[csaa-forum] Transformations cfp Bernard Stiegler and the question of technics

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations is calling for submissions for Issue 17:

Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics
 
"What has been neglected and repressed by cognitivism, as well as by
philosophy as a whole, going back to Plato's first gesture of thought, is
the place of technics in general in life, technics as the condition of life
that knows".
 
- Bernard Stiegler, "Desire and Knowledge: the Dead Seize the Living"
 
 
Bernard Stiegler's concept of technics has emerged recently as an important
contribution to studies of the relation between technology, time and the
human. Technics, or the prosthetic supplementation of the human in "default"
of the origin, is the condition of "life that knows." Drawing from and
critiquing various sources, including the work on evolutionary biology by
Gilbert Simondon, on palaoanthropology by Andre Leroi-Gourhan, on Martin
Heidegger's existential analysis of Dasein and Jacques Derrida's différance
as the logic of the supplement, Stiegler has proposed arguments about
technology and its relation to the human that suggest a formulation of human
life as "epiphylogenetic", that is, evolving according to the logic of
prosthetic supplementation. Transformations invites submissions of abstracts
for articles to be considered for publication in late 2008 on the topic of
"Stiegler and the question of technics."
 
Some possible themes include:
 
Steigler and Heidegger
 
Steigler and différance: encounters with Derrida
 
Technics and art
 
Steigler and the Greeks
 
Technics and technology
 
Technics and power
 
Technics and memory: epigenesis and epiphylogenesis
 
Technics and the culture industries
 
 
 
Abstracts (500 words): due 15 September
With a view to submit articles by 12th December

Abstracts to be forwarded to Warwick Mules, general editor at
w.mules at bigpond.com <mailto:w.mules at bigpond.com>

For full details go to: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/




Dr. Warwick Mules
General Editor  Transformations
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/


English, Media Studies and Art History
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland
Australia 4072
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