<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e974f8b5-7fff-8d9a-5e59-e17c11619404"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On behalf of my co-editor, Beth Semel, and me, I’m excited to share the following CFA for a special issue, “Narrating AI Past, Present, and Future.” Following a successful pair of AAA panels on this theme in New Orleans and an initial expression of interest from the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">International Journal of the Sociology of Language</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, we plan to submit our special issue proposal later this year, with an intended publication date of late 2027 or early 2028.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Below, please find the abstract, instructions, and timeline for submitting your proposed contributions. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Questions? Feel free to get in touch with Josh (</span><a href="mailto:joshua_babcock@brown.edu" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">joshua_babcock@brown.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and Beth (</span><a href="mailto:bsemel@princeton.edu" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">bsemel@princeton.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Josh & Beth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--</span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:19pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Narrating AI Past, Present, and Future</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AI has changed everything. AI “itself” is also constantly changing, whether to an unprecedented degree or in unprecedented ways. The change is impossible to keep up with, or is so fast that every attempt at study is outdated before it’s begun. Ethnography is seen as poorly suited to deal with this constant, unprecedented change, and even critical scholars of language seem to forget that “newness and emergence are not self-evident features or properties of the phenomena about which they are predicated…[but] are effects of ideological work” (Babcock forthcoming, 1).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Claims like these resound both in and outside the academy, often cloaked in seemingly analytical language that obscures their interpretive and empirical paucity. This special issue adopts a different tack. While contemporary “data- and compute-intensive technologies that travel under the sign of AI” (Suchman 2023, 4) may present genuinely new techno-scientific, machinic affordances, many of the supposed novelties associated with this diverse category of technology are anything but—nor are the narratives, values, or interpretations assigned to them by individuals, groups, and institutions across both expert-technical and nonexpert domains. Authors in this issue explore how regimes of value, narratives, and metaphors reflexively framed as belonging to prior social-space-times continue to haunt systems and statistical techniques labeled as “AI” in the present, not despite but </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">because of</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> diverse narratives asserting its radical novelty (Choi and Babcock 2024).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We ask: what linguistic and semiotic resources do individuals, groups, and institutions draw on to construct or deconstruct the novelty of so-called AI technologies? How are AI technologies—symbolic, connectionist, generative, and otherwise—embedded in and co-constitutive of collective lifeworlds in ways that are neither determining and determined nor independent of history? What enfleshed, immaterialized, or absented agencies trail behind or snake through these technologies? How do epistemic and systemic violences—racism, sexism, anti-Blackness, white supremacy, ableism, and other intersectionally compounding oppressive structures (Noble 2018; Benjamin 2019; Semel 2022; 2026; Seaver 2022; Wilf 2023)—haunt and interpenetrate with the functioning and uses of, as well as narratives about, them? And how does the functioning of “AI” get rendered inscrutable in some contexts—made “invisible by its own success” (Latour 1999, 304)—while in others opened wide to explanations with varying degrees of “truth,” “facticity,” or other forms of legitimization? </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This special issue contributes to ethnographic explorations of AI by bringing together grounded-theoretical approaches that attend to how AI is in the world, how the world is in AI, and how situated social actors make sense of the relationships between the two. While language is important, we heed ongoing calls to extend scholarly attention beyond the speech event (Wortham and Reyes 2015) and decenter language, “not [to] abandon our disciplinary commitments [but to] refin[e] them through ‘critical humility’” (Duchêne 2026, 175–76). Similarly, we take neither newness nor continuity as given, nor do we treat AI as a monolith. Instead, we track “the social organization of linguistic behavior” (Fishman 1972, 1) as it is co-constituted by, and co-constitutive of, technological actants as well as “attitudes…and overt behaviors toward” (ibid) technologies, language, and their users.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timeline and Next Steps</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interested contributors should send titles, abstracts (150 words), and short bios (100 words) to Josh (<a href="mailto:joshua_babcock@brown.edu">joshua_babcock@brown.edu</a>) and Beth (<a href="mailto:bsemel@princeton.edu">bsemel@princeton.edu</a>) by </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, August 28, 2026</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Decisions will be returned on Friday, September 4, together with feedback on the abstracts. Other key dates are as follows:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, September 25, 2026</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Final, revised abstracts due to Josh and Beth</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, December 11, 2026</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Full papers due to Josh and Beth</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">References</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-left:22pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 22pt"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Babcock, Joshua. Forthcoming. “New and Emergent Languages.” In </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2nd Edition, edited by Nancy Bonvillain and Inmaculada García-Sánchez. London: Routledge.</span></font></p><font size="1"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-left:22pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 22pt"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Benjamin, Ruha. 2019. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New York: Polity Press.</span></font></p><font size="1"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-left:22pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 22pt"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Choi, Elina, and Joshua Babcock. 2024. “American Paranoia: Media Narratives of AI as an ‘Amoral Superman.’” </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CaMP Anthropology, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">September 30. <</span><a href="https://campanthropology.org/2024/09/30/american-paranoia-media-narratives-of-ai-as-an-amoral-superman/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://campanthropology.org/2024/09/30/american-paranoia-media-narratives-of-ai-as-an-amoral-superman/</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">></span></font></p><font size="1"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-left:22pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 22pt"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duchêne, Alexandre. 2026. “Problems with Problems and Solutions in Applied Linguistics: Some Considerations and Propositions.” In </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-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,136);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Brown University, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">Box 1921, Providence, RI 02912</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:9pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="mailto:joshua_babcock@brown.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">joshua_babcock@brown.edu</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:9pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://joshuababcock.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">joshuababcock.com</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></span></div></span></div></div></div>