[ecrea] Transformations CFP- Technoaffect: Bodies, Machines, Media

*/Transformations/ Call for Papers: Issue 31*

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*Special Issue: Technoaffect: Bodies, Machines, Media*

The body and affect have always been technological. Technologies of the 
body circulate affect, producing flows and forms of feeling that are 
economically and politically situated. Contemporary digital practices 
are inevitably corporeally enframed (Hansen 2004), calling upon and 
creating bodily norms. People diversely experience new ‘configurations 
of bodies, technology and matter’ (Clough 2007 2) that are accompanied 
by reworked public feelings (Stewart 2009) and structures of feeling 
(Williams 1977). Sticky affects glue together ‘ideas, values and 
objects’ and arrange boundaries between peoples and worlds (Ahmed 2010 
29).  All too often the resulting inclusions and exclusions reinforce 
problematic structures of domination.  At the same time affective 
technologies can be a site for challenging past marginalisations and 
reworking experiences and understandings of affect, as evidenced by 
creative and scholarly practices in this area.

This special issue of /Transformations/ pays critical attention to the 
circulation of affect by bodily technologies, examining contemporary 
anxiety, hope, hatred, unease, mood, wonder, empathy, shame and joy. We 
invite submissions in the areas of philosophy, critical, cultural, 
media, science and technology studies, and creative arts research. 
Possible topics include but are not limited to:

·Social media techniques of generating affect

·Affect in embodied creative practice

·Bodily training using digital devices

·Digital sexuality and romance

·Popular stylisations of the body

·Technoaffect and disability/ability

·Theories of affect employed in digital and interactive design and 
consumption

·Affect and racialisation in new media

·Body shaming and social media

·Feelings held towards machines

·Affects and  virtual reality

·Temporality in technoaffect

Abstracts (200-400 words) are due 20 August 2017, with a view to submit 
articles by 20 November 2017. The issue will be edited by Erika Kerruish 
and Rebecca Olive.

Abstracts should be forwarded to: (editor /at/ transformationsjournal.org) 
<mailto:(editor /at/ transformationsjournal.org)>

For submission guidelines and to view /Transformations/ online go to:
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/

*List of References*

Ahmed, S. (2004) /The Cultural Politics of Emotion/, Edinburgh: 
Edinburgh University Press.

Clough, P. T. (2007) ‘Introduction’, in P. T. Clough and J. Halley 
(eds), /The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social/, Durham and London: 
Duke University Press.

Hansen, M. (2004) /New Philosophy for New Media/ Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Stewart, K. (2007) /Ordinary Affects/, Durham and London: Duke 
University Press.

Williams, R. (1997) /Marxism and Literature/, Oxford: Oxford University 
Press.


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