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Call for papers n.15 (Luglio 2020)The Imaginaries of nature and its effects on realityEditors: Pier Luca Marzo / Antonio CamorrinoWe never have pure space in front of us,not for a single day, such as flowers openendlessly into. Always there is world,and never the Nowhere without the Not: the pure,unwatched-over, that one breathes andendlessly knows, without craving.&#160;[R. M. Rilke,&#160;Eight Elegy] The&#160;term&#160;‘nature’&#160;connotes&#160;much&#160;more than&#160;the body and&#160;the great&#160;expanses beyond - where&#160;flowers bloom. As Rilke suggests, our&#160;seemingly&#160;immediate experience of nature&#160;is&#160;always&#160;mediated by a certain vision of the world.&#160;Therefore, we should&#160;understand, comprehend and&#160;appreciate nature as a sophisticated artefact of the social imagination;&#160;one that&#160;has the power&#160;to disguise its social origins and&#160;not to appear as such. However, in order to reveal the artificial character of the natural,&#160;it is&#160;necessary to bring to&#160;light&#160;the complexity of the meanings conveyed&#160;by mythical-religious cosmogonies;&#160;legal-natural political doctrines;&#160;the paradigms of the natural sciences;aesthetic&#160;representations of the landscapes; by body technologies and&#160;economic,&#160;action-driven, meanings. Each of these imaginaries finds its common primary function in fabricating&#160;–&#160;albeit through irreducible visions&#160;–&#160;a symbolic place where vital and social processes enter into mutual&#160;relations, thereby&#160;providing nature with a specifically&#160;social sense. It is from this sense that –&#160;in the manner of&#160;a ‘flowering’&#160;-&#160;social-historical worlds inexhaustibly blossom. Therefore, in line with Peter Berger and Thomas&#160;Luckmann,&#160;our understanding of nature is always&#160;constructed&#160;in&#160;a certain vision of the natural. Im@go&#160;n.15 welcomes&#160;contributions aimed at identifying, investigating and understanding the imaginaries of nature and their&#160;reality&#160;effects&#160;in the context of contemporary social life.&#160;This interest has been stimulated&#160;by the collective effervescence&#160;produced&#160;by the "return of nature" in&#160;many&#160;different arenas of global&#160;civil&#160;society.&#160;But its importance&#160;is most clearly&#160;seen&#160;in the anxieties&#160;surrounding environmental imbalances and the problematic of&#160;self&#160;and its&#160;well-being produced by the capitalist exploitation of the planet. &#160;In addition, the&#160;imaginary of nature&#160;is also revealed in&#160;the techno-scientific redefinition of life and&#160;the&#160;valoriszation&#160;of&#160;consumer&#160;goods&#160;in new&#160;green/bio/organic/eco-sustainable&#160;discourses. &#160;Also important in this regard are the new social formations premised upon:&#160;the re-sacralization of nature&#160;-&#160;an unprecedented/novel manifestation of "collective consciousness";&#160;the end, or perhaps in the renewal, of the anthropocentric world-view; in&#160;daily lifestyles and&#160;practices;&#160;and in&#160;aesthetic languages&#160;and&#160;the&#160;rhetorics&#160;of politics.&#160; Although these effects can be detected primarily at the level of daily life,&#160;these phenomena inevitably also resonate at the global level, raising important&#160;questions, such as: what&#160;specificimaginaries&#160;are involved in&#160;the&#160;"return of nature"?&#160;From what tensions, conflicts and hopes do these&#160;imaginaries emerge? Where can we locate&#160;boundary between nature and artifice (if there is one)&#160;-&#160;and how have the sciences conceived&#160;designed it? Last,&#160;but not least,&#160;what metamorphoses do these&#160;imaginaries&#160;undergo&#160;as they come inform&#160;social reality?&#160; The aim of&#160;Im@go&#160;15 is&#160;to explore these questions&#160;through transdisciplinary proposals as well as by means of more&#160;familiartheoretical and empirical approaches.&#160;Proposals may be submitted in Italian, English, French and Spanish and sent simultaneously to:&#160;rivistaimago@gmail.com;&#160;antonio.camorrino@unina.it;&#160;marzop@unime.it.Deadline for the submission of&#160;abstracts:&#160;February 29th, 2020Notification of abstract&#160;acceptance:&#160;March 9th, 2020Preliminary papers to the editors:&#160;May 10th,&#160;2020Revised peer-reviews papers to the editors:&#160;June 14th, 2020&#160; Publication:&#160;July,&#160;2020http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/announcement/view/58?fbclid=IwAR0V6C4nmbgZvtOCdNkhhGIrEbKYUeAD-k5_h2fa9NEKAip9YQycLaJg9LI