[ecrea] Technology/Politics Call for Proposals - Oct 24-25 - Centre for Theory, Culture, Politics at Trent University

    Call for Proposals
    Technology/Politics
    Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture, and Politics
    Trent University, Peterborough, ON, October 24-25, 2014

    In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Theory, Culture & 
Politics at Trent University, TCP will hold a graduate student 
conference with the theme: Technology/Politics.

    Politics is part of a constellation of technologies that structure, 
shape, mediate, move and inflect the ways we as human beings live 
together.  The concept of technology does not exist in a socio-political 
vacuum.  The arbiter of the meaning, significance, value, and impact of 
technology is its relationship with the people and material objects it 
comes to affect (and who effect it).  In this fundamental way, 
technology and politics are inextricably linked, relationally bound, and 
co-dependently originating.

    We seek to bring together promising young scholars whose 
interdisciplinary research relates to this field. This conference aims 
to explore the relationship between its titular concepts through a 
diversity of methodological approaches.  All manner of proposals are 
encouraged, including theoretical/philosophical, literary, artistic, 
technological and cybernetic.

    Possible topics:

        * Digital subjectivity
        * Cyborg theory
        * Critical post-humanism
        * Hauntological technopolitics
        * The thanato-political, spiritual perspectives
        * Primitivism and neo-luddite backlash
        * Cyberlibertarianism
        * Politicization of digital aesthetics
        * Media archaeologies
        * The (anti) capitalist singularity
        * Software studies
        * Virtuality and affect
        * Hacktivism and the rise of the Anons

    Workshops will include:

        * “Datapolitik” – with Prof. Davide Panagia
        * “Heidegger & New Media Determinism” – with Prof. Liam Mitchell
        * “Cyborg Theory & Critical Post-Humanisms” with Prof. Veronica 
Hollinger
        * 4th Workshop TBA

    Proposals can be sent (technologypolitics /at/ gmail.com) and should 
contain the following: name, institutional affiliation, project title, 
and a brief biography (100 words). Your attached abstract should be 
250-300 words and be in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf format. Please ensure 
that you remove any identifying information from document properties. 
$20 registration includes lunches, coffee & snacks.

    Funding for travel and accommodation is available pending budgetary 
approval.

    DEADLINE: June 1, 2014












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