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>CULTURE, THEORY AND CRITIQUE
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>Call for papers (2 - open issue and special issue on 'Noise') and
>contents of 44.1.
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>For full details on _Culture, Theory and Critique_, submission
>information, instructions to authors, a free online sample copy and
>contents listings from volume 43 on, please visit the journal's website
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>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14735784.htm
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>_Culture, Theory and Critique_ is an interdisciplinary journal for the
>transformation and development of critical theories in the humanities
>and social sciences. It aims to critique and reconstruct theories by
>interfacing them with one another and by relocating them in new sites
>and conjunctures. _Culture, Theory and Critique's_ approach to
>theoretical refinement and innovation is one of interaction and
>hybridisation via recontextualisation and transculturation. The
>reconceptualisation of critical theories is achieved by:
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>* assessing how well theories emerging from particular spatial,
>cultural, geographical and historical contexts travel and translate into
>new conjunctures.
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>* confronting theories with their limitations or aporias through
>immanent critique.
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>* applying theories to cultural, literary, social and political
>phenomena in order to test them against their respective fields of
>concern and to generate critical feedback.
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>* interfacing theories from different intellectual, disciplinary and
>institutional settings.
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>_Culture, Theory and Critique_ publishes one special issue and one open
>issue per volume.
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>JUST PUBLISHED. VOLUME 44.1 April 2003.
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>Special Issue: Images and text.
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>Editor's Introduction
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>Jon Simons
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>What Does Pierce's Sign Theory Have to Say to Art History?
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>James Elkins
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>Adventures in Subsemiotics: Towards a New 'Object' and Writing of Visual
>Culture.
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>Sunil Manghani
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>Reading and Writing the Passions in Duchenne de Boulogne's M=E9canisme
>de la Physionomie Humaine
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>Virginia Liberatore
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>Symbol, Idol and Murti: Hindu God-Iamges and the Politics of Mediation
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>Gregory Price Grieve
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>From Description to Depiction: Free Indirect Discourse and Online
>Garphical Chat
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>Ken Hillis
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>The Cinematic Mode of Production: Towards a Political Economy of the
>Postmodern
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>Jonathan Beller
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>CALL FOR PAPERS - OPEN ISSUES
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>Inquiries for open issues should be directed to: [log in to unmask]
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>Submissions for open issues should be sent to _Culture, Theory and
>Critique, Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University
>of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Submissions for the open issues
>may be sent at any time.
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>Submissions are subject to peer review.
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>CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY 2005 'NOISE'.
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>Today, noise is breaking away from the status of undesirable phenomenon
>bestowed upon it by traditional communications theory. No longer merely
>an undesirable element to be eradicated so as to retain the purity of
>the original signal, noise is infecting expression from all realms,
>spawning genres and movements, complexifying rather than destroying
>semantics. Indeed, noise has become an integral part of our late modern
>condition, and not only because of the amount of noise produced by late
>industrial and digital societies. It is perhaps only natural that we
>attempt to insulate ourselves from this latter noise, but to treat all
>noise in this way, to attempt to eradicate *all* forms of noise is
>fundamentally to disavow the ground on which our every expression is
>transmitted. This issue of _Culture, Theory and Critique_ will aim to
>listen to (or look at) noise in all of its guises both literal and
>metaphorical, to restore noise to its rightful place and to examine the
>ways in which noise can refigure existing theories, theories which also
>at times collude in this politics of noise reduction.
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>Amongst the key issues to be addressed in this volume will be:
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>* Manifestations of noise in culture (noise music, post-digital music,
>static, hiss, snow and other complex frequencies).
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>* The 'silent' noise behind various communicational acts (what is at
>stake when mistaking this noise for silence?)
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>* The construction of meaning (why is it that meaning is challenged by
>noise and what does meaning arise from?)
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>* The politics of noise (does noise indeed signal a new political
>economy as Attali claimed? is noise revolt?)
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>* Noise and hybridity (does hybridity challenge a noiseless economy?)
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>* Should noise and noisiness be maintained (or perhaps maintained solely
>as an outside) or is a politics of noise reduction justified?
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>* Does noise constitute a possible alterity?
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>Inquiries and submissions should be directed to: Dr Greg Hainge, School
>of Humanities, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
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>and to: Dr Paul Hegarty, Department of French, University College Cork,
>Cork, Ireland. [log in to unmask]
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>Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2004.
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>Antonio L=E1zaro-Reboll
>Lecturer in Spanish
>School of European Culture and Languages
>Cornwallis Building
>University of Kent
>Canterbury, Kent
>CT2 7NF
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>Tel:+441227823205 (direct line)
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>Editorial Assistant
>Culture, Theory and Critique
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