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

> 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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