Call for papers | RCL nº 60 | CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND DIGITAL TRANSITION (Closed)
Call for papers | RCL nº 60 | CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND DIGITAL TRANSITION
Editors: Maria Teresa Cruz, Philipp Teuchmann
Transformations stemming from digital technologies are growing with every passing decade. Extended digital infrastructures, continuous data extraction, faster and more effective computation, AI and Deep Learning, and the combination of virtual and augmented reality systems are accelerating these transformations and bringing about the emergence of a post-digital condition marked by the inescapability of the digital as much as by its critique (Galloway, 2021; Hörl & Pinkrah, 2021).
In a world haunted by crisis and uncertainty, the pervasiveness of the digital transformation stands out as the most foreseeable aspect of this uncertain future. The co-evolution of culture and technology and the emergence of a digital ecosystem have become a crucial dimension of the anthropological, ecological, and cosmological challenges of the present (Stiegler, 2019; Hui, 2019; Hörl, 2017). Digital technologies penetrate matter and processes, living and non-living entities, and every dimension of the human. in its various interconnected planes - perception, affection, cognition, agency, and creativity.
Media theory and the philosophy of technology have long been the source of of both materialist and anthropological questionings about the relationship between the organic and the inorganic, the human and the non-human (Stiegler, 1984; Haraway 1985; Kittler, 1997; Hayles, 1999) that played a fundamental role in the post-humanist and ecological shift of the present (Braidotti, 2019; Latour & Weibel, 2020; Hayles, 2017). This shift, which exceeds the situated influence of early cyberculture, has been paved by new media theory and digital studies through which the traits of the digital ecology gradually emerged (Manovich 2000, 2013; Jenkins, 2006; Hansen 2010, Parisi 2013; Chun 2017; Zuboff 2018).
More recently, the dominance of critical themes such as AI, automation, and their cognitive and creative implications have called for a renewed reflection within digital arts and humanities themselves (Burdwick et al. l, 2016, Berry and Fagerjord, 2017; Manovich 2020; Dobson, 2019), and for the return to a critical wide perspective on the relationship between culture and technology.
This call for papers aims to gather contributions on contemporary culture and digital transformation, welcoming proposals on the epistemological, aesthetical, and political challenges of this transformations, comprising but not restricted to the following topics:
- Post-digital, digital transition and digital transformation
- Tecno-ecology, digital ecology, and cognitive ecology
- Post-human and post-humanities
- Digital Humanities: theory, methodologies and practices
- Digital arts, design, post-media aesthetics and artivism
- Cognitive and creative economy and industries
- AI, Machine Learning, and automation
- New literacies, cultural techniques, and skills
Submission: Full manuscripts should be submitted to RCL – Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens , following the guidelines for authors published at https://rcl.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/rcl/about/submissions.
Deadline for submissions: 29 february, 2024
RCL – Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens is an academic journal indexed in Scopus published by the Research Centre on Communication of NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal).
Language: Authors whose native language is different from the language of publication (English, French, Spanish or Portuguese) are strongly advised to ensure the linguistic correctness of their paper and have their article proofread by a proficient/native speaker prior to submission. British and American spellings are accepted, as long as one spelling is used consistently throughout the text. Papers with serious deficiencies in writing may be returned without review.
