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Subject:

(Fwd) CFP: Biotechnology and the Post-Human

From:

Piers Howard Guy Stephens <[log in to unmask]>

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Piers Howard Guy Stephens <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:13:22 +0100

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Hi again all,
                 This is the second call for papers that I thought might
appeal and am thus forwarding. Again, responses should go to the
organisers named below please, not to me. Apologies for any
cross-posting once again.

Best wishes,

                   Piers H.G. Stephens


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Miyashiro <[log in to unmask]>
To: cfp <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 03 October 2002 07:06


>We are still accepting abstracts for ACLA 2003; deadline extension to
>Oct. 15. -- Adam Miyashiro
>
>"Biotechnology and the Post-Human: Crossing Over Corporealities"
>
>With the proliferation of new technological practices, coupled with
>its impact in biological, social and medical domains, we continually
>encounter new, unstable, and liminal exchanges that interconnect
>fields and understandings of technology, the machine, the subject and
>the body, the organic and the inorganic. From mechanical androids to
>biotechnological hybrids, contemporary literary, critical,
>scientific, and popular spheres have attempted to understand
>post-human distinctions as "the hierarchy of difference within which
>narratives of exclusion are reiterated [and] become increasingly
>unstable" (Wolmark, "Staying with the Body," _Edging into the Future_
>[2002]). Our panel will focus on these unstable narratives and modes
>of literary and biological [re]productions that present the ethics
>and problematics behind fictions and realities of a post-human
>discourse.
>
>This panel shall consider these post-humanistic discourses within a
>multidisciplinary context (texts, films, anime, biotechnologies),
>while pursuing several broad questions:
>
>1.  How are discourses of post-humanity constructed (i.e., androids,
>bio-mechanical hybrids, alternate/separate consciousnesses/bodies,
>artificial intelligence/life, and genetic engineering/cloning), and
>how do these discourses confront basic questions of the human
>subject, bios, and consciousness? Do these discourses have
>global/universal implications and repercussions? Is the post-human a
>reflection of an ultimate, ergo definitive, marginal Other?
>
>2.  How have in vitro, in vivo, and the possibility of in silico
>fertilizations [as in computer-generated genomes] confounded and
>complicated notions of organic, inorganic, and technological bodies?
>
>3.  In light of cloning controversies, how have genetic manipulation
>and/or eugenics been received in literary and cultural milieus?
>Similarly, in which ways do these medical and scientific practices
>threaten, obfuscate, or demarcate humanity?
>
>4.  In which ways have biotechnological advances, and its contingent,
>globalization, reflect states of cris is and emergency (for example,
>the lack of Aids treatments continue to reflect the biopower reified
>by technocratic societies)?
>
>5.  In a cultural and literary scope, how has scholarship encountered
>and envisioned post-humanity? From a global and international
>critical purview, how have cultural discursive productions   from law
>to popular media   been impacted by the globalization of these
>notions of post-humanity?
>
>Please send your abstracts and queries to:
>Oscar Fernández, Adam Miyashiro
>Dept. Of Comparative Literature
>The Pennsylvania State University
>311 Burrowes Bldg
>University Park, PA 16802
>e-mail submissions are welcomed:
>[log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
>
>Seminar Leaders:
>Adam Miyashiro, Penn State University
>Oscar Fernández, Penn State University
>
>
>
>         ===============================================
>         From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
>                      [log in to unmask]
>                       Full Information at
>                http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
>          or write Erika Lin: [log in to unmask]
>         ===============================================
>
>

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