[ecrea] Cyborgism and Embodiment (12/15/06; CSA, 4/19/07-4/21/07)

>The Technology Division of the Cultural Studies Association invites
>proposals for panel on "Cyborgism and Embodiment."
>Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, Portland,
>Oregon, April 19-21, 2007 (http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/index.php? cf=4)
>
>The figure of the cyborg has become a centerpiece in cultural and
>scholarly inquiry. The term "cyborg" has been applied broadly to
>include the environmental and social changes brought on by
>information and communications technology, but it has also been used
>to consider the implications of technology as it applies to issues
>specifically relating to embodiment. Investigations of cyborgism have
>been seen and studied in various realms, from cultural entertainment
>fare such as literature, film, and comics, to journalistic
>investigations of new transplantation, pharmaceutical, surgical, and
>prosthetic technologies and procedures. This panel invites proposals
>for papers that investigate the ontological implications of cyborg
>embodiment in any of these realms. Possible cyborg-themed inquiries
>might consider media or cultural representations of:
>
>Narratives of distributed consciousness
>Medical procedures and pharmaceutical technologies
>Cyberpunk film and literature
>Performance art of Stelarc
>Performance art of Orlan
>Assisted Reproductive Technologies
>Artist activism on cyborg themes such as Critical Art Ensemble
>Posthuman paradigms in criticism (i.e. N. Katherine Hayles, Scott
>Bukatman, Thomas Foster)
>Kevin Warwick's cyborg experiments
>Verichip technologies
>
>Please submit the following information in the body of an email
>message to (mfilas /at/ wsc.ma.edu) by December 15, 2006:
>
>a. The name, email address, department and institutional affiliation
>of the
>author.
>b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper.
>c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted following the
>abstract.
>
>
>Michael Filas, Ph.D.
>CSA Technology Division Co-Chair
>Assistant Professor of English
>Westfield State College
>577 Western Avenue
>Westfield, MA 01086
>(mfilas /at/ wsc.ma.edu)
>www.wsc.ma.edu/mfilas
>(413) 572-5683
>
>

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