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Information publiée le samedi 7 mai 2011 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Catherine Wallemacq)

Date limite : 15 juin 2011

All the info here: http://www.sophia.be/index.php/fr/announcements/view/1398

SOPHIA, the Belgian Bi-community Network for Gender Studies is organizing a colloquium to investigate the latest developments in theory and research on the many aspects of gender and technology from a Feminist angle.
Women and technology don’t sleep in the same bed. The relation between technological possibilities and gender is tense. ‘Technology’, the use value of science, embodies power relations. Some see technology as a tool for liberation, others see it as a trap of enslavement.
Donna Haraway’s vision of the Cyborg (1985) was a water shed. The idea of the thinking but bodiless human has been a subject of wide ranging debate for feminists, theoreticians and feminist activists ever since. The cyborg makes us question the pure boundaries of gender and the human as opposed to the animal and the machine. What does the body mean if we can transcend the body? Would body-linked inequalities disappear? Today, the bodiless and sexless voice is a reality thanks to the communicative but commercialized possibilities of social media. In Facebook people create their own (gender) identities. In the web world of games and interaction, the cyborg can be a reality.
From a feminist perspective there has always been a love-hate relationship between technology and feminist projects. Technology seems to promise liberation from the confines of the corporal and the duties of the everyday. The female body is often the basis of inequality (bearing children, weak, and marked). Technology offers freedom from reproduction, controlled reproduction, strength and transformation. But at what price comes a cyborg liberation of the mind from the body? While the debate is not new, ongoing technological advances pose new issues. Technology ‘frees’ us from our sexed bodies through reproductive technology, and through the faceless communication of the internet. Yet at the same time it enslaves us in an ever more incomprehensible net of global relations and consumer requirements. You can’t leave home without your mobile, but you don’t know how to fix it.Technology empowers, but excludes.

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APPEL À CONTRIBUTION
Information publiée le samedi 7 mai 2011 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Catherine Wallemacq)

Date limite : 15 juin 2011

All the info here: http://www.sophia.be/index.php/fr/announcements/view/1398

SOPHIA, the Belgian Bi-community Network for Gender Studies is organizing a colloquium to investigate the latest developments in theory and research on the many aspects of gender and technology from a Feminist angle.
Women and technology don’t sleep in the same bed. The relation between technological possibilities and gender is tense. ‘Technology’, the use value of science, embodies power relations. Some see technology as a tool for liberation, others see it as a trap of enslavement.
Donna Haraway’s vision of the Cyborg (1985) was a water shed. The idea of the thinking but bodiless human has been a subject of wide ranging debate for feminists, theoreticians and feminist activists ever since. The cyborg makes us question the pure boundaries of gender and the human as opposed to the animal and the machine. What does the body mean if we can transcend the body? Would body-linked inequalities disappear? Today, the bodiless and sexless voice is a reality thanks to the communicative but commercialized possibilities of social media. In Facebook people create their own (gender) identities. In the web world of games and interaction, the cyborg can be a reality.
From a feminist perspective there has always been a love-hate relationship between technology and feminist projects. Technology seems to promise liberation from the confines of the corporal and the duties of the everyday. The female body is often the basis of inequality (bearing children, weak, and marked). Technology offers freedom from reproduction, controlled reproduction, strength and transformation. But at what price comes a cyborg liberation of the mind from the body? While the debate is not new, ongoing technological advances pose new issues. Technology ‘frees’ us from our sexed bodies through reproductive technology, and through the faceless communication of the internet. Yet at the same time it enslaves us in an ever more incomprehensible net of global relations and consumer requirements. You can’t leave home without your mobile, but you don’t know how to fix it.Technology empowers, but excludes.

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