thresholds 36 - call for submissions

call for submissions

thresholds 37

sex

Submissions due: August 7, 2009

Feminist theory is anthologized. Queer theory is curricular. Renderings are sexy. Nearly half of the students in American architecture schools are female. The body of the architect has been enhanced with technological prostheses. The design process is compared to gestation. Desire lines shape buildings. Exhibitionism and voyeurism invoke formal strategies. Sex is everywhere, but little discussed.

thresholds 37 aims to expose a major component of psychosocial life by examining the many ways in which sex, of any stripe, affects the designed world.

thresholds 37 invites contributions addressing the current state of sex, sexuality, gender, desire, reproduction, masturbation, repression, the queer, the erotic, the bodily, and the anatomic in architecture and culture now.

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Submissions are due 7 August 2009. 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:

Sarah M. Hirschman, 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