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Subject Matters: A Journal of Communications and the Self is a new, refereed, bi-annual publication launched in 2004 by members of the Communications and Subjectivity research group at London Metropolitan University. It seeks to explore current thinking about subjectivity, to cross disciplinary boundaries and to challenge critical orthodoxy in the process. It is dedicated to debate on the nature of the subject and its various characterisations, especially in modernity. The journal seeks to go beyond the restrictions of poststructuralist/postmodernist paradigms and to avoid the cliques and the clichés that poststructuralism has naturalized. As such, it seeks to invite papers from researchers in different disciplines, particularly where the relationships between ‘communications’ and ‘subjectivity’ are seen to exceed the boundaries that current critical predilections have set for them.
The editors are especially interested in contributions concerned with the ways in which the concept of the subject as it has been defined in recent years can be put into question and even decentred. Although the editors hail mainly from Communications, Media and Cultural studies, the impetus of the journal is to question the dominant discourse on the subject in the Anglo-American paradigm of these disciplines. The spirit of auto-criticism in this journal problematizes the enforcement by Communications, Media and Cultural Studies of its own regime of knowledge and its own constructed canon of authorised texts, in which there are gaps, silences and marginalization of voices with important contributions to make to the subjectivity debate.
Contributions which engage with the legacy of high theory but bring theory into contact with everyday life will also be welcome. Papers which impinge on communications and cultural theory but which are not necessarily describable as emanating from that tradition – from the sciences or elsewhere in the humanities – will be considered. Papers dealing with historical formations of subjectivity will also be welcome if they contribute to contemporary debates.
For further information please email the e-mail address provided below.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Seyla Benhabib - USA
Timothy Bewes - USA
Andrew Bowie - UK
Anthony Cascardi - USA
Simon Critchley - UK AND USA
Drucilla Cornell - USA
Marcel Danesi - CANADA
John Deely - USA
Anthony Elliott - UK
Paul du Gay - UK
Sandra Harding - USA
Dieter Henrich - GERMANY
Axel Honneth - GERMANY
Erkki Kilpinen - FINLAND
Alexandros Lagopolous - GREECE
Vicky Lebeau - UK
Mandy Merck - UK
Keith Ansell Pearson - UK
Augusto Ponzio - ITALY
Anti Randviir - ESTONIA
Horst Ruthrof - AUSTRALIA
Ziauddin Sardar - UK
Peter J. Schulz - SWITZERLAND
Frederik Stjernfelt - DENMARK
Eero Tarasti - FINLAND
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