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CALL FOR PAPERS
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_parallax_
a journal of metadiscursive theory
and cultural practices
***ECONOMIES OF EXCESS***
"...it is not necessity but its contrary,
luxury, that presents living matter and
mankind with their fundamental problems."
Georges Bataille, _The Accursed Share_, Volume 1.
Guest Editor: John Armitage
for issue 18 (January 2001)
ABOUT THIS CALL FOR PAPERS
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To what extent are the advanced economies now centred upon states or
acts of _excess_? What are the philosophical, artistic, and cultural
expressions of economic excess and what significance do such
manifestations possess? What are the cultural meanings of current
forms of global economic excess like unlimited abundance, the
"mismanagement" of resources, "unnecessary" cultural expenditure, and
waste? What might explain the lavish spending on mind expanding drugs,
alcohol, emotional support, performance art, photography,"Titanic"
film production, TV "spectaculars", self-sacrificial dieting, flesh
piercing, national lotteries, post-industrial pornography, far away
vacations, designer food, body enhancement and prosthetics, surplus
book mountains, political campaigns, prostitution, information
services, compact discs, video games, fast cars, viral financial
speculation, and the Internet? What outcomes are there for _re_
-production, "maldistribution", _hyper_ -consumption, and the
cultural analysis of the economic activities of _excess_? Is it
possible to think the economy beyond the rationalist and utilitarian
presuppositions of Smith _and_ Marx? Can we conceive of economic
excess as the birth of a new _political_ project at the brink of the
millennium?...
This issue of _parallax_ will concentrate on the burgeoning interest
in the ECONOMIES OF EXCESS and the critical cultural theories and
practices being elaborated within the humanities, the arts,
literature, and cultural studies. The Guest Editor welcomes
submissions that engage with the character, significance, and on-going
global development of economic _excess_ with regard to:
"Bad" Marxism; expenditure and the general economy; psychoanalysis;
the artistic avant-garde; digital reproduction in the culture
industry; material baseness; mythology; deconstruction; literature;
power / knowledge; the spectacle; feminist theory; desire; queer
theory; libidinal economy; technoscience; seduction; simulation;
transeconomics; the political economy of speed; chaos theory; global
and virtual capitalism; cyberculture.
The edition seeks to offer an examination of the economies of excess
and also to locate itself among theoretical perspectives stemming
from: continental philosophy, the arts, and _critical_ cultural
studies. It is anticipated that the publication will make a crucial
input to these and other gestures to economic excess. Of course, one
of the key obstacles facing such a venture is the near certainty that
economic excess will itself disrupt any academic, philosophical,
artistic, and cultural appeals, along with the practices that attempt
to engage with it. ECONOMIES OF EXCESS will therefore open itself up
to all forms of critical encounter, inclusive of articles, texts,
representations, essays, reviews, and interviews. After all, nothing
succeeds like _excess_.
Submission Deadline
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Final material for peer review by December 31, 1999.
_parallax_ is a peer-reviewed journal. Conventional scholarly
submissions for ECONOMIES OF EXCESS will be reviewed in the normal
way; all material will be read by at least two readers in addition to
the Guest Editor.
Submission Details
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People considering a submission are welcome to contact the Guest
Editor beforehand to discuss their idea(s) or to request further
information.
A brief biographical note should accompany all submissions and marked
ECONOMIES OF EXCESS.
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editor for
discussion. For example, if you wish to email material, please contact
the Guest Editor first and email an abstract of your piece.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Before preparing your submission, please contact Taylor & Francis for
a complete style guide, or visit the _parallax_ web page; contact
details for _parallax_ style guides are given below:
Lora Sharples, Editorial Assistant Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.,
One Gunpowder Square, London EC4A 3DE, UK. (http://www.tandf.co.uk).
Papers for this issue of _parallax_ should be sent to the Guest
Editor, at the address given below.
Papers are accepted for consideration on condition that: the work is
original; you own the copyright; you have secured the permission of
all named co-authors, and have agreed the order of names for
publication; you have secured all permissions for the reproduction of
original or derived material from a copyright source; the paper has
not been previously published; the paper is not under consideration
elsewhere; you will transfer copyright to Taylor & Francis Ltd. if the
paper is accepted for publication. No submissions will be returned.
There are no page charges in _parallax_.
Hard copy: should be sent in triplicate (A4, font size 12,
double-spaced, paginated). Word length: should be 2,000 - 7,000
maximum, inclusive of notes and references. Discs: should be IBM
compatible (Not MAC). Microsoft Word for Windows.
Contact address:
John Armitage
(ECONOMIES OF EXCESS)
Division of Government & Politics
Room 440
Northumberland Building
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 191 227 3943
Fax: +44 (0) 191 227 4654
About _parallax_
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_parallax_ is an exciting and provocative cultural studies journal,
which seeks to initiate alternative forms of cultural theory and
criticism through a critical engagement with the production of
knowledge's.
Editors
Joanne Morra and Marquard Smith
Editorial Office:
Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Fine Art, University of
Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 113 2335277; Fax: +44 (0) 113
245 1977; Email: [log in to unmask]
_parallax_: aims and scope
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_parallax_: FR. parallax f. mod. L parallaxis f. Gk + change,
alternation, angle between two lines, f. parallassein, alter,
alternate, f. as PARA- + allassein to exchange, f. allos other.
_parallax_ seeks to reconfigure contemporary critical theories and
cultural practices through a critique of their productions. This is a
basis for practicing otherwise. It is an exchange between theory and
cultural productions that attempts to radically alter both.
Alterations enacted in order to remobilize and repoliticize cultural
studies.
The advances and successes of the discipline of cultural studies
cannot be over-emphasized. Its destabilization of disciplinary
boundaries has productively damaged many of the conservative and
traditional ways in which the Academy functions. The inter, cross -
and anti-disciplinary approaches that form the genealogy of cultural
studies have produced a great deal of critical and important
scholarship.
But _parallax_ is not a celebration of cultural studies. Rather it is
an attempt to make a space available in which dialogue, debate and
philosophical contestation can be generated in an interrogation of our
own practices. Thus, the predominantly themed nature of each issue of
_parallax_ is an attempt to bring together diverse approaches,
methodologies, subjects and writers in order to produce lively and
contentious struggles between them while also bringing to light
often-surprising similarities. In a sense, what becomes important in
the fusion of these disparate positions under one cover is an utmost
concern for the political within the production of knowledge's. It is
this that _parallax_ seeks to address.
And it is here that _parallax_ situates itself and from which it
hopes to participate in a redefinition of the study of culture. By
continually re-assessing its project and its political strategies
_parallax_ hopes to contribute to a study of cultural production
that is constantly mobile and provocative.
Recent and Forthcoming Issues
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Recent:
TRANSLATING ALGERIA
CULTURAL STUDIES AND PHILOSOPHY
THEORY AND PRACTICE
DISSONANT FEMINISM'S
KOJEVE'S PARIS. NOW BATAILLE
Forthcoming:
KRISTEVA: AESTHETICS, ETHICS, POLITICS
NEO-PRAGMATISM & NEW ROMANTICISMS
PRACTICES OF PROCRASTINATION
POLEMICS. AGAINST CULTURAL STUDIES
IN VIOLENCE
Distinguished Contributors include: Jacques Derrida; Helen Cixous;
Jean Baudrillard; Gayatri Spivak; Christopher Norris; Sadie Plant;
Susan Buck-Morss; Kristin Ross; Linda Hutcheon; Slavoj Zizek; Stanley
Rosen; Alphonso Lingis; Sue Golding, and many more...
_parallax_ will be of interest to those working in many areas
including critical theory, cultural history, gender studies,
philosophy, queer theory, english and comparative literature,
post-colonial theory, art history and of course cultural studies.
_parallax_ is published quarterly (ISSN 1353-4645) at the following
subscription rates: Volume 5 1999 Print & Online: Institutional: US
$198/stlg120 Personal: US $58/stlg35 (print only)
_parallax_ is now available online.
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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS CALL FOR PAPERS
John Armitage
Guest Editor, ECONOMIES OF EXCESS.
parallax 18
a journal of metadiscursive theory
and cultural practices
(http://www.tandf.co.uk/JNLS//PAR.htm)
Division of Government & Politics
Room 440
Northumberland Building
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
United Kingdom
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Tel: +44 (0) 191 227 3943
Fax: +44 (0) 191 227 4654
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