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CFP SCMS 2022:
Close-up on the Posthuman: What would a Post-Humanist Cinema look like?
SCMS 2022 Panel organizer: Russell J.A. Kilbourn ([log in to unmask]), English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
As Rosi Braidotti’s feminist posthumanist theory shows, no matter how much one desires it, one cannot do without a subject as a position from which one sees, speaks, acts, or performs. It is arguable, moreover, that cinema as a medium is more amenable to a critical posthumanist paradigm than, say, literature, given the fundamental mediatic and ontological differences between the dialogic distribution of authority in the novel and the literal distribution of agency in the filmmaking process. While the advent of digital technology has radically transformed the medium of cinema, it has left its deindividualized material basis essentially intact. How does a critical posthumanist impulse manifest on the level of cinematic presentation or representation? What would an authentically post-humanist cinema look like?
Contemporary popular culture’s overwhelmingly audiovisual nature underscores the inescapability of the subject through its ceaseless dissemination and remediation of the human face. The visible evidence of a rampant, ongoing anthropomorphism is all around us. We do not merely reduce everything in the world to an analog of the human; now we do our best to transform the entire world into an image of ourselves; the ‘selfie’ may be old news but remains the fundamental building-block of social media as identity interface. The cinematic close up, arguably, persists as a potential antidote to this narcissistic apotheosis of the individual under global capitalism. Since Hugo Münsterberg the close-up has been touted as instance of the purely cinematic. Why do we continue to look for convincing representations of posthuman identities or subjectivities in popular cinema? When will the human emancipate itself from its own image? How would film confront, let alone represent, the authentically posthuman? This panel seeks papers that explore these and related questions as cinema is marshalled in the posthumanist project.
Please send a 300-word proposal/abstract, 100-word bio, and brief WC list (3-5 citations) to Russell Kilbourn ([log in to unmask]) by Friday, August 27, 2021. Please include “SCMS 2022” in your subject-line. NB: The deadline for the submissions portal is Aug. 31, so time is rather tight.
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