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Extended deadline: Call for papers on the theme "Interface" (Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis)

Deadline Abstract
14.12.2021

For the next issue of Soapbox we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit academic essays or creative work that critically engages with the theme of interface. We are inviting extended proposals (500-1000 words) that follow the MLA formatting and referencing style to be submitted to submissions@soapboxjournal.net by December 14th, 2021.

See the full call on our website: https://www.soapboxjournal.net/page/call-for-papers-interface

An interface is a space of contact and interconnection. Thinking within but also beyond a media studies framework, we can understand our lives to be constantly mediated by interfaces of one form or another. They can be understood to serve as an intermediary between individuals and cultural objects, or alternatively, between experience and infrastructure. Interfaces mediate between a body and its environment, the private and public, subject and object. In each instance, the interface enables interaction and activity. Consider the movement from print to digital media, the structural design of spaces and buildings, or the format of an academic paper: as we move through the world we encounter and interact with a range of interfaces that delineate the possibilities of experience and knowledge in profound ways. As such, interfaces are cultural as well as political: they connect us to a matrix of histories and structures while their imbrication in power can afford and advance the needs of one group at the expense of another.

We encourage submissions relating to the themes above, as well as, but not limited to, the following:

  • Engagements with cultural objects that critically explore the concept of the interface.
  • Reflections on the interconnections between genre, narrative modes, and the aesthetic experience enabled by different interfaces.
  • Platforms and streaming services: economic imperatives and aesthetic possibilities.
  • Il/literacies, agency, and the politics of access.
  • The interface as a verb: what does it mean to interface with space, others, the world, and beyond?
  • Engagements with social interface theory and German media theory (Kittler et al.)
  • Meaning-making and translatability: the interface as a vessel for signs. 
  • Epistemology and/of the interface: the interface as a hermeneutic tool.
  • Interfaces and perception of self/identity formation.
  • Biometrics and technology in border and domestic policing.
  • Interfaces in contemporary work environments and labour practices.
  • Interfaces in architecture, design, and AI.
  • Knowledge production and interdisciplinarity. 
  • Devices, screen culture and history.
  • Remediation.

We invite extended proposals (500-1000 words) that follow the MLA formatting and referencing style to be submitted to submissions@soapboxjournal.net by December 14th 2021. Final papers will be around 5000 words long and the editing process will take place over winter and early spring 2022. Submissions should be sent as an email attachment and the content of the file should be anonymised. Please also let us know in your email where you came across our CFP.

Guidelines for creative submissions are more flexible and can be finished works, but please keep in mind spatial limitations: there is usually room for one longer or two shorter pieces in the print version. A sense of the formatting possibilities can be garnered from previous issues (open-access pdf versions are available on our website).

If you have any questions regarding your submission, do not hesitate to contact us at info@soapboxjournal.net.

Soapbox Journal does not charge author publication fees.

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Literaturtheorie, Gender Studies/Queer Studies, Postkoloniale Literaturtheorie, Ecocriticism, Medientheorie, Erzähltheorie, World Literature/Weltliteratur, Interdisziplinarität, Literatur und andere Künste, Intermedialität, Poetik, Digitale Literatur, Ästhetik

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Beitrag von: Soapbox Journal
Datum der Veröffentlichung: 06.12.2021
Letzte Änderung: 06.12.2021