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<p><strong>Issue 10: Special Open Issue on Animation in <em>Semiotic Review</em></strong></p><p><strong><em><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/callforpapers">https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/callforpapers</a></em></strong></p>
<p>“The animated drawing is the most direct manifestation of…Animism!
That which is known to be lifeless, a graphic drawing, is animated. <em>Drawing as such</em>—outside
an object of representation!—is brought to life…..The very idea, if you
will, of the animated cartoon is like a direct embodiment of the method
of animism.” – Eisenstein, <em>Eisenstein on Disney.</em></p>
<p>What is animation? What does it mean to animate things in various
media, to invest them with their own life and agency? And what is it
like to live among such animated things? This special issue is open to
papers from any discipline that look at animation semiotically, not only
as a specific medium or art form (viz. cel animation, stop motion, and
so on) but also as a broader category of semiotic action, the projection
of humanity into the nonhuman world. Inspired especially by Alan
Cholodenko’s (1991, 2007, 2016, this issue) and Teri Silvio’s (2010,
2019) wide-ranging syntheses, we see the term animation as encompassing a
series of related approaches, ranging from new reconceptualizations of
what has been called “animism,” including the recognition of
“other-than-human persons” (Hallowell 1960) and Sergei Eisenstein’s
conception of the “plasmaticness” of animation as a kind of animism
(1986), to the animated “life” of nonhuman characters in Japanese media
and everyday life (Nozawa, this issue), to the agency of heterogeneous
assemblages in the “Vital Materialism” of Jane Bennett’s <em>Vibrant Matter </em>(2010).
We invite papers that approach the proliferation of animated beings
(resulting either from narrower or broader definitions of animation)
populating our “more than human” world. In the spirit of the epigraph
by Soviet film pioneer Eisenstein, we invite theorizations of animation
in broad relation to animism and vitalism, bringing together cartoon
characters and stop motion animated objects with ghosts, dolls, puppets,
ancestors, gods, brands, automatons, robots, cyborgs, voice chips,
vocaloids, avatars, virtual idols, and so on.</p>
<p>Submissions should be sent to <a href="mailto:semioticreview@gmail.com">semioticreview@gmail.com</a>. Information on submission is available here: <a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/submission">https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/submission</a></p>
<p><em>Semiotic Review </em>is a multidisciplinary open-access online
peer-reviewed journal publishing review articles as well as original
essays. It endeavours to monitor those domains in the Humanities, the
Social and the Natural Sciences which bear upon symbolic and
communicative behaviour, cognitive systems and processes, cultural
transmission and innovations, and the study of information, meaning and
signification in all forms. It specializes in open issues, thematically
linked issues that accept publications on a rolling ongoing basis.</p>
<p>Bennett, Jane, 2010. <em>Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things</em>. Duke University Press.</p>
<p>Cholodenko, Alan. 1991 Introduction, <em>The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation</em>, ed. Alan Cholodenko, Power Publications in association with the Australian Film Commission, Sydney.</p>
<p>Cholodenko, Alan. 2007. <em>The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation</em>, ed. Alan Cholodenko, Power Publications. Sydney.</p>
<p>Cholodenko, Alan. 2016. The Expanding Universe of Animation (Studies). <em>Animation Studies</em>, vol. 11. <a href="https://journal.animationstudies.org/alan-cholodenko-the-expanding-universe-of-animation-studies/">https://journal.animationstudies.org/alan-cholodenko-the-expanding-universe-of-animation-studies/</a></p>
<p>Alan Cholodenko. This issue. The animation of Cinema. <em>Semiotic Review. </em>Originally Cholodenko, Alan. The Animation of Cinema. <strong>Semiotic Review</strong><strong>, [</strong>S.l.], n. 3, sep. 2022. Available at: <<a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/64">https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/64</a>>. Reprinted this issue.</p>
<p>Eisenstein, S., 1986. <em>Eisenstein on Disney</em>. Seagull Books.</p>
<p>Hallowell, A.I., 1960. Ojibwa ontology, behavior, and world view. In <em>Culture and History </em> ed. Stanley Diamond. Columbia University Press.</p>
<p>Nozawa, Shunsuke. This issue. Characterization. <em>Semiotic Review. </em>Originally Nozawa, Shunsuke. Characterization. <strong>Semiotic Review</strong>, [S.l.], n. 3, nov. 2013. Available at: <<a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/16">https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/16</a>>. Reprinted this issue.</p>
<p>Silvio, Teri. 2010. Animation: The new performance?. <em>Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</em>, <em>20</em>(2), pp.422-438.</p>
<p>Silvio, Teri. 2019. <em>Puppets, gods, and brands: Theorizing the age of animation from Taiwan</em>. University of Hawaii Press.</p>
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