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From: "Marc Herbst" <sparckle1-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: [postanarchism] issue#3 submission guidelines- Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:29:38 -0800


Seeking submissions for issue #3 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

Contents
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1.Manifesto #3
2.Call
3.Analysis behind #3
4.Who we are
5.Deadlines
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1. Manifesto #3

Bully Pulpit!!

As a magazine, we are a bully pulpit- we are announcing, “Engage with the 
complexities of possibility through reality. In this way, we will become the 
better world.”

Our analysis holds that this is a moment of obvious horror and dormant 
dreams. This need not be! Now is the time for a blossoming of practical 
theory.  Now is the time for the neighbors to be talking to neighbors.  Now 
is the time for culture to popularize bio-diesel, green architecture, social 
justice, and conversation throughout the vast sweep of nations. Now is the 
time to figure out how pass along and activate the dusty catalogue of ideas 
so as to make the catalogue anew. Now is the time to take the collective 
knowledge of artists, activists, writers and researchers and build what 
Michael Albert and others have called "a movement of movements."

As we participate in this "movement of movements" we will not march under 
one banner, some of us will not even attend marches. We will not agree on 
everything, we won't speak one language, we won't dance to the same music. 
Nonetheless we are able to communicate through difference; we have learned 
to listen our allies' divergent ideas of justice and dreams, to act 
strategically so as to facilitate our continued possibility.  (Our vectors 
act without compromising our differences. As such they do not circumvent the 
growth of boring power and its aim which is to disallow our futures- we are 
aware, and as such we are all strong).

The third issue of the Journal creates a personal and cultural lexicon so as 
to actualize this possibility.
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2. Call

Departures for authors, activists, anarchists, androids, artists, 
Argonauts...

NOTE: We are always interested in unsolicited submissions, however these are 
areas we are particularly looking to cover…

NOTE 2: We are always interested in unsolicited submissions. The following 
list are just suggestions.  Please read the Manifesto and Analysis to see 
where we’re at.

Articles referencing culture- a poetry of nuances.
- Exploration of projects that keep community alive;
activist organizing, dance cultures, music scenes, community halls, Lions 
Clubs, Rotarians. Cultural projects that get different people talking, 
making, dreaming, acting. Either over a period of years, one weekend, or a 
moment, how do you do it?
- "Alive culture:" A critical analysis of the academic field of 
cultural-studies -or- "How the commodification of culture creates false 
consciousness about the reality of existence."
- "Alliance building." "Alliances in action." “Networked art”
- How personal mythology and ideology, theories and illusions effect (for 
better or worse) the ways people concretely interface with the world.
- Journalistic accounts of individuals navigating the social world.
- Talking through disagreements. Giving words to interpersonal issues. Art 
that fleshes out or navigates disagreements
- Typologies of criticism; a discussion of the ways that people discuss the 
material world. What are the most vital issues within criticism today, and 
why?
- Expanding the art canon- equality of creation and representation.
- Changing culture from the bottom up.
- When art goes on the road.


Articles discussing the nature of political imagery
- Can progressives "win" with Schwarzenegger-like "image politics?"
- The reality of grassroots door to door- style organizing versus the 
organizing accomplished through "Mediated" Michael Moore/ Ad Busters/Ruckus 
Society/ELF "spectacular" image productions.
- Image and Ideology - the role of seduction in building political 
movements.
- Pragmatism versus idealism in art or political imagery.
- Communities that discuss and manage their own communally created images in 
order to effect social change.


ETC.
- Extant Utopias and utopian technologies and how they functioning today.
- Social Education.
- Extant outlaw communities.
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3.Analysis for issue #3
Strange Days Indeed!

We are staring down the barrel of an election year with ambivalence and 
fear. Ambivalence because positive social change rarely comes from the 
ballot box.  Fear because of the quality of fuckers in power at this moment.

With the paralysis of the WTO in Cancun and the inability of the Bush 
Administration to raise a multinational mercenary force, the 90's Washington 
Consensus is collapsing. Nonetheless, the American Establishment continues 
its course towards a "privatized commons" of groups separated by xenophobia, 
wage gaps, polluted mountains, deregulation, surveillance cameras, and 
rotten ideas.

Since our last submission call, the globalization movement has continued to 
make headway despite increased state repression- many of the movement’s 
basic assumptions (if not its critique) have become mainstream in 
correlation to the increased mania of the Bush Administration. We posit that 
this continued growth is due, at least in part, to conversations and 
coalitions that continue on at the community level.  We also recognize the 
still as-of-yet untapped creative and political potential in the grass 
roots.

Towards the goal of fleshing out and strengthening instances of inter-human 
possibility and understanding conflict- our third issue is interested in 
tracing the ways that both individuals and communities meet with one 
another. This Journal issue delves into to the social sphere to create a 
lexicon where each instance describes a nuance of cultural/political 
relationships or in social organizing.

In addition, the third issue will be released as the presidential race of 
2004 ramps up.  We hope to publish several topical articles whose content 
falls within our distinct purview.
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4.Who we are

Hello.

The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is an internationally distributed 
print and web magazine (www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org). We are 
interested in the intersection of art/activism/and theory in media.

5.Deadlines

Ouch.

Please get you submission ideas to us as soon as possible.  The Journal’s 
editorial staff will review all submissions. Submissions received after 
December 25th will be considered for issue 4.
Once an article or proposal is submitted, we'll respond in some way. Through 
a series of drafts and revisions, together we'll have a complete piece for 
print.

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