Papers are required for ‘Weird Science and the Science of the Weird’, a special edition of Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture. Obviously coming from a strongly leftist perspective, and as such unlikely to welcome other perspectives, but it’s a timely and interesting topic…

… the sciences are revealing strange dynamics of human-nonhuman interconnectedness [and in the resulting] conceptual transformations is a certain sense of estrangement that is often, but not necessarily, tied to feelings of unease, horror and/or fascination.

A growing tendency toward the aesthetics of the weird is visible in popular culture and contemporary art production. As a continuation of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird tradition, “the weird” is now bringing together some of the most exciting contemporary writers and filmmakers [and being] embraced by musicians [and] new media art practices, especially bioart.

In this issue of Pulse, we will aim to investigate the aesthetics, politics and ethics of the weird from various theoretical and disciplinary perspectives […] Starting from the confluence of art and science, our aim is to map diverse territories of the weird in literature, film, music, television, videogames, visual arts, comic books, dance, theatre and other media.

Deadline: 30th June 2020, for 5000-6000 articles, and 800-1000 word book reviews. All articles and related material should be submitted to: submissions.pulse@gmail.com