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[Commlist] CFP: Posthumanism and Media Studies
Fri Aug 25 20:46:37 GMT 2023
Call posted online:
https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/announcement/view/65
<https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/announcement/view/65>
*Theme and Scope:*
/The Journal of Posthumanism/(Transnational Press) invites submissions
for a special issue exploring the intersection of posthumanism and media
studies.
Posthumanism fosters a more inclusive and less hierarchical approach to
our entanglements with both human and non-human elements. Posthuman
theory, particularly as articulated by N. Katherine Hayles and Rosi
Braidotti, has long been influential in media studies. However, it has
often been applied without a systematic or thoroughly developed
methodology. Ferrando (2020) argues:
“posthuman ethics invites us to follow on three related layers.
First of all, as a post-humanism, it marks a shift: from
universalism to perspectivism, from multiculturalism to pluralism
and diversity. As a postanthropocentrism, it induces a change of
strategy: from human agency to agential networks, from technology to
eco-technology. As a postdualism, it requires an evolution of our
awareness: from individuality to relationality, from theory to praxis.”
This Special Issue of the/Journal of Posthumanism/therefore asks, how
does such posthuman perspectivism, pluralism, agentiality,
eco-technology, relationality, and praxis, apply to the future of media
and cultural studies? How might we understand the very concept of “future”?
Media is exploding at an ever-increasing pace across digital platforms,
working with, through, and against new technological advances such as
AI. These developments are also occurring during a time of global shifts
that include pandemics and climate change. In light of these changes, it
is the ideal time to provoke more conversations between media and
cultural studies through Posthumanism.
Several approaches have been proposed that align media studies with or
explicitly draw on posthuman concepts. In 2021,/Posthumanism in Art and
Science: A Reader/was published, making the argument that “aesthetic
production is a vital part of posthumanist thinking processes, which
thereby grow ever more urgently relevant to social and ecological
problem-solving.” (Aloi & McHugh, 2021, 2) Recent studies have
developed posthuman approaches to rhetorical practice (Boyle, 2018) and
explored how we might understand the combination of humans and technical
media as synthetic subjects (Wiley & Elam, 2018). Elsewhere, Iliadis
(2013) proposed that a shift away from a cybernetic understanding of
communication as a process of pre-existing agents that transmit messages
to one another could offer the possibility for the development of a new
underlying informational ontology for communication and media studies,
which would lend itself to new methods. Such ontologies and methods have
been explored in relation to media studies through, for example,
posthuman approaches to autoethnographies and subjectivities (Wilde,
2020; 2022). Monea and Packer (2016) have proposed a media genealogy
approach that extends the type of work being done in media archaeology.
Building on this genealogical approach, Sylvia (2019; 2021) has argued
that posthuman ethics, ontology, and epistemology could be adopted in
media studies through a more explicit embrace of affirmative approaches
such as counter-actualization, modulation, and counter-memory.
Elsewhere, exploring the tensions and potential contradictions between
the history of cultural studies and posthumanism, Cord (2022) asks, “can
or should Cultural Studies and the nonhuman turn really be brought into
the contact zone?” There are therefore a variety of possible responses
and resonances between posthumanism and media studies.
We propose this special issue as an avenue to explore, extend, and
develop a posthuman praxis for media studies. We invite researchers to
explore themes related to these posthuman approaches. This might
include, but is not limited to:
* Pieces that build on or extend existing theory and methods in
posthuman media and/or communication practices.
* The role of AI in shaping posthuman futures and subjectivities.
* Posthuman approaches for the study of games, television, social
media, journalism, and rhetoric.
* The exploration of posthuman ethics in media studies.
* Application of posthuman paradigms such as counter-actualization,
modulation, and countermemory in media case studies.
* Posthuman conceptualizations of media’s role in processes of
subjectivation.
* How media intra-actions emphasise different modes of materialism and
materialities.
* Experimental approaches to media studies.
* Post-anthropocentric or non-human media studies.
* Ontologies of posthuman media.
* Posthumanist entanglements of media and culture.
* Onto-epistemological postdualisms that could/should be applied to
media studies.
We encourage submissions that draw broadly on the work of theorists such
as N. Katherine Hayles, Rosi Braidotti, Karen Barad, Gilles Deleuze, and
Michel Foucault, and that engage with the ethical, epistemological, and
ontological aspects of posthumanism. We are particularly interested in
papers that propose new methods of inquiry and analysis within media
studies, and that engage with the potential of an affirmative posthuman
turn within critical and cultural theory.
*Guest Editors:*
Dr. J.J. Sylvia IV, Associate Professor of Communications Media,
Fitchburg State University
Dr. Poppy Wilde, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Birmingham
City University
*Submission Guidelines:*
Submissions should adhere to the/Journal of Posthumanism/guidelines for
authors, which can be found
here:https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/about/submissions
<https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/about/submissions>. Please submit your
abstract (max. 500 words), including a tentative title, and a short
author biography (max. 100 words) via email
(tojsylvia3 /at/ fitchburgstate.edu)
<mailto:(jsylvia3 /at/ fitchburgstate.edu)>*and*(poppy.wilde /at/ bcu.ac.uk)
<mailto:(poppy.wilde /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>by September 30, 2023, with the subject
line “JoP - Posthumanism and Media Studies”.
*Review Process:*
All submitted abstracts will be initially reviewed by the guest editors
to ensure relevance to the special issue theme. Authors of selected
abstracts will be invited to submit full papers, which will then undergo
a peer-review process in accordance with the journal’s standard review
procedures.
*Important Dates:*
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2023
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: October 31, 2023
Full Paper for Peer Review (5,000-6,000 words, excluding footnotes and
references) Deadline: March 10, 2024
Publication of the Special Issue: October, 2024
Please note: by submitting an abstract for this Special issue, you may
also be asked to conduct peer review for an article within it (even if
you are also accepted). If you would not like to be asked to conduct
peer review, please indicate this in your email.
Please feel free to circulate this call for proposals among your
colleagues and networks. If you have any questions about this call or
the proposed special issue, please feel welcome to contact us. All
inquiries and submissions can be sent to:(jsylvia3 /at/ fitchburgstate.edu)
<mailto:(jsylvia3 /at/ fitchburgstate.edu)>*and*(poppy.wilde /at/ bcu.ac.uk)
<mailto:(poppy.wilde /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>.
*References*
Aloi, G., & McHugh, S. (eds) (2021)./Posthumanism in art and science: A
reader/. Columbia University Press.
Boyle, C. A. (2018)./Rhetoric as a posthuman practice/. The Ohio State
University Press.
Cord, F. (2022). Posthumanist cultural studies: Taking the nonhuman
seriously./Open Cultural Studies/,/6/(1),
25-37.https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0138
<https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0138>
Ferrando, F. (2020). Posthuman feminist ethics: Unveiling ontological
radical healing. In M. R. Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg/The Bloomsbury
handbook of posthumanism/, (pp. 141-60). Bloomsbury Academic.
Iliadis, A. (2013). Informational ontology: The meaning of Gilbert
Simondon’s concept of individuation./Communication + 1, 2/(1). Article
5.//https://doi.org/10.7275/R59884XW <https://doi.org/10.7275/R59884XW>
Monea, A., & Packer, J. (2016). Media genealogy and the politics of
archaeology./International Journal of Communication,//10/, 3141–59.
Sylvia IV, J.J. (2019). From archaeology to genealogy: Adding processes
of subjectivation to artistic intervention./Communication +1,
7(2)./Article 3.https://doi.org/10.7275/a3dm-3770
<https://doi.org/10.7275/a3dm-3770>
———. (2021). Posthuman media studies./Journal of Posthumanism,//1/(2),
139-51.https://doi.org/10.33182/jp.v1i2.1360
<https://doi.org/10.33182/jp.v1i2.1360>
Wilde, P. (2020). I, posthuman: A deliberately provocative
title./International Review of Qualitative Research,//13/(3),
365–80.https://doi.org/10.1177/1940844720939853.
<https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?SSBYIt>
———. (2022). Storytelling the multiple self: Posthuman autoethnography
as critical praxis. In C. Blyth & T. K. Aslanian (Eds.),/Children and
the power of stories/(pp. 1-16). Children: Global Posthumanist
Perspectives and Materialist Theories. Springer
Singapore.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9287-1_1
<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9287-1_1>.
Wiley, S B. C., & Elam, J. (2018). Synthetic subjectivation: Technical
media and the composition of posthuman subjects.”/Subjectivity,//11/(3),
203–27.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-018-0055-0
<https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-018-0055-0>
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