this looks really cool. david *** Call for Papers: Synesthesia Octopus (V1, N1) Spring/Summer 2004 The word synesthesia means "joined sensation." Synesthesia describes both a psychological condition and perceptual experience, conceptualized as a unity, confusion, or profusion of the senses. Synesthetes may visualize tactility, feel colors, taste sounds, or hear smells as if these sensory articulations existed outside of the body of the beholder. Synesthesia suggests a potent metaphor and method for examining and informing practices of visual studies, and for responding to critiques of this emerging field as overly fixated on the visual at the expense of other embodied experiences. The inaugural issue of Octopus invites 2,500-3,000 word manuscripts from all disciplines that engage with synesthesia from a wide-range of perspectives. Possible lines of inquiry include but are not limited to: 1) synesthesia as historically-situated perceptual experience, interdisciplinary methodological tactic, or theoretical engine; 2) phenomenology, the body, subjectivity, will; 3) gender, race, ethnicity 4) cyborg, posthuman; 5) art, music, film/video, new media; 6) philosophy, theosophy, hermeneutics; 7) literature, linguistics; 8) mysticism, ritual, religious experience, fantasy; 9) memory, mnemonics, hypermnesis; 10) geographies, navigation, directionality; 11) psychoanalysis, medicine, science Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2004. Octopus is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the graduate students of the Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. The journal is devoted to emerging scholarship that engages with visuality, culture, history, and theory from a range of contexts, disciplines, and methodologies. In addition to submissions on synesthesia, Octopus welcomes longer-form scholarship (6,000-7,000 words) as well as book reviews and art and film criticism (800-1,000 words) addressing questions regarding the politics of vision, the historicity of visual practices, and the cultures and theories of vision and visuality on an on-going basis. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words, six keywords, and a short biographic entry about the author(s). All submissions must include the title of the contribution, the name(s) of the author(s), and the postal address, e-mail address, and phone number for the author who will serve as the primary contact with the editors on revisions. All submissions should follow MLA standards. Book reviews and art/film criticism should be 800-1,000 words in length. Please include title of book(s), retail price, and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Art/show reviews should include the gallery, curator, and dates. For film and video/media reviews, include the director, production company (if applicable), and year of production. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish all illustrations and must include captions for each image. Please submit 100% size, printable quality illustrations in at least 350 dpi in an eps, jpeg, gif, or tiff file. Originals or slides of illustrations are also acceptable. Manuscripts and reviews submitted to Octopus should not be under consideration at any other journal. All submissions and inquiries should be sent electronically as Microsoft Word.doc attachments to: submissions@octopusjournal.org -- James L. Cahill jcahill@uci.edu PhD Student, Program in Visual Studies UC Irvine