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[ecrea] CFP: Technology Division, 8th Annual CSA conference, Berkeley, Ca, March 2010

Fri Aug 21 18:41:57 GMT 2009



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




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