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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">There are a few days left to submit a 300 word abstract for the panel at ISA (International Sociological Association) World Congress of Sociology
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- My initial email announced a deadline of September 27, but the actual deadline is
</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class="">midnight (GMT) September 30.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> Original call below.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">The politics of sensation: technology, measurement, quantification</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">How has the sensate body been co-constituted and reimagined through a combination of ‘hard’ technologies (hardware, interfaces), ‘soft’ or
social technologies (disciplinary apparatus or sensorial regimes)? How is social science dealing with new modes of somatic address since the original ‘turn’ to embodiment in the 1990s? After Davide Panagia’s project in
<i class="">The Political Life of Sensation</i> (2009), for example, how might we regard the motoric or sensory habits within everyday life, and their mediation through technologies, interfaces, prostheses? With the rise of the sciences of human management,
and the Quantified Self, to what extent do such ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ technologies discipline or diminish embodied experience, motoric habits, spontaneity in sensation? In other words, what is at stake for the (bio)political life of sensation?</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The panel invites theoretically-informed papers, and welcome those that bridge conceptual and empirical territories. Areas might include:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- instruments and apparatus of measure, the maintenance of discipline and ‘normalization’;</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- the ‘Quantized Self’ (QS) movement, and availability of biometric data collection for everyday exercise (e.g. FitBit, Nike+, Apple Health);</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- historical approaches within science and/or technology (psychophysics, physiology, early psychology);</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- how interfaces, sensory prostheses, and technologies of sensory substitution are reconfiguring the ‘sensorium’;</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- sensory prostheses (for those with impairments: devices, implants); </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- the use of technology and recording techniques (including film) in sensory ethnography; </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- the intersensoriality of ‘aesthetic’ encounter within ‘old’ and ‘new’ media</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- videogames, and the multisensorial engagement with the user through controller and screen;</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- art-science collaborations, including digital installations</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">By all means get in touch if you’re interested or have questions (<a href="mailto:paterson@pitt.edu" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">paterson@pitt.edu</span></a>).
Abstracts (300 words max) should be submitted through the conference website: <a href="https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session10322.html" class="">
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</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">(No need to register for the conference at this time, but must do so by March 20).</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Best wishes,</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""><b class=""><font color="#454545" class="">recent book</font></b><font color="#454545" class=""> |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><i style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Seeing
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