Pidgin Magazine 21 call for submissions
Register/Submit Deadline: Monday, Feb 15, 201612:29 PMEDT
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Pidgin Magazine, the Princeton School of Architecture's student publication, is seeking submissions for Pidgin 21: Flushed!
Submission deadline: Feb. 15, 2016
Contact: [email protected]
Submission guidelines can be found at: www.pidginmagazine.com
Victor Hugo once called the sewers of pre-modern Paris “the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of all attempts.” In this underworld, society’s debris accumulates to “bear its true form, or at least, its definitive form.”[1]
Today, the ‘flush’ is second nature, a discrete act of expulsion when we are embarrassed, disgusted, or bored. We delete. We curate. We trim our fat. We are convinced that a ritualistic purge is healthy. “Out with the old, in with the new!” is our discipline’s battle cry.
The average American flushes 1,825 times each year.[2] This constant purging is mirrored in the immense volume of obsolete or irrelevant data sent swirling down the digital latrine. What if we could take a second look at all that we’ve submerged? Not a frightening confrontation, like a sudden reversal of flow, but a welcome reunion with the things we have forsaken? It would be a visit to Hugo’s underworld, a rendezvous with our exhaustions, and a moment to reconsider the rough forms of things too hastily cut loose. Perhaps there is an afterlife for our embarrassments, and maybe a retroactive check of the thrown-out bathwater will reveal that a baby went along with it.
For its 21st issue, Pidgin wants to flush out those attempts. We welcome your stories of detritus, cleansing, and renewal, as well as drafts of projects that never quite came to fruition.
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[1] Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887. Google books. Web, 06 Jan, 2016.
[2] “Do You Really Save Money By Not Always Flushing?” The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2010. Web. 06 Jan. 2016.
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