Posted by Rosie Jennings on September 12th, 2024.
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JAWS 10: Fragility
Deadline: Monday 18 November 2024
JAWS invite contributions to this hybrid issue, which combines both a themed section on ‘Fragility’ and an open section.
Fragility lends itself to breakage and rupture; fragility names that which is precarious. Fragility also offers redemptive change for things that ought to be broken. Fragile systems demand critical thinking and organising, and fragile bodies require more attention and softness.
Fragility has often been framed in the negative, like a weakness to be avoided, or a shortcoming to be bolstered. We support our creative and intellectual endeavours through funding applications across which clear methodologies, strong evidence and robust arguments reign. We urge our students to be more analytical, to work their critical faculties, identify weak reasoning and call out unsupported claims. In the everyday, we are urged to be tough, and to build structures with strong foundations that can withstand turbulence. We admire fortitude, fervour and unrelenting determination.
However, in the face of resilience – which, of course, has its merits – JAWS 10 looks at the potential inherent in fragility. What can we learn from connections that are tenuous? And from grounds that are shaky instead of firm? What can be read from interpretations that are ambiguous rather than clear? How can we continue to make within structures that are unsound? What happens when we settle our attention on people, materials and ideas that are prone to breakage or leakage, or bruising or erosion? And how do we respond to fragilities that are harmful?
For the themed section of this issue, JAWS are interested in submissions that touch on, make use of, or pick away at fragility as subject, object, material and process; that relate in some way, but are not limited to:
- Fragile objects and artworks
- Creative criticism
- Aesthetics of breakage and fracture
- Mistranslation
- Illness, crip time and fragile embodiment
- Vulnerability
- Potential
- Not knowing
- Attachment
- Intuition
- Failure
- Ephemeral
- Quiet
- Precarity
- Fragile ecosystems; erosion; pollution
- Difficult methodologies
- Crisis and the arts
- Tenderness; sensitivity
Before submitting work, please ensure that your submission complies with the Intellect House Style Guide here.
We invite the following;
- Academic submissions up to 6000 words
- Artistic Practice and/or visual essays up to 5000 words / 12 images
- Interviews up to 4000 words
- Exhibition, book, event reviews between 1000 and 3000 words
- Reflective pieces between 1000 and 3000 words
More details on submission requirements and the journal theme can be found on the Intellect Books website. Please email your submission as a Word processing document (not PDFs or Google Docs) to [email protected] with the title ‘Submission: JAWS 10’. Please use Harvard referencing and format your piece in Times New Roman, pt 12. If you have an image-based piece, please send us both the Word document and the PDF.
