CFP, SLSAeu 2021, Bergen, Norway
The 2005 Chicago meeting of the International Society for Literature, Science and the
Arts was notable, in the first instance, for its addition of the ‘Arts’ into the organization’s
ongoing conversations. Equally notable, on this occasion incoming scholars Stefan
Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, and Neil Badmington offered an influential
panel on Critical Posthumanism, which started the transatlantic dialogue of the posthuman
condition and posthumanist theory between the SLSA and what is now the SLSAeu, the
European sister organization (founded in 2010, with its first meeting being held in Riga,
in 2012 on the topic of “textures”).
Bearing in mind these literary and aesthetic roots, our upcoming meeting in Bergen calls
for papers that revisit concepts and consiliences in literature, science, and aesthetics. While
we welcome approaches that recognize the literal, material changes in literature and arts in
a digital age, we hope also to continue and advance discussions of inherent uncertainties,
along with possibilities that are more cognitive than instrumental. We will be featuring, in
both our panels and an accompanying art exhibit, enactments of complex human-technical
assemblages in which cognition and decision-making powers are distributed in both
aesthetic and literary systems.
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