#4, Autumn 2013 – Call
for papers
‘Waste’
Guest editors: Alexandra
Schneider and Wanda Strauven
This special section of NECSUS will address the
phenomenon of waste in the broad range of past and present media practices. We
suggest to consider waste not only in terms of content or representation, but
also and especially as a rhetoric, a method, or a strategy. At stake are issues
such as the deterioration of film stock and VCR tapes, the future of dead
media, the massive growth of electronic garbage, game consoles that can no
longer be played due to the industry’s ‘planned obsolescence’, and the
ephemerality of organic art.
Waste is understood here in its multiple dimensions both as (everyday)
matter and (conceptual) metaphor, as materiality and immateriality, as a
socio-economical concern and artistic technique, and as repulsion and beauty.
Topics may include, but will not be limited to, the following:
-
the (renewed)
tradition of found footage
-
the archiving of
bits and pieces
-
the aesthetics of
decay
-
obsolete media
devices
-
e-waste
-
biodegradable art
works and installations
-
the display and
concealment of waste in various media
We look forward to receiving
abstracts of 500 words and a short bio of no more than 150 words by 1 December 2012 at the following
address: [log in to unmask] NECSUS also continues to accept a wide variety of
abstracts for both full-length essays and short reviews that may not be related
to a special section theme.
NECSUS is an international, open access, peer-reviewed
journal of media studies published by Amsterdam University Press in partnership
with NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). The journal is
multidisciplinary and strives to bring together the best work in the field of
media studies across the humanities and social sciences. We aim to publish
research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture
inside and outside the academic community. Find us online at: www.necsus-ejms.org
