CALL FOR PAPERS ? Technology Division of the CSA
The Technology Division of the Cultural Studies
Association (CSA) invites abstracts for papers
and panel proposals for the Eighth Annual
Cultural Studies Association Meeting, March
18-20, 2010 in Berkeley, California.
Our division is planning one paper session and
one workshop session, described below.
Deadline for abstracts (300 words): September 1,
2009 (submission guidelines below).
?Fallen into the Wrong Hands?: Misuses and Misreadings of Technology
The obsession with technological progress and
regulation, from anti-trust suits against cell
phone companies to digital television, has led
to a wide variety both pointed and accidental
readings of technology against the grain. This
panel will discuss these projects from a wide
variety of historical, practical, and
theoretical frameworks. Possible topics include,
but are certainly not limited to:
Technology and activism
Visual and performance practices
Economic, cultural, political appropriations of technology
Hacker and gaming culture
Theoretical revisionism (feminist,
psychoanalytic, racial, post-colonial, anthropological, etc.)
Discourse of the public and private spheres
Surveillance and security practices
Terrorism and technology
Identity politics
Posthuman analysis
The military-industrial complex and its opponents
Pop cultural conceptions and portrayals of technology
Workshop: Technology/Historiography
Discourse on technology in the cultural
imagination tends to focus on teleological
idealizations such as progress and the shock or
benefit or wonder of the ?new.? SCHOTT. This
working group is seeking papers that reframe,
contextualize, and historicize technologies with
historiographic analysis. Possible topics
include, but are certainly not limited to:
Remediation
Historical tropes and precedents for contemporary technologies
The construction of Nature
Utopian/dystpian worlds
Artistic influences upon technology
Technology and linguistics
Technology and the body
The archive and the digital
Social relations through technology
Globalization and neo-imperialism
Popular entertainment
Submit paper abstracts (300 words), A/V
equipment requests (if needed) and a brief CV by September 1, 2009 to:
<mailto:(sluber /at/ gc.cuny.edu)>(sluber /at/ gc.cuny.edu)
Steve Luber
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
