[Commlist] Digital Mediation and Working Through in Times of Denial, Disavowal and Splitting: On the Un/Representable - workshop

*Digital Mediation and Working Through in Times of Denial, Disavowal and 
Splitting: On the Un/Representable*

An International Workshop
Organised by Dr Orit Dudai and Assoc. Prof. Jacob Johanssen - Supported 
by the Association for Psychosocial Studies

St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, 14-15 September 2022

An in-person workshop, free lunch and refreshments will be provided. 
Remote participation won't be possible.
The goal of this workshop is for presenters to share work-in-progress 
and engage in collegial discussion with each other and attendees. Places 
are therefore limited.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-tickets-404516629127 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-tickets-404516629127>


We live in a time that is characterised by increasing political 
polarisation, fake news, conspiracy theories and other forms of 
extremism. Recent political developments, such as the post-Trump moment, 
have been credited with an increase in political paranoia and conspiracy 
theories that have spread far and wide on the internet. Social media 
such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram exhibit high levels of misogyny, 
sexism and racism and are described as lacking in empathy, compassion 
and love. Traditional media, such as tabloid and broadsheet journalism 
or television news, also find themselves part of “culture wars” and torn 
between different political positions. Fictional representations of 
trauma, conflict and polarisation as well as working through also have a 
long tradition.

This workshop will explore what role psychoanalysis in combination with 
other disciplines, such as media and communication studies, philosophy 
and sociology, can play in analysing such phenomena, as well as finding 
possible solutions for them.

Do we need a new form of empathy or spirituality? To what extent are 
moments of denial, disavowal and polarization necessary? Can they 
revitalize political culture and society more generally? What are their 
limits? What solutions can be found? How are they intrinsically 
connected to questions of digital mediation and representation? How are 
they represented in film and popular culture? What tensions are revealed 
between what can be represented and what remains unrepresentable?

*Speakers*
Dr Jack Black (Sheffield Hallam University)
Dr Alfie Bown (Royal Holloway University)
Dr Orit Dudai (Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the 
Arts/Bar Ilan University)
Assoc. Professor Jon Hackett (St. Mary’s University)
Assoc. Professor Jacob Johanssen (St. Mary’s University)
Dr Anthony Faramelli (Goldsmiths)
Dr Thi Gammon (Independent Scholar)
Dr Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo)
Dr Em. Sandra Meiri (Open University, Israel)
Professor Raya Morag (The Hebrew University)
Dr Mark Murphy (Independent Scholar)
Professor Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)


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