"Creative Philosophy: Theory and Praxis"

Call for Papers for Angelaki special issue on "Creativity"

Co-editors Felicity J. Colman (University of Melbourne) and
Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State University)

This Angelaki issue on "Creativity" seeks essays with collaborative, hybrid, and polyvocal research, linkages, and models of creativity in philosophical thought and artistic practices (e.g. literature, architecture, music, visual arts, new media, cinema). The thematic of creativity asks how creative interfaces operate, what forms of generic skills and community resources inform contemporary relations between ideas and creative expression and representation, and how and where creativity is produced.Examples of creative pursuits might be located through modernist activities of the twentieth century and those subsequent modifications and modulations of praxis and thought. Also of interest are the interactivities of the early twenty-first century that attest to divergent sets of aesthetic and political logics. The issue seeks essays that provoke and examine questions concerning the modes of interface and systems of logic that creative and expressive territories of aesthetics, politics, and representation engage; forms of learned cognitive processes that currently are emerging and how these affect creativity; the types of social outcomes that result from specific logics of practice and/or theory.

These intersections between creativity, thought and expression are but a few of the directions in which the issue editors encourage potential contributors to develop essays for consideration for this Angelaki issue. Abstracts of 500-750 words should be submitted in electronic format by February 15, 2005, to fcolman@unimelb.edu.au and c_stivale@wayne.edu. Authors will be notified (at latest) by April 15, 2005, of agreement to develop the full essay.

The upper limit of completed essays is 8000 words; shorter pieces are welcome. A maximum of three images can accompany essays, to be published in black and white. It is the author's responsibility to seek copyright for use of images, with high-definition images required (either as photographs or as electronic [jpeg] files).

Final drafts are due to the issue editors by October 15, 2005. Address all queries on this special issue to Felicity J. Colman or Charles J. Stivale. Work accepted for development in this special issue must conform to the Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (www.mla.org). All manuscripts should be original in content and not published, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts are not returned.

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