[ecrea] Extended CFP 'Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process'

> Extended Call For Papers:
>
> 'Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process'
>
> Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK - 25 & 26 March 2010
>
> We invite the submission of abstracts for the first event of the 
> AHRC funded networking project 'Exploring New Configurations of 
> Network Politics'. The event will combine a series of short papers 
> followed by round table discussions and interventions exploring the 
> issues and challenges raised by those papers. The attempt to grasp 
> the depth and breadth of network politics demands novel and 
> transdisciplinary approaches not always native to the humanities and 
> social sciences, such as graph theory and the study of code as 
> cultural practice. Thus there is a drive to explore the broad 
> spectrum of practices and discourses to help rethink the 
> articulations of politics in network culture. New modes of political 
> activity that take advantage of new platforms from Twitter to 
> YouTube necessitate new conceptual positions for network culture, 
> counter-power and resistance. The papers should work towards 
> adapting concepts such as, for example but by no means exclusively, 
> the Multitude, free and immaterial labour, emergence, swarms and 
> 'smart mobs' and new forms of creation, activism and engagement in 
> civil society. The aim is to rethink what we understand by politics. 
> Further questions which need to be asked include: what kind of 
> epistemologies do we need to incorporate into our analysis? How can 
> we take into account the particularities of networks when 
> approaching the elusive, ephemeral nature of politics of/in 
> networks? These are just examples of the directions into which 
> considerations of "network politics" might lead us.
>
> Because this is such a fast developing and challenging arena of 
> research the event will aim to be open and fluid, encouraging 
> engagement, conversation and innovation wherever possible, while 
> focusing on this core problematic of the tools and processes for 
> thinking network politics. The papers should be in the format of 
> short (max 10 minute) position papers on key concepts or keywords 
> that lead into group work and discussions into the questions of 
> network politics and methods and approaches for analysis. Instead of 
> normal academic papers followed by a short Q&A, we would like the 
> event to encourage collaboration, collective discussions and agenda setting.
>
> Confirmed participants include Professor Greg Elmer, Dr Olga 
> Goriunova, Dr Ganaele Langlois and Dr Tony D. Sampson and awaiting 
> final confirmation from Professor Douglas Kellner
>
>
> Deadline for abstracts: February 5th 2010.
>
>
> Please submit your abstracts to (contact /at/ networkpolitics.org) or 
> directly to (joss.hands /at/ anglia.ac.uk) and/or (jussi.parikka /at/ anglia.ac.uk)
>
>
> The project has also a website where more information can be found 
> and where we encourage people to register and participate in the 
> project: <http://www.networkpolitics.org>http://www.networkpolitics.org
>
>
>
>
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> Excellent' or 'World-leading'.
> Among the academic disciplines now rated 'World-leading' are Allied 
> Health Professions Art English Language Geography & Environmental 
> Studies; History; Music; Psychology; and Social Work & Social Policy 
> & Administration.
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