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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">A Manifesto for Cyborgs </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">thirty-years on:
Gender, Technology and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Platform:
Journal of Media and Communication </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">An
interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Abstracts due: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Friday 27<sup>th</sup> of February, 2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Volume Editor:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri"> Thao Phan</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">In her iconic essay <i>A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology
and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s</i>, Donna Haraway introduced the metaphor
of the cyborg as an “ironic political myth” to critique the so far troubling
narratives of the West. Published in the <i>Socialist Review </i>in 1985, it
brings together a broad spectrum of literacies—from socialist-feminism, to
cybernetics and biopolitics—to proffer a cutting criticism of Enlightenment humanism,
gender essentialism, and military technoscience. Her provocations created a
useful framework to destabilise rigid boundaries and make fluid the borderlines
between human and animal, organism and machine, natural and artificial,
semiotic and material. Today the Manifesto sits comfortably as part of the
canon of feminist-technoscience and postmodern theory. Although as an
oppositional figure the cyborg is bounded by a historical specificity, it has
certainly found new significance and politics in the contemporary age of
ubiquitous media.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">To mark the 30</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri"> anniversary
since its publication, <i>Platform </i>invites authors whose work resonates or
responds to themes expounded in this seminal essay. With the benefit of thirty
years’ hindsight, what new observations or critical assessments can be made in
regards to the cyborg as a feminist, tropic figure? Did the cyborg fulfill its
promise of an “historical transformation”? Is the figure of the cyborg still as
useful today, given contemporary technological developments? Or, conversely, do
we need myths like Haraway’s now more than ever? We encourage the submission of
theoretical or empirical work engaging with applications of, or criticisms of,
frameworks used by Haraway, and are particularly interested in critical papers
that provide novel insights into the relation between gender and technoscience.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Cyborg subjectivities in the 21</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">st</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri"> century</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Gendered tropes in technology</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Novel readings of gender and technoscience</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Trans/queer studies of technology</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Feminist science and/or feminist science and technology studies</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Posthuman subjectivities</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Postgender politics and subjectivities of “affinity”</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Multiple or fractured readings of the cyborg</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Technologies of sex and gender</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Technologies of race and identity</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Critical studies of the body/embodiment</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Feminist histories/historiographies of media, technology or
computation</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">The informatics of domination</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Biotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Feminism and accelerationist politics</span></p><p style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Feminism and new materialisms</span></p></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">In addition to this special section, we also welcome submissions that
more broadly deal with issues relating to the areas of media, technology, and
communication in theoretical or critical terms.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Please send all enquiries and submissions to <a href="mailto:platformjmc@gmail.com" target="_blank">platformjmc@gmail.com</a>. Abstracts
must be accompanied by a brief <i>curriculum vitae</i> and biographical note,
and should not exceed 350 words. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">We recommend that prospective authors submit abstracts well before the
abstract deadline of the 27<sup>th</sup> of February 2015, in order to allow
for feedback and suggestions from the editors. All submissions should be from
early career researchers (defined as being within a few years of completing
their PhD) or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, PhD, or
international equivalent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind peer-review.
Early submission is highly encouraged, as the review process will commence on
submission.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt 36pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Platform: Journal of Media and Communication is a
fully refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and published by
the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne
(Australia), Platform was launched in November 2008. Platform is refereed
by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across
diverse fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by graduate
students at the University of Melbourne.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt 36pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri">For more information visit:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt 36pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="line-height:14.9499998092651px"><a href="http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/call_papers.html" target="_blank">http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/call_papers.html </a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 5pt 5pt 36pt"><font face="Calibri"><br></font></p>
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