Message posted on 02/10/2019
CfP special issue: “Manufacturing Life” in NanoEthics. Studies of New and Emerging Technologies
Dear colleagues, <br> <br>We invite papers for a special issue: “Manufacturing Life” in <br>/NanoEthics. Studies of New and Emerging Technologies <br>(//https://link.springer.com/journal/11569//) / <br> <br>This special issue of NanoEthics “Manufacturing Life” aims to gather <br>research and insights about the (re-)constructions of living beings <br>through practices in life sciences and technology with a focus on <br>cultural, ethical and social issues related to nano-, bio-, information <br>and cognitive sciences and technologies (NBIC). It is expected that the <br>convergence of these fields will lead to a substantial transformation of <br>the corporeality of living beings, their interrelations to each other <br>and to technology. Human pathways are bound up with other species, like <br>microbes, plants and animals, but they are also bound up with <br>technology. However, in western contemporary civilization technology is <br>construed as something “opposite” of human beings, which are designated <br>as “natural” entities. Relying on nature and culture as extreme, <br>opposing reference points is a necessary premise for most <br>inequality-related oppositions (e.g. relying on nature often legitimize <br>discrimination as a “given fact”).However, enhancement practices <br>(including “plant enhancement”, “animal enhancement” or “human <br>enhancement” through Brain-Machine Interfaces, genome editing, <br>prosthetics, etc.) are already manufacturing life in different ways, <br>using different enhancement technologies, combining them (both living <br>beings and technologies) in different environments, creating new <br>entities, like organic-inorganic/ human-nonhuman entanglements, similar <br>to cyborgs or human-animal chimera and also socio-technical systems. How <br>will these affect the above-mentioned human-technology opposition? What <br>will be the consequences for contemporary western culture that is still <br>built on the pillars of humanism and a dualistic, cartesian approach? <br>What other intersections and practices without this dualistic view can <br>be observed and to what extent are they undermining regimes of injustice <br>that are relying on the social construction of nature and culture as <br>distinct separate areas of knowledge and influence? <br> <br> <br> <br>This special issue is interested in contributions based on research <br>examining practices and/or impacts of manufacturing life; and by showing <br>organic-inorganic/human-nonhuman entanglements how manufacturing life <br>can be approached and theorized. Following issues are of special interest: <br> <br> <br> <br>-socio-technical, cultural, ethical, legal and political aspects of <br>manufacturing life <br> <br>-micro practices of nano-, bio-, information and cognitive sciences and <br>technologies (NBIC) and macro effects of manufacturing life <br> <br>-new forms of biotech tissues and bodies, e.g. in-vitro-meat, <br>CRISPR/Cas9 enhanced plants, chimera, cyborgs and crips <br> <br>-modification of life through media, impacts of intermediaries <br> <br>-new forms of multi-species environments infiltrated by life science and <br>technology <br> <br>-practices and impacts of human-nonhuman interrelations and the <br>“algorithmic logic” affecting life <br> <br>-socio-technical imaginaries and visions of manufacturing life <br> <br>-multi-species ethnography, multi-species anthropology and sociology <br> <br>-living and working in sociotechnical / organic-inorganic environments <br> <br>-new forms of dis/ability, gender, and inequalities of life <br> <br> <br> <br>Interested authors should send an abstract (250 words) and a short <br>author-bio (200 words) to diego.compagna@hm.edu <br>and sahinol@oiist.org <br>by the 17^th of November, 2019. Authors will <br>be notified of the status of their submission by the 30^th of November. <br>Completed papers will be due by the 30^th of April 2020 for the <br>journal’s double-blind peer-review process. <br> <br>The papers are not automatically open access; Springer offers open <br>access for a fee. However, after publication each author will receive a <br>link that s/he can share, for example, via email, social platforms or <br>one’s own website. Anyone using this link can read the paper online and <br>can copy and paste from it. After one year, the author’s final draft – <br>not the version formatted by the journal – may be shared in <br>repositories, etc., as long as a link to the article in the journal is <br>included. <br> <br>After the production and proofing process, accepted papers are <br>immediately published online first, and given a DOI. <br> <br>For information and questions please do not hesitate to contact the <br>guest editors: <br> <br>Prof. Dr. Diego Compagna (diego.compagna@hm.edu <br>) & Dr. Melike Şahinol (sahinol@oiist.org <br>). <br> <br>-- <br>Dr. rer. soc. Melike Şahinol <br>Research Field “Human, Medicine, and Society” <br>Orient-Institut Istanbul <br>Susam Sokak 16, D. 8 <br>TR-34433 Cihangir – Istanbul <br> <br>phone +90-212-293 60 67 ext. 133 <br>web https://melikesahinol.wordpress.com/ <br>ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2914-2489 <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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