Journal of Somaesthetics: Call for Papers, Somaesthetics and Noise

25-10-2025
Call for Papers: Somaesthetics and Noise

Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026
The Journal of Somaesthetics
https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOS/

Somaesthetics, as a philosophical and interdisciplinary project, emphasizes the role of bodily perception, affect, and experience in aesthetic, ethical, and political life. This issue of The Journal of Somaesthetics is dedicated to exploring the theme of Noise as it intersects with somaesthetic inquiry. Far from being reducible to mere auditory excess or interference, noise is here understood expansively—as a concept, sensation, or phenomenon that disrupts norms, interrupts systems, and resists codification.

We invite submissions that explore how noise—auditory, visual, political, medial, social, or corporeal—figures in somaesthetic experience and practice. How does noise register somatically, and how do embodied subjects make sense of, or productively engage with, noise? How does noise exceed frameworks of order, clarity, or coherence, and what does this excess afford for transformation, critique, or aesthetic innovation?

Possible Topics May Include (but Are Not Limited To):

  • Auditory noise and the aesthetics of sound, distortion, glitch, feedback, or silence

  • Visual noise, such as clutter, overexposure, digital interference, abstraction, or maximalism

  • Political noise and protest, dissent, public agitation, or bodily disobedience

  • Media noise in digital environments, information overload, algorithmic disruption, or viral affect

  • Noisy identities—gender nonconformity, disability, queerness, racialized embodiment, and other disruptions of normativity

  • Discomfort as noise, and the way disruptive sensation opens new forms of embodied knowledge

  • Somatic responses to sensory overload, fragmentation, or overstimulation

  • Artistic practices that foreground improvisation, unpredictability, excess, rupture, or instability

  • The aesthetics of interference, breakdown, or noise-as-resistance in performance, installation, or body art

  • The use of noise in therapeutic or ritual practice, from vocal outbursts to sonic immersion

  • Philosophical engagements with noise as a conceptual tool, as in the work of John Cage, Jacques Attali, Donna Haraway, Tim Hecker, Brandon LaBelle, Adriana Cavarero, and others

We welcome contributions from across disciplines—philosophy, performance studies, visual arts, music, sound studies, media theory, cultural studies, body therapies, and beyond—as long as the submission critically engages the body as a site of somaesthetic and experiential inquiry.

Submission Guidelines:

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Journal of Somaesthetics website:
 Submit via Open Journal System

Submissions must adhere to the following requirements:

  • The file should be in Microsoft Word format (doc or docx).

  • Submissions must be anonymized for blind peer review (remove all personal identifiers).

  • Include an abstract (100–150 words) and 5–7 keywords.

  • Maximum word count: 8,000 words (including notes and references).

  • Use Chicago Manual of Style, author-date citation format.

  • All images must have reproduction rights secured by the author and include captions and credits.

Before submitting, please consult the full author guidelines at:
 JOS Submission Guidelines

Deadline for Full Paper Submissions:

March 1, 2026

Contact Information:

For questions or inquiries about the issue, please contact:
Dr. Mark Tschaepe
Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Somaesthetics
 mdtschaepe@pvamu.edu