Anonymous Comrade writes:
"Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality"
Polygraph 18
Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, is seeking submissions for its next issue, "Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality."
Call for Papers
Contemporary accounts of politics often coincide with strategies, theories, and experiences of temporality, whether they be historical periodizations, the experience of everyday life, or attempts to give figural or concrete form to such experiences through narration. If we understand narrative as the principal and necessary means through which one is able to make sense of time and temporal experience (and therefore also social change), we must recognize the centrality of narrative to any attempt to think politically; if we reject this claim, we must account for one's ability to make sense of lived experience in some other way.
Beyond this dilemma, however, we must acknowledge the prevalence of narrative as a means for understanding life (everyday or otherwise), causality, and political action, not only in the abstract, but in relation to specific forms of narrative and the different experiences of temporality they engender.
