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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Towson University: April 30 - May 2, 2010 SPACINGS OF TECHNOLOGIES
Technologies: geographies of human makings
and formings of human life Abstract submission Deadline: January 10, 2010
In everyday life, technologies are taken to be tools, merely means
to ends. However, technologies are
spatially productive:
by spatially creating and reorganizing material conditions and
relations, social life and institutions, and human operators. This
conference explores the spatialized/spatializing aspects of
technologies as fashioners of life. Humans create technologies with
specific intentions in mind. Still, technologies exhibit their own
poiesis and function dialectically in contexts in which they alter
and are altered. As material forces they retroject meanings back
onto humanity, other living beings, and the environment in
unexpected and unforeseeable ways. Technologies create new forms of
space out of which new forms of phenomena appear. Technologies
inform human identities in constructing life in the image of their
Being.
Possible Subtopics: Technological Spacings: in the history of material cultures; as built space; as the producers of social organization; of everyday life; in the production of knowledge; in the production of news/information; through transportational modalities; through communication devices; in conducting wars; in the arts; through large public works projects such as dams, bridges, highways; in scientific exploration; in small objects of use; in the economics of exchange; through manufacturing processes; of geo-engineering; as portrayed in imaginable worlds; in the geographies of various cultures; GIS/sonar/radar/robots; of control through policing and architectural design; of spying; of childrens playworlds; of educational sites; in the workplace; musical spaces; cinematic environments.
IAESP seeks to foster interdisciplinary / transdisciplinary conversations and
is holding its Sixth Annual Conference at
Towson University
in Towson, MD. Presentations should not exceed 25 minutes. Please
consider audience diversity while preparing your presentation.
Email abstracts of approximately 200 words by January 10, 2010 to: Steven Sandbank (ssandban@verizon.net)
Persons interested in chairing sessions should also contact: Steven Sandbank.
For further information contact:
John Murungi, IASESP Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Towson, Maryland 21252 Tel. 410-704-3935Fax: 410-704-4398Towson University is located approximately 4 miles north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Previous Calls for Papers 2003 - 2009 Accepted papers may be submitted for possible publication. |
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