[ecrea] Cinema - Issue 7 CFP - Posthumanism. Human and Non-human - links, continuum, interplay

Deadline Approaching: November, 30 2104

Cinema - Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image welcomes submissions 
to its 7th issue on Posthumanism. Human and Non-human: links, continuum, 
interplay.


The 7th issue of Cinema – Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 
aims at discussing Poshumanism as a way to explore alternative 
understandings to both the Moderm/Humanistic and Postmodern views on the 
issue of Technological Images, New Media and Human and Non-human relations.


In the turn of the Millennium, Robert Pepperell’s book The Poshuman 
Condition and Katherine Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies 
in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics launched a debate over the 
concept of Posthumanism. Despite using the term in diverse ways, both 
authors discuss the means in which Posthumanism tries to respond to what 
they considered to be the insufficient capacity of the Modern/Humanistic 
concepts of Human, Nature, Technology, Body, and Consciousness to cope 
with the developments taking place in tour technological information 
societies.

Ever since, trends of Posthumanism have developed in somewhat diverse, 
but complementary, domains of thought and practice, including Arts and 
Digital Media Theories, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics 
and/or Value formation, Contemporary informatics, Biotechnology and 
Biology. Posthumanism has became a key term in contemporary academic 
debate about New Media, Technology, Cyberspace, Digital Images, Human 
Subject, New Materiality, Nonhuman Agents, Biotechnology and 
Consciousness. It has been proposing a revision of the Postmodern 
rhetoric of immateriality, disembodiment, and hiperreality of the late 
XX century, and proposing a new account of Technological Subjects and 
Objects, Body and Mind, Materiality and Immateriality, Nature and 
Culture, Human and Non-Human Agents, Technology and Biology.

In proposing this topic we are particularly interested in exploring the 
way Posthumanism critics the Modern Mind/Body divide, discuss the 
blurring of distinctions between the Human and the Technological; 
Culture and Nature, as well as its main perspectives on the interplay 
between Technological, Natural, Animal, Vegetal and Physical worlds.

Particular themes of interest include (but are not restricted to) the 
following topics:

    * ·      Posthumanism/Transhumanism/ Metahumanism/    
Antihumanism/Nonhumanism: differences and convergences
    * ·      Posthumanism and Postmodernism
    * ·      Philosophical roots of Posthumanism
    * ·      Posthumanistic theories and authors
    * ·      Phenomenology and Postphenomenology;
    * ·      New Materialism
    * ·      Embodied consciousness
    * ·      The Modern Culture/Nature divide
    * ·      Erasing the divide between humans and machines
    * ·      New perspectives on the natural, animal, vegetal and 
physical worlds
    * ·      New Media Art, Bioarts, Body Art, Performance and the 
Posthuman
    * ·      Media Theories
    * ·      Digital and BioArt
    * ·      Humanity, Human Nature, Biotechnology
    * ·      Theology, enhancement, and the place of the Posthuman?
    * ·      Biotech enhancement of the human
    * ·      Robotics, Cybernetics, artificial intelligence, virtual 
reality and nonhuman  actants
    * ·      Actor–network theory
    * ·      Technology and biotechnology impact on ethics and/or value 
formation.
    * ·      Ethics, Bioethics, and the Moral Status of the Posthuman 
and of non human agents
    * ·      Emerging Technologies, Posthuman Informatics and the Posthuman
    * ·      Dystopian/utopian literature on Posthumanism
    * ·      Popular culture and Posthumanist representations


The submission deadline is November 30, 2014 (for 500-word abstracts). 
Prospective authors should submit a short CV along with the abstract. A 
selection of authors will be invited to submit full papers according to 
the journal guidelines. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee 
publication, since all papers will be subject to double blind 
peer-review. Submissions are accepted in English.

Cinema also invites submissions to its special sections: interviews, 
conference reports and book reviews. Please consult the Journal’s web 
site for further details.
Please feel free to contact the Editor for this issue, Patrícia Castello 
Branco ((ps.castellobranco /at/ gmail.com)), or the Editors Susana Viegas and 
Sérgio Dias Branco on general queries ((cjpmi /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)).
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Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco

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