CFP: Jean Baudrillard 2007-2017 | Lo Sguardo - Journal of Philosophy

Jean Baudrillard’s thought crosses a large part of the current world phenomena (war, information, media and communication, marxism’s crisis, terrorism, photography, architecture, clonation, etc.). Most of the keywords of his thought – “symbolic exchange”, “hyperreality”, “simulacrum” – continues to proliferate in the recent philosophical-cultural production, as far as this has provided a valiant conceptual framework in order to understand the complex phenomena of globalization. For these reasons, ten years from his passing, Lo Sguardo dedicates to this unclassifiable thinker a monographic issue, which intends to examine his rich and stratified cultural milieu and to investigate his deep effect on the contemporary philosophical, sociological, aesthetical and political thought. Indeed, it proves the demand to think over the contemporary through a critical use of baudrillardian concepts, that is ‘reinventing the real as fiction’ thanks to the burning lens of irony towards reality.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL: JUNE, 15th 2016

Procedure: Please send within the deadline an abstract up to 4000 characters, including the title of the proposal and a description of the essay to [email protected]. All the proposals will be evaluated by the editors and the readers. The result of the selection will be notified to the authors by July, 15th, 2016. A new deadline for the complete essays will be communicated to accepted authors together with the results of the selection. The papers will be subjected to a double blind review.