[ecrea] cfp - Digital Cultures: Knowledge/Culture/Technology conference

*Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology*

International Conference

Leuphana University of Lüneburg

19-22 September 2018, Lüneburg, Germany**

http://digitalculturesconference.org/

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/Organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of 
Lüneburg, and the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney 
University/

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/In collaboration with:/

/Department of Media Studies, University of Siegen/

/Berlin Institute for Empirical Research in Integration and Migration 
(BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin/

/ephemera: theory & politics in organization /

/Meson Press /

*Keynote speakers*

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University

Jennifer Gabrys, Goldsmiths, University of London

*Spotlight panel speakers*

Konrad Becker, Institute for New Culture Technologies-t0 & Public 
Netbase, Vienna

Simon Denny, Artist, Berlin/Auckland

Melissa Gregg, Intel Corporation

Orit Halpern, Concordia University

Nanna Heidenreich, Internationale Filmschule Köln

Lorena Jaume-Palasí, AlgorithmWatch, Berlin

Kara Keeling, University of Southern California

Stephan Scheel, Processing Citizenship Project, Europe

Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts

Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi__

Martina Tazzioli, Swansea University

Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick

*Call for Papers*

The advent and ubiquity of digital media technologies precipitate a 
profound transformation of the spheres of knowledge and circuits of 
culture. Simultaneously, the background operation of digital systems in 
routines of daily life increasingly obscures the materiality and meaning 
of technologically induced change. Computational architectures of 
algorithmic governance prevail across a vast and differentiated range of 
institutional settings and organizational practices. Car assembly 
plants, warehousing, shipping ports, sensor cities, agriculture, 
government agencies, university campuses. These are just some of the 
infrastructural sites overseen by software operations designed to 
extract value, coordinate practices and manage populations in real-time. 
While Silicon Valley holds dominant sway over the design and production 
of the artefacts, practices and institutions that mark digital cultures, 
the architectures and infrastructures of its operations are continually 
rebuilt, hacked, broken and maintained within a proliferation of sites 
across the globe.

To analytically grasp the emerging transformations requires media and 
cultural studies to inquire into the epochal changes taking place with 
the proliferation of digital media technologies. While in many ways the 
digital turn has long been in process, its cultural features and effects 
are far from even or comprehensively known. Research needs to attend to 
the infrastructural and environmental registrations of the digital. 
Critical historiographies attend to the world-making capacities of 
digital cultures, situating the massive diversity of practices within 
specific technical systems, geocultural dynamics and geopolitical 
forces. At the same time the contemporaneity of digital cultures invites 
new methods that draw on digital media technologies as tools, and, more 
importantly, that engage the intersection between media technologies, 
cultural practices and institutional settings. New organizational forms 
in digital economies, new forms of association and sociality, and new 
subjectivizations generated from changing human-machine configurations 
are among the primary manifestations of the digital that challenge 
disciplinary capacities in terms of method. The empirics of the digital, 
in other words, signals a transversality at the level of disciplinarity, 
methods and knowledge production.

This conference brings together research concerned with studying digital 
cultures and the ways that digital media technologies transform 
contemporary culture, society and economy. The hosts specifically 
encourage approaches to digital cultures emerging from media and 
cultural theory, and transnational currents of communications, media and 
science and technology studies. We also explicitly invite researchers 
from digital humanities, digital anthropology, digital sociology, gender 
studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies, architecture, organization 
studies, environmental studies, geography and computer science to engage 
in this endeavor to develop a critical humanities and cultural studies 
alert to the operations, materialities and politics of digital cultures.

The conference will address and invites contributions to the following 
key themes which characterize the technological future-present:

*Historiographies of Digital Cultures*

*Environmental Media, Media Ecologies and the Technosphere*

*Platforms, Commons and Organization*

*Biohacking, Quantification and Data Subjectivities*

*Digital Publics, Movements and Populisms*

*Contemporary Futures and Anticipatory Modelling*

Submissions of individual contributions or plenaries (3-4 
speakers/discussants) are invited addressing each or a cross-section of 
the themes, which will be complemented by a series of keynote speakers 
and three spotlight panels with invited speakers addressing key debates 
within and between these themes.

Deadline for submissions is 30 March 2018

Send to: (submissions /at/ digitalculturesconference.org)
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