Message posted on 02/12/2022

Call for Contributions - Future Writing (Technology and Language)

                The eighth issue of "Technology and Language" has appeared, and with it 
a new call for contributions that appeals primarily to aesthetics and 
the philosophy of literature and art, to cultural studies and the 
history and philosophy of technology.


https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/issue/8/
www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/T_and_L

The current issue is dedicated to Technologies in a Multilingual World. 
It begins with two perspectives on the multilingual condition - 
linguistics meets philosophy of technology. There are papers about apps 
that translate the language of cats, about industrial sounds and the 
music of machines. Several papers consider international students in 
learning environments, engineering education as language learning, and 
the languages of mathematics. A contributed paper revisits Herman and 
Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent."

New Call for Contributions:

”Future Writing“ is an intermedia investigative project by Dajuin Yao 
and the Open Media Lab, at the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy 
of Art. Starting from a Derridean grammatological review of the act of 
writing today, it invites us to consider writing-the-future along with 
the future-of-writing. While most science fiction and utopian texts 
typically query the future, some also develop symbols and codes, 
technologies or writing, a whole new language. The question is framed by 
our contemporary experience: Writing and the memory of the hand are 
becoming obsolete by way of typing and other technical proxies. At the 
same time, Chinese, Arabic, Roman typographies assume a new visuality 
and transformative power that veers toward the asemic, reminding us of 
enactment and embodiment in the digital world. Emancipated from the 
demand for readability, they re-claim the value of an a-synchronized 
togetherness – a technical as well as aesthetic value. Deadline: June 5, 
2023. Guest editors: Dajuin Yao, Nikita Lin.

Beyond the special topic, any submitted paper and interdisciplinary 
exploration at the interface of technology and language is welcome. The 
next deadline for submitted papers in English or Russian is Feb 1, 2023 
- these may include issues of science and fiction, the literary and 
artistic treatment of technological catastrophes, the languages of 
tastes and smells. Always welcome are contributions that explore the 
expressive qualities of technical design: how do prototypes as well as 
archaeological artefacts speak to us?

Another open call: „Mythologies. The Spirit of Technology in its 
Cultural Context“ (Deadline March 5, 2023): This special issue is 
concerned with technological developments in relation to state 
sponsorship and how these implicate myths of progress. Simultaneously, 
we wish to explore how scholars have explored technological determinism 
and critiqued techno-cultural imaginaries of national destiny. By 
republishing Nichola Berdyaev’s 1933 essay “Humanity and the Machine” 
alongside new critical discussions, we hope to stimulate significant 
analysis of the modern myths of technology and transformations of 
humanity, treating technology in its broadest sense as including 
material, digital, medical devices and systems. Following on from 
Benjamin and Barthes, we would like to explore how myths of immortality, 
renewal, heroism and community coalesce around toys, plastics, and 
advertisements for the amenities of modern life. The different use of 
technologies in response to Covid 19 has amplified the difference of 
national attitudes in national contexts, raising anew “The Question 
concerning Technology” in Europe, Russia, China, or the United States. 
(Guest editors: Coreen McGuire and Natalia Nikiforova)

Queries, suggestions, and submissions can be addressed to 
soctech@spbstu.ru or to Daria Bylieva (bylieva_ds@spbstu.ru) and Alfred 
Nordmann (nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de).


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