It is with great pleasure that we announce the online publication of the second issue of SEACHANGE Art | Communication | Technology, which we invite you to read at the following address: www.seachangejournal.ca

SEACHANGE is an international journal based at McGill University which welcomes contributions in English and French from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Its mission is to reconfigure inherited critical discourses in art, media, culture, and technology. Each individual issue is centred around a singular theoretical or affective event, formulated as an "intellectual moment" modeled on lived experience, where critical discourses react and readjust themselves.

This second issue of SEACHANGE focuses on the event of "Choice," which it explores through a selection of articles and interviews. We are especially proud to present the transcription of a roundtable SEACHANGE convened between Darin Barney (Communication Studies, McGill University), Andrew Piper (German Studies, McGill University) and Joanna Zylinska (New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London) on the possible futures of the global university; a timely interview with one of Iran's foremost philosophers, Dariush Shayegan, wherein he discusses the conditions of possibility for the realization of democracy; and finally an insightful examination of the Kitty Genovese paradigm with Carrie Rentschler (Communication Studies, McGill University). Add to this, articles ranging from the dire future of Google Books to the pre-history of social media environments in Egypt, as well as the larger-than-life paintings of Bogdan Luca, a Toronto-based painter, and this second issue of SEACHANGE makes for a comprehensive engagement with choice as a living social process.

We are also taking this opportunity to announce the theme of our 2012 issue (see CFP below). The deadline for contributions is January 30th, 2012. We hope that our third theme will be of interest to many of you and we look forward to receiving your contributions, which can take the form of articles or of interviews.

We sincerely hope that you will take as much pleasure in reading this issue as we have had in putting it together. On our website, you can download the issue as a full PDF, access each contribution as an individual PDF, and sign up to our mailing list.

Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding possible contributions at the following addresses: caroline.bem@mail.mcgill.ca or rafico.ruiz@mail.mcgill.ca.

Wishing you all an eventful reading,

Caroline Bem and Rafico Ruiz SEACHANGE Editors

2012 | TALK

This third issue of SEACHANGE will address the uses, practices and experiences of talk. Drawing a sweeping line from silent film and talk radio to psychotherapy and the modalities of political discourse, Issue 3 will put under interrogation the forces that exert pressure on the means and ends of talk. In particular, it will examine how the production, locales, audiences, media, and ultimate circulation of speech acts, have all increasingly come under contestable forms of economic, political and social control. Contributions could range from the politics of access, intimacy, and publicness across media, to the invisibility of communicative disabilities, or the prevalence of discourse as a mode of inquiry in opposition to those more engaged with phatic communication. Parodying one allegorical Travis Bickle, this third issue of SEACHANGE is asking contributors to look in our collective mediated mirror and ask: “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well I’m the only one here.”

The foremost mission of SEACHANGE is to promote a high degree of scholarly creativity. Contributions based on a wide range of approaches are welcome. By way of example, these could focus on events in new media, cinema, art, music, literature, or social philosophy. Beyond an engagement with talk as a theoretical and affective event, the present issue of SEACHANGE might also act as a laboratory for the examination of rapidly evolving academic cultures.

Contributions can be in English or French and should ideally not exceed 25 double-spaced pages. Citation guidelines can be found at seachangejournal.ca. Contributors should provide an abstract in English or French as well as a short biography with their contribution. Authors are responsible for clearing all copyright to any translations submitted or illustrations used. Please direct all queries and contributions to caroline.bem@mail.mcgill.ca or rafico.ruiz@mail.mcgill.ca by January 30th, 2012.

2012 | PAROLE

Ce troisième numéro de SEACHANGE se propose d’examiner les utilisations, pratiques et expériences liées à la parole. Traçant un arc qui va du cinéma muet et de la radio à la psychothérapie et à différentes modalités de discours politique, ce troisième numéro veut interroger les forces multiples qui exercent des pressions transformatives sur les tenants et aboutissants de la parole. En particulier, il s’agit d’examiner comment la production, les lieux, les publics, les médias et tout au bout la circulation d’actes de langage, se retrouvent de plus en plus subordonnés à des formes contestables de contrôle économique, politique et social. Les contributions pourraient prendre comme point de départ la politique qui au sein des médias régule l’accès, l’intimité et le bien public. Elles pourraient également s’intéresser à l’invisibilité du handicap communicationnel, ou encore à la prévalence du discours comme mode d’investigation, par opposition à d’autres modes plus orientés vers la communication phatique. Pour parodier le personnage allégorique de Travis Bickle, nous incitons nos contributeurs pour ce troisième numéro de SEACHANGE à se contempler dans un miroir médiatique collectif et à demander: « C’est à moi que tu parles ? C’est à moi que tu parles ? C’est à moi que tu parles ? Alors à qui diable est-ce que tu parles ? C’est à moi que tu parles ? Parce que, y’a que moi ici. »

SEACHANGE se donne pour mission de promouvoir un haut niveau de créativité académique. Nous souhaitons recevoir des contributions qui s’appuient sur les approches les plus diverses. A titre d’exemple, les articles peuvent prendre comme sujet des événements provenant du champ des nouveaux médias, du cinéma, des arts, de la musique, de la littérature ou encore de la philosophie sociale. De plus, s’il est vrai que la revue s’investit dans une conception de la parole en tant qu’événement théorique et affectif, ce numéro de SEACHANGE se veut également un laboratoire de recherche sur les cultures académiques sujettes à une évolution rapide.

Les articles peuvent être écrits en français ou en anglais. Ils ne doivent pas, si possible, dépasser 25 pages en double interligne. Notre protocole de rédaction se trouve sur le site seachangejournal.ca. Les articles doivent être accompagnés de deux courts résumés (en anglais et en français) ainsi que d’une courte notice biographique. Les auteurs sont responsables de l’obtention des droits d’auteur pour toutes traductions et illustrations soumises à la revue. Pour toutes questions supplémentaires et pour soumettre des propositions d’articles ou d’entrevues, s’adresser à caroline.bem@mail.mcgill.ca ou rafico.ruiz @mail. mcgill.ca avant le 30 janvier, 2012.