Lo Sguardo – Rivista di Filosofia
Call for Proposals
REINVENTING THE REAL
JEAN BAUDRILLARD 2007-2017
N. XXIII, March 2017
edited by Daniela Angelucci, Eleonora de Conciliis, Enrico Schirò
Jean Baudrillard’s thought crosses a large part of the current world phenomena (war, information, media and communication, marxism’s crisis, terrorism, photography, architecture, clonation, etc.). Most of the keywords of his thought – “symbolic exchange”, “hyperreality”, “simulacrum” – continues to proliferate in the recent philosophical-cultural production, as far as this has provided a valiant conceptual framework in order to understand the complex phenomena of globalization. For these reasons, ten years from his passing, Lo Sguardo dedicates to this unclassifiable thinker a monographic issue, which intends to examine his rich and stratified cultural milieu and to investigate his deep effect on the contemporary philosophical, sociological, aesthetical and political thought. Indeed, it proves the demand to think over the contemporary through a critical use of baudrillardian concepts, that is ‘reinventing the real as fiction’ thanks to the burning lens of irony towards reality.
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DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL: JUNE, 15th 2016
Procedure: Please send within the deadline an abstract up to 4000 characters, including the title of the proposal and a description of the essay to callforpapers@losguardo.net. All the proposals will be evaluated by the editors and the readers. The result of the selection will be notified to the authors by July, 15th, 2016. A new deadline for the complete essays will be communicated to accepted authors together with the results of the selection. The papers will be subjected to a double blind review.
Call for proposals
“Lo Sguardo” encourages scholars in philosophy, politics, sociology, economics, aesthetics and similar studies to contribute at the XXIII issue, considering these three prospective thematic areas:
CFP/1 – Genealogies: the first section will be dedicated to the various and complex theoretical roots and to the cultural milieu of Baudrillard’s thought. Papers for this section could take in consideration the relationship between Baudrillard and literature, Marxism, Situationism, sociology, semiology, the Frankfurt School, Phenomenology and post-phenomenological philosophy.
CFP/2 – Surfaces: the second section will be dedicated to areas of study which Baudrillard himself cultivated in his sharping and unconventional way (visual arts, architecture, anthropology, etc.), and also to concepts which Baudrillard developed or thought over in this similar unusual way (simulacrum, virtual, seduction, etc.). Papers for this section could take in consideration the relationship between Baudrillard and aesthetics, anthropology, photography, technological objects, etc.
CFP/3 – Anamorphosis: the third section will be dedicated to Baudrillard’s legacy and presence in contemporary thought. Papers in this section could take in consideration neoliberal capitalism and its ‘saturation’, economic and financial crisis, biopolitics, US society and culture from 9/11 up to nowadays, the connection between war and terrorism, post-ecological politics, etc.
