[ecrea] CFP: MAGIS Gorizia Spring School 2017 - MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY - "Networks"

*CALL FOR PAPERS / DEADLINE EXTENSION!*
Gorizia Spring School 2017
29 March – 1 April, Gorizia

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art)

MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY SECTION

/Networks/
Within the general frame of the “postmodern” topic of the MAGIS Spring 
School, the Media Archaeology team will bring its dialectical and 
critical position into the debate: the deep-time orientation of its 
inspiration invites contribution that could question the legitimacy of 
the "post-modern" definition itself, from the standpoint of an 
archaeology of "networks." In the decline of the Fordist economies, and 
in the rise of the post-industrial information, the human subjects 
thrive on new forms of network interactions, in which their integrity is 
paradoxically threatened. Television and video technology, the emergence 
of forms of teletext and telesoftwares, microprocessing developments in 
broadcasting, and a number of information and communication technologies 
occupy domestic time and space, alongside the video-recorder, the 
computer and the telephone, as well as the Walkman ecc. (David Morley): 
the invisible net of information become exposed and its material nature 
surfaces alongside new forms of human interactions, in a complex and 
sometimes original way. A resistant ambiguity become patent, and it 
permeates the machinic and the material nature of the networks’ 
existence: “a dominant form describing the nature of control today, as 
well as resistance to it” (Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker). 
Departing from this premise, a deeper archaeological focus could 
excavate the surface of networks to reconfigure an alternative history 
of them: more specifically, we aim to retrace the deep time veins in the 
material emergence of networks during the Television era; to target the 
interrelationships between the machinic networks and the processes of 
subjectivation (Guattari) they enable, in respect to past and today’s 
network systems; to understand how networks entail their subjects, but 
also how networks negotiate new objectification processes and 
inter-objectivity (Sobchack, Stiegler) as well as de-subjectivation 
(Agamben).
Drawing on these premises, we invite papers that reflect on (but not 
limited to):
- Network’s Spatiality and Environments in the 80s and 90s
- Networks and Subjectivity in the Television Era
- Cybernetic Networks
- Networks, Power and Dispositives
- Television and video technology
- Broadcasting Systems
- Media Archaeology of Networks
- Media Archaeology of the Net
- Networks & Swarms

The organizers invite single papers and panel proposals

New Deadline for proposals: January 8, 2017

Authors will be notified by January 10, 2017 if their proposals have 
been accepted.
Proposals should not exceed one page in length. Please make sure to 
attach a short CV (10 lines max).
A registration fee (€ 150) will be applied.
Submit proposals to: (goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)>
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