Dear all,
We would like to draw your attention to the following Call for Papers, which postgraduate
members of the list or of your departments may be interested in.
*Forum: Issue 15, Imitation and Repetition*
http://www.forumjournal.org/site/cfp
For the winter issue of FORUM, a peer-reviewed postgraduate journal based
at the University of Edinburgh, we are seeking submissions from a range of
disciplines relating to the arts or culture that consider the topic of
IMITATION AND REPETITION.
As concepts which cross the disciplinary boundaries between the arts and
the social sciences, imitation and repetition are frequently connoted in
ways dependant on the contexts and time periods in which they occur. The
ambivalence of the two terms has proved productive for numerous
commentators dating from Plato, and his concern with mimesis, to Judith
Butler, who identified the role which the repetition, or continued
performance, of cultural norms has in constituting such central aspects of
our identity as gender. Thinkers such as Adorno have suggested that 'a
human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings,'
while the subversive potential of the way in which repetition and imitation
not only reflect but help form aspects of our reality is exploited in
post-colonial and feminist theories via strategies of 'mimicry.'
In the artistic sphere, following the spread of the Romantic idea of the
artistic genius, imitation has often been frowned upon as a failure to be
'original,' and the lines drawn in intellectual property laws highlight the
ethical questions attached to degrees of repetition and imitation in the
twentieth century. However, the recirculation and recoding of certain
tropes and images which occurs in even the most radical attempts to break
with the past, such as those embodied by movements like Dada, suggest that
originality cannot be thought outside of its relationship to imitation and
repetition. Even in today?s growing digital environment the success of
viral memes, news articles, or tweets is judged on the number of times they
are shared, that is to say repeated, online.
Submissions may include, but are by no means limited to, examinations of the following:
Imitation or Repetition and Nostalgia
Repetition and the 'Viral'
Citation and Intertextuality
Cross-media or Cross-Cultural Adaptations of Texts, Images, Films
The Recycling of Images in Post-Modernism
The Use of Imitation and Repetition as Normative and/or Subversive in
Visual or Literary Culture and Theory
Media-'Cycles', and Audio or Visual 'Looping'
The Relationship of Imitation and Repetition to Tradition or History
Imitation and Political or Cultural Legitimacy
Reproduction and the Work of Art
Repetition and Innovation in Labour and Capitalism
Repetition and Trauma/Compulsion
Figurations of Imitation and Repetition in non-contemporary contexts such
as the Ancient World, Medieval Europe, the Early Modern Period.
Papers must be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length, formatted according
to MLA guidelines. For the purposes of this journal when including quotes from a language other than English please provide both the original and an English translation. Please email your paper, a short abstract and your
academic CV in separate, clearly labelled .DOC files to
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articles will be peer reviewed prior to publication. Only one submission
per author per issue is permissible. More information on the journal can be
found at www.forumjournal.org.
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James Leveque and Lizzie Stewart, Co-Editors
Forum: Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts
The University of Edinburgh
http://www.forumjournal.org/
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