Spectropia welcomes proposals that address trace in the context of critical episodes of mass violence and conflict, environmental destruction and climate crisis, economic upheaval and dispossession, and rapid technological transformation. It celebrates innovative, experimental, and engaged research that explores the spectres, afterimages, and activations surrounding such traces. For the series, experimentation is as much about developing alternative modes of knowledge production as it is about pursuing rigorous research across arts, humanities and social sciences.
The first volume in the series, Counter-Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines, emerges from the work of the TRACTS COST Action and offers a roadmap for a new field of transdisciplinary Trace Studies. Writing in a world marked by layered forms of political, economic, technological, social, and environmental violence, the contributors resist simply unearthing lost or silenced histories. The volume proposes a counter-cartographic practice that treats gaps, absences, and fragments as powerful sources of knowledge and experimentation. Bringing together scholars, artists, and voices from beyond the academy, the volume asks what it means to move through fractured, uncertain worlds guided by traces, and what new possibilities emerge from the very act of tracing.
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