Submission Guidelines:
Notes:
NANO is currently accepting notes for our 2012 issues. Maximum submission length: 3,500 words (sound/film projects should be shorter than 10 minutes in duration). Please include an abstract (150 words). Electronic submission is preferred and should be sent as an email attachment using MS Word (doc.) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Do not include your name on the attached document, but do include your name and the title of your note in the body of your email. All manuscripts should follow MLA guidelines for format, in-text citations, and works cited. Images, films, artwork, illustrations, and tables will be accepted for the presentation of ideas, and they should be submitted as attachments separate from the text in high-resolution formats. Please send any questions that you have to editor.nanocrit@gmail.com.
Interviews and Reviews:
NANO is currently accepting brief interviews and reviews (book, film, installation, event) for upcoming issues. Maximum submission length: 1,500 words. Sound, video and image recordings are accepted (send in high-resolution formats). Send your ideas, questions, or completed interviews and reviews to editor.nanocrit@gmail.com.
Letters:
NANO wants to start and continue conversations. Please send your letters to us. All letters must be signed and include affiliation and address. Use the form on the Mission + Contact Us page, or send your letters to editor.nanocrit@gmail.com.
Copyright and Permissions:
NANO expects that all submissions contain original work, not extracts or abridgements. Authors may use their NANO material in other publications provided that NANO is acknowledged as the original publisher. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for reproducing copyright text, art, video, or other media. As an academic, peer-reviewed journal, whose mission is education, Fair Use rules of copyright apply to NANO. Send questions to the editor.
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NANO: New American Notes Online: An Academic Journal for Big Ideas in a Small World
Call for Papers: Issue 2.1
Deadline: 30 March 2012
Special Theme: Evaluation, Critique, Prizes, and Peer Review
What are the best and newest methods for creating, evaluating, and disseminating scholarly and creative work? This question motivates the next issue of NANO. As digital formats help to foster new ways to share and critique written and artistic work, as more people try to squeeze through the narrowing bottleneck of publishing, approval, and jobs, something has to give, or at least change.
Four guiding questions:
1. How have changes to the university, to scholarly publishing, and to digital publishing formats changed peer review? Will changes to peer review change the nature and methods of scholarship?
2. How have creative contests in the fields of poetry, short story, painting, sculpture, or design changed in terms of evaluation, prizes, and prestige?
3. What can the humanities learn from other disciplines in terms of evaluation and peer review?
4. How can we solve some of the current problems?
Possible Topics:
print/book/online culture, peer review, online peer review, poetry contests, short story contests, art and design contests, evaluation, judging, Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, merit, approval, assessment, credit, collaboration and/or single author, contribution, attribution, plagiarism/remixing, authority/media bias, tenure and promotion, grading, popular culture evaluation, online discussion, digital/paper editing, marking up, peer-to-peer review, external linking, criticism, critique, crowd-sourcing, advice, monograph, scholarly electronic editions, Google, Google Scholar, e-books, e-journals, Wikipedia, Creative Commons, research tools, research blogs, editing tools, archiving, coding, open access
See Submission Guidelines.
Send queries or completed notes to editor.nanocrit@gmail.com
NANO: New American Notes Online: An Academic Journal for Big Ideas in a Small World
Call for Papers: Issue 1.2/3
Deadline: 17 July 2011
Special Theme: Mystery, the Unknown, Surprise
What’s up? What went down? How are you doing? What happened? We all want to know what is going on. We want knowledge. We want to solve the crime. We want to get it right. Yet, we also get a thrill from being in suspense. We like surprise parties and a good mystery novel. This issue of NANO is dedicated to both the sleuth and the mystery maker.
Three question clusters:
1. Is storytelling a way to solve a mystery? Is the lyric the poetic mystery par excellence? Isn’t the chief characteristic of drama the unraveling of an intricate mystery that we call plot? Is art more about finding one’s way or creating enigma? What is the relationship between mystery and surprise?
2. Why are mysteries so powerful? Think of the prevalence of crime shows on television. Entire bookstores are dedicated just to mystery novels. Is there a business/profit angle to mystery? What might neuroscience say about the desire to seek answers to vexing questions? Are we hard-wired to be in mystery, or, are we hard-wired to figure out mysteries? And where does pleasure and desire enter into the equation?
3. The unknown and the future seem closely connected, but is the unknown also about the past? Religion is concerned with the unknown, and, perhaps, with making us comfortable with the unknown. Adventure and the unknown are correlates too. Does travel writing/cinema satiate our desire for the unknown, but in a safe manner? Do tourists simply like the soft surprise? Does the unknown help us frame ideas of difference and otherness?
Possible Topics:
suspense, ambiguity, who-done-it, secret, open secret, mystique, mysticism, crime novel, mystery novel, mystery theatre, mystery play, mystery shopper, getting/being lost, religion and the unknown, guessing, negative capability, mystery and cinema, obscurity, difference, the veil, cloak and dagger, magic, surprise attack, surprise party, shock jock, discovery, enigma, aphorism, allegory, Gordian knot, scientific method, reason and unreason
See Submission Guidelines.
Send queries or completed notes to editor.nanocrit@gmail.com
NANO: New American Notes Online: An Academic Journal for Big Ideas in a Small World
Call for Papers: Issue 1.2/3
Deadline: 17 July 2011
Special Theme: In Your Face: Aggressive Art, Design, and Architecture
Visual culture can assault or placate. Sometimes a little bit of both. For issue 1.3 of NANO, we want to know what is happening in leading-edge art, design, and architecture that is confrontational. We also want a fresh look at what has happened in the past: what are the newest interpretations of aggressive looks?
Three question clusters:
1. Roles and methods. Should the role of art, design, and architecture be to wake society up? What are the limits of getting someone’s attention? Why do some images and designs assault while some comfort? What are the legal and psychological implications for aggressive art? How should critics study aggressive art, design, and architecture?
2. Form and perspective. What types or forms are considered the most aggressive? Is aggressive visual culture more about public taste than the creator’s vision? What has changed? The medium? The creator? The buyer? The technology?
3. Aesthetics and business. Is aggressive art any good? Should aggressive architecture conform to building codes? How does one curate aggressive art? What are the politics of aggressive art, design, and architecture? Is advertising the ne plus ultra of aggression? What is the business model for aggressive images? Who makes the paint for graffiti artists?
Possible Topics:
painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape design, fashion design, advertising, city planning, film, photography, pornography, poetry slam, accidents, performance art, drama, horror, gothic, graffiti, street/urban art, destruction as art, disease and death, propaganda, heavy metal, punk, gangsta rap, trespassing, definitions of art, hacking as design, sabotage, aesthetics, aggressive criticism
See Submission Guidelines.
Send queries or completed notes to editor.nanocrit@gmail.com
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