CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: New Media Animals
Scheduled for publication mid-2016
Submissions deadline: 31 December 2015
Guest editors, Jane Mummery and Debbie Rodan, invite submissions to a forthcoming special issue of Ctrl-Z examining the intersections of non-human animals with new media. How might new media enable animals to be envisaged and engaged with as our counterparts in human technologized society? How might new media engagement with animals contribute towards cultural dialogues regarding new human-animal relations, dialogues capable of challenging the overwhelming anthropocentrism of many human societies?
Multiple attempts are being made to unsettle taken-for-granted anthropocentric human-animal relations across broadly-framed cultural theory; ethical, political and legal frameworks (as influencing economic, industrial and domestic practices); and aesthetic practices. In all of these dimensions, questions abound concerning: human exceptionalism; post- and transhumanism; the status (moral, political, legal) and agentic possibilities of, and possible obligations (ethico-political, legal) towards, both animals and human-animal assemblages; bio-telepresence and telepresent animality; and the possibilities of human-animal artistic or political collaboration.
This issue seeks papers that investigate new media explorations of non-human animals and human-animal relations from wide-ranging philosophical, theoretical, artistic and practice-based perspectives.
Ctrl-Z welcomes contributions in a variety of forms, including:
- Essays between 3,000 and 6,000 words
- Reviews (books, films, exhibitions, performances, etc.), up to 2,000 words
- Audio-visual texts
- Short fiction/creative nonfiction between 3,000 and 6,000 words
- Poetry
Contributors are encouraged to incorporate images in their work, and the journal favours multidisciplinary approaches.
For the journal’s preferred style of presentation, including referencing style, see previous issues.
Email submissions to Issue Co-Editor Jane Mummery.