Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics
3-4 June 2010, The University of Manchester
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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
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