About the Journal

Indiscipline is a refuge for transdisciplinary scholarly work that offers ethical and political insights and dis/orientations into technologized worlds. Technologization refers to the mobilization of various representational forms and devices, such as code, data, algorithms, symbol systems, hardware and machines, etc., which often promise to transform experience into calculable, standardize-able, track-able and commensurable categories. Technologized worlds refers to both professional and educational contexts within which technologized disciplines -- including, but not limited to, art, medicine, sciences, engineering, climate and environmental sciences, social sciences, humanities, etc. -- shape practice, praxis, experience and societies. 

We are interested in papers that adopt both critical-historical and transdisciplinary approaches and that are particularly attentive to the intersectional, moral-ethical, and geo-political dimensions of technologized worlds in disciplinary, professional and educational contexts. We encourage submissions that offer theoretical critiques, and/or, empirical accounts of resistance to the construction of ideal societies, environments and bodies that are conjured technologically. We especially welcome transdisciplinary contributions from diverse and intergenerational teams of scholars, that bring together disciplines, and transgress “normal” views edified within technoscientific disciplines.

Some questions at the heart of our imaginations are: How are epistemologies and practices in technologized disciplines shaped by the ineffable dimensions of human experiences and histories? How do colonization, migration and labour shape technologized disciplines, education (at all levels, and within and outside classrooms and labs), and our emergent societies?  How does disciplinary work with technologies - both in professional and educational contexts - silence, exclude, harm and even co-opt marginalized peoples and their voices? How can we imagine different futures of disciplinary work and education that center artistic, humanistic, moral-ethical, and environmental dimensions of life?  

We seek empirical and theoretical manuscripts, between 3000 - 8000 words (excluding references, figures and tables) to be submitted through our online submission system. Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers, with an expected turnaround time of 3-4 months. We will be publishing two issues per year, and all articles will be published in Open Access form.

Editors: 

Dr. Pratim Sengupta, Professor, Learning Sciences & Computational Media Design, University of Calgary

Dr. Ariel Ducey, Professor & Chair, Sociology, University of Calgary

Editorial Board:

Coming soon