{"id":1751,"date":"2023-03-10T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=1751"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:40:23","slug":"pfn-the-griffith-review-seeking-submissions-theme-the-leisure-principle","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-the-griffith-review-seeking-submissions-theme-the-leisure-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"PFN – The Griffith Review Seeking Submissions. Theme: “The Leisure Principle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Griffith Review 81: The Leisure Principle<\/em><\/h1>\n

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In his 1930 essay \u2018Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren\u2019, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. \u2018For the first time since creation,\u2019 he predicted, \u2018man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem \u2013 how to occupy the leisure which science\u2026will have won for him.\u2019<\/p>\n

So where did this vision of future past go? Like baco-foil suits and meals of protein pills, it proved to be a concept that withered on the vine. Instead of an excess of free time to be enjoyed at leisure, a radically different regime now dominates the developed nations: the leisure principle.<\/p>\n

The leisure principle is one of work hard to play hard, a rigorous pursuit of monetarised hedonism: YOLO, live your best life, have a good time all the time. It has rendered the world a pleasure garden \u2013 for those who can afford it \u2013 of interminable excess and consumption without end.<\/p>\n

Griffith Review 81: The Leisure Principle<\/em>\u00a0sets out to scrutinise the terms and conditions of this contemporary compact. From the ecstasy of the digital to the monied spectacle that is sport, the gamification of everyday life to the flourishing hierarchy of influencers, new codes and disciplines have emerged from this regimentation of recreation.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking for fiction and non-fiction that addresses the question of how we came to cede so much, and at such a price, just to amuse ourselves to death. Are we learning anything as we pay more to play more? And what\u2019s going to happen when the party finally ends?<\/p>\n

Things for you to note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

* We’re looking for\u00a0non-fiction and fiction that responds to the theme<\/strong>.
\n* We’d prefer pieces that are\u00a0no longer than 4,000 words<\/strong>\u00a0(they can, of course, be much shorter than this).
\n* Attention poets! We’ll be opening\u00a0a separate poetry call-out<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 keep an eye on our social media and newsletter for more details soon.
\n* We’ll let you know the outcome of your submission\u00a0within eight weeks of the call-out closing date<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Submissions close at\u00a011:59 pm AEST, 9 April 2023\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0should be made via Submittable<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leisure principle has rendered the world a pleasure garden \u2013 for those who can afford it \u2013 of interminable excess and consumption without end. We\u2019re looking for work that addresses the question of how we came to cede so much, and at such a price, just to amuse ourselves to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2],"class_list":["post-1751","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-call-for-submission","cat_call-for-submission"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1751\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}