Collection of essays
Reload: Redefining Women + Cyberculture
_Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture_ is a collection of theoretical
and fictional writing by women that explores issues in the emerging
field of gender and cyberculture studies. The volume will juxtapose
fiction and criticism and present works which offer varying perspectives
on women’s relationship to technology. Both the fictional and
theoretical pieces included will ask what the consequences of living in
a cyberculture are for women in particular. For our purposes,
cyberculture is broadly defined as computer, information, communication,
media, networked, and biological technologies and the ways in which we
experience, understand and represent these technologies. Sadie Plant
notes that women have always used technology, yet end up the unsung
heroes of technical innovation, and we extend her thoughts to argue that
women are the obscured producers of critical dialogues about the future.
We are seeking to address the complex and changing relationship between
women and technology through critical essays and cyberfiction in the
following rough thematic areas: Identity; Gender, Work, and Technology;
Domestic Space; The Biological, Neurological, and Virtual body; Cyborgs;
Reproductive Technologies; Girls and Computers; Digital Art and
Performance; and Film.
The essays and fiction in _Reload_ might address the following
questions: How do cybertechnologies enter into our personal, social and
work lives? To what extent are does cyberspace offer a place for
alternative identities or cultures? How do we understand these
technologies--that is, what sort of representations or narratives of
these technologies are women producing? How does cyberculture
reinscribe or rewrite gender dichotomies? Does cyberspace offer the
possibility of transcending the body? If so, what are the implications
for notions of gender, and for women? Who benefits from the erosion of
cultural categories?
We invite critical and short fiction pieces which consider a range of
perspectives and approaches to the study of gender and cyberculture.
The deadline for abstracts is October 15th (up to three pages in
length). The deadline for completed manuscripts will be January 31
2000. Word, rtf, or pdf files via email are acceptable.
Professor Mary Flanagan
Media Study
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
231 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260
marydot@ibm.net
Professor Austin Booth
Humanities Specialist
University of Buffalo (SUNY)
522 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY 14260
habooth@acsu.buffalo.edu
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