[Commlist] Call for Book chapters: Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

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The following call for book chapters may be of interest to some. Details 
at https://technocreep.lmc.gatech.edu/ 
<https://technocreep.lmc.gatech.edu/> and a brief summary below.

Neda Atanasoski (Professor, University of California Santa Cruz) 
and Nassim Parvin (Associate Professor, Georgia Tech) welcome chapter 
contributions to an edited collection of essays titled, Technocreep and 
the Politics of Things Not Seen, with an anticipated date of publication 
in 2023.

In a moment when technological creep is increasingly seen to exacerbate 
atomization and isolation, our collection invites a reimagining of what 
radical collectivity can be in the era of digital capitalism. In doing 
so, we seek alternate analytical frames that can at once encompass the 
critique while moving us beyond the economic frames of loss and 
extraction—as important as they are—to complement them with the 
experiential and relational dimensions of technology. Thus we are 
especially excited about contributions that develop pragmatic 
interventions that disturb the dominant uses of technologies and even 
speculative and imaginative accounts of more just futures.

At this stage, we are seeking an abstract of about 500 - 800 words to be 
submitted to us by the June 15 (CFP) through the form below. We will 
notify selected contributors by early July. Initial chapter drafts will 
be due August 15, 2021, and should be between 3500-4500 words (excluding 
references). For any other questions or inquiries please contact: 
(technocreep2023 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(technocreep2023 /at/ gmail.com)>

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Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen
Abstracts due: JUNE 15 2021
Initial chapter drafts due: AUGUST 15 2021
Following the success of a symposium series in Spring 2021, Neda 
Atanasoski (Professor, University of California Santa Cruz) and Nassim 
Parvin (Associate Professor, Georgia Tech) welcome chapter contributions 
to an edited collection of essays titled, Technocreep and the Politics 
of Things Not Seen, with an anticipated date of publication in 2023.

In recent years, discourses around technological creep into private 
domains have evoked a sense of loss inclusive but not limited to the 
loss of privacy, loss of data, loss of control over one’s property, or 
the loss of meaningful demarcations between work, home, and play. 
Technological creep describes those technologies that appear to keep an 
ever-present watchful eye on all aspects of our lives, yet whose 
presence is often hidden or pushed to the background. We refer to these 
technologies as creepy when their seemingly benign ways of seeing, 
interpreting, protecting, serving and predicting become salient in new 
and often startling ways. Most associated with creep and creepiness are 
those technologies that are embedded in the fabric of our most intimate, 
daily routines (examples include but not limited to mobile phones, CCTV 
cameras, sensors, biometric devices, social media, or digital personal 
assistants). While scholars have theorized and criticized these 
technologies under themes of extraction, surveillance, data 
monetization, and more broadly of loss, such accounts may not to fully 
capture all the nuances of how such technologies can be at once creepy 
and useful, domineering and necessary, or encroaching even as offering 
possibilities for alternate collective practices and grassroots 
political action.

Taking the oppositional yet interlaced duality of technological creep 
and more radical feminist and antiracist ways of seeing and being seen 
seriously, this volume seeks to consider the multiple, contested, and 
potentially hopeful axes of seeing and being seen within, through and 
against software, algorithms, automated systems, and platforms. While 
accounting for various technological objects and platforms as a part of 
surveillance capitalism, we also ask, what is not captured about the 
politics of seeing and being seen within the liberalism’s binary rubrics 
of surveillance and privacy? How are the boundaries of the inside and 
outside, family and stranger, and subjects and objects worthy of being 
seen, watched, or monitored drawn, redrawn, or contested through the 
design and uses of technologies? What is it that remains unseen--as in 
unrecognized, unnoticed, or otherwise unworthy of our attention?

Abstracts should indicate how the paper will address one or more of the 
above questions. Topics of interest might include but are not limited 
to: policing; warfare; home; bodies; fashion; food; labor; medicine; 
property; mobility; travel; borders; law; education; friendship. The 
edited volume also welcomes abstracts by artists and activists and 
visually rich contributions inclusive of alternate genres and formats 
such as poetry, short stories, or exhibition reviews. We also welcome 
contributions that are transnational and/or not limited to the US context.

In a moment when technological creep is increasingly seen to exacerbate 
atomization and isolation, our collection invites a reimagining of what 
radical collectivity can be in the era of digital capitalism. In doing 
so, we seek alternate analytical frames that can at once encompass the 
critique while moving us beyond the economic frames of loss and 
extraction—as important as they are—to complement them with the 
experiential and relational dimensions of technology. Thus we are 
especially excited about contributions that develop pragmatic 
interventions that disturb the dominant uses of technologies and even 
speculative and imaginative accounts of more just futures.


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