[acc-cca-l] CFP: Data in motion for a more-than-human world

[Katherine Reilly]

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Call for Papers:
Special Issue of the Journal Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power
“Data in motion for a more-than-human world”

Guest Editors:
Katherine Reilly, Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University
Gillian Russell, Assistant Professor in the School for Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University
Rachel Horst, PhD Candidate in Education, University of British Columbia

Contact: kreilly at sfu.ca; gillianr at sfu.ca; rachel.horst at ubc.ca

Keywords: Data and Abstraction, Environmental and Multispecies Studies, Method and Practice

This special issue examines the mutual entanglements and fluid interfaces between data and embodiment by gathering papers that engage a more-than-human view of soma-data-techniques.

The issue will problematize the notion of data as a driver of knowledge, a discoverable fact, a container of meaning, or a solidified agreement about what is assumed to be true about the world and embodiment. It seeks to overcome visions of data which suggest that knowledge is something discrete and unchanging, a butterfly pinned to a board, ready for inspection.

We seek papers that engage in posthuman and relational approaches to data and that understand the world and bodies to be in constant motion and exchange. We position soma-data-techniques as relational processes, methods or practices of meaning making that offer more-than-human approaches to mediating the sensorium or ‘regime of perception.’

For example, a positivist approach to understanding the escalating problem of anthropogenic marine debris focuses on quantitative data - the counting and classifying of garbage found in and along the shores of oceans. Relational approaches, on the other hand, might seek to understand data-bodies, human and other than human, and the entanglements of desires, incorporating the somadata of feeling, sensing, and imagining marine plastics to transform behaviors and systems. Data from this view isn't about plastic but rather is plastic; just as our bodies are not discrete entities, but are becoming-plastic and enmeshed in relations with the ocean.

Some concepts of interest to this volume include:

The sensorium / placemaking
Data bodies / Data embodiment
The body-territory
Sensual data
Multi-species knowledge
Sentipensar (feel-think)
Aurality and data
Data subjectivity
Affective data
Data surrogacy
Sensory knowledge / Re-sensing
Data literacies
Epistemic meshworks

Through novel thinking about these and other related concepts, this special issue takes an interdisciplinary look at the soma-data-techniques of information systems, research-creation, design, culture and knowledge production with a particular focus on human relationships to natural and built environments. We are particularly interested in papers that challenge social processes based in 'containment' views of data (such as data repositories, citizen science, open government, etc.) and papers that explore and experiment with alternative ways of 'doing data.'

Submissions Instructions:

Written explorations - 6000-7000 words including references.
Practice-based or image-intensive papers - 2000-2500 words including references.

Style guide: https://www.euppublishing.com/page/soma/style


Timeline:
* Submission deadline, February 16, 2024
* Editor acceptance/rejection, March 15, 2024
* Revisions from accepted authors, July 2024
* Final round of revisions, September 2024
* Publication, November 2024

Please send documents in Microsoft Word .doc or .rtf format to kreilly at sfu.ca<mailto:kreilly at sfu.ca> with CC to somatechnicsjournal at gmail.com<mailto:somatechnicsjournal at gmail.com> and the subject line “Special Issue: Data in motion for a more-than-human world”.



Dr. Katherine Reilly
Associate Professor | School of Communication

Associate Dean Research | Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology

Simon Fraser University
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6


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