[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Technoculture: A Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities (5/15/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Technoculture
A Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities

Guest Editors:
Dr. Keith Dorwick, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Kevin Moberly, North Carolina Wesleyan College

For a special issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities (IH), guest editors
Keith Dorwick and Kevin Moberly seek papers from a broad a range of
academic disciplines that focus on issues that could be briefly summed
as "technology and society," or, perhaps, "technologies and societies.

IH is published by the National Association for Humanities Education and
is a refereed scholarly journal, published twice a year. Potential
authors should note that this issue has been accepted for publication
already; we will not need to find a publisher.

Successful papers for this special issue should focus on the ways
humanists read technology in a range of historical periods and of
academic and artistic disciplines as the subject of their work or as a
special case of cultural studies.

Topics for this special issue could include depictions of technologies
that treat a wide range of subjects related to the humanities. These
subjects might include:

literature, film, theater, and television as technologies;

the cultural impact of technology on particular cultures or subcultures;

technology and its affect on the production of contemporary/historical
artistic works and/or the work of artists;

technology as the dream (or nightmare) that drives novelists, poets,
artists, playwrights and essayists to their notebooks, brushes,
canvasses, stages and screens;

the economics of technology in the humanities;

computer/video gaming;

hypertext (especially hypertext and the arts or literature);

the dissemination of the arts via technology to broad or to specialized
audiences;

the death of the book;

the myth of the "death of the book";

the disappearance of a given technology or technologies and what that
disappearance/disappearances means/mean for the archival issues that
surround the humanities.


In particular, the special editors are interested in a conception of
technology and the humanist impulse that pushes beyond contemporary
American culture and its fascination with computers; we seek papers that
deal with any technology or technologies in any number of historical
periods from any relevant theoretical perspective. We are not interested
in "how to" pedagogical papers that deal with the use of technology in
the classroom.

We hope to publish mainly scholarly/critical papers in citation styles
relevant to the home discipline of their authors, but creative works
including poetry and creative non-fiction are also of interest to us. We
also publish art work and are seeking original art (grayscale or line
drawings and full color art for the front and back cover) that explores
the role of technology in our lives.

Inquiries are welcome, though, again, only full manuscripts will be
considered for possible inclusion in this special issue.

Please submit article proposals/abstracts by May 15, 2006. The editors
will then request full length drafts from those abstracts still under
consideration.

Length: 20-25 double-spaced manuscript pages and creative works in any
genre to BOTH

kdorwick_at_louisiana.edu

and

kmoberly_at_ncwc.edu

in Word or RTF format for consideration by 05/15/06; requests to review
relevant books on this topic may be sent to both addresses as well.

Calendar:

Article Proposals/Abstracts Due: May 15, 2006.

Requests for Full Length Drafts from Editors to Authors: June 1, 2006

Full Drafts to Editors for Comment: Sept 15, 2006.

Final drafts due to the guest editors: Dec 15, 2006.

Final proofed text delivered to the journal editor with front and back
(color) illustrations, Jan 15, 2007.

Publication April or May 2007.



Dr. Keith Dorwick
Assistant Professor of English and Rhetoric
Department of English
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 44691
Lafayette, LA 70504-4691
(337) 482-6915





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