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Welcome to specs

A journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College.

Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College that aims to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical practices. The editors invite submissions of critical and/or creative work for the 2nd volume on the theme of “Faux Histories.”

We seek works of fiction, non-fiction, cultural criticism, artwork, poetry, and pieces that blur genre boundaries. The editorial board consists of writers and academics from various fields. The editors are excited by specialty, an excess of detail, fragments, narratives, meta-narratives, and more. The editors are particularly interested in works that examine contemporary culture and/or cross the critical/creative divide while riffing on the theme of “Faux Histories” in multiple ways, including:

- Manipulated Histories/Deep Time
- Synthetic Encounters /Textures/String Theories
- Apocryphal Technologies and Topographies
- End of History
- Planned Communities/Theme Parks
- Virtual Worlds/Mythical Creatures/Cyberculture
- Retrofuturism/Revisonary History/Counter Memories
- Transgenderisms
- Body Transformations/Plastic Surgery
- Transhumanism/Cyborgs/Posthumanism
- 2nd Life/Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs)/Video Games
- Adaptations/Hollywood/Celluloid Worlds
- False Memories/Déjà vu/Ersatz Affects

We are in the process of completing Issue Two. Check back soon to purchase your copy! Click here for subscription information.

Inside the 2008 Issue:

Douglas Barbour, Molly Bendall, Jeffrey L. Bohn, Christophe Cassamassima, D.P. Clark, Robert E. Clark, Glenn Deutsch, Denise Duhamel, Eliza Fernbach, Vernon Frazer, Jeanne Genis, Janis Butler Holm, Rosalie Morales Kearns, Amy Letter, Michael David Madonick, Kate Middleton, Sheila Murphy, T.A. Noonan, Melissa Parks, Chad Reynolds, Micah Riecker, Sarah Rosenblatt, Sankar Roy, Craig Saper, Jeff Solomon, Rodrigo Toscano, Lyzette Wanzer, Nina Zammit-Zorn, Slavoj Žižek

Current News

specs at AWP, Chicago


specs visited the 2009 AWP Conference in Chicago. We enjoyed meeting other journals, magazines, and publishers. Look for us at the 2010 conference in Colorado.

• specs is on Twitter

  
  specs is on Twitter. Click here to follow us. We'll be sure to tweet about Issue Two, future calls for submissions, special features, and events we're attending.
  
  

• Electronic Copies of specs

  
  Because we're committed to pushing boundries, specs will start offering electronic copies of the journal at a reduced price. Check back in the next month for more information.

• Features

  
  Be sure to click here to view Eliza Fernbach's video, Passing, Michael Madonick's poem, "The Doppler Effect,"and Nina Zammit-Zorn's piece, cat mat sat.