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        Date: 2023-09-21 19:42:02+00:00
        From: Zach McDowell <zmcdowell@gmail.com>
        Subject: CFP: Media Aesthetics

communication +1 <https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/>is seeking proposals
for Volume 11, "Media Aesthetics"

Co-edited by Hank Gerba and Zachary McDowell

In our age of ubiquitous computation, “sense and the senses turn to
eyewash.” Or so proclaimed Friedrich Kittler, fearing that the
operationalization of boolean logic, materialized and ever-miniaturized in
the transistor, would sever the connection between media and the human
senses. Digital communication between machines would pass seamlessly below
the threshold of perception, which would only ever be rendered in the
strictest computational sense. Must theories of media and communication
abdicate the body as a locus of theoretical inquiry?

Despite the micro-temporality of computational media, this collection aims
to reintroduce media of all kinds to the sensory by asking after the
relationship between media and aesthetics. We understand aesthetics
broadly, following M. Beatrice Fazi, who writes that “aesthetics is [here]
understood in a manner that is more in keeping with its etymological
roots––which lie in the term aisthesis––and it is thus conceptualized as a
theory of sensory knowledge.” With this definition, the collection hopes to
provide a space in which the sensory can refocus critical and political
questions of embodiment, mediation, and subjectivation.

This collection seeks engagement with and between the many existing species
of media studies and communications. By focusing on the aesthetic, we also
hope to expand the study of media and communication beyond their
traditional institutional and methodological boundaries. We strongly
encourage intersectional and interdisciplinary engagements with the
aesthetic as it functions theoretically, methodologically, spatially,
institutionally, historically, and in relation to the study of media and
communication.

Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by December 1, 2023
to communicationplusone@gmail.com.

Upon invitation, full-text submissions will be due April 15, 2024, with
expected publication in Fall 2024.


About the Journal
The aim of communication +1 <https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/> is to
promote new approaches and open new horizons in the study of communication
from an interdisciplinary perspective. We are particularly committed to
promoting research that seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to
explore new frontiers of theoretical activities linking the study of
communication to both established and emerging research programs in the
humanities, social sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to
rigorous scholarship, communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its primary
objective is to create a space for thoughtful experiments and for
communicating these experiments.


Editors
Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago

Advisory Board
Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago
Lisa Åkervall, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais
Jimena Canales, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Bernard Geoghegan, Kings College, London
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University
Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine
Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Jussi Parikka, Aarhus University, Denmark
John Durham Peters, Yale University
Amit Pinchevski,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Florian Sprenger, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Jonathan Sterne, McGill University
Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder
Christina Vagt, University of California Santa Barbara
Greg Wise, Arizona State University


https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/


live long and prosper,

Zach

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