>
>Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
>Cardiff University
>
>20th Anniversary Conference
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>Zoontotechnics (Animality/Technicity)
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>12th-14th May 2010
>
>Plenary Speakers
>
>Bernard Stiegler, Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the
>Centre Georges-Pompidou
>and Director of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI)
>David Wills â?¨ (University at Albany-SUNY)
>We are also inviting Avital Ronell (New York University) (participation to
>be confirmed)
>
>Since the founding of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory in 1989,
>when the prevalent
>currents were postmodernism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism, new
>developments have helped
>reshape the theoretical landscape. Key among them have been cyberculture,
>the digital revolution in
>technology, globalization, and the search for critical modes beyond the
>human. More recently
>philosophical-ethical revaluations of the 'animal' and renewed reflections
>on various aspects of
>technology and technics, both within and beyond the emerging framework of
>posthumanism, have
>provided two of the most stimulating developments in critical and cultural
>theory that might offer
>new departures. While there have been numerous conferences and symposia on
>each perspective, none
>has been organized with a view to encouraging a critical dialogue between
>researchers in these two
>usually separate fields. If Aristotle's definition of 'man' was that he is
>a zoon logon ekhon
>(animal having speech) and a zoon politikon (political animal), in what
>ways has he become a zoon
>tekhnikon? Is this ultimately necessary to ensure the survival of the
>species or is it conducive to
>its transformation? With an increasingly globalized 'humanity' installed in
>the post-9/11 age of a
>technology-led terrorism and the credit crunch, the conference will
>consider these overarching
>questions, as well as others outlined briefly below.
>In planning our 20th anniversary, we decided to address the future, rather
>than look back
>nostalgically on past achievements. This seems a more invigorating way of
>convening a truly
>celebratory event. With this focus on futurity in mind, we plan to include
>a round-table work on the
>Futures of Technology and Culture that will feature the activities
>interfacing new technologies and
>culture that are part of the remit of Beaubourg's Institute for Research
>and Innovation led by
>Professor Stiegler. Other conference events will feature performance art at
>the crossroads of the
>animal and the technical. We very much hope that the conference will prove
>to be an intellectual
>landmark. â?¨
>Possible themes for individual papers or panels might include:
>. The relation of animality and/or technicity to posthumanismm
>. The critical interface between posthumanism and transhumaniism,
>'life sciences',
>biotechnology and bioethics, artificiality and hybridization
>. Futures of life, animality and technicity and of 'humanity''
>. Man's relation to technics and technology after Heidegger'ss 'The
>Question Concerning
>Technology'
>. Man's relation to animality after Derrida's The Animal That
>Therefore I Am
>. Extensions of technology to redefining art and humanities, not
>just extending man (cf.
>Technology, Environment, Design)
>. Work addressing concepts such as the prosthetic, the inhuman, the
>digital, the virtual, etc.
>. Animality, technicity and gender
>We are particularly interested in proposals for papers and panels that
>engage with the interface
>between the two main strands of the conference theme. Papers are also
>invited on thinkers who have
>addressed both aspects, (e.g. the becoming-animal and the machinic in
>Deleuze).
>Abstracts for papers (no more than 300 words) and proposals for panels
>should be sent to
>zoonto@cardiff.ac.uk by 31st December 2009.
>
>Professor Chris Weedon,
>Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
>
>Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
>School of English, Communication and Philosophy,
>Humanities Building,
>Colum Dri
>ve,
>Cardiff
>CF10 3EU
>
>tel -
+44 (029) 2087 5606
>fax- +44 (029) 2087 4502
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