Call for Essays: _The Stuff of the Spirit: Essays, Memoirs, and Scholarly
Explorations of the Numinous, the Human, and the Machine_
Please forward this call to people you know who may be interested..
Web Version of this CFP: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kxd7565/spirit/
For Gerard Manley Hopkins, it was a given that “áll trádes, their gear and
tackle and trim” partook of the stuff of the spirit. However, the forces
of academe often lead modern scholars to regard the instruments of
technology as working entirely or mostly in the realm of the intellectual
(and, occasionally, the affective), with, until recently, relatively little
effort to see technological development as an arena in which the human
spirit itself grows or diminishes. Meanwhile, in the popular press, works
such as _Soul and Silicon: Spirits in a High-Tech World_ and _Prayers for
the Age of Technology_ reflect a growing cultural urgency to recognize and
celebrate the rich interplay between the technological and the spiritual.
_The Stuff of the Spirit: Essays, Memoirs, and Scholarly Explorations of
the Numinous, the Human, and the Machine_ seeks to envision technology as
an interwoven set of virtual and physical spaces in which humans seek, with
varying degrees of success, to form communities, heal wounds, love each
other, seek the divine, and experience spirituality in a myriad of
manifestations using the various tools, instruments and machines that shape
us, and by which we, in turn, are shaped.
The editors of this proposed multi-genre, interdisciplinary collection
invite authors to enrich these tensions and connections, examining
spirituality and technology in linear/print essays devoted to such issues
as politics, education, community, sexuality, theology, liturgy,
anthropology, philosophy, pedagogy, and work. We are keeping the terms
"spirituality" and "technology" deliberately open-ended to inspire a
variety of approaches and interpretations.
To inquire or send an abstract, e-mail Keith Dorwick (kdorwick@usa.net) by
August 31, 2001. Papers in Word 97 format, please. Abstracts and
articles should include identifying information only on their cover
pages. Completed essays should be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages,
including all apparatus.
Editors: Keith Dorwick, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Computer
Communications at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette; and Kathy A.
Fitch, Assistant Professor of English at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL.
"Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it."
--From Seamus Heaney's "Digging"
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