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
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