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Inscriptions in the Sand will embrace literature, film, music, dramatic and performance art, performance events, exhibitions and creative presentations,as well as critical analyses and interpretations of literary, philosophical, and other kinds of texts. In this way, we intend to provide an academic environment and atmosphere charged with the energy of creative experience.
We welcome in particular panel discussions, presentations and creative
work/performances which problematize, question, challenge, and expose the shifting, littoral ground on which traditional social, disciplinary and ideological boundaries are inscribed. As such, we welcome those interested in such diverse fields as literature/theory, the visual and performing arts,architecture, music, historiography, science, law, politics, and communications media.
Proposed areas of interest:
relations between text and cinematic or dramatic performance
the semiotics of music video
performance, installation, and digital art
body art, tattooing and mutilation
jazz, atonal music, noise
speech acts/oral traditions
art and pornography; obscenity, voyeurism
panopticism/ideological manipulations of architectural space
modern and postmodern artistic avant-gardes
counter- and sub-cultures
cults, occultism, the popular imagination
"pseudosciences," superstition or irrationalism vs. reason and
science
magic, shamanism, religious/mystical discourse
media (TV, Internet, etc.) intrusion: censorship, privacy
critical legal studies: ideology and objectivity in law
deracinations: bedouin, gypsy, nomadic, immigrant or indigenous
spaces/borders
races, ethnicities and nationalisms
gender agendas: transvestitism, transsexuality, queering
Cyborgs and cultural systems
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