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CFP: MENT Magazine, Issue 3
Submit your pitches to editors@mentmagazine.com by September 30, 2025 for potential inclusion in the third issue.
MENT are inviting pitches and proposals for the third issue of MENT (mentmagazine.com), a Korean pop culture magazine that combines critical analysis, fan practice, and visual storytelling. We publish longform essays, interviews, multimedia art, and other experimental forms, and our goal is to bring together scholars, fans, and cultural workers to think critically and creatively about how Korean media and fandom shapes community, politics, and everyday life.
For our third issue, we particularly welcome--but are not limited to--pieces that explore how media and culture are shaped through relations of co-creation: idols as assemblages of body, image, capital, labor, and environment; fandom practices as the crossing of the human and the algorithmic, the individual and the collective; as well as tropes and figures of such relations in film, television, music, and public life. What implications do such entanglements hold for our contemporary moment? How and when are they dangerous? How and when might they be liberatory?
Further, such entanglements are carried forward through practices of documentation, adaptation, and memory. We invite work that considers these practices in the broadest sense. Who are the record keepers? What rituals sustain or revise them? Which archives persist, and which are forgotten or erased? How might different forms of cultural production and reception help forge new solidarities?
We welcome multimodal and experimental work that not only analyze these ideas but also play with them at the level of form. Of course, we are also always open to ideas that fall beyond the scope of the prompts above. We hope to build a diverse living archive through the essays, experiments, and creative practices that we assemble together.
Please see more information pertaining to the proposal guidelines above.
Inquiries can be directed to editors@mentmagazine.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
