Issue 12: Habits and Habitat

Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

habitus, lived space, reading before bedtime, ideology, site-specific, home, town and country, tales of the city, apartment living, the hearth, a room of one’s own, the ergonomic triangle, demographics, home is where the heart is, domestic architecture, place versus space, keep a roof over your head

virtual environments, Second Life, MySpace, Civilisation, Facebook, Twitter, Sim city, the blogosphere, global community, changing habits, wildlife, Greenpeace, conservation and fragmentation, ethnology,affordable housing, poetics of space, suburbia

religious habit/s, rite and ritual, nuns, religious apparel, illusion, identity, spatiality, family, homelessness, customs and culture, addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, habituation and the unconscious, pleasure and pain, evolution, instinct and learning, the quarter acre block, embodied world-view

Philament accepts submissions in the form of:

Academic papers: up to 8,000 words.

Opinion pieces: reviews (book, stage, screen, etc.), conference reports, short essays, responses to papers previously published in Philament issues. Limit of 1000 words.

Creative Work: in the form of writing, images, sounds or a mixture of any or all three. All submissions should be limited to three pieces.

All submissions may be sent as email attachment in a PC-readable format to philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au.

Please include a brief biographical summary, as well as a short description of the inspiration for or genesis of the submitted work.

Academic papers must include footnotes and conform to the Philament house style of referencing (see http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/submissions.htm ).

Philament will only accept submissions that have not been previously published and are not under consideration elsewhere.