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<b>Transformations Issue 34 CFP<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b>Inhuman Algorithms<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Algorithms are integral to a digital, networked, automated society. Thrown into the public spotlight by a certain high profile search engine, algorithms are increasingly recognised to exercise
agency in practices such as governance, surveillance, online personalisation, medicine, design, high frequency trading, credit scoring and plagiarism. Computational machines make decisions about things, people, places and experiences, and humans learn to address
algorithms. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Algorithms have inhuman capacities. They do not become distracted, tired, impatient or emotional. At the same time the algorithm’s inhuman abilities can be understood as a desirable improvement
on human skills. Algorithms are inhuman forces that bring social, political, material and cultural formations into being, generating and extinguishing possibilities. Their inhumanism transmutes ideas of the human and demands new (post)humanisms.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">This special issue of Transformations seeks contributions that address the inhuman algorithm. We invite submissions in the areas of critical and cultural studies, media studies, anthropology
and social science, science and technology studies, and creative arts research. Possible topics include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Inhuman excesses of the algorithm – numeration, repetition, information, recursion, logics.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
Human-algorithmic ensembles and demarcations of the human and algorithm.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
Inhuman pasts and futures of the algorithm – precedents, precursors, prospects. <o:p>
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Elites of algorithmic culture.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Algorithmic recognition and its anticipation.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The temporality of algorithms – real time input, prediction, speed.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
The politics of the algorithmic subjectivities and identities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Trust, opaqueness and transparency in algorithms.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The intensification and modification of inhumane practices (poverty, racism, gender bias) by algorithmic processes.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The co-evolution of algorithms, code and big data.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The algorithm’s embedding in and of the social – surveillance, personalisation.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
Hybrid and collaborative human-algorithm cognition. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
Defining and knowing algorithms.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
The materiality of algorithms – computers, sensors, geography, connections.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Abstracts (200-400 words) are due April 30 2019, with a view to submit articles by 30 July 30 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Abstracts should be forwarded to:
<a href="mailto:editor@transformationsjournal.org">editor@transformationsjournal.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p>View the website: <a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org">http://www.transformationsjournal.org</a> </o:p></span></p>
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