Not exactly my 'cup of tea', but may interest some of you..
Marika
CFP - liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 6, no. 1,
Spring 2022
liquid blackness journal (
<https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/open-access-journal-liquid-blac
kness-to-join-duke-university-press/> Duke University Press, beginning
Spring 2021)
About <http://liquidblackness.com/> liquid blackness
* liquid blackness is an open-access journal, which means that all
content is freely available without charge to readers or their institutions.
* Our Editorial and Advisory Boards
<http://liquidblackness.com/publications/>
Mission Statement
The liquid blackness journal seeks to carve out a place for aesthetic theory
and the most radical agenda of Black Studies to come together in productive
ways, with a double goal: to fully attend to the aesthetic work of blackness
and to the political work of form. In this way, the journal strives to
develop innovative approaches and analytic tools to address points of
convergence between the exigencies of black life and the many slippery ways
in which blackness is encountered in contemporary sonic and visual culture.
liquid blackness aims to establish a point of exchange at the intersection
of multiple fields. The history of this intentionally undisciplined space is
best understood through a series of questions pivoting around (1) the
relationship between aesthetics and the ontology of blackness and (2) the
generative potential of blackness as an aesthetic. If blackness is, as we
argue after Fred Moten, an unregulated generative force, then the liquid
blackness journal seeks to offer a dedicated space where it can be
consistently unleashed. As we extend and confront lines of inquiry from a
number of research fields, our approach is equally concerned with
theoretical content, analytical methods, and scholarly praxis.
The Editorial Board has planned the first three themed (and foundational)
issues, on the following concepts:
* "liquidity" - Vol 5 no. 1 - Spring 2021
* "blackness" - Vol 5 no. 2 - Fall 2021
* "aesthetics" - Vol 6 no. 1 - Spring 2022
After two foundational issues devoted to "liquidity" and "blackness," we now
turn to our third concept, "aesthetics," to explore its radical potential
for Black Studies. We are inspired by Fred Moten's posing of black aesthetic
sociality as a problem for ontology, and appositional to epistemology and
phenomenology. Moten's insistence on the irreducible vitality of black
sociality has been both inspirational and aspirational to the theoretical
foundation, the ethics, and the praxis that sustain this journal. His
aesthetic thinking and practice-we hesitate to call it a "theory"-unravels
in a multitude of ways throughout his long career as poet, theorist,
philosopher, art critic, and through his engagement with an extraordinarily
rich, varied, and unruly archive.
Inspired by this capacious model of practice and the ways Moten's work
radically upends traditional distinctions between ontology, phenomenology,
epistemology, and aesthetics, we offer below some concepts that have
appeared in his recent trilogy "consent not to be a single being" to invite
contributions that engage with, and might enrich, the theoretical,
methodological, and artistic archives mobilized in Moten's work, or,
conversely express skepticism and offer criticism.
We take this opportunity to explore the expansive possibilities of
"aesthetic thinking" broadly conceived, and investigate who can do theory
(scholars, artists, activists.), how theory can be done (in image, writing,
archiving, curating, social activism.), and what a Black aesthetic object is
("high"/"low" art, sound and image, practice and praxis, the work of
individual artists and ensembles...).
practice/praxis
* black study
* nonperformance
* fugitivity
* being sent
hermeneutics
* blur
* chromatic saturation
* black aurality
* poetics of passage
* knowledge of freedom
* ensemble
* form and informality
modes/tools of aesthetic thinking
* anaoriginarity
* thingliness and no-thingness
* black cinematic apparatus and phonographic mise-en-scene
* production, reproduction, and value
* dematerialization, rematerialization, animateriality
* the paraontological
* dehiscence
* black ops/Afro-optimism
Essays of no more than 4,000 - 5,000 words with accompanying images, and/or
video or sound clip, should be submitted to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Author Guidelines & Submission Information
* liquid blackness follows the formatting and reference guidelines
stipulated by The Chicago Manual of Style
* We welcome submissions of visual and textual art, video, and other
artistic work accompanied by an artist statement
* All submissions, solicited and unsolicited, will be peer-reviewed
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