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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">***apologies for cross-posting***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Angelaki</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Special Issue on Witnessing After the Human<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Volume 27, Issue 2 (2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">GUEST EDITORS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Michael Richardson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Michael.Richardson@unsw.edu.au
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Senior Research Fellow (ARC DECRA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Magdalena Zolkos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Zolkos@em.uni-frankfurt.de <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Humboldt Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Goethe University Frankfurt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SPECIAL ISSUE DESCRIPTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Until recently, scholarship on testimonial practice in literature, media and culture has assumed that witnessing applies primarily to a human subject. This is evident in the evolution of the meaning of the
word ‘witness’ in public discourses and scholarly literature alike: from representative of a persecuted minority who addresses a community of nations to testify to their plight, to the survivor of atrocity, to the figure of an empathetic humanitarian activist
or social media user, who is proximate to mass violence, though not its direct target. In politics, law, religion and science, it has been taken for granted that bearing witness is a human capacity, often imagined as a verbal act of narrativization of violence.
For some, that act included production of evidence and demonstration of truth; for others, it implied a proximity to catastrophic events, and had ethical implications of making demands on the listeners. Recently, witnessing has been extended to non-human subjects,
such as plants, animals and artificial intelligences; re-imagined through diverse scientific and technological vistas; as well as applied to inanimate entities, such as cultural productions, geological items, or, as in the ‘forensic aesthetics’ approach, to
human remains. This extension of the status of the witness and practices of witnessing to the nonhuman has profound implications for witnessing theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">With this Special Issue of <i>
Angelaki</i> we seek to create a platform for articulating and exploring the meanings of witnessing ‘after the human’ from diverse disciplinary perspectives. We ask about the epistemological, aesthetic, political and ethical effects of extending the practice
of witnessing from the human subject to diverse categories of non-human beings, such as animals, plants, cyborgs, machines, and inanimate objects, as endowed with a capacity akin to ‘testimonial affordance’ and as potential producers of testimonial knowledge.
We explore the possibilities within contemporary theorizing of testimony to reveal and to work beyond the limits of the humanist imaginary of the witness as a historical agent, often in tandem with thinking from feminist, queer, Indigenous, disability, critical
race and whiteness studies that has done so much to expose the limitations and violences inherent to ‘the human’ as a framework for subjectivity. Finally, we seek to uncouple the association between witnessing and speech, or verbal articulation, through attention
to the role of senses, silence, affect, gesture, code, materiality and other communicative modes in testimonial practice. From the perspective of witnessing ‘after the human’, testimony appears as a prosthetic practice, both because of the importance of technological
and machinic mediations of testimony today, and, more generally, as an example of prosthetikos: the process of adding on to the body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR SUBMISSIONS
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We invite cross-disciplinary contributions, focusing on the practices, processes and subjects of witnessing from the angle of (broadly defined) post-humanities. We are interested in philosophic, literary,
cultural, sociological, political, ethnographic, and other, engagements with the question of witnessing ‘after the human’. The topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Animals and witnessing;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Plants and witnessing;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Inanimate witnessing, including ‘memory objects’ and ‘trauma objects’;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Machines and witnessing; cyborg testimony;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Environmental witnessing; climate change testimony, including ‘planetary grief’ and solastalgic perspectives on witnessing;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Critical epistemology of witnessing; testimonial credibility and truth;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The time of witnessing; non-/post-human testimonial temporalities;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Testimonial aesthetics and poetics of the post-human;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">‘Decolonizing witnessing’; critical race perspectives on testimony;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Queering testimony;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sensorial perspectives on witnessing; non-occulocentric witnessing, testimony and listening, testimony and touch;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Silence and witnessing; gestural witnessing;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Imaginal testimony;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Neuroscience and witnessing;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Technology and witnessing;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Science and witnessing; algorithmic witnessing; witnessing through data;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Social media technologies and witnessing.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">TIME-LINE FOR SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Indications of interest are invited by November 01, 2020. The indications of interest should include a title and ca. 500-words-long abstract.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The editors will communicate to the authors whether the abstracts have been accepted by December 01, 2020.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The authors are requested to submit their articles by June 01, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The editorial and blind peer-review process will take place after June 01, with final manuscripts to be completed by October 01, 20201.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Michael Richardson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Research Fellow (ARC DECRA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Co-Director, Media Futures Hub<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of the Arts & Media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:michael.richardson@unsw.edu.au"><span style="color:#0563C1">michael.richardson@unsw.edu.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://unsw.academia.edu/MichaelRichardson"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://unsw.academia.edu/MichaelRichardson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">@richardson_m_a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. <a href="http://bloomsbury.com/9781501315800/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://bloomsbury.com/9781501315800/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land I work and live on, particularly the Bedegal, Bidjigal and Gadigal Peoples, and their elders past and present. Sovereignty
was never ceded, and the struggle for justice continues.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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