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Never mind the Buzzcocks, here's Punk & Post Punk...
At Intellect we are all feeling extremely anti-establishment awaiting the arrival of our groundbreaking new journal Punk & Post Punk.
The journal will be hitting the shelves during the first week in December and we will be offering the first issue as a FREE download on our website. In the meantime, to whet the anarchic appetite, here is the editorial that will appear in issue 1.1. The editors use this space to discuss their aims for the journal and also the challenge of applying scholarly inquiry to Punk... Expect no apologies.
Click 'Read on' below to sample the editorial...
I am delighted to introduce our current guest blogger, Katrien Jacobs, a scholar and media artist who investigates the role of digital networks in people’s experiences with the body, art, and sexuality. She has lectured and published widely about pornography, censorship and media activism in Hong Kong and global media environments.
Katrien is author of Intellect's forthcoming publication People's Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet.
Katrien's first blog discusses the Grass Mud Horse, which was a viral web phenomenom in China, which was subsequently banned by the state.
A subversive cursing horse - intrigued? I know i am! To read the blog click 'Read on' below...
The recent earthquakes in Chile, Christchurch and Japan have left a host of powerful images in the minds and memories of millions of people around the world. Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. From its earliest days, cinema has registered the impact of seismic events. The aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake is recorded on film. In New Zealand, footage from the Napier earthquake of 1937 shows the destruction of the town. Hollywood even recast New Zealand in Green Dolphin Street (Saville, 1947) as the fictional setting for a special effects mega-quake and tsunami.
Call for Articles
To launch the call for article in Design Ecologies 2.1: the ill defined niche, a symposium will take place in 25th November 2011 at Royal College of Art, Howie Street, London.
Deadline for submissions: 29 February 2012.
Design Ecologies 2.1: the ill defined niche explores the possible shared territory between doubt and value of designing and the consequences of designing between maker and tool.
The ill defined niche begins with the provisional premise that our environment is composed of a multiplicity of ill-defined ecological niches, each of which is a potential home for living and non-living forms. Through an understanding that objects cannot be fully explained in terms of their material constituents and the energy within them, objects seems to be something over and above the material components that make it up, but at the same time it can be expressed only through the organization of matter and energy. This paradox allows burgeoning design practices to go beyond shaping geometry, to shaping the internal structure of material. But in that case, what is the connection between the empirical ground, the contingent material support of human thinking, and the abstract 'designer' that is the condition for a 'whole' of thought?
For more details please visit: http://designecologies.eventbrite.com/
The Boston Globe ask 'How do you study a movement that doesn’t want to be studied?'
"Describing punk in an academically rigorous way can be challenging, in part because punks have always made such an effort to be inscrutable to outsiders."
Ever since Dick Hebdidge burst onto the scene with Subculture: The Meaning of Style the punk movement has been firmly placed on the academic radar. At Intellect we are fascinated by popular culture and performance and will imminently be publishing our latest journal Punk & Post Punk.
It seems however, we are not the only ones taking more than a passing interest in the subject and The Boston Globe have recently published a fine article tackling the subject. Interviewees include our very own Phil Kiezely and Alex Ogg, who as editors of the journal Punk & Post Punk know a thing or two about the challenges but also the importance associated with studying such a subject.
"Issue one of Punk & Post-Punk will be a milestone for the field. Founded by a pair of British cultural historians, Kiszely and Alex Ogg, the journal is being billed as both a repository and a catalyst for new, creative thinking about punk. According to Kiszely, the goal of the journal is to get behind the myths that have built up around punk over the past 40 years, and to figure out how its various permutations have influenced the broader culture."
Punk & Post Punk will be available to purchase as an individual issue and as a subscription product from December 2011. Watch this space for FREE downloads.
For further reading please take a look at Phil Kiszely's insightful interview in our FREE downloadable Performing Arts Supplement, Why performance matters?
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Not long after launching their ambitious Directory of World Cinema book series, a multi-volume printed database of essays and film critiques dedicated to various regions of world cinema, Intellect Publishing have now released a new series entitled World Film Locations. This series differs from the former in that each edition is dedicated to a specific city and the films that are set there. This instalment focuses on the Japanese capital of Tokyo.
Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue of The Soundtrack.
The journal examines the role of sound in film and other moving image media, and brings together research from a variety of disciplines. Known for an inclusive approach that engages with the complex phenomenon of sound-with-moving-image both at a theoretical and practical level, The Soundtrack aims to embrace the differing spheres of academia, industry and the art world.
Philadelphia
All this week Intellect will be taking part in the ITAA annual conference in Philadelphia. If you are attending the event or are in the neighborhood drop by the exhibitors hall and check out our stand.
If you would like to arrange a meeting send James Campbell and email: james@intellectbooks.com.
ITAA is a professional, educational association composed of scholars, educators, and students in the textile, apparel, and merchandising disciplines in higher education. ITAA welcomes professionals employed in those fields who wish to join with members of the Association in the pursuit of knowledge, interchange of ideas, and dissemination of knowledge through meetings, special events, and publications.
The International Textile and Apparel Association promotes the discovery, dissemination, and application of knowledge and is a primary resource for its members in strengthening leadership and service to society. Find out more
Call for Contributions
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland
Bob Nowlan, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
and Zach Finch, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Editors
Bristol: Intellect, 2014
A Contribution to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema Series
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland will provide an introduction to and overview of Scottish cinema in historical and cultural context. Directory of World Cinema: Scotland, as part of the Intellect Directory of World Cinema series, will draw upon as well as update the work of major directions in Scottish cinema and cultural studies scholarship of the past two decades. Our book will engage the institutional history of cinematic production in Scotland, as well as the history of the distribution, exhibition, and reception of cinema in Scotland. We will emphasize major achievements in Scottish film making as well as other films that reflect the diversity and peculiarity of Scottish cinema. A particular focus of the book will be the art and politics of cinematic representations of Scotland, of distinct Scottish populations past and present, and of ‘Scottishness’—in films made ‘from Scotland’, as well as in films made ‘from beyond Scotland’. How film contributes toward discursive constructions of Scotland and Scottishness will be a major focus of our collective critical inquiry—as will be the case with a corollary collective critical inquiry into what kind of influence and impact these constructions exert, in Scotland and for Scots, as well as beyond Scotland and for non-Scots.
The International Conference on Designing Food and Designing For Food which aims to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on fundamental aspects of Food Design across the following areas:
Food Product Design, Design With Food, Food Packaging, Interior Design For Food, Food Events Design, Food Science, Food and Five Senses, Emotional Food Design, Food System Design, Experiential Knowledge, Food Service/Management, Food Design History, and other (in regard to multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of Food Design we invite also contributions in areas that are not mentioned above).
This conference wants to gather researches on any Food Design sub-discipline and to promote communication and interaction between the Academic and the Design world. For this reason the conference encourages the submission of:
Papers
Researchers and academics are invited to submit papers that explore either theoretical or practical aspects of one of the conference themes. It is expected that the research presented in the paper category will have reached at least some preliminary conclusions and/or implications that can be shared with the audience. Authors of accepted abstract will be invited to submit a full paper (4000-5000 words).
Posters
Authors of research that is best presented in a graphic manner or students in their first years of postgraduate research are encouraged to submit a poster.
Projects
Professional designers and design students are invited to present during the conference their own design of a food product or a product for food. Selected projects will be exhibited on a dedicated area for all the duration of the Conference. Designers will also have a 15 min presentation where to describe their project to the audience and discuss it through questions and answers.
Important dates:
27 June 2011 - Call for Papers
1 July 2011 - Early Registration Opens
31 October 2011 - Submission of abstracts ends
1 December 2011 - Notification of accepted abstracts (for papers, posters and projects)
31 January 2012 - Submission of full papers
1 March 2012 - Notification of acceptance of papers
30 April 2012- Early registration Closes
1 May 2012 - Late Registration Opens
30 April 2012 - Submission of revised papers
31 May 2012 - Registration Closes
28-29 June 2012 - Conference
Please contact Francesca Zampollo for more details.
