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The Open I: Decoding Exposure (Graduate) (2/1; 4/13)
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2013-04-13 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-12-28 |
| Announcement ID: |
199833 |
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CALL for PAPERS: The Open I: Decoding Exposure
Sixth Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
April 13, 2013
Keynote: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English,
CUNY Graduate Center
Instant communication mechanisms are especially gifted at spreading humiliations toxic cloud. Does virtual communication make desubjectification easy? The same could have been said about the telephone or the telegraph. Or the typewriter. Wayne Koestenbaum, Humiliation
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture
Roland Barthes, Death of the Author
Social media has reinvented the contemporary citizen. The open I is a body straddling multiple planes of existence, as strands of DNA are replaced with streams of data, multiplying selves as new codes for communication are created with each click, like and link. Like Barthes tissue of quotations, the social media outlet is infinitely diverse but inescapably singular, perpetually informing and constraining incidences of original voice. The spontaneous development of the digital panopticon has redefined boundaries of exposure and interiority, observer and observed. The public and private self has converged, with aliases informing identity. The reach of the lens has become so expansive it has nearly rendered itself invisible, with surveillance becoming an integral facet of millennial life. What questions does the open I raise in regards to exposure and individuality in an age of technological supplication?
The Open I: Decoding Exposure seeks to explore the ramifications of the transformation of the contemporary social milieu. We invite submissions from all, including but not limited to literary studies of authors, texts and genres.
Possible topics may include the following:
Blogging Autobiography
#TwitLit: Narrative in 140 characters or less
Hash Tags and Eco's Theory of Metaphor
Scanning, the New Reading
Youtube and the New Celebrity
Media and the Millennials: Reality Blurred
Image, Music, Text: Presentations of Self
Humiliation as Spectator Sport
Boundary Crossing: Transnational Communication on the Web
LiveStreaming: Protest and Digital Surveillance
Memory, Memoir & Technology
Gender & Digital Identity as Performance
Intellectual Freedom and Other Dangerous Ideas
The Future Canon: We Will Know When We Get There
Open Access
E-readers, Apps and iPhones: Redefining Voice
Beyond New Wave Cinema
Queer Identity and the Digital Sphere
Photography and Culture
Dystopian Literature and Systems of Control
Simulated Realities
Language and Digital Communications
Digital Technology and Cognitive Functions
Illustrating Identity: Beyond Comix
Reconstruction of Metanarratives
Towards a "Unified Ratio Among the Senses"
From Missed Connections to Adult Services: Trade and Traffic
Disembodiment and Identity Politics
Caricatures and Social Media Selves
The Fragmentation of the Self and Discourse
Oversharing and Overexposure
Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due February 1, 2013. Send them by Word attachment to bcgradconference@gmail.com.
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