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The Artificial Body: Cyborgs, Clones and Humanoids in Literature and Media
Edited by İrem Atasoy and Habib Tekin
The edited volume The Artificial Body: Cyborgs, Clones and Humanoids in Literature and Media seeks to explore representations and conceptualizations of artificial, technologically modified, replicated, and human-like bodies from interdisciplinary perspectives. Rather than approaching the artificial body merely as a product of technological development, the volume considers it as a cultural and semiotic site through which changing ideas of embodiment, identity, agency, consciousness, corporeality, and human–machine relations are negotiated. Cyborgs, clones, androids, humanoid robots, synthetic beings, technologically augmented humans, and other forms of artificial or hybrid embodiment have long occupied the cultural imagination. Their representations raise fundamental questions concerning the limits of the human: Where does the human body end and the artificial begin? What happens to identity when the body can be modified, replicated, reconstructed, or manufactured? How do artificial bodies challenge established distinctions between subject and object, organism and machine, self and other? And how do literature and media participate in constructing, questioning, or transforming these boundaries? Situated at the intersections of literary studies, media studies, cultural studies, semiotics, philosophy, and posthumanist and transhumanist thought, the volume welcomes both theoretical contributions and analyses of individual or comparative works.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- cyborgs and hybrid embodiment
- clones, replication, and biological identity
- humanoids, androids, and human-like artificial beings
- artificial bodies and posthuman subjectivity
- transhumanism and technological enhancement
- human–machine boundaries
- embodiment and artificial intelligence
- synthetic and technologically constructed bodies
- body modification and augmentation
- artificial bodies and questions of identity, memory, and consciousness
- the body as sign and the semiotics of artificial embodiment
- gender, sexuality, and artificial bodies
- artificial bodies in science fiction and cyberpunk
- utopian and dystopian representations of technologically transformed bodies
- virtual, digital, and simulated bodies
- avatars and disembodied/re-embodied identities
- artificial bodies and questions of agency and autonomy
- the uncanny, the monstrous, and the artificial human
- ethics and politics of creating, modifying, and replicating bodies
- historical transformations in representations of artificial humans
Contributions may examine literary texts, films, television series, graphic narratives, video games, digital narratives, or other relevant media and may employ approaches from literary and cultural studies, media and film studies, semiotics, multimodality, narratology, posthumanism, transhumanism, critical theory, gender studies, or related fields. The volume will be published as part of Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology by Maurer Press, an interdisciplinary series bringing philological research into dialogue with contemporary approaches from literary, linguistic, cultural, media, and related fields.
Submission Guidelines
Abstract length: 300–500 words
Include: title, author name, affiliation, ORCID
Formatting: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing
Abstract submission deadline: December 4, 2026
CPC: The CPC for publication in this volume is 150 Euro per chapter.
Publisher: Maurer Press, Germany
Important Notes
Full chapter length, style sheet, and timeline will be communicated upon abstract acceptance. All submissions should be original and not under consideration elsewhere. The editors and publisher reserve the right to make final selections based on peer review and fit with the volume.
Please send abstracts and inquiries to:
irem.atasoy@istanbul.edu.tr and habib.tekin@marmara.edu.tr
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