In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation brought together scholars from a wide range of perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms.
Inspired by this very successful conference, we are now preparing a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry (based on their keynote papers), and 10-12 short paper chapters of 4000 words (excluding bibliography).
We are therefore issuing an Open Call for Chapter Proposals. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this edited book, please send a chapter title and 400 word abstract by no later than 15 September 2013 to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. Those that are subsequently invited to submit a full chapter will need to have this completed by 1 March 2014.
Please direct any inquiries to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. If you would like more information about the themes of the original conference, please explore this website.
We look forward to receiving your chapter proposals.
Conditions of Mediation 