Issue 37: Idealism and Contemporary Film Theory: Subjectivity, Politics, Technics. OPEN.
- Abstracts (200-400 words) are due 17th April 2023, with a view to submit articles by 21st July 2023.
Issue 37: Idealism and Contemporary Film Theory: Subjectivity, Politics, Technics.
This issue of Transformations seeks to explore idealism as a positive influence on and ongoing relevance to contemporary developments in film theory and analysis (broadly understood). With a particular interest in the extent to which Idealist philosophy continues to inform contemporary theories of lived experience, cognition, imagination, morality and politics, the issue will explore the way this seminal philosophical movement has helped shape our understanding of spectatorial subjectivity, cinema as revolutionary tool, and film as a technology or ‘technique’. The issue will suggest that despite the attempts of film theorists to denounce, suppress or negate the formative role of idealism in twentieth century thought, many of its key insights into the relationship between human subjectivity, mediation and the non-human world remain relevant to our present moment and the place of screen media in it.
The editors invite contributions from researchers and scholars on relevant topics including, but not limited to:
- Idealism and theories of embodied spectatorship (Sobchack, Marks, Barker, Bruno etc.)
- Cinema, subjectivity, and the question of technics [technē] (Stiegler, Nancy, Derrida etc.)
- Idealism and the new realisms and object-oriented approaches to cinema (Meillassoux, Shaviro, Harman)
- The role of idealism in dialectical film theories (McGowan, Rancière, Žižek)
- Idealism, schemata, cognitivist, and quantum approaches to the moving image
- Naturphilosophie and ecocritical film theory
- Idealism, the philosophy of language and psychoanalytic film theory
- Idealism, freedom, and the politics of the cinematic imagination
- Moral philosophy and film theory’s ‘ethical turn’
>> Abstracts (200-400 words) are due 17th April 2023, with a view to submit articles by 21st July 2023
>> Abstracts should be forwarded to: editor@transformationsjournal.org