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Call for Articles

Crossings
A Journal of Philosophical, Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies

Special Topic:
"Unlocking Discipline from Disciplinarity" - Deadline: July 1, 2000

In the last thirty years, critical "theory" has repeatedly
(de)constructed modern disciplinary discourses by transversing social,
political, and economic systemic lines across the landscape of cultural
production. While contemporary thinkers have gotten a lot of mileage out
of these modes of critiquing discursive structures, we sense the
impending realization of an aporia in the midst of this vit al work.  It
seems that several questions present themselves:  Have we stopped
thinking discipline
as a series of discursive practices?  Can we still speak of discipline
in a world of increasing "multiculturalism" and mobilized capital?  Is
is possible to map a history of this shift, and if so, what impedes and
distracts our critical attention?  One might consider addressing the
failure to think the possibility of a radical disciplinarity offered to
us by the work of Deleuze and Guattari.  For example, how might we
reconsider discipline, in the strongest sense, in a world of machinic
assemblages?
Have we read Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus but failed to read
Capitalism and Schizophrenia?  How does the analysis of desire differ
from
a more conventional analysis of power?  What falls to the wayside and
what is over-invested in this fundamental shift?  Can we still speak of
discipline once the engine of power-desire is running at full throttle?
If so, what does discipline become after burning this particular rubber?

Possible article topics might include:

~Prisons and carceral institutions
~Academic freedom
~A politics of seeing
~"Classical" institutions
~Sado-Masochism
~Constructed bodies and flows of desire/power
~A Deleuzian activism?
~Identity
~Sexuality
~Commodification
~Teaching desire-power
~What is an Audience?
~Subjectivity and desire-power
Open Topic:  Crossings also invites articles on any
"counter-disciplinary" subject (not necessarily fitting announced
special topics), articles concerned with questions of literature,
philosophy, history, culture, and gender that originate from any
historical period.  A general concern of Crossings is the theme of
resistance and how university communities might influence sites of
cultural production and the future of education in order to offer
alternatives to apparatuses of hegemony and prohibitive
modes of knowledge production--to think the stakes involved in offering
such alternatives, and the politics pertaining to foundational
critiques.

Submissions: Manuscripts should be submitted SASE and in duplicate (and
if possible on an IBM compatible 3 1/2" disc, WordPerfect or Microsoft
Word for Windows).  Please use Chicago Manual of Style
Author/Date/Endnote citation format.  Manuscripts should be
double-spaced, with endnotes, tables, charts, maps, etc., on separate
pages.  Submit to: Crossings, Department of English, Binghamton
University, Box 6000, Binghamton NY, 13902-6000.  Send all inquiries to
this address, or E-mail us at xings-AT-binghamton.edu.  For additional
information regarding the journal, visit the Crossings website at
http://english.binghamton.edu/crossings

Subscriptions:  Subscription rates are $11.00 individuals, and $21.00
institutions.  Crossings is an annual publication.  Send all
correspondence concerning subscriptions to:  Crossings Subscriptions,
Department of English, Box 6000, Binghamton University, Binghamton NY,
13902-6000.



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