UTOPIA AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY TODAY - [sic] - a journal of literature, culture and literary translation - Issue 10 (May 2015) (original) (raw)

UTOPIA AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY TODAY - [sic] - a journal of literature, culture and literary translation - Issue 10 (May 2015) University of Zadar Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV. br 2 23000 Zadar www.sic-journal.org 10th Call for Papers CFP: Utopia and political theology today CFP: Utopia and political theology today The Book of Revelations describes the Holy City, a New Jerusalem with transparent glassy streets and pearly walls – a city so heavenly that, “The nations will walk by its light” (Revelation 22.24). All nations, the poor, outcasts, all races, all human forms, will dwell forever within the Light of the Lord. In The City of God Saint Augustine developed this Heavenly City as an idealized polis, as an eternal haven of joy above and beyond the material world of the dying Roman Empire. “An eternal haven of joy”, a “light for all human forms” signals the emotional dimension of the utopian promise for the oppressed, the noncountable, the marginalized, the different, the singular. Today, after the catastrophic failure of the communist projects at the end of the last century and the global domination of liberal democracy, perhaps more than ever we miss this emotional side of the utopian faith. Perhaps this is the reason for the recent theological revival and the unusual upturn in interest in political theology. The utopian side of political theology today calls us to reexamine and rethink what it means to be a human self and what selves might be together. How are contemporary politics, art and culture contaminated by different forms of the sacred? How is dominant liberal discourse and the myth of modernity as a pure secular form of politics interiorized and maintained? How does the discourse of ‘crisis’ connect to submissions of the oppressed and production of the sense of a ‘damaged future’? Does any emancipatory project require what Simon Critchley calls both a counterfactual faith and utopian faith in radical social imagination as a performative alternative to biocapitalism? We invite papers that address these questions through critical examination of the ways utopian faith has been envisaged in literature, film, performance, art, politics, philosophy…. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): • the political promise of the performative (political deployments of performativity in art, performances, literature, film, individual actions, movements, protests….etc.) • the survival of different forms of utopias in dystopias – e.g., in new forms of life often represented as monsters (zombies….) • the utopian faith in images, or in the possibility to ‘liberate’ images across gender/class/race division…. • the utopian promise of plural performativity and the politics of memoralization • the affects of belonging and discourses on the good life and collective well-being • sound and sonic utopianism • revisiting the “classics” of political theology (Benjamin, Schmitt, Kantorowicz, etc.) • the challenge of capital to emancipatory politics • time and temporality of (political) change • the meaning of “messianic” in late capitalism Etc. [sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation invites submissions for the upcoming 10th issue. We accept: - original research papers: up to 9,000 words, including references and footnotes - reviews and interviews: up to 2,000 words - translations of literary texts: up to 9,000 words - video essays (max 50 MB) – video submissions are welcome from all fields within the journal’s focus Submission of research papers, reviews, interviews, translations of a literary texts or video essays implies that the work described has not been published previously and that its publication is approved by all authors. By submitting an article or video to [sic], the authors acknowledge that the article or video is original and entirely the result of work of the author or authors. The ownership and rights of works submitted and published in [sic] shall reside with the author(s). However, [sic] reserves the primary right of publication. 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