Call for Papers · JSTA · “Chronopolitics: Politics of Time and Dissident Temporalities in Artistic Practices”.

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Call for Papers
Deadline: 21 FEB 2026

A Call for Papers is now open for another issue of the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (JSTA). This dossier will focus on the notion of chronopolitics, with a particular emphasis on artistic practices. Sara Castelo Branco, João Pedro Amorim, and Daniel Ribas, from the School of Arts, are co-editing the issue.

Possible submission topics:

  • Chrononormativity and dissident temporalities (queer, feminist, decolonial, indigenous and in community practices).
  • Chronopolitics of memory and historical narrative.
  • Politics of time in ecology and interrupted temporalities (absence of future).
  • Neocolonialism, Anthropocene and unequal temporalities.
  • Multitemporality, cosmopolitics and indigenous futurity.
  • Temporal regimes as technologies of power.
  • Temporalities of late modernity, acceleration and control societies.
  • Time management in urban life, at work and in digital space.
  • Temporalities of care and politics of the future.
  • Interrupted temporalities: precariousness, dispossession, violence and states of exception.
  • Philosophy of time and its political implications.
  • Loss of natural rhythms; Compression of the past and future in the present.
  • Digital temporalities and non-normative modes of attention.

More information at this link.