thresholds 36 - call for submissions

call for submissions

thresholds 36

difference

Submissions due: July 15, 2008

Notions of difference are played out across artistic, scientific, economic, architectural, political, computational, cultural, and theoretical arenas and at scales ranging from the genomic to the global; the origins and expressions of difference can be found at the core and the margins of all types of practice (often taking root between them, straddling the terrains of discourse and production). To that end, thresholds 36 invites contributors to critically explore these issues through a range of media and formats, including essays, projects, proposals, policies, and criticism.

The discourse of difference implies that things are understood by their edges—those delineations by which “this” is known not to be “that”—and by the relation of the single to the multiple. Likewise, it drives the dichotomy of the generic and the specific: differentiation can be seen as a topography of resistance against normativity, a repostulation of identity through degrees of deviance. Difference is found codified (and obscured) in the lines drawn between disciplines, genders, territories, and cultures, provoking a constant reconsideration of our fundamental concepts of position, boundary, and heterogeneity.

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Submissions are due 15 July 2008. Essays are limited to 2500 words. An electronic copy of the text is required as well as 300 dpi digital files of all images. Please include a two-sentence biography of each author. thresholds invites submissions, including but not limited to scholarly works, from all fields. thresholds attempts to print only original material.

TEXT/IMAGE : Manuscripts for review should be no more than 2,500 words. Text must be formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style. Spelling should follow American convention and quotations must be translated into English. All submissions must be submitted electronically, via disc or e-mail to thresh@mit.edu, and accompanied by hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while any accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8" x 9" print size. Figures should be numbered in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use for both print and electronic publication and to pay any reproduction fees.
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Please send materials or correspondence to:

James D. Graham, Editor
thresholds, MIT Department of Architecture
Room 7-337
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139

inquiries, text/image submissions: thresh@mit.edu
thresholds is the biannual critical journal of architecture, art, and media culture produced by editors in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; for more information, visit http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds