[Commlist] Invitation for Articles on “Anomaly”– forthcoming special issue in M/C Journal A Journal of Media and Culture

Invitation for Articles on “Anomaly” – forthcoming special issue in M/C 
Journal

A Journal of Media and Culture

Anomaly: something different, abnormal, peculiar, not easily classified 
or classifiable; a deviation; a detour. Something /out of time/ and /out 
of place/.

Cultural commodification has resulted in the convergence and 
displacement of traditional boundaries, genres, and media, altering the 
expectations of users and producers, changing the very fabric of 
textuality itself. Enter the outsider of the hybrid, interactive, 
interstitial; forms and platforms that trouble not only traditional 
boundaries but traditional modes and concepts of authorship. Within an 
expanding economy of media, we are prompted also to return to earlier 
genres in order to better annotate their metamorphoses. Taking Roberto 
Schwarz’s (1977) contention that “forms are the abstract of specific 
social relationships” as a possible point of enquiry, we would like to 
engage in a critical investigation on the politics of form and the form 
of politically-valent works. We invite contributions that engage with a 
wide spectrum of cultural productions through areas of investigation 
that might include:

  * hybrid forms engaging across media
  * glocal and transnational creative industries (production,
    distribution, reception)
  * (mis)understanding(s) in/of transnational media
  * inter/nationalism of popular culture
  * productive instabilities: noise, interferences, and interruptions
  * glitch art
  * the presentation/performance of disappearance
  * dislocation as dissemination
  * alternative sub-cultures
  * interactive and collaborative authorship
  * (dis)possessions of AI
  * mediatic /hapax/
  * distortion and/as subversion
  * hyperlinked narratives (gone astray)

Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a 
brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the 
article title and should describe your research question, approach, and 
argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) 
and should include your institutional affiliation and research 
interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All 
articles will be double-blind refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th 
edition).

*Details*

  * Article deadline: 7 Aug. 2020
  * Release date: 7 Oct. 2020
  * Editors: Chris Campanioni and Giancarlo Lombardi

Send any enquiries to (anomaly /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au) 
<mailto:(anomaly /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au)>

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/M/C Journal/was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 
1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the 
meeting of media and culture. /M/C Journal/ is a fully blind, 
peer-reviewed academic journal, but is also open to submissions and 
responses from anyone on the Internet. We take seriously the need to 
move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance 
with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is organised 
around a one word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or 
two guest editors with a particular interest in that theme. Each issue 
has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, 
followed by several shorter articles.

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