BEYOND THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

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For the July 2009 issue, the editors of Litteraria Pragensia (journal) are seeking contributions addressing the political commitment of art and the aesthetic dimension of politics in the increasingly globalized and medialized global environment.

From Ezra Pound´s contention that "energy depends on one´s ability to make a vortex" to Youngblood’s "the new avant-garde is about creating autonomous social worlds that people can live in... what´s avant-garde is... the creation of context", the problems of artistic creation within or without the context of other, social or political, types of creation, have been of utmost concern for artistic practitioners and theorists alike, whether under the inertia of Cold-War ideological state apparatuses, in the countershock of the society of the spectacle, or born from the reconfigurations of social reality linked to the advent of cyberspace.

What strategies does or should art adopt in order to implicate itself within, or disentangle itself from, the contemporary political debates? More particularly, what future does art have in a world of instantaneous assimilation of ideas? What forms can a ppolitical-critical art assume beyond those already mapped out by the avant-garde heritage(s) in what are now seen as definitive movements (the Oulipo, the Situationists, the Nouveau Roman, the Tel Quel, Lettrism, Concrete Poetry, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , hypertextual fiction, new media poetics, etc.). Where do the emerging boundaries of contestation lie?

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The deadline for proposals/abstracts is 15 April.
Final submissions are due by 31 May, 2009.
Papers of up to 6,000 are welcome.

Please send abstracts/queries to: litteraria@ff.cuni.cz
or: info@litterariapragensia.com

www.litterariapragensia.com
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