POTENTIA Magazine: now available for order

Posted on March 21, 2011 by admin

Our little webshop is up and running! Check out http://www.potentiamagazine.com/orders/ for further details.

(click for a larger preview of our table of contents!)

We would like to extend a huge thank you to the Gender Studies department at Utrecht University (www.genderstudies.nl) for helping us with the distribution. Currently, we’re processing all payments manually – so once you’ve placed your order and received a confirmation, you will hear back from us within 24 hours with details on how to pay. Thanks for bearing with us as we’re sorting out the payment methods!

All profits are used to pay our (major) printing costs – POTENTIA does not have any monetary gains by the magazine orders since we are a non-profit organization. If you or your association is interested in sponsoring or supporting us, you can contact us at editor@potentiamagazine.com

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GET POTENTIA(L): First presentation/sales opportunity in Utrecht, NL next Friday

Posted on March 5, 2011 by admin

York is almost over… but POTENTIA keeps going on!

FIRST PURCHASE OPPORTUNITY: Next Friday (March 11) we will be at the Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics seminar at Utrecht University, NL, organized by Dr. Marta Zarzycka and Dr. Bettina Papenburg.

Attendees of the seminar can get their copy during coffee breaks, and from 12:30pm to 2:00pm EVERYBODY can come purchase their copy at the Sweelinckzaal at Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht (in the foyer). Want to make sure you get one, two or more? Comment or email to editor@potentiamagazine.com to reserve any number!

More on the seminar: http://www.uu.nl/faculty/humanities/EN/Current/agenda/Pages/20110311-carnal-aesthetics.aspx

For those who don’t live near Utrecht/NL: info on how to order POTENTIA online will follow next week!

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We’re in York!

Posted on March 4, 2011 by admin

Hey everybody!

Thank you for the enormous support – all the magazines have been delivered and we are currently in York, the UK, for the Feminist Cultural Activism event. Come look us up if you’re around to get your copy of POTENTIA! We’ll be keeping everybody updated via Facebook, so bookmark our page:

So far the response has been terrific, and we are definitely getting a rise out of you. In the upcoming week we will give you information on how you can get your hands on a real life copy of POTENTIA magazine!

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Follow up

Posted on January 27, 2011 by admin

We’re working out the final details of selecting the abstracts for the first issue – expect an email by tonight (EST time/early morning in Europe) if you’ve sent in anything! We’ve received an overwhelming amount of proposals, so it’s taking us a little longer than expected to go through them all.

EDIT: Everybody who has submitted an abstract has been emailed as of now – if you did not receive any response today, please let us know!

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Abstract deadline closed; currently looking for advertisers & sponsors

Posted on January 21, 2011 by admin

Hello everybody,

The abstract deadline is currently CLOSED – if you feel that your proposal is a absolutely must read and haven’t been able to send it in yet, contact us. We will take it into consideration when space frees up, but we can’t make any guarantees!

If you have not yet done so, please join us on www.facebook.com/potentiamagazine to receive the latest updates. Early next week we will get back to everybody who has submitted an abstract; we’ve received many exciting proposals! The date of this FB event is now changed to the launch date of POTENTIA magazine at the University of York (UK), in the first weekend of March.

Finally, we are actively pursuing sponsors and advertisers to cover our printing costs. If you have any suggestions, or would like to start a sponsor/advertising relation with POTENTIA, don’t hesitate to contact us at editor@potentiamagazine.com . We are a non-profit magazine: all funds raised are merely to cover the printing expenses and to be able to continue with a next issue.

Thank you all for your interest and support!

Warm regards,
Adinda Veltrop

POTENTIA Editor-in-Chief
www.potentiamagazine.com
www.facebook.com/potentiamagazine

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Two more days!

Posted on January 19, 2011 by admin

Don’t forget, TOMORROW is the final day for submitting your abstract to POTENTIA magazine! If you’ve already sent in yours, don’t forget to join our Facebook page and the POTENTIA abstract event on Facebook. We’ve receiving many exciting proposals, but there is always room for more- so send yours in now! A short outline of your concept will suffice, and we will get back to you after the weekend.

POTENTIA: getting a rise out of you!

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Three more days

Posted on January 17, 2011 by admin

We’ve been receiving a massive amount of support and proposals for POTENTIA magazine, which is very exciting! We still are looking for more contributors though, so if you like the concept of our magazine and have an idea for an article, column or (art) design, email us at editor@potentiamagazine.com

Don’t be intimidated by the idea of writing a proposal/abstract, we’d love to hear from you!

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Update: magazine categories

Posted on January 5, 2011 by admin

We’ve finalized the ten sections of the magazine, to give a clear outline and to inspire all of you. We look forward to reading your proposals!

- The Affective
- Bodies and Sexuality
- Fashion at the Carnaval
- Film & Cult
- Hysteria
- Music
- Transversal / Nomads
- Politics of Location
- Queering your Narrative
- (Re)writing the archives
- The Grotesque

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: POTENTIA magazine on gender, power and art.

Posted on January 5, 2011 by admin

[note: read the call for proposals on Facebook and join the event by clicking here!]

POTENTIA: a magazine that offers knowledge without pretense, to show what we find meaningful through art, activism, academics, and any other form of action.

Are you a scholar, artist or do you simply have an opinion about something? If you have the guts and potential to speak up about this, we want to hear from you. POTENTIA brings practice and theory together, plays with art and crashes head first into materialism, sexuality and power relations.

You have an opinion: now demonstrate in POTENTIA what you find meaningful and what connects you to the potential of life, theory and expression.

Magazine details:
The first issue of POTENTIA launches in March 2011 at the University of York (UK), followed by international distribution. We present academic knowledge and art reinvented: the grotesque and potential within society and everyday life, but inclusive and accessible for everybody. Full color and 96 pages of content that have you hooked from the start.

Confirmed contributors:
Academic staff from Utrecht University (NL), creative writing by writers from Wayne State University (MI, USA) and Agnes Scott College (GA, USA), scholars from the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht (NL), University of Manchester (UK), Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza (Poland), and artists from around the world.

Keywords:
identity, sexuality, communities, queer culture, power relations, gender, art, theory and practice, nomadism, materialism, literature, performativity, religious experience, design.

Deadline details:
Send your proposal for an essay, feature or visual design (max. 300 word outline) before January 20th 2011 to editor@potentiamagazine.com . We’ll review all proposals and will get back to you on January 22nd with details on your contribution to POTENTIA. We welcome everybody who wants to show their potential, whether you are a scholar, professor, photographer, designer, model, artist or someone who wants to voice their opinion.

POTENTIA: Getting A Rise Out Of You.

More information @ www.potentiamagazine.com and http://facebook.com/potentiamagazine

Contact us at editor@potentiamagazine.com

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Download this call for proposals and share it: POTENTIAmagazine_callforproposals.pdf

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Power is knowledge

Posted on November 23, 2010 by admin

What is POTENTIA? It is becoming, it is power, but most of all it’s about the potential – including YOURS – which we want to show while having a lot of fun. We’re in the early stages of developing POTENTIA magazine, which we will be presenting at the Feminist Cultural Activism event at York University in early March.

Coming from all different backgrounds, we think it’s time to do things differently. There is such a major disconnect between academia and theory, feminism and activism, philosophy and real life… and why? Let’s be self-critical: is there truly a need to use terms that have become so exclusive, placed high up in a white middle-to-higher-class academic tower?

To us, it’s rather simple. Basic communication knowledge.  Transmitter, message, receiver.

Feminism, listen to us. No matter how much you try to transmit your message, if you cannot formulate it in the proper words (and no, I’m sorry, but we do not mean Irigaray. We do not need a new language, we need to update our vocabulary), the receiver is never going to get it or want to listen to you. The same counts for other discourses: Don’t be pretentious, elitist or too normative. And lighten up. It’s time to have fun. It’s time to bring out the potential, simply by having a vision instead of opposition. No radical feminism, but radical optimism and getting out there in the real world.

Knowledge is power. But so is art, music, fashion, opportunities, dreaming, living and even failing. So the next three months are going to be one heck of a ride. Are you ready? We sure are!

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