Coimbra University 15-16 Novembro,
2019
Português / English
The task of tracing the new frontiers of the political implies a
critical effort that faces a double difficulty: first of all, the confrontation
between contemporary political theory and the virtual speed of the present that
results in a complex delimitation and circumscription of a new hermeneutic
horizon of the public space; and a second obstacle that consists of the
construction of the concept of Cyberpolitics itself that, by its paradigmatic
nature, involves a transformation and metamorphosis which we will also try to
map. This effort will require a genealogical investigation into the concept of
Cyberpolitics which derives from Cyberculture studies, but also the mapping of
its different levels and fields of significance. This work-in-progress notion,
in the crossroads of politics and aesthetics, will be challenged different
perspectives. The analysis on the construction of the concept of Cyberpolitics,
which will permit us to address the changes in the political regarding its
technological implications in reshaping the public space, will also allow us to
underline the notion of crisis as an operating concept. The current political
and economic problems of the western world seem to indicate a possible
cyberpolitical shock. The clash is probably due to the possible paradigm shift.
We know from history that our fundamental confrontation is with the
unimaginable, in the same way that for man of the Middle Ages the political
organization of the present would be unthinkable.
Consequently, the foundation of political imagination is freedom. Are we
ready to imagine the consequences of the installation of the cyberpolitical
paradigm? Will Cyberpolitics, in its promise to install a second nature,
constitute a substantial change? Is it a second nature towards a new political
anthropology? Or are we just witnessing a change of medium that can blur the
border between freedom and alienation? In fact, technology and new media are
the central conceptual characters in the political beginning of the 21st
century. Cyberpolitics is the concept that can help us understand this
paradigmatic change in the present that will certainly imply a review of all
the categories of the legal and political building. In order to establish a
transdisciplinary dialogue, with contributions from the entire spectrum of the
social and human sciences, the submission of proposals, on the following topics
is particularly encouraged:
- Theoretical foundations: philosophy of technology, political theory, etc.
- E-Democracy an Open Government
- E-governance: theory , practice, case studies
- Technological revolutions?
- The new digital world of the Machines, A.I. and Singularity
- Megapolis: big cities, smart cities. From transportation to housing, etc.
- Election and campaign: big data and the algorithm behavioral paradigm
- Future: utopia, dystopia and other political visions
- Political imagination: landscapes of the constitutional law
- Science and technic
- Anthropocene
- Refoundation of institutions: University, Hospital, Factory, Court, etc
- New political economics. Disruptive new horizons
- Robots and humans: challenges to citizenship and the political economy
- Cyberwars, cybersecurity, Digital and media Wars
- Techno cultures and the new threshold of art
- Digital cities: overlapping and merging analogic an virtual
- Cybercities: architecture and politics
- Cybersecurity: espionage, surveillance and trust in the new era
- Sex, legal and moral affairs
- Fascination and obsession in the Cyberculture world
- Space, cosmos, new horizons and the rebirth of adventure
- Sex politics of gender and new emotions
- Entertainment industry and political regulation
- Theoretical perspectives: Bernard Stiegler, Pierre Levy, etc.
- Arts and literature: visions of the future.
Abstracts should be sent to this email address constantinomar@gmail.com.
They must not exceed 500 words with a small Biographical note, and may be
submitted in Portuguese or English. Presentations will be 20 minutes in
Portuguese or English. Conference proceedings will be published in e-book
format only in English. Participation and attendance is free. More information
about the conference and the submission of proposals can be found at this address.
Important dates:
Submission: until 1 July 2019
Notification of the decision: 30 July 2019
Organization:
FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon / IEF - University of Coimbra / FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology
constantinomar@gmail.com
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