[csaa-forum] CFP Transformations - Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics Extended deadline

[Warwick Mules]

Deadline extended

CFP: Issue 17
SUBMISSIONS DUE 15 OCTOBER 2008
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 October With a view to submit articles by 12th
December

Abstracts to be forwarded to Warwick Mules, general editor at
w.mules at bigpond.com

For details go to:

 http://www.transformationsjournal.org/


Warwick



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








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