NANO: New American Notes Online: An Academic Journal for Big Ideas in a Small World.

Call for Papers: Issue 1.1

Special Theme: Navigation: How Do We Get Going and Why?

Navigation is truly interdisciplinary. It links mind, body, environment, socioeconomics, and cultural practices. Navigation connects place and process. It is epistemological, but navigation can also be a mundane everyday activity.

Four basic questions guide the inaugural issue of NANO:

1. What is the relationship between navigation and: walking, bicycling, running, driving, flying, computing, thinking, dreaming, sleeping, working, talking, writing, and eating?

2. Has the nature of navigation recently changed? Why has it changed? What are the historical antecedents of the change? And what are the technological and theoretical implications of such change?

3. What is the future of navigation in terms of land, street, underground, water, space, cyberspace, computer, technology, sport, psychology, cartography, art, food, plot, film, and sound?

4. What are the relationships between academic and popular navigation, newcomer and native navigation, and military and refugee navigation?

These four questions are meant to guide, not circumscribe.

We welcome notes on a wide range of subjects, including, but not limited to:

Steering wheel, handlebar, rudder

Joystick

Computer key, keyboard

Sight, sound, touch

Graphic interface

Coasting, stopping, starting

Movement, stasis

Means of propulsion, brakes

Underground, underwater

Air, space

Urban, suburban, rural

Swamp, jungle, forest, prairie

Cognitive mapping

Getting Lost

Asking for help

Direction, directions

MapQuest

Google earth

Grid, map

Radar, sonar, radio, compass, GPS

Mathematical navigation

Instinctual navigation

Emotional navigation

Social navigation

Institutional navigation

Textual navigation

Spiritual navigation

Celestial navigation

Terrain, obstacle

Navigating: index, list, narrative

Navigation and evaluation

Navigation and vacation

Cartesian coordinates

Maximum submission length: 2,500 words. Visit our website for submission guidelines:

www.nanocrit.com

Send questions to: editor.nanocrit@gmail.com. Please contact NANO if you have an idea

for an interview.

DEADLINE: Submit your note to NANO no later than Friday, November 13, 2009.