Deadline: August 5th
Contact: Henry Ivry, University of Glasgow
Email: henry.ivry@glasgow.ac.uk

Insurgent Infrastructures Special Issue
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

Whether it is pipeline protests, collapsed global supply chains, or fights for equitable housing, the invisible infrastructures that underpin our lives have gained an increasing vitality and presence as both bogeyman and rainmakers. More than just an increased visibility of the physical and ethereal infrastructures that compose our world, then, infrastructure itself, for all intents and purposes, has critically been weaponized over the past decade. From the insidious harvesting of digital data to the Polish/Belarusian border, infrastructure has become at once agentive and inevitable.

In this Special Issue, however, we invite submissions that seek to move beyond the impasse of hostile infrastructures to think about how contemporary literature can help us think through the contradictions inherent in infrastructures. Infrastructures, that is, not only reproduce the violent relations of colonialism and neoliberalism but can also be reclaimed as “a means of transformation” (Cowen). We invite submissions situated at this axis of visibility and violence, thinking about how artistic, political, and social forms mediate infrastructure. In particular, we invite submissions that look at how contemporary literature produces what we are calling insurgent infrastructures.

Full CFP and submission instructions here: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/06/02/insurgent-infrastructures

Posted on June 8, 2022