Subject: DROMO: Call for Papers - Parallax 15
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 16:19:00 +0100


Call for Papers

parallax 15

IN VIOLENCE

-A man who belongs to this race must stand up on the high place with
gibberish in his mouth and rip out his entrails. It is right and just,
because he must! And anything that falls short of this frightening
spectacle, anything less shuddering, less terrifying, less mad, less
intoxicated, less contaminating, is not art. The rest is counterfeit.
The rest is human. The rest belongs to life and lifelessness.-
							H. Miller  The
Tropic of Cancer



Academia is inadequate. Cultural studies is complacent.
Is violence understood?
Is the understanding of violence simply its taming?


parallax wishes not to speak of violence, but to operate IN VIOLENCE.


parallax invites papers which attack, grapple with, perform, enact,
explore and celebrate violence - being  IN VIOLENCE.



Issue 15 of parallax seeks to do violence, asking:

How can there be an ethical privileging of peace when the imposition of
peace comes with the destruction of  its others and the violent
eradication of a prior violence?
Is violence the lesser evil?
In a peaceful situation, when  did or does the violence end?
Is peace the central metaphor of violence?
Why should we give peace a chance?
Without violence, whither pleasure?


parallax also invites poetry, original artwork, and translations.

Abstracts, proposals, submissions etc. should be sent to the editors at
either address by Friday 29th January 1999

Mark Little						Paul Bowman
Dept of Historical & Critical Studies				parallax
Lipman Building						Centre for
Cultural Studies
University of Northumbria
University of Leeds
Newcastle						Leeds
NE1 8ST							LS2 9JT

0191 227 4363						0113 233 5277
mark.little-AT-unn.ac.uk
finjpb-AT-leeds.ac.uk