Apologies for cross posting. CULTURE, THEORY AND CRITIQUE Call for papers (2) and contents of 43.2. Unless specified otherwise, please direct all correspondence regarding CTC to: [log in to unmask] ; apologies for cross-postings. 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 at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14735784.htm _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: * assessing how well theories emerging from particular spatial, cultural, geographical and historical contexts travel and translate into new conjunctures. * confronting theories with their limitations or aporias through immanent critique. * 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. * interfacing theories from different intellectual, disciplinary and institutional settings. _Culture, Theory and Critique_ publishes one special issue and one open issue per volume. JUST PUBLISHED. VOLUME 43.2 October 2002. Contents: Adam C. Woodruff 'I Caught the Sudden Look of Some Dead Master': Eliot's Tradition and Modern Materialism pp. 85 - 100 Jeremy Schulz Metaphorical and Non-Metaphorical Meaning in Ideological Discourses: an Examination of Technocratic Discourses and Counter-Discourses from the Progressive Era pp. 101 - 121 Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi Rorty's Approach to Cultural Difference: The Conflict between Solidarity and Procedural Liberalism pp. 123 - 138 Bart Simon, Joshua Barker Imagining the New Order Nation: Materiality and Hyperreality in Indonesia pp. 139 - 153 Greg Hainge Seeing Silence: Filmic and Acoustic Convergences in the Work of Thierry Knauff and Francisco López pp. 155 - 170 CALL FOR PAPERS - OPEN ISSUES Inquiries for open issues should be directed to: [log in to unmask] 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. Submissions are subject to peer review. CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY 2005 'NOISE'. 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. Amongst the key issues to be addressed in this volume will be: * Manifestations of noise in culture (noise music, post-digital music, static, hiss, snow and other complex frequencies). * The 'silent' noise behind various communicational acts (what is at stake when mistaking this noise for silence?) * The construction of meaning (why is it that meaning is challenged by noise and what does meaning arise from?) * The politics of noise (does noise indeed signal a new political economy as Attali claimed? is noise revolt?) * Noise and hybridity (does hybridity challenge a noiseless economy?) * Should noise and noisiness be maintained (or perhaps maintained solely as an outside) or is a politics of noise reduction justified? * Does noise constitute a possible alterity? Inquiries and submissions should be directed to: Dr Greg Hainge, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. [log in to unmask] and to: Dr Paul Hegarty, Department of French, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2004. -- Dr Greg Hainge, Lecturer in French Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide SA 5005. tel: (Int. + 61) (08) 8303 5659, fax: 8303 5241 http://www.geocities.com/ghainge/ ****** _Culture Theory and Critique_ Editorial Board. ****** Australian Society for French Studies Publications Editor ****** Australia and NZ Representative of the Société d’Études Céliniennes ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please do not read, save, forward, disclose, or copy the contents of this email. 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