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CALL FOR PAPERS

Images have become digitized, miniaturized and 
instantaneous in terms of production and used 
through TV networks, Internet and mobile phones. 
In view of the increasing importance and changing 
realities of image production and consumption 
through varied channels and new technologies, 
Deep Focus team has decided to focus our 
attention on the changes around and critically 
look at varied image based cultural productions. 
We are also in the process of launching a fairly 
long and widespread visual media research 
programme aimed at evolving a new visual 
pedagogy. As part of tuning the pages of Deep 
Focus into this wide angle of activity, we invite 
papers for our 2005 volumes on the following 
themes.

Towards a New Visual Pedagogy and Ecology of Images

The progress that came in slow motion and as 
avalanches technologised a large segment of human 
life and provided benefits to a small group of 
people of the globe while it left out the 
majority of people/civilizations in the cold. 
There has been no revolution/s at the societal 
level compared to the series of revolutions in 
the information and imaging technologies during 
the last few decades. This naturally resulted in 
large scale injustice, marginalisation and 
pauperization of the majority, especially the 
rural masses. The new global village (with no 
village and villagers) have become a virtual 
reality for a miniscule segment of humanity 
through films, entertainment electronics, 
satellite and teletechnologies. The web and 
mobile phones, transformed these into an end in 
itself through which consent is manufactured: 
consent to the dominant development paradigms 
that revolves around the ideology of the global 
market and profits for a few. Your contributions 
analysing the above realities with focus on the 
world of images with illustrative film 
stills/photographs should reach us by 30 March 
2005.

Disciplining diversities:Regulation and Real Freedom in the Age of Free Trade

The age of teletechnolgies and free trade, 
promises the fall of all walls, meaning 
homogenizing pluralities. In this context 
democracy and freedom/s would mean ‘rule of law’; 
dissent would mean ‘terror’. It offers many 
illusions of well being, planned hunger and 
planned denial of freedom of diversities. 
Research papers, articles, comments, reviews and 
other materials on the theme should reach us by 
30 June 2005.

Cultural nationalism:The violence of the war against ‘terror’.

Cultural nationalism, racism and xenophobia have 
received a new lease of life even as universal 
democratic principles die a quiet death in the 
convenient cacophony against ‘terror’ and the 
carnival of globalism. These are times when wars, 
state lawlessness and state terrorism are 
legitimized in the name of protecting and 
promoting human rights, peace, justice, national 
security and of course the dominant way of life. 
This is also the age of hidden violence that 
scores more body and mind counts than any wars 
fought by humans. Research papers, articles, 
reviews and comments on these issues with focus 
on the image creations as vehicles of such 
legitmisations should reach us by 30 September 
2005.

Images as cultural and knowledge products: Issues 
of Intellectual Property Rights.

Intellectual property rights is one of the most 
contentious issue of globalisation as a 
universalized IPR regime is imposed on the world 
through the TRIPS agreement of the WTO, without 
concern about the life needs of the majority as 
these international legal instruments are driven 
by the ideology of profit and pushed by 
neo-conservatives to create regions of plenty and 
regions of abysmal poverty. Research papers, 
articles, reviews and comments on these issues 
with focus on the image creations and the varied 
manifestation of IPR regimes in the realm of 
images should reach us by 30 October, 2005


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MR. GEORGE KUTTY
EDITOR
DEEP FOCUS
NO.33/1-9, THYAGARAJA LAYOUT, JAI BHARATH NAGAR
MARUTHI SEVA NAGAR P.O., BANGALORE-560 033, KARNATAKA STATE, INDIA.
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