New Journal - Aesthethica

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The premier issue (available online at www.ethika.org) integrates a variety of approaches from international scholars and graduate students, writing within different traditions and perspectives. They all address the theme: UNCERTAINTY. With articles in Spanish and English, this issue presents works by Nancy Blake; Maria Elena Bitonte; Daniel J. Zimmerman; Miguel Malagreca; Lidia Cabrera; Monica Satarain; Desiree Yomtoob; Mariana Gomez; Monique D. Lewis; Cristina Daneri and Juan J. Farina

The site www.ethika.org is also a useful resource for students and scholars, with links, news, short articles, interviews, lists of seminars and art galleries that, together, construct an original an innovative concept in academic sites and journals.

CALL FOR PAPERS: We are currently seeking proposals from a variety of fields of study and perspectives on social, human and communication studies to address the main theme of our next issue: Multiplication of Mirrors. The Limit of the Real.

Mirrors -as surfaces, metaphors or narratives- multiply the image, totalize the body -subjective, social and cultural- and compose rationalities. But at the same time, certain mirrors decompose units, break gestalts, compose kaleidoscopes and expand or deform illusions. There are mirrors, like the ones designed by Leonardo Da Vinci, which suggest the possibility of an unlimited interpretation, the reflection of thought, and the labyrinth of imagination. The cinematic mirrors as the ones suggested by Deleuze, constitute a prism where the lens split the image. There are mirrors where an "I" is formed as an imaginary function; and there are others, eroded mirrors, where a unit of meaning is hardly recognized. On the other hand, the Real resists interpretation, challenges meaning, and limits the signifier. How can we think of this Real? The theme "multiplications of the mirrors and the limits of the Real" invite us to think of the moments where the contingency encounters that which offers substance to the being.

Submission period for this issue October 1, 2004 - January 1, 2005