Technoetic Arts Volume 20 Numbers 1 & 2 Special Issue: Dismantling the Anthropocene: Beyond Binary Categorizations

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Technoetic Arts (Volume 20, Numbers 1 & 2, 2022) is a special-issue journal devoted to speculative research at the intersection of art, science, technology, and consciousness studies. Its editorial aim is to rethink older worldviews through transdisciplinary collaboration, with emphasis on artificial life, nanotechnology, mixed reality ecologies, telematic media, and post-biological cultures. The issue frames contemporary debates with questions about what it means to be human and challenges simplifying binary categorizations in philosophy, science, and art.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages149

Reading Time6 h 15 min

Aims and Scope

Editorial Organism and Editorial Team

Cover Image and Publication Details

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Editorial: What does it mean to be human?

Technoetic Arts Volume 20 Numbers 1 & 2 Special Issue:‘Dismantling the Anthropocene: Beyond Binary Categorizations’ TechnoeticArts: A Journal of Speculative Research Volume 20 Numbers 1 & 2 2022 Founding Editor Roy Ascott The Planetary Collegium, UK [roy.ascott@btinternet.com](roy.ascott@btinternet.com) Guest Editor Monika Michałowska Medical University of Łódź [monika.michalowska@umed.lodz.pl](monika.michalowska@umed.lodz.pl) Editorial Organism [editors@technoeticartsjournal.org](editors@technoeticartsjournal.org) Tom Ascott The Royal United Services Institute, UK John Bardakos Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece Dalila Honorato Ionian University, Greece Hu Yong Beihang University, China Claudia Jacques Knowledge Art Studios, USA Claudia Westermann Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Production Manager Faith Newcombe [faith@intellectbooks.com](faith@intellectbooks.com) Please see inside back cover for Board details. Aims and Scope Technoetic Arts aims to provide a forum for the presentation of new ideas, projects and practices arising from the confluence of art, science, technology and consciousness research. It has a special interest in matters of mind and the extension of the senses through technologies of cognition and perception. It will document accounts of transdisciplinary research, collaboration and innovation in the design, theory and production of new systems and structures for life in the twenty-first century, while inviting a re-evaluation of older worldviews, esoteric knowledge and arcane cultural practices. Artificial life, the promise of nanotechnology, the ecology of mixed reality environments, the reach of telematic media, and the effect generally of a post-biological culture on human values and identity, are issues central to the journal’s focus. It welcomes speculative and anticipatory approaches to research, and the unorthodox expression of ideas whenever the topic justifies such innovation. It aims to communicate to an international non-specialist readership. Technoetic Arts is published three times a year by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK. The current subscription rates are £44/$78 (personal), £223/$347 (institutional – online only) and £267/$425 (institutional – print and online) . Prices include UK/US postage. Please add £10 if ordering within the EU and £14 elsewhere. Advertising enquiries should be addressed to: [journals@intellectbooks.com](journals@intellectbooks.com) © 2022 Intellect Ltd. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use or the internal or personal use of specific clients is granted by Intellect Ltd for libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) in the UK or the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Transactional Reporting Service in the USA provided that the base fee is paid directly to the relevant organization. Cover Image: Signs of the Times: Collecting Biological Traces and Memories, aźnia Gallery in Gdańsk. Photograph: Adam Bogdan. Printed and bound in Great Britain by 4edge, UK. Editorial Advisory Board Mohammed Aziz Chafchaouni Foundation Al Andalus, Morocco James K. Gimzewski University of California Los Angeles, USA Steve Grand Cyberlife Research, UK Piet Hut Institute for Advanced Study, USA Eduardo Kac School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Pierre Levy University of Ottawa, Canada Luis Eduardo Luna Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness, Brazil Ryohei Nakatsu Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Diana Slattery Domeworks, USA Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta Independent architect and composer, Portugal Edward Shanken Duke University, USA Neil Spiller University College London, UK Barbara Maria Stafford University of Chicago, USA Victoria Vesna University of California Los Angeles, USA Won-Kon Yi Dankook University, South Ko

FAQs

What is the journal’s main focus in its aims and scope?

The journal focuses on ideas and practices emerging from the confluence of art, science, technology, and consciousness research, particularly extending the senses through technologies of cognition and perception.

Which topics are described as central to the journal’s focus?

Artificial life, the promise of nanotechnology, the ecology of mixed reality environments, the reach of telematic media, and the effects of a post-biological culture on human values and identity.

How does the special issue address existing frameworks about humanity?

It questions notions of the human and human subjectivity, challenging hierarchical and dualistic metaphysics that rely on oversimplifying binary categorizations entrenched in Western philosophy, science, and art.

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