(Academia) Essays on Representations of Disability in Science Fiction

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Greetings -- just boosting the signal re: this announcement. The essay collection seems to be academically oriented, but the notice does state that "Contributions are welcomed from both academic- and arts-based researchers and practitioners from a wide range of critical perspectives". Visit the website for details.
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Representations of Disability in Science Fiction (essay collection; abstracts due Nov. 18/11) Contributions are invited for an essay collection on the representations of disability and the disabled body in science fiction. Technology is often characterized as a cure for the disabled body – one that either elides or exacerbates corporeal difference. From block buster films and televised space operas to cyberpunk and hard SF, disabled bodies are often modified and supported by technological interventions. How are dis/ability, medical “breakthroughs,” (bio) technologies, and the body theorized, materialized, and politicized in science fiction? This collection is particularly interested in the ways dis/abled bodies challenge normative discourses of ability, generate novel spaces of embodiment, and proliferate new understandings of human being.( Read more... )