The Information Premodern

Engagements with information and mis-/dis-/malinformation in Chaucer’s England and beyond. Politics, ethics, (meta)physics, and phenomenology. Intent, malice, violence, toxicity, and interpellation. Periodizing and aestheticizing impulses. Genres of information writing. Premodern vs. modern theories. 250-word abstracts.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 18 March 2022

Paul Megna, State U of New York, Purchase C (paul.megna@purchase.edu ) Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington & Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu )