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Dearest
Posthumans,
We hope this
email finds You well!
We wish You All a
Serene and Inspiring
2022, full of
Posthuman
Realizations!
We are
delighted to share our
January GPN
Newsletter, providing new thought-provoking
lectures, readings
and CFPs; we hope that
they may help You in
planning and
visualizing the year
ahead, in the spirit
of sharing with the
world posthuman ways
of existing.
While we are all
facing challenging
times, the livelihood
of the posthuman
community
worldwide remains a
powerful, affirmative
guiding light for
getting inspired and
embarking on new
projects: Thanks for
your Commitment, Work
and Vision!
Peace, Health and Much
Appreciation,
The Global
Posthuman Network
www.posthumans.org
News
NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL
POSTHUMAN NETWORK
Upcoming
Events1. OPEN
SEMINAR: SCHOOL OF
MATERIALIST RESEARCH
(8 JAN)
2. CONFERENCE "FROM
HUMANS TO GODS:
REFLECTIONS OF BEYOND
HUMANISM", ROYAL
COLLEGE OF ART,
LONDON, UK (10 JAN)
3. (ONLINE) WORKSHOP:
AGENCY,
ONTO-EPISTEMOLOGY AND
'MORE-THAN-HUMAN' (12
JAN)
4. LECTURE "WHO IS
AFRAID OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE?"
(FERRANDO) THE
EUROPEAN UNION (20
JAN)
5. 1st NATIONAL
CONFERENCE on
POSTHUMANISM &
ECOLOGICAL CRISES (29
JAN)
6. INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE AND
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
(29 FEB)
New
Journal Issues
7. NEW ISSUE! "E-FLUX
JOURNAL"
8. NEW ISSUE!
"DELIBERATIO"
9. NEW ISSUE! "JOURNAL
OF POSTHUMANISM"
10. NEW ISSUE!
"SANGLAP: JOURNAL OF
LITERATURE AND
CULTURAL INQUIRY"
New Book
Series
11. NEW BOOK SERIES!
"POSTHUMANISM IN
PRACTICE"
New
Publications
12. NEW BOOK!
"POSTHUMAN
PATHOGENESIS" by BASAK
AGIN and SAFAK HORZUM
13. NEW BOOK! "MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES AND
POSTHUMAN INTIMACY" by
JAN STASIENKO
14. NEW BOOK!
"CRITICAL
POSTHUMANISM: CLONED,
TOXIC AND CYBORG
BODIES IN FICTION" by
PELIN KÜMBET
Summer School
15. OPEN APPLICATION:
POSTHUMAN SUMMER
SCHOOL (Directed by
Rosi Braidotti)
CFPs
16. CFP: CREATIVE
(POST)HUMANITIES
17. CFP: TRANSHUMANIST
FUTURE TRENDS
18. CFP: FUTURES OF
CARE - RELATIONALITY
AND RESPONSIBILITY IN
MORE THAN HUMAN
WORLDS.
19. CFP: TECHNĒ AND
FEMINISM (Special
Issue of Technophany)
20. CFP: ANTHROPOLOGY,
AI, AND THE FUTURE OF
HUMAN SOCIETY
21. CFP: "SANGLAP:
JOURNAL OF LITERATURE
AND CULTURAL INQUIRY"
Get involved
22. JOINING AND
VOLUNTEERING
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| REMINDER:
A WAY FOR PROMOTING
YOUR EVENTS / CFPs /
NEWS:
We have create an online form
that you can use for
promoting your events through the
Newsletter of the
Global Posthuman
Network,
which currently counts
with around 1200
international members.
There is no fee to
submit. All
submissions will be
reviewed and, if found
in tune with the
posthuman turn, will
be published in our
next Newsletter.
Please, keep in mind
that the Newsletter is
bimonthly, so if you
send an event that
expires by the time we
send the Newsletter,
we will not be able to
publish it. Thanks for
your interest.
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| OPEN SEMINAR: SCHOOL OF
MATERIALIST
RESEARCH (8
JAN) |
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The School of
Materialist Research
is thrilled to
announce that you
can now register for
its January semester
of Open Seminars
(for free)! You can
find all of the
details as well as
the link to register
on our website HERE
Or you can sign up
directly on our
Eventbrite page HERE
This semester of
Open Seminars
includes talks from
the following
distinguished
speakers: Rick
Elmore, Hanno Pahl,
Paul Reynolds,
Jordanco Sekulovski,
Nina Power, Rick
Dolphijn, and
Nandita Biswas
Mellamphy. We hope
to see lots of you
there.
The first event is
titled: Deconstructive
Realism and the
Naturalization of
Bourgeois
Metaphysics (8
JAN 2022)
This seminar
explores the
relationship between
Derrida’s realism
and his critique of
Marxism in order to
assess the resources
that deconstruction
offers contemporary
realist/materialist
projects. Starting
from Derrida’s
recently published
lecture course
Theory and Practice,
Elmore details
Derrida’s
resistance,
particularly in his
critique of
Althusser, to a
number of key
Marxist assertations
in order to show how
this resistance
complicates the
recent and quite
compelling attempts
to find in Derrida’s
thought a dynamic
realism/materialism.
In particular, it is
Derrida’s strange
resistance to the
materialist
insistence on the
preponderance of the
object that, for
Elmore, proves most
decisive and
problematic, this
resistance at odds
with Derrida’s
dynamic account of
the real itself.
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| CONFERENCE ON
TRANSHUMANISM,
ROYAL COLLEGE OF
ART, LONDON, UK
(10 JAN) |
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From
Humans to God(s) -
Reflections on
Beyond Humanism
As part of
the Meta
Human: Beyond or
After Human project
led by Zowie Broach
( Head of Fashion, RCA )
and Philip Delamore
( Digital
Platform lead /
FASHION MA,
Co-creative lead on
META HUMANS EPIC )
You
are all invited to
the event FROM
HUMANS TO GOD(S) - REFLECTIONS
ON BEYOND HUMANISM @ 10
JANUARY 2022 FROM
10.25 AM, chaired
by Savina Torrisi (
Senior Research Tutor,
IDE RCA )
Prof.
Stefan Sorgner
(John Cabot
University), Prof.
Armand Leroi (
Imperial College
London ), and
Prof. Francesca
Ferrando ( New
York University ) will
guide us through the
fundamental
questions and
crucial implications
that Beyond Humanism
poses by breaking beyond
the boundaries of our
current human
limitations.
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Program
and Timetable (UK
time):
10:25
AM - Intro -
Savina Torrisi
10:40
AM - "We have
always been Cyborgs" (TALK
1) -
Prof. Stefan Sorgner
11:25
AM - Q&A
11:35 AM - "The
Genetic Daedalus: How
To Make A Better Baby"
(TALK 2).
Prof. Armand Leroi
12:20
PM - Q&A
12:30
PM - Savina
Torrisi wrap up
12:40 PM -
LUNCH BREAK
1:40 PM - Debate
in Zoom break rooms
2:40
PM - "What
if we are already
God(s)" (TALK 3) -
Prof. Francesca
Ferrando
3:25 PM - Q&A
3:35 PM - Savina Torrisi
wrap up
3:40 PM - END
ZOOM
LINK
[ Join
Zoom Meeting ]
ID:
98340887844
Passcode: 809489
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| (ONLINE) WORKSHOP: AGENCY,
ONTO-EPISTEMOLOGY AND 'MORE-THAN-HUMAN' (12 JAN) |
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The
University College
Cork Eco-Humanities
Research Group is
delighted to host an
online
inter-disciplinary
workshop to explore
diverse notions of the
agency, ontology and
epistemology of the
non-human, or
‘more-than-human,’ in
the context of
contemporary
ecological crisis.
All are welcome at
this workshop.
Attendance at the
workshop is free but
advance registration
is required – please
register for the
Workshop through
Eventbrite HERE
The workshop aims to
explore how such
diverse notions of
distributive agency
can help us in
thinking through, and
responding
appropriately to, the
multiple ecological
crises which we face
today. Does
re-conceptualising or
thinking about notions
of agency, ontology,
epistemology and
ethics in a much
broader and more
interconnected way
facilitate more
productive or helpful
responses and modes of
action in relation to
climate crisis,
biodiversity loss and
other environmental
problems in the
contemporary world?
For further info on
the evnet click HERE |
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LECTURE
"WHO IS AFRAID
OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE?"
(FERRANDO)
EUROPEAN
COMMISSION,
BELGIUM,
January 20th
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LECTURE
"WHO IS AFRAID
OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE?"
(FERRANDO)
EUROPEAN
COMMISSION,
BRUSSELS,
BELGIUM,
January 20th
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Lecture "Who
is Afraid of AI?" by Dr. Francesca
Ferrando at the
European Commission,
JRC SciArt Project,
Series "Changing the
Ground". Chair: Prof.
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LECTURER:
FRANCESCA FERRANDO
TITLE:
WHO IS AFRAID OF
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE?
ABSTRACT:
In the 21st century,
a spectre is haunting
humans –
the spectre of
technology. From
algorithmic
predestination to
internet addiction,
from the technosphere
to super-intelligent
AI: technology is here
to stay. This
realization is not a
neutral statement, nor
does this entail an
uncritical acceptance
of the ways these
technologies are being
actualized. Instead,
it is a wake-up call
to be aware of where
we are at – as
individuals, as a
society, and as a
species. We can no
longer think of
technology in
separation from
humanity and ecology;
its material
production has to be
taken into
consideration as well.
In order to understand
technology in the era
of the Anthropocene,
we need a radical
change in people's
worldviews.
Anthropocentric and
human-centric values
that are still
ingrained in many
societies, in and
outside of Europe, are
serious obstacles
towards this shift,
which is urgently
needed in the rise of
global catastrophes.
In this talk, we will
approach the human
condition through the
philosophies of
posthumanism, by
addressing humans as
part of a planet, nets
of ecological and
technological
emergencies,
expressions of cosmic
phenomena. We will
understand together
how each of us can
help in tracing new
horizons. This will be
a journey of
self-inquiry and
self-discovery: into
technology, into
society, and most
importantly, into
ourselves...
DATE:
JANUARY 20TH 2022
LOCATION:
THE EUROPEAN UNION,
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
STREAMED LIVE
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| 1st NATIONAL CONFERENCE on
POSTHUMANISM
& ECOLOGICAL
CRISES (29 JAN)
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1st National
Conference-English
& Literary
Studies, BWU
Let's share our
knowledge! Let's give
something back to the
fraternity! The
department of English
& Literary
Studies, Brainware
University, will
organize its 1st
National Conference on
Posthumanism & the
Ecological Crisis on
January 29, 2022. Join
in and be enlightened
on the most recent
trend in literary and
cultural studies!
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| INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE AND
DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGIES (29
FEB) |
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Given the
pivotal disruptive
role being played by
AI in extending and
augmenting the
capabilities of
citizens and other
stakeholders of the
digital ecosystem, it
appears crucial to
understand and analyze
the myriad range of
legal dimensions that
the usage of AI can
give rise to. This
conference seeks to
provide an opportunity
to all the
participants to
understand various
aspects of AI and its
uses in conjunction
with digital
technologies, and to
exchange with domain
experts various ideas
and solutions to
existing and potential
problems plaguing the
industry and the
economy. It will also
act as a platform for
scholars,
academicians,
professionals, and
students from across
the globe to come
together and discuss
the challenges posed
by AI to existing
legal domains and
efficacious regulatory
possibilities in the
digital domain. In
course of this
exercise, the
participants will also
gain insight into the
concepts involved from
the perspectives of
multiple
jurisdictions.
Those who are
interested in
presenting a paper on
any of the above
themes must send an
abstract of 400 words
along with a brief
biographical note (not
more than 100 words)
on or before 20
January 2022 at
( isaid...@gmail.com).
The authors of the
abstracts selected for
presentation will be
informed by 29th
January 2022. A
full-length paper of
4,000 – 6,000 words
must be sent by 12th
February 2022.
Submission of the full
paper would be
presumed as
unconditional consent
of the author/s for a
possible publication
by the organizers.
Last date for
submission of
abstracts: 20th
January 2022
Last date for
notification of
acceptance of
abstracts: 29th
January 2022
Last date for
submission of full
paper (minimum 4000
words): 12th February
2022
Conference date: 26th
February 2022
For further info,
click HERE |
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Issue 123
of e-flux journal is
guest-edited by the
Critical Computation
Bureau (CCB), a
collective of
researchers and
writers working
between technology
and culture,
computer science and
information theory,
aesthetics and
politics. The
members—Luciana
Parisi, Ezekiel
Dixon-Román, Tiziana
Terranova, Oana
Pârvan, and Brian
D’Aquino—are
situated in the US,
the UK, and Southern
Italy, and engage
with networks
spanning several
continents to
intervene in the
techno-politics of
racial capitalism
and its recursive
regeneration.
This issue
stems from dialogues
conducted during the
CCB’s symposium
Recursive
Colonialism,
Artificial
Intelligence, and
Speculative
Computation, which
took place online
over two weeks in
December 2020, and
included more than
twenty speakers and
a selection of
artworks by
contributors from
Europe, North
America, Asia, and
Africa. This special
issue then departs
from perspectives on
representational
form, discourse, and
the critique of
technology to
interrogate how the
servo-mechanic model
of knowledge
reproduction has
been foundational to
both the
abstraction/extraction
of value
constituting racial
capitalism and the
postcolonial
genealogies of
contemporary
techno-social
networks.
The dialogic
texts in this issue
address the
intersections of
colonialism, racial
capitalism, and
technology,
particularly
foregrounding types
of computation and
machine epistemology
(or automated
learning) that have
configured
intelligent
automated knowledge
systems such as
artificial
intelligence,
machine learning,
and techno-social
networks.
Furthermore, the
issue extends the
dialogues from the
conference in
written form and
expands upon their
questions—also
addressing Black
Feminist Poethics,
haunting algorithms,
and Mediterranean
techno-cultures in
incomplete,
recursive modes of
critical and
speculative
thinking.
To access
the journal's
contents click HERE
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The
first issue of the
Journal
"Deliberatio:
Studies in
Contemporary
Philosophical
Challenges" has
appeared. The
issue is dedicated
to the topic:
"Living the
Posthuman Paradigm
Shift? A Symposium
on Sorgner's On
Transhumanism".
The present volume
is the result of a
round table
entitled: Living
the Posthuman
Paradigm-Shift?
A Symposium on
Sorgner’s “On
Transhumanism”,
hosted by the
Institute of
Social and
Political Research
(ICSP) of West
University,
Timișoara,
Romania, on
May 27, 2021. For
those who are
more, or less,
familiar with
posthuman
theories, the
volume is
initiating a
philosophical
inquiry—by
gathering together
many researchers
from all over the
world—regarding
the
leadingphilosopher
Stefan Lorenz
Sorgner’s book On
Transhumanism: The
Most Dangerous
Idea in the
World?!. In the
following papers
the readers may
discover many
intriguing
questions related
to the paradigm
shift that the
posthuman may
bring to the
present/future
life of the
individual. The
papers cover a
wide range of what
transhumanism, as
a
philosophical/cultural
movement or a
thinking approach,
represents
nowadays. The
volume encompasses
both a Nietzschean
approach to
transhumanism—in
which we may
discover both the
convergences and
the divergences
that Nietzsche’s
concept of
the Overhuman (and
not only this)
brings to
transhumanist
discussions— as
well as a
cartography
regarding the
multiple scenarios
that transhumanism
reveals, in close
connection to the
present/future
technological
developments and
human enhancements
such as
bio-nanotechnology,
AI technology,
climate change,
moral
enhancements,
education, gene
editing, mind
uploading etc.
For accessing the
issue, click HERE
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POSTHUMANISM" |
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A new issue of the Journal of Posthumanism is
out. Check out
at Vol. 1 No. 2
(2021): Dossier:
Philosophical
Posthumanism
Session at the
42nd Annual
KJSNA Meeting
The dossier
features
critiques
initially
delivered during
the 42nd Annual
KJSNA Meeting’s
Author meets
Critics session on
Philosophical
Posthumanism by
Francesca
Ferrando. It
includes four
commentaries by
Kevin LaGrandeur
(technology and
AI), Jessica
Ludescher Imanaka
(political economy
and ethics),
Markus Wirtz
(humanism and
religion), and
Debashish Banerji
(existence and
Yoga), each
focusing on a
different aspect
of Philosophical
Posthumanism, or
what it makes us
(re)consider, as
well as Francesca
Ferrando’s
response.
For accessing the
journal (open
access) click HERE
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| NEW ISSUE! "SANGLAP:
JOURNAL OF
LITERATURE AND
CULTURAL
INQUIRY" |
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A
new issue of
Sanglap: Journal of
Literature and
Cultural Inquiry is
out! Vol. 8 No. 1
(2021): New
Materialism(s) and
the Question of the
Non-human.
This issue too turns
towards such diverse
contexts and
encounters where we
are forced to
reconsider the same
question haunting
philosophical
conceptualizations for
many generations,
however, with an
awareness to engage
from multispecies,
posthumanist,
planetary
perspectives: how
matter comes to
matter? Such
examinations of the
mattering of matter
emphasize on the
essentially
pluralistic nature of
material becomings as
well as our ways of
engaging with such
dispersed forms of
matter and mattering,
the irreducible
complexity and
dynamism of which gets
reflected in the
following words Birgit
Kaiser and Kathrin
Thiele use from Donna
Haraway to begin their
introduction on
diffractive reading:
It
matters what matters
we use to think
other matters with;
it matters what
stories we tell to
tell other stories
with; it matters
what knots knot
knots, what thoughts
think thoughts, what
ties tie ties. It
matters what stories
make worlds, what
worlds make stories.
(Kaiser and Thiele
ix)
This issue
too attempts to
address such complex
and volatile
entanglements of
matter and meaning
from diverse contexts
and conceptual
standpoints, and to
rethink what can the
doing of new
materialisms offers us
today.
For accessing the
journal (open access)
click HERE |
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| NEW BOOK SERIES!
"POSTHUMANISM IN
PRACTICE" |
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This new
book series is being
launched at Bloomsbury!
If posthumanism informs
your practice, consider
submitting your work!
For further info contact
BLOOMSBURY HERE
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| NEW BOOK! "POSTHUMAN
PATHOGENESIS" by
BASAK AGIN and
SAFAK HORZUM |
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This
multi-vocal assemblage
of literary and
cultural responses to
contagions provides
insights into the
companionship of
posthumanities,
environmental
humanities, and
medical humanities, to
shed light on how we
deal with complex
issues like
communicable diseases
in contemporary times.
Examining imaginary
and real contagions,
ranging from Jeep and
SHEVA to plague,
HIV/AIDS, and
COVID-19, Posthuman
Pathogenesis discusses
the inextricable links
between nature and
culture, matter and
meaning-making
practices, and the
human and the
nonhuman. Dissecting
pathogenic nonhuman
bodies in their
interactions with
their human
counterparts and the
environment, the
authors of this volume
raise their diverse
voices with two
primary aims: to
analyse how contagions
trigger a drive to
survival, and chaotic,
liberating, and
captivating impulses,
and to focus on the
viral interpolations
in socio-political and
environmental systems
as a meeting point of
science, technology,
and fiction, blending
social reality and
myth. Following the
premises of the
post-qualitative turn
and presenting a
differentiated
experience of
contagion, this
‘rhizomatic’
compilation thus
offers a
non-hierarchised array
of essays, composed by
a multiplicity of
genders, geographies,
and generations.
For further info on
the book, click HERE |
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| NEW BOOK! "MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES AND
POSTHUMAN
INTIMACY" by JAN
STASIENKO |
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Constructing a
theory of intimacy
describing processes
occurring between a
'human' subject and
information creations,
Jan Stasienko shows in
what way and in what
phases that
relationship is built
and what its nature
is.
He discusses
technologies and
genres related to the
construction of a new
television message
(teleprompter,
interactive television
forms appearing both
in the analogue and
digital eras),
composition of the
film image and
specificity of
cinematic technologies
(peep show, hybrid
animation, digital
visual effects). Also
new-media technologies
and genres will be
discussed (for
example, aspects
relating to computer
games and Web portals
making video materials
available). This
diversity is prompted
by the desire to show
that the building of
intimacy protocols is
not the domain of the
digital era, and on
the other hand, that
the posthumanism of
media apparatus is a
wide-ranging problem,
i.e. the area
encompasses various
vehicles findable
throughout various
historical periods.
For further info click
HERE |
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| NEW BOOK! "CRITICAL
POSTHUMANISM:
CLONED, TOXIC
AND CYBORG
BODIES IN
FICTION" by
PELIN KÜMBET |
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Focusing on
three representation
of posthuman bodies as
cloned bodies in Kazuo
Ishiguro’s Never Let
Me Go (2005), toxic
bodies in Indra
Sinha’s Animal’s
People (2007), and
cyborg bodies in
Justina Robson’s
Natural History (2004)
from the theoretical
perspectives of
posthuman definition
of what it means to be
human, this study
discusses the changing
concept of the body.
In this context, the
integral and dynamic
connection between a
human body and the
world is of special
significance, which
opens up new
possibilities to
reconfigure the human
body that is no longer
conceded separate from
the nonhuman world but
embodied in it. Each
of the novels
significantly displays
the in-betweenness of
humans by making them
interact with chemical
substances, machines,
and other nonhuman
entities, and shows
how clear-cut
distinctions between
the human and the
nonhuman bodies have
collapsed.
“This book
importantly expands
the ethical project of
posthumanism by its
attentive focus on how
bodies are entwined
with environments to
show how political
economy differentiates
bodies along
racialized and class
lines. ” — Sherryl
Vint
For further info,
click HERE
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| OPEN APPLICATION: POSTHUMAN
SUMMER SCHOOL
(Directed by
Rosi Braidotti)
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Applications
are now open for the
2022 Posthuman Summer
school! The theme this
time is 'The Posthuman
Life of Methods.'
'The 2022 intensive
Summer School course
aims to dig deeper
into the
methodological
innovations introduced
by posthuman critical
theory, defined as the
convergence of
critiques of Humanism
and critiques of
Anthropocentrism. This
critical approach
introduces new themes
and objects of
enquiries, but what
does it do in terms of
methods and
approaches? What sort
of qualitative
transformations are
entailed by a critical
posthuman framework?
Thew course will
explore approaches
such as: transversal
methodologies;
neo-materialism; the
new empiricisms;
current textual
practices;
non-representational
theories; inter/trans
and
post-disciplinarity;
methods to exit
colonialism; critical
feminist theory and
art practices as
research methods. The
participants will be
invited to discuss and
present work related
to their own research
topics and
experiences.'
The course will take
place entirely online
and will be
sub-divided into five
groups across three
time zones. Places are
allocated on a first
come first served
basis so it is
recommended to apply
early.
For further info,
click HERE |
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CFP:
Transhumanist future
trends: a world
depicted by cyborgs,
bio-enhancement and
gene technologies
Special Issue of The
Annals of the
University of
Bucharest, Philosophy
Series:
Transhumanist future
trends: a world
depicted by cyborgs,
bio-enhancement and
gene technologies
The Annals of the
University of
Bucharest, Philosophy
Series will devote its
further issue to a
special volume
inspired by the most
recent book of Stefan
Lorenz Sorgner, We
have always been
cyborgs (Bristol
University Press,
2021)
This bestseller,
strongly endorsed by
world-leading
intellectuals,
highlights new
perspectives on trans-
and posthumanism,
focused on three major
thematic realms:
Digital Data, Gene
Technologies, and the
Ethics of
Transhumanism. One of
the founding figures
of critical
posthumanism, Prof.
Katherine Hayles, as
well as one of the
world leading
bioethicists, Prof.
Julian Savulescu
qualified this new
monograph by Professor
Sorgner’s reflections
as revolutionary, and
ground-breaking and,
consequently, it has
already animated
several public debates
and philosophical
dialogues that shape
and define future
trends in philosophy
and, in particular, in
transhumanism.
Authors interested in
submitting their
contributions for
evaluation in order to
be published in No 2,
Issue 71, scheduled
for 2022, are kindly
asked to develop
original articles,
unpublished previously
elsewhere, by
following the
editorial protocol of
the journal.
Articles and reviews
should be submitted to
the next e-mail
addresses,
oana....@filosofie.unibuc.ro
and
annals.p...@filosofie.unibuc.ro,
by the 1st of
September, 2022. After
a process of
double-blind peer
review, articles will
be scheduled for
publication,
forthcoming no later
than November 1st,
2022.
For further info,
click HERE |
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| CFP: TRANSHUMANIST FUTURE
TRENDS |
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Taking
inspiration from Rosi
Braidotti’s concept of
Critical
Posthumanities, new
disciplines within the
Humanities which by
definition cross
boundaries and “are
both institutionally
and theoretically the
motor of critique and
creativity”, The Hang
Song University of
Hong Kong invites
artists and academics
to share scholarly or
artistic
presentations that
explore the notion of
(post)human
creativity.
We welcome academics
from all humanities
disciplines, as well
as artists and
creatives from the
broadest range of
areas, including
performing and visual
artists, composers,
and creative industry
experts (e.g.
architecture, media,
film & television,
gaming).
The conference will
take place virtually
and in person at the
Hang Seng University
of Hong Kong. Please
upload an
abstract/summary and
biographical details
to the form on the
conference website by
8 Feb 2022. The
conference will have a
section reserved for
undergraduate
participants, who are
consequently also
encouraged to submit a
proposal. The deadline
for undergraduate
proposals is 1 May
2022.
For further info,
click HERE |
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| CFP: FUTURES OF CARE -
RELATIONALITY
AND
RESPONSIBILITY
IN MORE THAN
HUMAN WORLDS |
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Futures of
Care: Relationality and
Responsibility in more
than Human Worlds
8 April 2022 at the
Thackray Museum of
Medicine
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Joanna
Latimer
Deadline for
proposals: 31 January
2022
This interdisciplinary
symposium will explore
the potential futures
of care in light of
recent critical
interrogations of the
human, life and care,
the emergence of
affective technologies
(including social
robots), and the turn
to entanglement in
critical and cultural
theory.
We invite proposals
from scholars working
on care and its
adjacent concerns –
disability,
vulnerability,
interdependency,
responsiveness, and
responsibility — in a
range of
interconnected
disciplines, such as
medical humanities,
posthumanism, affect
theory, new
materialism,
ecological humanities,
Indigenous studies and
critical race theory.
We are seeking papers
that explore the art,
technologies,
economics, affects and
socio-politics of
possible care futures
in order to initiate
conversations that
move beyond
conventional
benefits/risks
analysis to consider
the broader
implications of
caregiving
relationships in
more-than-human
worlds.
The symposium will run
8 April 2022 at the
Thackray Museum of
Medicine (in
conjunction with the
exhibition “Can Robots
Care?”) as part of the
AHRC- funded project
“Imagining Posthuman
Care.” A small number
of bursaries will be
available for
PGR/ECR/unwaged
symposium participants
to cover travel
expenses. Please
include a brief
statement of need with
your proposal if you
wish to be considered
for one of these
bursaries.
Please send your
300-word proposal and
a brief bio to Amelia
DeFalco
a.i.d...@leeds.ac.uk
and Maya Caspari
m.m.c...@leeds.ac.uk
by 31 January 2022.
For further info, click
HERE
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(Special Issue
of Technophany)
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Technē
and Feminism
Special Issue
of Technophany,
Edited by Katerina
Kolozova and Vera
Bühlmann
Scope and
Invitation for
Contributions:
Feminism has
a strong tradition
of entrusting its
prospects for the
emancipation of
women to
technological
innovation and
development. Ranging
from women’s ‘access
to history’ as a
means of liberation
from ‘biological
fate,’ as discussed
by Simone de
Beauvoir, to Donna
Haraway’s ‘cyborg’,
which is considered
as a figure of
emancipation. This
stance toward
technology has been
shared by many,
Shulamith Firestone
and Sylvia Wynter
being two further
examples. In the
context of the more
recent trends in new
feminist
materialisms and
realisms, technology
and scientific
inquiry have taken
on a prominent new
role in expanding
the epistemic
horizon for feminist
thought, but without
directly and
explicitly tackling
some of the pressing
philosophical and
political issues
such as reproductive
rights or gender
subjectivation. On
the one hand, the
‘affinity of nature
and technology’ has
been a recurring
theme in this
specific feminist
engagement with
technology (Haraway,
Braidotti). On the
other hand, identity
politics related
theories (in
particular, within
the
poststructuralist
paradigm) have
rarely explored the
subject of
technology except as
an appendage to the
discourse on the
politics of
emancipation. These
conceptualizations
need to be reviewed,
especially if the
post-nineties’
celebration of
cyber-theory and
conceptions of
reality as an
occasion for
self-reinvention and
redefinition are
taken into account.
How should we
respond to the new
scopes of power that
techno-scientific
developments have
brought forth, when
traditional domains
of abstraction are
conquered by the
application of
information theory
and quantum
mechanics in the
cognitive and life
sciences? How are we
to establish a
dialogue between the
humanities and the
sciences without
thereby repeating
narratives of
evolutionary ‘next
steps’ in a
progress-historical
or naturalised
manner?
For
further info click HERE
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| CFP: ANTHROPOLOGY, AI, AND
THE FUTURE OF
HUMAN SOCIETY |
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Anthropology,
AI and the Future
of Human Society. AI has
come to represent
multiple causal
drivers of change:
amongst them
artificial
intelligence itself,
space exploration,
bio-tech and other
emerging
technologies. The
implications for
human society could
hardly be more
significant, and
feed into a host of
already contemporary
concerns, such as
sovereignty,
economics, politics,
reproduction and
kinships, ethics and
law, conflict and
many more.
We wish to
explore these issues
from the broadest
range of
perspectives. From
its foundation,
anthropology has
studied the
complexity and
variety of human
society, and now we
may turn to
developing a
sustained body of
disciplinary
understanding
envisaging what may
come in near, and
more distant eras.
There has been
systematic
consideration
already in many
other fields,
whether within or
outside academia. We
would therefore
invite interested
proposals from
anthropologists of
any background, and
also those who would
like to think about
their work in
conjunction with
anthropology, or
hold a dialogue with
anthropologists. The
arts as well as the
sciences are
invited, for this is
an area of human
speculation where
both have made very
great contributions,
and we see the
different approaches
as being mutually
stimulating.
Call for
Papers opens 13
December 2021 and
closes on 25
February 2022
Registration
opens 11 April 2022
For further
info, click HERE
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| CFP: "SANGLAP: JOURNAL OF
LITERATURE AND
CULTURAL
INQUIRY" |
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Sanglap:
Journal of Literary
and Cultural Inquiry
8: 2 (May-June 2022)
Medical and Health
Humanities: Literary
and Cultural
Contestations
In the last decades,
medical and health
humanities have
emerged as key
interdisciplinary
fields that have
asked to recognise
human and nonhuman
illnesses,
psychological
issues, health
debacles,
disabilities, and
recuperations as
major foundations
upon which the
archetypal impulse
within literature
and art stands,
i.e., telling tales.
Many societies
consider healing
through talking and
sharing of life
narratives as
fundamental to
medical treatment
(as Fanon famously
wrote in The
Wretched of the
Earth).
In the wake of the
Covid-19 pandemic
which saw major
health debacles
including in the
most
socio-economically
advanced societies,
it was stories and
videos of suffering,
pain, help, and
solidarity, of
clapping, singing,
and working
together, and of
standing strong with
health workers,
doctors, deliverers,
and victims that
stitched a
vulnerable global
society together and
redeemed hope in
humanity and
internationalism. In
this issue, we would
like to engage with
narratives (literary
and audio-visual)
and literary
archives as vital
for the fields of
medical and health
humanities.
Literature is
rightfully seen as
an archive of health
discourses and
narrative cultures
often impact health
policy-making (e.g.,
R. Fadlallah, 2019).
For further info
click HERE
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If
you are interested
in joining the
community, and /
or volunteering,
and/ or forming
regional posthuman
networks in your
area, please
email us at: NYposthuman[at]gmail.com
Thanks for connecting
and sharing your
insights and visions!
Peace, Health and Much
Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman
Network
www.posthumans.org |
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