Submissions
Would you like to propose an idea for a future volume in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series? If so please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at williamirwin@kings.edu. Would you like to contribute an essay to a future volume? We are currently accepting abstracts for the topics listed below. Please email your abstract to the volume editor and note the due date for final abstracts at the bottom of each call.
Call for Abstracts
Stieg Larsson and Philosophy: The Girl with the Aristotle Tattoo
Edited by Eric Bronson
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at wtirwin@kings.edu.
If you have comments or criticisms for the series, please read “Fancy Taking a Pop?” and join the discussion in the comments section.
Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium.
Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following: Vanger Family Values: Was Martin Destined to Follow His Father?; Why Vengeance is Moral: Nazis, Johns, and the Book of Leviticus; The Psychology of Sadists and Serial Killers; Deadbeat Dads: Zala, Vanger, and The Brothers Karamazov; Elementary, My Dear Blomkvist: What We Learn from Mysteries; Stieg Larsson and Our Dead Author Fetish; Kicking the Artist’s Nest: Good Literature or Guilty Pleasure?; Fermat’s “Marvelous Proof”: Why We Love Mysteries; Media Studies and the Ethics of Revealing Sources; Why Riot Grrrls Love Lisbeth (and Don’t Like You); Is Lisbeth a “Dyke”?; Bodies and Boundaries: Judith Butler and Dragon Tattoos; Intersectionality and Mimmi Wu’s Feminism; Who’s Pinging Whom?: Lisbeth’s Cyborg Manifesto; Psychotics and Whores: Goffman’s Labeling Theory; Medicalization and the Doctors Who Hate Women; Why We Institutionalize the Innocent: Palmgren and Foucault; The Argument from Authority: Why Salander and Vanger Go On the Lamb; Zala’s Secret Section and Foucault’s Governmentality; Surveillance Studies and “The Rolls-Royce of Portable Computers”; Hacker’s Republic: Plague vs. Plato; Is Palmgren a Libertarian?; The Philosopher Who Played With Fire: Larsson’s Marxist Manifesto; Kalle F***ing Blomkvist and Lisbeth F***ing B*tch Salander: An Existential Love Story; Is Mikael Blomkvist an “Insufferable Do-Gooder” or “Just Another A**hole Who Hates Women”?
Submission Guidelines:
1. Submission deadline for abstracts (100-500 words) and CV’s: September 27, 2010
2. Submission deadline for first drafts of accepted papers: February 2, 2011
Kindly submit abstract (with or without Word attachment) and CV by email to: Eric Bronson at ebronson@yorku.ca.
