CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Image Today
Deadline: February 1st, 2008
The image has always been suspect to thought. Either it is seen as a false representation which seduces us from truth (Plato) or, at best, a superceded stage on the way to the Absolute Idea (Hegel). For the artist, however, the image is home, the land of possibility where new perspectives can be found. Where are we with the image today?
In Baudrillard’s view, the dominance of media and the emergence of hyperreality means that the classical opposition between image and real can no longer be maintained. Not only does the real vanish in a profusion of simulacra, but the “original power of the image,” its capacity to become an event of transcendence, is also obviated.
Can we find that original power again? The coming issue of POIESIS invites readers to submit papers that explore the image today – and perhaps imagine it tomorrow. Where are we with the image, and how can we find its original power again? We hope that readers will be inspired to think about this question and its implications for philosophy, art, therapy and social change.
See below for submission guidelines.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Jean Baudrillard
Deadline: February 1st, 2008
Our wise friend is dead but will live on in our thinking
“I am already a simulacrum of myself; I have sent a clone in my place”: so Jean Baudrillard teased students and fellow faculty members at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. We welcomed him as a sage with quirky humour, fiercely curious about current affairs, unconcerned about his academic reputation, a keen observer with an off-center perspective and a fearless commentator who took to task the critical clichés of his contemporaries. Trained as a German language scholar, Baudrillard read German philosophers, foremost Karl Marx, with ease. The student revolt of May ‘68 found him ready to take on the role of an anti-establishment sociologist, and he became renowned as one of the great French thinkers awakened by this event. Together with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Paul Virilio, he deconstructed capitalism and its media reality and provided unexpected traces of the world to come. His death notice from March 6, 2007 contains just a photograph of himself in the mirror and a final insight: “Reality is not everything. In truth, it is the least of all things.” With the authorization of his widow, Marine Baudrillard, I am publishing a book with the transcriptions of Jean Baudrillard’s Saas-Fee seminars and lectures, including the lively discussions, and would like to add contributions from EGS faculty and students as well as other Baudrillard friends and experts to this tribute. Selected articles will also appear in POIESIS X, 2008.
Interested in submitting for the work on Baudrillard? Contact Wolfgang Schirmacher, Program Director, Media & Communications Division, European Graduate School EGS at schirmaw@egs.edu.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: THE IMAGE TODAY
Poetry submissions: Shara Claire, Managing Editor, Assistant Poetry Editor
Please send no less than three and no more than five poems via email (.doc, .rtf or .pdf formatting) to shara [at] egspress [dot] com. Please put the words “POIESIS Poetry Submission” in your subject heading. ALSO send identical hard copy submissions via snail mail, attn: Shara Claire to the address on the Contact page. Please include a 50-word bio with your submission.
Article submissions: Steve Levine, Editor-In-Chief
If your article is already written, we’d like to see an excerpt. If it currently exists only in your mind, send us a proposal.
Excerpts should be between 300 and 500 words. They should be accompanied by an approximately 200-word overview of the themes and content explored in the article. They should also be accompanied by a 50-word author’s bio, so we know who you are.
Proposals should be between 300 and 500 words. Please propose themes, content, discourse: the how and why of the article, as well as length. Also included should be a 50-word author’s bio.
We prefer material that has not been previously published elsewhere; however, exceptions are occasionally made.
We are also open to publishing book reviews.
Please send excerpts and proposals editor [at] egspress [dot] com.
Artwork submissions: Kristin Briggs, Art Director
Artists! Please send samples of your artwork in low-resolution (less than 2 MB) format. Please be sure that your samples are in .jpg or .tiff format. Please indicate if you have a website and include a 50-word artist’s bio. All these things can be sent “egspress [dot] design [at] yahoo [dot] com”… please.
Thank you for submitting! There is no fee to submit your work. Please note, however, that all submissions are accepted on a volunteer basis: unfortunately, POIESIS is not in a position to financially compensate its contributors at this time.
