[Air-L] Call for papers: "The posthuman is now: posthumanism, action and meaning-making "

[Marcelo E. K. Buzato]

Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada (TLA
<http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0103-1813&lng=en&nrm=iso>),
a peer-reviewed SciELO Brazil Collection journal sponsored by The
University of Campinas, Brazil,  invites authors from any field of
knowledge, whose research has explicit or explicable interfaces with the
problem of meaning-making, to submit articles to compose a dossier entitled
"The posthuman is now: posthumanism, action and meaning-making ", to be
published in September 2019. Submissions will be accepted in Portuguese,
English or Spanish.



The purpose of the dossier is to present TLA Journal's readership with
different possibilities of outlining the posthuman condition as a research
object, and with opportunities for dialogic contact with posthumanist
discourses (scientific or not), as philosophical or methodological
foundations for their (new) research.



We are at a turning point in the human sciences and humanities in which not
only the belief in the exceptionalism of the human species, but also the
conceptual edifice of liberal humanism, show signs of exhaustion, even
though, as in the case of the other "post- "(modern, social, colonial,
etc.) perspectives, we do not know what is supposed to replace it, exactly.
On the one hand, the Anthropocene, the new faces of high-tech biopolitics,
the rise of "intelligent" machines and the role of  informational patterns
as powerful ontological and epistemological demarcators convene the human
and social sciences to reinvent themselves in their methods and scope; on
the other hand, currents traditionally critical of Enlightenment-rooted
humanism such as feminist studies, postcolonial studies, studies of human
ecology, and social studies of science and technology, strengthen
posthumanism as an interdisciplinary endeavor. In this enterprise, mutually
supportive and critical versions of the posthuman are put forth by steams
of thought not necessarily compatible with each other such as science
fiction, futurology, transhumanism, cyborgism, feminist posthumanism,
commercial/corporate posthumanism, critical posthumanism, among others.



The engagement of applied language studies with posthumanism is relatively
recent, and contemplation of such diversity of discourses, practices, and
positions are just beginning. However, it is already clear that historical
commitments to humanism and to the conceptions of language, agency,
learning, subjectivity and interaction therefrom should be in question. In
addition, the posthumanistic perspective reinforces the inter and
transdisciplinary identity claimed by the field. Hence the relevance of a
dossier that gathers interdisciplinary perspectives of the posthumanist
issue, having meaning making as a point of convergence, or of interface,
the meaning.



Submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes:



• posthumanism and language/meaning-making

• posthumanism and democracy/citizenship

• posthumanism and identity/subjectivity

• posthumanism and learning/education

• posthumanism and ethics/responsibility

• posthumanism and affectivity/sentience

• posthumanism, aesthetics and art

• posthumanism and interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinary

• other



The deadline for submissions is May 20, 2019. Guidelines for authors are
available at *http://www.scielo.br/revistas/tla/iinstruc.htm
<http://www.scielo.br/revistas/tla/iinstruc.htm>*. Manuscripts must be
submitted at *http://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/about/submissions
<http://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/about/submissions>*.




Marcelo El Khouri Buzato

University of Campinas <https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/english>
Department of Applied Linguistics
Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 571
Cep 13083-859 Campinas - SP  Brasil
+55 19 3521 1558
unicamp.academia.edu/MarceloBuzato
www.iel.unicamp.br/node/192/299
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcelo_Buzato