[Bilimsel Haber] İlet: CFP Other Voices, online journal of cultural criticism: "Aesthetic Violence in the 20th C. and Beyond"

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    Konu: CFP Other Voices, online journal of cultural criticism:  
"Aesthetic Violence in the 20th C. and Beyond"
    Kime: Sule Tarakcioglu <suletar at kulturad.org>

*Aesthetic Violence in the 20th C. and Beyond*
*Location:* 	United States
<http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=United%20States>







How does art respond to the tremendous pace of the world’s violence?
More than merely sublimating or ameliorating trauma, art documents the
physical and psychological damage wreaked by social, political, cultural
or personal violence. Damaged life yields a damaged art, the distortions
of which are crucial in capturing the specific ramifications of
violence. Art in the face of war must suffer this distortion; consider
the writings of Levi, Antelme, Celan, Beckett, and O’Brien, among many
others. The documentary of aesthetic violence runs through work as
various as art on feminism, racism, and ranges from group to personal
violence.

Yet there also has been a subgroup of artists that integrate aspects of
violence into their own oeuvre, sometimes to unearth or expose its taboo
and other times to dissipate it or to direct it to various ends. In this
trend consider Pound, Bataille, Artaud, Jünger, Celine, Gide, Genet
through to Viennese Actionism, performance artist Bob Flanagan, writer
Kathy Acker, punk and heavy metal music, and violent cinema. Critics
have generally placed the former group of writers as ethical exemplars
while the latter are known for crossing or destroying ethical
boundaries. But what is the assumed status of the ethical exemplar, and
does it leave the condition of aesthetic violence still uncritically
suspended despite its evocation?

Other Voices (www.othervoices.org), an online journal of cultural
criticism published at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, seeks essays that
address the invocation of aesthetic violence of the past century. Some
overall questions we wish to address include: How does aesthetic
violence relate to ethics? How is aesthetic violence experienced? At
what point does violence inhibit any aesthetic experience? How might
aesthetic violence relate to a confrontation with political violence?
How does aesthetic violence operate as a critique of violence?

We are also interested specifically in contributions that articulate a
sense of the effect of violent assault upon the art object or
viewer/reader. Too often critical discourses on violence adopt a
moralizing tone, dismissing violence without close examination of its
specific physical, psychological and aesthetic effects. More detailed
inquiry may allow us to ask, for instance, on what possible grounds
could one establish a phenomenology of aesthetic violence? What would be
its terms and conditions, its ethical position? To what degree is
violence inherent in our categories of knowledge, aesthetic techniques
or modes of representation?

Some general topics might include:
- war aesthetics
- art and racist violence
- art and feminism
- art and rituals involving violence
- art and violence of political resistance
- music and violence
- the beautiful and the ugly
- ethics of violent art from the position of the artist or the viewer
- violence and technique: as a way of directing, focusing, or
de-focusing attention on specific forms or instances of historic or
personal violence
- violence and pleasure in art
- philosophies of modernity and violence (Nietzsche, Sorel, Benjamin,
Adorno, Lenin, Marxism, Mao, Colonialism, Fanon, Situationism, Black
liberation movements, third world/global struggles)

We invite papers from all theoretical perspective and disciplines,
including, but not limited to: theoretical and philosophical essays,
comparative case studies, historical and cultural interpretations, and
psychological and psychoanalytical investigations.

We are interested in articles (4000-9000 words), intellectual
commentaries (3000-5000 words), review essays (2000-4000 words) and
scholarly book reviews (1500-2500 words). Non-traditional submissions,
such as lecture transcriptions, hypermedia projects, translations, art
work, interviews and other materials, will also be considered.

Please send completed submissions by email attachment to
submissions at othervoices.org no later than June 15, 2007.

Please direct general inquires to both:

Vance Bell, editor-in-chief (vbell at othervoices.org)
Joshua Schuster, editor (jnschust at english.upenn.edu).

	Vance Bell
Editor-in-Chief
Other Voices
P.O. Box 31907
Philadelphia, PA 19104-1907
USA

Email: vbell at othervoices.org <mailto:vbell at othervoices.org>

Visit the website at http://www.othervoices.org




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