<nettime-ann> Call For Participation: AREA Chicago #9: Peripheral Vision: On Chicagoland

[Mason Dixon <mason@artafternext.org>]

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> Call For Proposals
> AREA Chicago #9: Peripheral Vision
>
> People think of Chicago as the center of a vast suburban galaxy  
> (sometimes called Chicagoland or even "the Chicagoland area") and  
> beyond that, the greater Midwest.
>
> Chicago is a population center, a transportation hub, a capital of  
> commerce and research, a magnet for culture workers and immigrants.  
> But whenever we say that Chicago is a center, we are saying that  
> other places are not: that they are instead "peripheral." Thinking  
> of the city as center privileges those activities and phenomena that  
> can be gathered in urban density:  the built environment, industries  
> of finance and capital, bureaucracies, cultural institutions, wealth  
> and poverty.  There is no center to deer hunting. Is there one for  
> immigration, or postindustrial blight, or solar energy?
>
> Social scientists often speak of "core" and "periphery"; together,  
> as a "core-periphery model," these terms have been used to describe  
> and project development at the global scale. As a single explanation  
> for global patterns of development, they have also been critically  
> interrogated and contested by advocates of other models. There are  
> other ways of thinking the periphery: for ecologists, the "edge"  
> presents a specific type of habitat. Within cultural politics, being  
> on the "margins" has risks, even as it sometimes appears  
> fashionable. But do the margins lose their identity if assimilated  
> into the center? Peripheral vision may actually reveal what's taken  
> for granted, yet crucial.  AREA #9 will explore this mental map in  
> its common application to Chicago and its surroundings.
>
> In order to do this, we invite writers, teachers, activists, and  
> artists to take a point of view outside the center. This might be a  
> view from the fraying edges of the metropolis, from marginal  
> communities within the city, from the non-human world, from the  
> suburbs or the hinterlands, from a conceptual position outside the  
> mainstream-and to show us Chicago from "out there." Contributions  
> should have some relationship to Chicago and should focus on  
> specific practices (policies, projects, action, art, travel,  
> resistance). They might address environment, housing, history,  
> immigration, labor, or other issues. By virtue of origins and  
> continued economic connections, places like Mississippi or Michoacán  
> might also be considered peripheries of Chicago-or is Chicago their  
> periphery? Where once there was periphery, there will someday be a  
> place on the edge, with all the disruptive and rich potential of an  
> edge habitat. Now is a good time to ask, "What do you see in your  
> peripheral vision?"
>
> Text/Project Ideas for AREA#9: Histories of movements that have  
> linked Chicago to other places; maps of flows in and out of Chicago;  
> visionary plans for different edge zones near the city limits of  
> Chicago; interviews with suburban activists; stories of Chicagoans  
> and downstate prisons; studies of wildlife in the city and suburbs;  
> maps of the decentralization of homelessness and public housing;  
> views of Chicago from far-flung activist and artist correspondents;  
> visits of CPS students to suburban public schools; walking tours of  
> neighborhoods at the city limits; ethnographies of public transit in  
> the suburbs; reports from diasporas in Chicago, and the Chicago  
> diaspora; drawings of what you see out of the corner of your eye.
>
> Timeline:
>
> 	• June 14. Those interested in contributing to the issue are urged  
> to attend an introductory brainstorming session at the Orientation  
> Center, 2129 N. Rockwell, Sunday, June 14 at 4pm. It's an  
> opportunity to think through ideas, generate new ones, make  
> suggestions, seek collaborators.
> 	• July 1. Proposals (no more than 250 words) due. We recommend  
> being in touch sooner with initial ideas.
> 	• August 10. First draft for accepted proposals.
> 	• September 10. Final draft due September 10.
>
> (Deadlines will be strict, and all pieces will go through an  
> editorial process involving at least two readers.)
>
>
> Email proposals to Dan S. Wang and Rebecca Zorach at areaeditors@gmail.com
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