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Disciplines (4/10/07; e-journal issue)
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Framing the Human: Mediated Notions through the Disciplines

InterCulture
An International and Interdisciplinary eJournal.
Florida State University
http://interculture.fsu.edu

Essays deadline April 10th

With the advancement of evolutionary biology, cosmology, and the shift
in religious and cultural studies the context of the concept of what it
means to be human has changed dramatically in the last century and a
half. InterCulture is looking to the intersections between science,
cultural, and literary studies as a fruitful space for investigating
such key topics that transform our own mediated understanding of
ourselves. With a push for interdisciplinarity, transdiciplinarity,
and crossdisciplinarity as part of the attempt to create overarching
and broader perspectives for contextualizing the human, modern
disciplines are finding themselves responsible to one another in their
portrayal of the human.  In particular, InterCulture is looking to
publish articles that deal with theoretical perspectives from the
humanities to the life sciences that specifically discuss "human" as it
can be categorized and mediated OR the debate about the conception of
the human and what it means to us in the 21st century. InterCulture is
seeking papers that discuss the new context of the human from any
interdisciplinary perspective.

The door is not only open to critiques that pit disciplines against each
other in a continued "culture war" mentality. The possibility also
exists of treating the notion of "human" in a non-reductionist manner
that illuminates conditions necessary for the possibility of treating
this notion. In other words, consideration of conjunctions of
disciplines as a basis for the concepts of "human" that are
interdependent upon one another and usually overlooked are also welcome
topics.

For example, consider the following questions: What does it mean to be
human? Is there some form of inherent priority to the disciplinary
structures that present notions of the human? Do disciplines rest
circularly upon one another for the conception of "human"? In which
direction are the conceptions of the human developing? How do the ways
in which we mediate the human reflect themselves in our conceptions?
Does economics affect our conception of the human? Is there a Red Shift
or a Blue Shift in the articulation of the human? In other words, are we
coming closer to a unified perspective or are the conceptions becoming
irretrievably separated? Is the old literary conception of the human
lost to scientific authority? If so, can we reshape the category of the
human to make it viable again for literary and cultural studies? How
have methodological practices affected our notions of ourselves?, etc.

Articles and essay that deal with all such questions and more are
welcomed. Other possible topics include:

--How do we know who we are? Standard interdisciplinary views of
mediated humanity.
--Media and the human. How does the public view itself?
--Economics and human behavior.
--Science and Culture and their objects of study.
--Consilience: Can it work?
--Gould vs. Dawkins and the idea of NOMA.
--Foucault 2.0 and the future of discourse theory.
--From homo.sapiens to the Human.
--The Challenge of Evolutionary Psychology

Submission Guidelines
InterCulture publishes material on a rolling basis; please allow 1-3
months for review. Articles should be submitted in MSWord format and be
between 3-8K words in length; book, film, and music reviews should be
between 750-1250 words.

All regular text in submissions must be in 12 point font, Times New
Roman, unless artistic license requires that it be different. In such a
case, please send notification with submission so that the fonts are not
lost during reformatting.

MLA and Chicago citations are considered best for Liberal Arts
submissions. Should the interdisciplinary text require specific
citations dependant upon field of study, please make note of this in
your submission.

All submissions are peer-reviewed.
For creative work, video and images should be submitted in commonly
utilized formats. (e.g., .SWF, MP3, AVI, Real Media, Windows Media,
.JPG, .GIF, .WAV, etc.)

All submissions must include "InterCulture" in the subject heading.

Please send submissions via email to:

Thomas Philbeck
Managing Editor
tdp0761 at fsu.edu

Copyright Statement:
Authors retain intellectual property rights to their material and may
re-publish it provided that InterCulture is acknowledged as the original
place of publication. Material in InterCulure may be reproduced in whole
or in part for non-profit use for the purposes of education research,
library reference, or stored and/or distributed as a public service by
any networked computer. Any commercial use of this journal in whole or
in part by any means is strictly prohibited without written permission.
Any use of this journal in whole or in part should include customary
bibliographic citation, including author attribution, date, article
title, and electronic retrieval instructions.

-- 
Thomas Drew Philbeck
Editor, InterCulture e-Journal
Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Florida State University
tdphilbeck at gmail.com



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