[ecrea] CFP: Confero Special issue on Transhumanism

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Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics

Special issue on “Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design”

For this special issue on ‘Transhumanist Education, Politics, and
Design’, we welcome contributions from scholars with various
disciplinary backgrounds to debate transhumanistic issues in relation to
education, politics, and design.

In the soon to come future, technological revolutions are likely to
change future societies, bodies and minds in more far-reaching ways than
ever before history.

Transhumanism can be described as ‘a new paradigm for thinking about
humankind’s future’ (World Transhumanist Association). Transhumanism is
a philosophy, a cultural movement and a growing field of study. More
specifically, transhumanism is the belief in morphological freedom and
the aspiration to enhance human abilities and attributes and thereby
transcend human biological limits.

This special issue of Confero encourages contributions that approach and
analyse transhumanism transhumanism in relation to education, politics,
and design. Topics suitable for this special issue could include, but
are not limited to, the following:

  * Transhumanism, corporeality and (un)learning
  * Transhumanism and disease(s)
  * Transhumanism and monstrosity
  * Transhumanism and citizenship
  * Transhumanism and surveillance
  * Transhumanism and cognitive science
  * Transhumanism and values (social, economical, ethical, juridical,
    environmental, moral, instrumental, utilitarian, hedonic etc.)
  * Transhumanism and intersectionality (e.g. race, sexuality, gender,
    ethnicity, able-bodied, crip)
  * Human enhancement, prosthesis and extension
  * Morphological freedom
  * Educating the transhuman
  * Queering transhumanism
  * Transhumanism and speed
  * Transhumanist design
  * Definitions, practices and consequences of transhumanism (e.g.
    bio-hacking and DIY citizenship)
  * A battle for/of the anthropocene? Posthumanism vs. transhumanism
  * Transhumanism as subversive power


    Notes for Contributors

We encourage authors to use the Oxford referencing system. To give the
essay form and improve its readability, we ask that the essay has a
clearly defined topic or theme that is laid out in the introduction of
the piece. We also encourage the writer to divide the text into
sections, using headings to promote its readability. Authors are
encouraged to refrain from selfreferences. The text should be proofread
before submission. The journal applies double-blind peer review. Authors
will also be invited to review papers for this special issue. Guest
editors for this special issue are Mattias Arvola (Linköping
University), Lina Rahm (Linköping University), and Jörgen Skågeby
(Stockholm university).

The editorial group can be reached at (confero /at/ liu.se)
<mailto:(confero /at/ liu.se)>. A first full draft of the essay should be sent
to (confero /at/ liu.se) <mailto:(confero /at/ liu.se)> on or before *1 April 2016*.
The subject line of the submission should read “Submission for SI on
transhumanism”.

For further information and instructions, please visit our homepage:
http://www.confero.ep.liu.se

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