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  • CFP: Vol. 1 No. 2: The sleep of digital reason? Dreaming of a creative machine in the age of AI

    2025-09-21

    This special issue will examine these medial shadows of reality and rational monsters of automated writing—whether genuine entities or mere accumulations of masks—exploring their genealogies, infrastructures, and

    transformative effects on literary and media culture and inside (generative) media arts and philosophy. We invite scholarship that explores fundamental questions about authorship, —including script and screenwriting, creativity, and literary and other forms of artistic production processes through rigorous theoretical frameworks, empirical analysis, and/or critical reflection on the implications of AI for literary and media culture.

    We invite submissions that articulate approaches within media theory, visual studies, philosophy of technology, cybernetics, or contemporary artistic practices.

    Call for papers: until 5 January 2026

    Decision communicated to authors: February

    2nd round review and editing: March 

    Publication: April 2026

     

    Issue editors: José Gomes Pinto (Lusófona University) and Alexander Gerner (Lusófona University)

     

    Please find full call text below and registration and submission information at https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/caleidoscopio/about/submissions.

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  • CFP: Vol. 1 No. 1: Becoming Media: Operativity and Medialogical Structures

    2025-02-14

    Call for papers open until June 2, 2025.

    Between Wolfgang Ernst’s (2016) notion of active operative media and André Leroi-Gourhan’s (1964) operational chains composed of gestures and tools, we find the figure of operativity, which emphasizes the processes of co-constitution and performativity through which operations—as material ontogenetic forces—produce both the real and the symbolic, instantiating limits, interfaces, and infrastructures that constitute articulations of the real (Siegert, 2015).

    Originally applied in the contexts of the military-security complex and logistics (Parikka, 2023), the logic of operativity has since expanded into the domains of political control (Massumi, 2015), cybernetics and archives, world visualization and the production of the visual, technological media, and the algorithmic logic of computerized culture (Friedrich; Hoel, 2021).

    Harun Farocki (2004), in an analysis extendable beyond the military uses of images that motivate it, proposes the notion of operative/ghost images—images that do not represent an object but are part of an operation. Therein lies a profane space situated outside, in a non-localized medialogical structure and a horizon of estrangement.

    We invite submissions that articulate approaches within media theory, visual studies, philosophy of technology, cybernetics, or contemporary artistic practices.

     

    Call for papers: until 2 June 2025

    Decision communicated to authors: end of June

    2nd round review and editing end of July 

    Publication: September 2025

     

    Please find registration and submission information at https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/caleidoscopio/about/submissions.

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