<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:g.fuller@unsw.edu.au">g.fuller@unsw.edu.au</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>CFP: M/C Journal 'Still'</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 16, 2008 12:59:51 AM GMT+01:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Call for papers:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">'Still'</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"> A topology of stillness haunts the space of flows. Against a </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">backdrop of increasing research in mobilities and the mobilisation of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">forces of all kinds, in this issue of M/C Journal we seek submissions </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">that attend to and reflect upon stillness. 'Still' might be many </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">things: stillness as descriptor of a particular form of action, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">behaviour or disposition; stillness in an object sense; or still as </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">in an action - to become still. This multiplicity, in turn, prompts </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">many questions. How much effort is required to remain still or keep </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">other bodies, things or ideas still? What might it be to think </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">through 'still' not as a coherent and singular being-in-the-world, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">but something that is more fluid, diverse, fragmented and splintered? </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">As such, what are some of the various configurations, vocabularies </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">and politics of stillness?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"> Perhaps this could involve stillness as a strategy, such as to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">ignore or dissipate the actions of others. In the writings of idlers, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">or in the actions of those who refuse or cannot move into lives of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">permanent transit, we can see the actions of still. Here, stillness </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">might emerge as a particular capacity in order to achieve something - </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">where stillness becomes a productive tool rather than apprehended as </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">a weak form of action. Alternatively, there is the still implied by </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">delegation that comes about through trust in objects or various </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">dispositions of delegation. Can we think about still as form of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Spinozian pact, or a collective suspension? Stillness might be </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">restorative whereby rest or being still assists with the activities </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">of the day. Is mesmeric, dreamy stillness different from radical </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">stillness? What about stillness that is, paradoxically, active - </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">where it is willed, coerced or designed? What about a more passive </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">stillness that is not willed intentionally by the body? What do these </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">different forms of 'still' do to the body? What do they demand from </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">the body? What are some of the bodily shapes and comportments that </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">are associated with different forms of being or doing 'still'? And </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">since they are not mutually discrete, how are different stills </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">related to each other?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Still in the social sciences has often been a limited antithetical </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">relation with life, animation and ineluctability of perpetual motion: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">it is the arrest of photography, or the limit of a frame. Perhaps in </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Walter Benjamin's phrase the 'archaic stillness' of text we see the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">power of stillness moving through time, but on the whole, still has </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">enduring pejorative associations with passivity, the feminine and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">notions of negation. In this issue we seek to expand, recuperate and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">explore further stillness beyond these narrow affiliations. What does </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">an appreciation of still do to our understanding of action and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">practice? As Paul Harrison claims, perhaps stillness is a necessary </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">and 'intrinsic rather than contingent aspect of activity'. For </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">instance, contemporary networked infrastructures produce </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">subjectivities and ontologies in which the relation of stillness to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">movement is not binary or negative but fully integrated into the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">processes, aesthetics and politics of mobility. Stillness in all its </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">forms is more critical in contemporary life, by virtue of and not </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">despite, increased mobility. And yet stillness remains more or less </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">unexplored. In this issue of M/C Journal we ask what, then, is </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">significant about still?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Article deadline: 16 Jan. 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Release date: 11 Mar. 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Editors: David Bissell (University of Brighton) and Gillian Fuller </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">(University of New South Wales) Journal website: <a href="http://journal.media-">http://journal.media-</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">culture.org.au/</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Please send any enquiries, and complete articles of 3000 words, to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"><a href="mailto:still@journal.media-culture.org.au">still@journal.media-culture.org.au</a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">We look forward to hearing from you.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Best wishes,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">David Bissell and Gillian Fuller</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div>
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