[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Static: Choice and Suffering (5/15/06; online journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Static Online Journal

Submissions are solicited on the theme of Choice and Suffering for the
third issue of Static, the online journal of the London Consortium
(publication date: end June 2006).

The concept of choice is highly valued, especially in the West, as a
fundamental right of free individuals. Our sense of being free is often
based on our freedom to exercise choice in the marketplace, in
matrimony, in the voting booth, or in the hypertext link. But choice has
its darker side: it can prove to be illusory; sometimes the process of
choosing can be agonising; making a choice can close off future choices;
we are frequently forced to make choices.

This issue of Static takes its inspiration from the German adage die
Qual der Wahl ('the suffering of choice'). The issue will examine
whether/when the freedom to choose is in fact a condemnation to suffer.
The theme provides a useful way of thinking about democracy, marketing
and consumerism, free will, justice, body politics, social policy,
education, aesthetics, and digital culture. As the London Consortium is
dedicated to interdisciplinarity, we are encouraging submissions from
contributors of all kinds and from all fields. Possible lines of enquiry
include but are not limited to:

1.	Free will, subjectivity, compulsion and compulsive behaviour
2.	Legal decisions, guilt and innocence, responsibility, moral codes,
conscience
3.	Taste, aesthetics, fashion, individualism and conformism, choice as a
means of creating the self
4.	Consumerism, marketing, expertise and advice gurus, choosing choice
5.	Body politics, body image, body modification, abortion rights
6.	High street architecture, homogenisation, shop design and packaging
7.	Education, health, public services and the citizen-consumer
8.	Political parties, democratic choice, one- and two-party states, the
technology of casting votes
9.	Culinary culture, supermarkets as providers and destroyers of choice,
the politics of food
10.	Surfeit of choice, sensory overload, the Internet, search engines
11.	Greed, choosing everything, mp3 culture, using the 'shuffle'
function to choose music, eating disorders, mania, addiction
12.	Choosing 'sustainability', environmental degradation, nuclear power
13.	Digital cinema, digital television, the remote control and
television schedules
14.	Religions, sects, choosing God, being chosen by God
15.	Political action, violence, resistance, strategy and choosing tactics

We welcome contributions in English or in another European language, in
the form of analytical essays and articles, interviews, art projects,
photographic images, online interactive projects, creative writing, etc.

The London Consortium is a unique collaboration between the
Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the
Institute of Contemporary Arts and TATE. It offers challenging, rigorous
postgraduate programmes in the Humanities and Cultural Studies combining
criticism and creativity and leading to a Master of Research (MRes) or
PhD degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of London.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, 15 May 2006. Please send all
submissions to the editorial team at static3 at gmail.com

Publication date: end June 2006

Editorial team
Cormac Deane
Lee Scrivner
Eu Jin Chua




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