for submission of manuscripts is available on the
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submitted to this issue. Submitted papers should be well formatted and
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