Dandelion is looking for submissions on the theme of Filth for the next issue.

Topics might include, but are not limited to: - Materialist readings of filth - Dirty cities: sewers, soot, smog, etc. and/or rural dirt - Sartre’s visqueux; Kristeva’s abject; Bataille’s informe - The social, political or environmental implications of filth - Filth as matter out of place - displacements, borders and boundaries. - Cultural representations of disease / narratives of infection or contagion - Soiled, ruined or unclean: sexual activity and notions of impurity

We welcome both long and short articles. We also encourage conference and event reports, blog posts, reviews, podcasts and artwork.

More information can be found here: http://dandelionjournal.org/index.php/dandelion/article/view/91/121

Please submit your contribution through http://dandelionjournal.org/ or to the editors at mail@dandelionjournal.org

Dandelion is an online postgraduate journal and research network, supported by Roberts Funding and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.