N.B. Due to the overabundance of material currently available to Open Court,
the “MTV and Philosophy” project is indefinitely on hold... However, if you
keep reading, a new work has emerged out of all this craziness:
“I Want My S(t)imulation!” MTV, Representation & Desire
Abstracts are sought for a postmodern collection of intellectual works based
upon MTV and the space(s) it may have created in your mind. Often
celebrated, blamed or categorised as the epitome of this, that or other, MTV
could be described a status symbol in its own right... Using a disciplinary
approach of your choice (a multiplicity would do!), and a great deal of
self-reflexivity and imagination, I’d like you to indulge in your
MTV-inspired processes by engaging with the following:
1. Simulate your MTV:
Investing to some extent in Baudrillard’s reference to the term
‘simulation’, expose your audience to your self-conscious grappling with the
acronym of MTV, and whatever numerous implications of that you consume.
(Baudrillard needs not be addressed in your work, and you may work around
the term ‘simulation’ if you desire.)
2. Stimulate your MTV:
If the simulating your MTV doesn’t work for you, perhaps stimulation ought
to do it: how you are able to ‘stimulate’ MTV into working for you? While
the above is oriented towards the ‘postmodern’, this option engages a
dialogue with the ‘avant-garde’.
Your work may be inspired by, but certainly not limited to, the following
list of key words:
- Barthes, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard…
- Madonna, Eminem, Nirvana…
- Jackass, Newlyweds, Made, The Real Word, The Osbournes…
- MTV2 (& other MTV-affiliated networks), Channel V, MusicMax, etc…
- pop, rock, hip-hop, techno…
- gender, genre - hopping and diversification…
- mixes, mashes, sampling, censorship, authorization…
- mainstream, alternative, status quo, subversive…
- consumption, capitalism (, schizophrenia)…
- post-anything…
- psychology, philosophy, politics, programming…
- mass media, marketing, moral ambiguity…
- visual culture, youth culture, postmodern culture cultural studies…
- controversy…
- MTV Generation, anthropology, sociology
- race religion ethnicity gender sexuality it’s up to you
While the traditional essay format will be accepted (grumblingly), I
encourage abstract artists to pitch a more subversive work, experimenting
with genre and/or visual presentation. Let ‘the MTV style’ be your muse.
Creative, analytical, and under 4000 words are the only preliminary
requirements.
Please send an abstract of roughly 500 words to Epiphanie Bloom, along with
a CV. The current due date for abstracts is 05/30/04. This may be extended
in the light of the responses received.
I am also looking for an assistant editor who is willing to help me out on
this publication – If you’re interested in MTV, postmodern culture (and are
at least pomo-friendly) and have some editing experience, please get in
touch and tell me why you’d love to work on this project, along with a copy
of your CV.
Yours Sincerely,
Epiphanie Bloom
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