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Call for Contributions - Nyx A Noctournal #8: Skin - - - For its eighth issue, Nyx, a Noctournal seeks contributions that question the concept of skin: a border that demarcates inside and outside, a threshold that contains and translates identities, a tissue to be punctured and marked. Skin is the fleshy membrane that signals the point at which we become in-the-world, communicating our history as it weathers in the face of time. It is the interface of human embodiment, and the most ubiquitous signifier of self-as-object. But skin also contains an infinity of parallel identities, a site of identity (and escapism), identification, and appropriation. The consumer industries demand it to be ever leaner and cleaner, whilst elsewhere it is criminalised, categorised or killed simply for its colour. This troublesome, protective and unstable expanse is a continual site of conflict, claimed and reclaimed in exercises, markers, inks and identities. We call for contributions that caress, pierce or peel back skin, which could address: - blackness, whiteness, race - gender studies and identity - sex, pornography, pornification - tattooing as modern ritual - mutilation and the war-damaged body - self-harm - policing the skin, epidermic interventions - skin as limit/liminal border - skin as surface, phenomenon and facade Please send by 15th November 2012 abstract proposals of no more than 250 words / 5 images, inc. a very brief biog, to [log in to unmask] Publication intended for early Spring 2013. - - - About: Nyx, a Noctournal is a journal of politics, art and cultural theory, based at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. www.nyxnoctournal.org. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------