Deadline: Wednesday, 22nd January
submit@thestate.ae
What does post-westernness look like? What does it mean to be a cultural practitioner working outside the current imperial centres? What happens when water becomes more expensive than oil? What colour is the future?
WE ARE THINKING south-south solidarities, ethnifuturisms, social justice tumblrs, Khaleeji soft power, K-dramas, the Pan-Arabian hangover, commodifying identities, mo melanin mo problems, pan-africanism vs afropolitanism, de-exoticising the future weird, displacement and belonging, hierarchies of intersectionality, demographic shifts, geopolitics and the new new world order, inhabiting interstitialistan, emerging creoles, nanoagressions, botiliciousness, queer futures, a world without water, modesty and surveillance, Ajami vernaculars, transliterated chat languages, the Black new wave, orbiting Mecca from space, landscape painting in the age of Google Maps, passport privilege, fusion cuisine, terraforming the past, and the diasporic saviour complex
AND YOU?
WE WELCOME submissions around the theme of ‘Browning the Future’ and encourage experimentation with form, transmedia, and (web)site-specific installations; critical texts, interrogative narratives, slow journalism, sensuous netart, moving or still images, manifestos and conversations, among others. Because of the nature of THE STATE, please do not feel restricted by the above; please feel free to alternatively submit a wall of text.
THE STATE is a publishing practice based out of Dubai, U.A.E. It investigates South-South reorientations, problematised futurisms, transgressive cultural criticism, the space between print and audio-visual experiences, their transition to mediated online forms, and the sensuous architecture of this “printernet.”
Please send your pitches or submissions, along with a brief bio, to submit@thestate.ae, by JANUARY 22nd, 2014. We ask that you submit new works, but are willing to reprint pieces that have not been published in English; however, we are unable to translate ourselves. Commissioned pieces will receive up to US$500.
