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[ecrea] Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics

Thu Oct 22 19:24:05 GMT 2009



Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics

3-4 June 2010, The University of Manchester
<http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html>http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html


Plenary speakers:
Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College)
Patricia Clough (Queens College, CUNY)
Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster University)
Melissa Gregg (The University of Sydney)
Athina Karatzogianni (The University of Hull)
Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith, University of London)


Organiser: Adi Kuntsman (RICC, The University of Manchester)


This two-day international conference brings into creative tension two fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand, and scholarship on digital culture, new media and information-communication technologies, on the other. The conference aims to create a space for intellectual dialogue between the two fields by examining the relations between technologies, and in particular, new digital technologies ? the Internet, digital cinema and photography, mobile communication, CCTVs, computer games ? and afffective politics.

Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, arts, politics and science and technology studies, the conference will engage with the following questions: How does affect work in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the affective regimes of on-line sociality? What kind of perceptions, sensations, affective movements and public feelings emerge in our highly mediated and digitalised environments? What is the cybertouch of war, violence, terror? What are the structures of feeling that operate in the digitalised everyday and computerised ordinary? How can we theorise psycho-political formations of nation, race, empire, population and generation in the age of digital reproduction, mediated visions and globalised communication technologies? How do digital cultures shape our political horizons of fear, anxiety, mourning, hate, hope?

We invite submission of abstracts for individual papers or round tables. Alternative presentation formats are welcome; please contact us to discuss further options. Please send your abstract (300 words for individual papers, 500 words for round tables) by 1st of February 2010 to <mailto:(Adi.kuntsman /at/ manchester.ac.uk)>(Adi.kuntsman /at/ manchester.ac.uk). Candidates will be notified by 15th of March 2010. Selected papers will be considered for post-conference publication.

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Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The University of Manchester
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
<http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html>http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html
http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com

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