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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">CALL FOR
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Corporal
Literacy</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Maaike
Bleeker:</b> New developments in a variety of disciplines -
ranging from philosophy to medicine to cognitive science - argue
for a revaluation of the body as actively involved in processes of
world making rather than a passive decoding machine. This revaluation
of the body points to the necessity to change our understanding of
the role of the body in processes of perception and meaning making.
Corporal literacy understood as the bodily capacity to read and make
sense also changes the notion of thought and meaning itself, the idea
of what it means to do thinking, to make meaning, to rationalize.
"What is important" write Lakoff and Johnson in their<i>
Philosophy in the Flesh</i>, "is not just that we have bodies and
that thought is somehow embodied. What is important is that the very
peculiar nature of our bodies shapes our very possibilities for
conceptualisation and categorization." Corporal literacy
describes these abilities of the body to perceive, read and make
sense. It is a strategic term, with which we want to make a space for
interaction and collaboration between researchers approaching
questions of bodily meaning making from various
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George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.<i> Philosophy in the Flesh. The
Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought</i>. Basic Books
1999: 19</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Rob van
Kranenburg:</b> In<i> A future world of supersenses</i>, Martin
Rantzer of Ericsson Foresight claims: "New communication
senses will be needed in the future to enable people to absorb the
enormous mass of information with which they are confronted,"
According to him the user interfaces we use today to transmit
information to our brains threaten create a real bottleneck for new
broadband services. "The boundaries of what constitutes consumer
electronics and computers are getting blurred," said Gerard J.
Kleisterlee, the chief executive of Royal Philips Electronics.
"As we get wireless networking in the home, everything starts to
talk to everything." Implementing digital connecitivity in
an analogue environment without a<i> design for all the senses</i> ,
without a concept of<i> corporal literacy</i>, leads to information
overload. In a ubiquitous computing environment the new intelligence
is<i> extelligence</i>, "knowledge and tools that are outside
people's heads" (Stewart and Cohen, 1997) In a ubiquitous
computing environment the user has to be not only textually and
visually literate, both also have corporal literacy, that is an
awareness of extelligence and a working knowledge of all the
senses. It is our claim in staking out a field of corporal
literacy that in contemporary performance and theatrical
practice we find an actualization of (and ways of dealing with)
the bottleneck scenarios that are envisaged by information
experts.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1"
color="#000000"> At Big Consumer Electronics Show, the
Buzz Is All About Connections January 13, 2003 By SAUL HANSELL,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/techno<span
></span>logy/13DIGI.html?ex=1043457162&ei=1&en=12<span
></span>4b1e27fe81246e</font></div>
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<b>A workshop/panel in the Conference:</b> MULTILITERACIES: THE
CONTACT ZONE<br>
2003 International AILA Conference on Literacy<br>
http://memling.rug.ac.be/aila<br>
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Submit abstracts by email in an attachment to<u>
kranenbu@xs4all.nl</u> and maaike.bleeker@hum.uva.nl. Remember to
give the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail address, phone
number, fax number and 50 word biodate.<br>
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Location: Ghent, Belgium<br>
Date: 22-27 September 2003<br>
Call Deadline: 28 March, 2003<br>
Contact Persons: Rob van Kranenburg - Maaike Bleeker</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Contact
Email: <u> kranenbu@xs4all.nl</u> - maaike.bleeker@hum.uva.nl<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES:<br>
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 March, 2003.<br>
Notification of acceptance: 31 April, 2003.<br>
Program available: 15 August, 2003.<br>
Early bird registration: before 28 March, 2003</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Details regarding
the program, registration and hotel accommodation will be sent out in
February 2003. If you submit an abstract, you will automatically
receive this information</font></div>
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