[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Failure: Idealism and History (2/15/06; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Colin Dickey <cdickey@nu.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS
FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY


Proposals are invited for a book on the topic of failure, and its 
relationship
to idealism and history, to be published in conjunction with the Journal of
Aesthetics and Protest (www.joap.org). We're interested primarily in those
historical and aesthetic "failures" which are a result of a powerful, if
sometimes naive, idealism, out of step with their own contexts.  Either 
a result
of the exhaustion of a moment and/or movement, pushed to its logical (or
illogical) conclusion (such as the Children's Crusades of 1212, or the 
Weather
Underground), or the result of the utter misunderstanding of a 
historical moment
(novelist Yukio Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism in post-war 
Japan). The
question of re-visiting these various cultural, historical, artistic 
moments is
inevitably an exploration of the relationship between an act and its 
historical
moment, and bringing that relationship into the present. While a 
"success" may
seem to be something that determines the shape of history, failures on a
colossal and spectacular scale are often those things that bring history,
culture, and art most sharply into relief.

We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, visual explorations
(e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic experiments that deal with the topic of
failure and its relationship to idealism and history. Possible topics 
include:
failed utopias, failure and tragedy, failed political movements (including
Marxism), specific literary or artistic works (such as Gertrude Stein's The
Making of Americans, "The first truly original disaster of modernism"), the
"failure" of the Iraq war protests, various arguments on the "failure" 
of the
avant-garde and/or modernism, specific theorists' relationship to 
failure (e.g.,
Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida), technology and failure, the 
history
of failure, failure and architecture, alternative psychology movements, 
"failed"
public art (e.g., Tilted Arc).

Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the project, as a Word
attachment, to Colin Dickey, cdickey@nu.edu, by February 15, 2006. 
Notification
for selected work will be February 28, 2006, and completed works will be 
due no
later than June 1, 2006.





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