[ecrea] Digital Subjects Workshop

‘Digital Subject’ Workshop


Where: 2S15, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee.

When: 10 am – 6 pm, April 1st 2015 (seriously).

How: places are free, but limited; please confirm attendance by 
registering at the workshop Event Brite page: 
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-subject-uk-tickets-15300193290

Questions:

· How enabling or disabling are concepts such as ‘the network’, 
‘feedback’ and ‘information’ for contemporary forms of life?

· Is the Internet one or many things?

· Is the advent of the ‘Information Age’ something to be welcomed or feared?

· What role can philosophy play in thinking about information and 
communication technologies and forms of subjectivity emerging in 
relation to them?

These questions and other related ones will be tackled in this intensive 
one-day workshop at the University of Dundee.

The workshop is a collaborative initiative between the Scottish Centre 
for Continental Philosophy at Dundee, and the LABEX-sponsored 'Sujet 
Digital' research network centred on the University of Paris VIII. It 
has been made possible by the generous support of Humanities at Dundee, 
and the Scots Philosophical Association.

In the spirit of Humanities research at Dundee, our aim is to bring 
together voices from diverse disciplines (e.g. philosophy, cultural and 
literary studies, media studies, film, and contemporary art practice), 
and to inaugurate a ‘Digital Subject UK’ research network, capable of 
building upon and widening the established research successes of ‘Le 
Sujet Digital’.

Organisers:

Prof. James Williams: (j.r.williams /at/ dundee.ac.uk)

Dr. Dominic Smith: (d.j.y.smith /at/ dundee.ac.uk)

Programme:

* 10:00-10:30 Welcome and Coffee.
* 10:30-11:00 Dominic Smith (University of Dundee): Workshop 
Introduction; ‘Does the Digital Subject Sleep?’
* 11:00-11:30 Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee): ‘Is the Digital 
Subject the Übermensch?’
* 11:30-12:00 Alan Bell (University of Dundee): ‘Paranoia, fictions and 
realities; technological change and the record’.
* 12:00-12:30 Joris Vlieghe (University of Edinburgh): ‘How learning to 
read and write shapes humanity: A technosomatic perspective on 
digitization’.
* 12:30-1:30 Lunch.
* 1:30-2:00 Erika Fulop (University of Hamburg): ‘Weave Your Own Web: 
Authorial Self-representation on the Internet’
* 2:00-2:30 Arnauld Regnauld (University of Paris VIII): ‘Aura is 
Interface:’ Translation and Subjectivity in the Digital Era.
* 2:30-3:00 Claire Larsonneur (University of Paris VIII): ‘Interface me? 
Living 3.0’.
* 3:00-3:15 Break.
* 3:15-3:45 Pierre Cassou Noguès (University of Paris VIII): ‘Body as 
Money’.
* 3:45-4:15 Galit Wellner (Ben Gurion University): ‘Codes of Subjectivity’.
* Tim Barker (University of Glasgow): ‘On Being Con-Temporary: What 
Technical Media Studies Might Offer to Theories of Contemporaneity’.
* 4:45-5:00 Break.
* 5:00-6:00 Archive Visit: Caroline Brown (University of Dundee): 
Archives, Tower Building [*Limited Places*].

Practical Details:

Event Page: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/humanities/events/digitalsubjectuk/

Campus Map (Dalhousie Building = Building 14): 
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/media/dundeewebsite/main/campusmap/campusmap.pdf
Scots Philosophical Association

http://scot-cont-phil.org/

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/humanities

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Dr. Ashley Woodward

Philosophy, School of Humanities

University of Dundee



The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

www.mscp.org.au



Editor, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy

www.parrhesiajournal.org





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