Vol. 17, Nos. 1-2

Gaming and Theory
Welcome are contributions that engage the various intersections of the idea and practice of digital gaming and critical theory. Topics include, but are not limited to, gaming and postmodernism, the politics of gaming, gaming and cultural studies, gaming and philosophy, gaming and narrative theory, gaming and globalization, gaming and pedagogical theory, gaming and aesthetics, gaming and media theory, gaming and feminism, and gaming and its critics.

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Vol. 18, No. 1

Emotions
Welcome are contributions that engage the role of the emotions in contemporary critical theory and practice. Are there particular emotions critics or theorists feel? Are criticism and sympathy mutually exclusive? What is the place of emotions in posthumanism? Are we returning to an aesthetics of feelings? Is this a new aesthetics? To what extent are feelings and sentiments back in the focus of critical theory? What does the exploration of emotional representation look like after the global turn in theory? What does it mean to feel for the other in the age of transnationalism? What is the place of emotion after the postmodern deconstruction of the sentimental subject?

Deadline for submissions: 1 January 2010.

Submissions closed.

Vol. 18, No. 2

Hunger
Welcome are contributions that theoretically engage the referential and figural use of hunger. What is hunger? Is it a sign of our humanity or animality? Who is the paradigmatic subject of hunger? Is its meaning transhistorical and transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and thus irremediably discursive and historically contingent? Whose hunger is acknowledged and whose is ignored? Is hunger an ontological or ontic concern? Is it a metaphysical desire (the hunger for recognition) or a biological need (the hunger for food)? Is hunger a global problem to be eradicated, or a perpetual reminder of our embodiment and exposure to others? Can an inquiry into hunger ever be disentangled from biopolitics? Can we speak of both an aesthetics of hunger and a hunger for aesthetics? Is intellectual hunger a desire for disciplinarity, a taste for theory?

Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2010.

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