Call for papers to Nº10, December 2021

2020-09-14

RECEPTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SECTION "STUDIES" CORRESPONDING TO Nº10, DECEMBER 2021

Monograph: Culture, Technology and Human Nature

 

Culture and technology are part of our identity as a species. From the outset, the biological dimension of the person, together with culture and technology, forms an indestructible braid, which develops in the manner of a true co-evolutionary process. But what role does technology, which has become technology in conjunction with science, play today? Is it still an instrument at our service, or has it acquired its own, perhaps alienating, dynamics? How does it relate to our human nature? Can we still think of it as a point of reference, or is it merely a substrate, raw material for modification and, finally, an obstacle? Should we prepare ourselves for the world of the future and the new normalities, or should we rather think about what world we want to live in?

These questions are not new. Ancient philosophers postulated the mimetic and cooperative nature of the arts, as well as the possibility of their denaturalisation when disproportion gave rise to Hubris. Closer to us, many thinkers, linked to the humanities, the social sciences or epistemology, and from the most disparate traditions, have speculated in depth about the role of technology and its relationship with the entire human condition.

The present issue aims to be situated in this fertile and necessary field of sapiential speculation about technology, its scope, its promises and its risks.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of the topics covered:

  1. Nature, culture and technology in human history
  2. The humanities and the fine arts in the face of the challenge of technology.
  3. Ontological status of technological entities and processes.
  4. The debate on the moral asepsis of technology.
  5. The two-way relationship between science and technology.
  6. Forms of human relationship with technology: instrumentalisation or dependence?
  7. Technological neo-determinism: utopian and dystopian visions.
  8. The intrusion of technology in the human body: medicalisation of physical, cognitive and affective capacities.
  9. Anthropothecnics and the transhumanist story.
  10. The process of technological invention: intuition, creativity and contemporary theories of rational decision.
  11. The values of technology: progress and sustainability. The management of the limits of growth.

 

Associated editors:

Dr. Mariano Asla (Universidad Austral) masla@austral.edu.ar

Dr. Alfredo Marcos Martínez (Universidad de Valladolid) amarcos@fyl.uva.es

 

Contributions sent must be original and unpublished and must not be subject to arbitration in other publications. Likewise, they must respect the editorial rules of the journal: http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/about/submissions

 

The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2021, and papers should be sent to: revistahumanidades@um.edu.uy

 

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ISSN: 1510-5024 (en papel) ISSN: 2301-1629 (en línea)