Network Politics: Objects,
Subjects and New Political Affects
October 22-23, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
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>A Symposium co-sponsored by the AHRC funded "New Configurations
of
>Network Politics" project at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
UK,
>and the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media, Ryerson
>University, Canada
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>In the network age, the question of political agency is becoming
>increasingly troublesome, with a pressing need to reflect upon how
>collective distributed networks as well as non-human actants
>re-define the field of the political.
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>This symposium will investigate what counts as a political object or
>subject , and how such objects/subjects circulate and are controlled
>in the context of developing critical approaches to networked
politics.
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>The symposium seeks to build upon object-oriented philosophy, which
>has shifted the language of coding and programming into the domain
>of 'tool-being'. In so doing a correlate possibility of a 'web' of
>subject-oriented objects emerges, opened up by hyper-personalized
>web services and control techniques that shape and recombine
>pseudo-subjects from the bio-political detritus of data-mining
>software and algorithmic protocols. In the face of such new
>assemblages, what sites, actants, and tactics potentially reinvent
>new political affects?
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>The symposium welcomes interventions on related questions and topics
>that answer or complicate the notion of the 'objects' and 'subjects'
>of network politics. The symposium seeks paper proposals that touch
>upon the following set of themes:
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>- Theories and case studies of object/subject-oriented politics
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>- Networking of political artifacts: politicizing "participatory
culture"
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>- New epistemologies for networked politics
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>- Politics 2.0: personalization, customization and surveillance
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>- Activist platforms and recursive publics
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>The event takes place October 22 & 23, 2010 at Ryerson
University,
>Toronto and is co-hosted by the Infoscape Centre for the Study of
>Social Media and the AHRC funded project New Configurations of
>Network Politics at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge UK.
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>Deadlines:
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>Paper proposals (400 words): due 2 August, 2010
>Acceptances: August 15, 2010
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>Please email proposals to Network Politics Project -
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(contact /at/ networkpolitics.org) or directly
>contact
(jussi.parikka /at/ anglia.ac.uk)
and/or
(joss.hands /at/ anglia.ac.uk)
>. For other inquiries about the event please contact
(gelmer /at/ ryerson.ca)
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>Symposium programming commmittee: Jussi Parikka (Anglia Ruskin U.),
>Joss Hands (Anglia Ruskin U.), Greg Elmer (Ryerson University),
>Ganaele Langlois (U. of Ontario Institute of Technology), and
>Alessandra Renzi (Ryerson University)
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