[ecrea] Call For Papers, Symposium: Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects

>Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects
>October 22-23, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
>
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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?
>
>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"
>
>- New epistemologies for networked politics
>
>- Politics 2.0: personalization, customization and surveillance
>
>- Activist platforms and recursive publics
>
>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.
>
>Deadlines:
>
>Paper proposals (400 words): due 2 August, 2010
>Acceptances: August 15, 2010
>
>Please email proposals to Network Politics Project - 
>(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)
>
>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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