[Discussion] CFP: Media and Culture: 'Bad' Issue (12/17/04; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

                           M/C - Media and Culture
                      http://www.media-culture.org.au/
              is calling for contributors to the 'bad' issue of

                                 M/C Journal
                    http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which
contains all the issues released so far, at
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>.

       Call for Papers: 'bad' - edited by Kylie Cardell & Jason Emmett

"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
   (Hamlet, Act 2 Sc. II)

What is a bad idea? The 2004 work-in-progress conference at the
University of Queensland took "Bad ideas?" as its guiding theme in order
to show up the underlying ideological tensions that inform postgraduate
research. What is a bad idea when the provocative, the controversial and
the unusual are what guarantee scholars attention in our disposable
pop-culture scandal-hungry world? The work of any researcher in the
ever-broadening field of that increasingly nebulous thing, the
humanities, is to think about received ideas in surprising and
unfamiliar ways, to challenge what is simply thought of as bad or good,
to complicate essentialist categories and to question received thinking.
Things that may have seemed insolubly bad may in fact be revealed as
good precisely because they are dissolute, troubling and inevitably
disruptive to accepted norms, including your own.
The reverse is also true.

This issue, arising out of the energy and impetus of a postgraduate
conference, asks for contributions that unravel the complexity of moral
inflections in research in general. What kinds of research have been
prevented or burdened by the value of their moral complexion and what
kinds applauded?

Should we judge the value of ideas, new discoveries and inventions on
their possible moral outcomes? Can an idea ever simply be bad or good?


The 'bad' issue of M/C Journal will discuss these and other themes. Send
us good work about bad ideas in the form of a 1000-1500 word article to
bad@journal.media-culture.org.au.

M/C Journal 'bad' editors
Kylie Cardell & Jason Emmett

For more information: bad@journal.media-culture.org.au

Article deadline:     17 December 2004	
Issue release date:   19 January 2004


M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in
1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the
meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues
of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions
page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal
articles are blind peer-reviewed.


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                                                      Dr Axel Bruns

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  General Editor                              editor@media-culture.org.au
  M/C - Media and Culture                http://www.media-culture.org.au/



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