[Air-L] Call for Submissions // 4S Annual Meeting 2025 in Seattle // c(AI)borg manyfesto: reverberating futures of augmentation and humanity

[Aal, Konstantin]

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Dear colleagues,

We are inviting abstract contributions to our open panel #212 titled "c(AI)borg manyfesto: reverberating futures of augmentation and humanity” for the upcoming 4S Annual Meeting which will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA, on September 3-6, 2025. Deadline for submission is January 31, 2025. More details can be found below.

If you would like to participate in our session, please submit your individual abstract of approx. 250 words and follow the instructions described here: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php

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212. “c(AI)borg manyfesto: reverberating futures of augmentation and humanity”

The cyborg, as envisioned in Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto, disrupts entrenched boundaries between human, machine and animal, envisioning a hybrid future where identities are fluid and alliances are formed through affinity rather than rigid categories. Building on this provocative framework, the c-AI-borg Manyfesto panel explores how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies reverberate through the fabric of humanity's pluralistic future. Invoking Haraway's cyborg, we ask: how can AI reshape the human experience, not just as a tool of augmentation, but as a site for the reimagining of politics, ethics and community?

The reverberations of AI in human life are multi-dimensional - scientific, cultural and socio-technical. These resonances echo Haraway's call to reject fixed boundaries and compel us to interrogate how AI amplifies, disrupts, and reworks identities, bodies, and social orders. In this open panel, we bring together diverse perspectives to ask: What does it mean to be human in a world where AI co-creates knowledge, work and relationships? How can we navigate the tensions that AI brings, while nurturing its potential to foster coalitions and affinities?
Within the 4S conference theme of Reverberations, this panel considers the temporal, spatial and sensory dimensions of AI. From historical narratives of human augmentation to speculative visions of hybrid futures, from the tactile immediacy of machine-learning interfaces to the far-reaching socio-technical imaginaries that AI evokes, the c-AI-borg Manyfesto invites all participants to reflect on the (possible) seismic shifts that AI generates. In doing so, it aims to cultivate a collective reactivation of Haraway's posthumanist challenge: to think beyond binaries and envision pluralistic, just futures in which technology amplifies humanity's capacity for solidarity, creativity and care.

This panel will provide an open forum for critical and speculative engagement, challenging participants to resonate with Haraway's legacy while charting new ways of understanding humanity's co-evolution with AI.

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More information on the 4S annual meeting 2025 can be found here: https://4sonline.org/about_the_conference_seattle.php

Please contact us if you have any questions:

Konstantin Aal (konstantin.aal at uni-siegen.de<https://mailto:konstantin.aal@uni-siegen.de>)
Sarah Rüller (sarah.rueller at uni-siegen.de<https://mailto:sarah.rueller@uni-siegen.de>)

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