[Commlist] CFP - Coimbra Cyberpolitics 2019

CYBERPOLITICS
Political philosophy of the future.



Coimbra University 15-16 Novembro, 2019


CIBERPOLÍTICA / CYBERPOLITICS

CONFERENCE
Português / English
November 15-16, 2019
University of Coimbra - Institute for Philosophical Studies
http://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief

CALL FOR PAPERS CYBERPOLITICS COIMBRA 2019

The task of tracing the new frontiers of the political implies a 
critical effort that faces a double difficulty: first of all, the 
confrontation between contemporary political theory and the virtual 
speed of the present that results in a complex delimitation and 
circumscription of a new hermeneutic horizon of the public space; and a 
second obstacle that consists of the construction of the concept of 
Cyberpolitics itself that, by its paradigmatic nature, involves a 
transformation and metamorphosis which we will also try to map. This 
effort will require a genealogical investigation into the concept of 
Cyberpolitics which derives from Cyberculture studies, but also the 
mapping of its different levels and fields of significance. This 
work-in-progress notion, in the crossroads of politics and aesthetics, 
will be challenged different perspectives. The analysis on the 
construction of the concept of Cyberpolitics, which will permit us to 
address the changes in the political regarding its technological 
implications in reshaping the public space, will also allow us to 
underline the notion of crisis as an operating concept. The current 
political and economic problems of the western world seem to indicate a 
possible cyberpolitical shock. The clash is probably due to the possible 
paradigm shift. We know from history that our fundamental confrontation 
is with the unimaginable, in the same way that for man of the Middle 
Ages the political organization of the present would be unthinkable. 
Consequently, the foundation of political imagination is freedom. Are we 
ready to imagine the consequences of the installation of the 
cyberpolitical paradigm? Will Cyberpolitics, in its promise to install a 
second nature, constitute a substantial change? Is it a second nature 
towards a new political anthropology? Or are we just witnessing a change 
of medium that can blur the border between freedom and alienation? In 
fact, technology and new media are the central conceptual characters in 
the political beginning of the 21st century. Cyberpolitics is the 
concept that can help us understand this paradigmatic change in the 
present that will certainly imply a review of all the categories of the 
legal and political building. In order to establish a transdisciplinary 
dialogue, with contributions from the entire spectrum of the social and 
human sciences, the submission of proposals, on the following topics is 
particularly encouraged:

Theoretical foundations: philosophy of technology, political theory, etc.
E-Democracy an Open Government
E-governance: theory , practice, case studies
Technological revolutions?
The new digital world of the Machines, A.I. and Singularity
Megapolis: big cities, smart cities. From transportation to housing, etc.
Election and campaign: big data and the algorithm behavioral paradigm
Future: utopia, dystopia and other political visions
Political imagination: landscapes of the constitutional law
Science and technic
Anthropocene
Refoundation of institutions: University, Hospital, Factory, Court, etc
New political economics. Disruptive new horizons
Robots and humans: challenges to citizenship and the political economy
Cyberwars,  cybersecurity, Digital and media Wars
Techno cultures and the new threshold of art
Digital cities: overlapping and merging analogic an virtual
Cybercities: architecture and politics
Cybersecurity: espionage, surveillance and trust in the new era
Sex, legal and moral affairs
Fascination and obsession in the Cyberculture world
Space, cosmos, new horizons and the rebirth of adventure
Sex politics of  gender and new emotions
Entertainment industry and political regulation
Theoretical perspectives: Bernard Stiegler, Pierre Levy, etc.
Arts and literature: visions of the future.




Abstracts should be sent to this email address (constantinomar /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(constantinomar /at/ gmail.com)> . They must not exceed 500 words with 
a small Biographical note, and may be submitted in Portuguese or 
English. Presentations will be 20 minutes in Portuguese or English. 
Conference proceedings will be published in e-book format only in 
English. Participation and attendance is free. More information about 
the conference and the submission of proposals can be found at this 
address http://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief.



IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission: until 1 July 2019
Notification of the decision: 30 July 2019

University of Coimbra - Institute for Philosophical Studies






Organization:

Constantino Pereira Martins
FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon / IEF - University of Coimbra / FCT – 
Foundation for Science and Technology

(constantinomar /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(constantinomar /at/ gmail.com)>



Advisory Committee:

José Bragança de Miranda (Nova University of Lisbon)
Lucas E. Misseri (Alicante University)
Diogo Pires Aurélio (Lusófona University)

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