Call for Texts ::

Studio XX's Electronic Journal.dpi issue #17 ::
Call for Proposals :: "Adherence : Messy Resistance"

Guest editor-in-chief: Sophie Le-Phat Ho
Deadline for abstracts + bios: *January 3, 2010*
Selected texts must be submitted by: February 7, 2010
Publication date: February 2010

Brought closer to the notion of resistance, that of adherence seems to
function as an antonym: to resist something is to not adhere to it. On
the other hand, to resist, despite what some inventors of
"nonistes"might claim, is also to adhere to something else.

Between the two, the level of adherence can serve to measure the degree
of resistance against institutionalization or cooptation. Adherence can
be resistance's weapon just as it can be its weakness point.

As such, resistance and adherence go hand in hand.

However their opposition is not a given. Indeed, the notion of
resistance_adherence can be seen rather as a process (of everyday life),
a way of doing, of work to be done at every level (at all times). The
choice of the concept of adherence, rather than that of adhesion
(membership), brings forth the possibility of approaching that concept
in terms of degree, of coefficient – that is, as measure – and not as
identity. Adherence hence suggests the ideas of a slippery ground, of a
force of attraction, of friction, lubrication, rhythm, viscosity,
entanglement, as well as dexterity, navigation, sharpness – or in other
words – art. How can resistance_adherence be addressed in those terms,
that is, not in oppositions but in levels of intensity? How can an
analysis of resistance_adherence lead to a better understanding of
creativity, of autonomy? Indeed, how could tackling the notion of
resistance from the point of view of adherence expose new tracks, new
points of entry?

Studio XX's feminist journal .dpi welcomes essays, critiques,
interviews, and other web-based forms of expression related to the
thematic cross-roads of technology, women, art and society.

As an electronic periodical, .dpi also seeks proposals that make an
interesting use of the Internet. Usually, essays are no longer than
1500-2000 words and columns, 800-1000 words. Other suggestions can also
be acceptable. Selected authors will receive an honorarium for their
contribution ($150 per selected article and $75 per selected column).

Please send your abstract (300 words) and a short bio (100 words) by
January 3, 2009, to: programmation_AT_dpi.studioxx.org

For more information: http://dpi.studioxx.org