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La revue Skepsi, appartenant à la School of European Culture and Languages de l’université de Kent (UK) lance un appel à communication intitulé : « Don’t Panic: the Apocalypse in Theory and Culture ». Débouchant sur un numéro thématique, cette proposition nous invite à réfléchir sur l’importance de la catastrophe dans le champ de la culture graphique et force est de constater que le thème est fécond. Outre les nombreuses représentations picturales de l’apocalypse (pensons par exemple aux gravures d’Albrecht Dürer), de nombreuses œuvres de bande dessinée pourraient être convoquées, notamment pour évoquer les traitements contemporains de l’apocalypse (sur lesquels cette proposition nous invite à nous concentrer) : une série comme Ghost money de Dominique Bertail et Thierry Smolderen propose ainsi de considérer l’étrange complémentarité d’une barbare cruauté et de nouvelles technologies permettant de fomenter moult complots terroristes, tandis que l’apocalypse peut prendre les apparences d’une vie quotidienne basculant dans l’ « horreur » dans le cas d’un intéressant mais méconnu manga comme I’m a hero. Nous laissons nos lecteurs le soin de compléter cette liste avant le 15 décembre prochain.Don’t Panic: the Apocalypse in Theory and CultureFollowing the recent success of Don’t Panic: the Apocalypse in Theory and Culture, a two day postgraduate conference held at the University of Kent, we are calling for contributions to a future issue of Skepsi, the online interdisciplinary research journal, run by postgraduate students of the University of Kent’s School of European Culture and Languages, and now in its fifth year.In an effort to capture and expand the broad and interdisciplinary interest in the Apocalypse, we are seeking to gather ideas, explorations, critiques and theories that examine this topic. Recent crises, such as those of the world economy, terrorist/counter-terrorist attacks and ecological collapse provoke a reconsideration of the Apocalypse. Hence, the apocalyptic discourse in a wide range of disciplines has been rekindled. Is it still possible and politically advisable to consider the end as something that can be resisted, deferred and, by extension, is a revival of apocalyptic discourse needed?Some of the questions in which we are interested include: What does a return of the apocalypse mean today? How should theory respond in times of crisis? What do our narratives of the Apocalypse tell us about our perceptions of the end?Suggested topics include the following and their interrelations:Capitalist crisisBio-politics, bio-economyPost-humanismEco-theoryApocalypse in literature and Film (Zombie, disaster genres, etc.)Cultural and sociological studies of the apocalypseThe theology and mythology of the ApocalypseSubmissions are invited from academic staff, postgraduate students and independent scholars. Any of the submitted articles selected by the Editorial Board after peer review will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal, to be published in Spring 2014.Articles, which should not exceed 5,000 words, should be sent, together with an abstract of about 250 words and brief biographical details about the author, to:skepsi@kent.ac.ukThe deadline for submission is 15 December 2013Responsable : SkepsiUrl de référence :http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/skepsi/