[Discussion] Digitality and the "New" Media

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CALL FOR PAPERS-- 
qui parle: literature, philosophy, visual arts, history 

DEADLINE: June 15, 2003 

Twice a year qui parle publishes provocative interdisciplinary articles 
covering a range of new outstanding theoretical and critical work in the 
humanities. Founded in 1986 by an editorial board from the University of 
California at Berkeley, qui parle is dedicated to expanding the dialogues 
that take place between the disciplines, and that challenge received notions 
about reading and scholarship in the university. Past issues have featured 
authors such as Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Anne Cheng, Jacques Derrida, 
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell, Kaja Silverman, 
Gianni Vattimo, and Slavoj Zizek. 

We welcome original scholarly contributions on the topic of digitality and 
the "new" media. Articles might address, but are not limited to, the 
following: 

- What is "new" about new media; can we now embark upon a second-wave 
critique of these media? 
- How do new media, digitality, and global telecommunications networks 
impact constructions of subjectivity, including gender, race/ethnicity, 
national identity, among others? 
- How does the body become refigured in and by these media? 
- Is the interface between new media and biotechnology best theorized under 
the aegis of the "posthuman"? 
- Are the new media a tool of global capital or a new hope for radical 
democracy; what might a new politics look like in the Age of Information? 
- Is there a real threat of increased surveillance, and how might this 
challenge civil liberties, or our distinction between public and private, 
etc.? 
- Rather than feed the utopian dream of the "global village," do new media, 
such as the Internet, threaten to widen the gap between rich and poor, 
industrialized and developing, North and South, nations? 
- What is the relationship between new media and war... just the latest 
reality-tv? 

Please mail all submissions to: 

Qui Parle 
Attn: Editors 
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities 
220 Stephens Hall 
University of California 
Berkeley, CA 94720-2340 

Guidelines: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/qp-submit.html