[ecrea] Symposium Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures

Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL), Leuphana University Lüneburg

Symposium

Organized by: Prof. Dr. Andreas Bernard, Prof. Dr. Martina Leeker, Dr.
Irina Kaldrack, and Matthias Koch

Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures

Digital technology today provides us with an abundance of information
and, potentially, knowledge that seems to be eliminating all gaps of
non-knowledge. Hosting scholars from diverse fields, such as literary,
media, and social studies, the DCRL’s Symposium aims at critically
discussing such diagnosis and observations. It inverts them by analyzing
the specific functions and forms of non-knowledge in digital cultures.
One basic//interest is thus concerned with the relationship of media
technologically based ubiquitous networking to the productivity of
non-knowledge, especially in human imagination, taking form in, for
example, literature and film or subjective fantasies, desires, and
reminiscences. Second, ascribing to non-knowledge a major significance
in our present days immediately calls for discussing the means, range,
and limits of scientific description and analysis with regard to the
epistemological challenges arising from it.

Digital technology may provide means for facilitating knowledge and
eliminating non-knowledge – and yet the ambivalence of the respective
instruments, such as “algorithm”, “social media”, or “big data”, lies in
the fact that, while their /effects/ – their arrangements and
distributions – are visible to all of us, the specific manner in which
they function remains opaque. This breach or discontinuity leads to the
question of how algorithms can be represented. They regulate our life,
but their governmental principles remain in the dark. Such an analysis
of non-knowledge thus does not at all intend to leave an aftertaste of
irrationality. Instead, it inteds to make a contribution to the analysis
of power structures in the digital age.

PROGRAM

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Venue: Stadtarchiv Lüneburg, Wallstraße

6-8 p.m.

Keynote by Christoph Wulf (Berlin)

“Unknowing and Silent Knowledge. Iconic, performative and material
perspectives”//

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Venue: Musikschule Lüneburg, St.-Ursula-Weg 7

9.30 – 10 a.m.

Introduction

10 – 11 a.m.

Claus Pias, Timon Beyes (Lüneburg/Copenhagen)

“Transparency and secrecy”

//

/coffee break/

11.15 – 12.15 p.m.

Katja Rothe (Berlin)

“Guessing, hesitating, and tarrying. On the media-ecological uses of media”

/Lunch/

2-3 p.m.

Paula Bialski (Lüneburg)

“Fields of Anonymity: a mapping of discourses around trackability,
tracelessness, and accountability in programming worlds”

3-4 p.m.

Noortje Marres (Warwick)

“Could Problems Take the Place of Knowledge in Digital Societies?”

/Coffee break /

4.15 – 5.15 p.m.

John Durham Peters (Iowa City)

“Promiscuous Knowledge, or, Computational and Theological Grounds for
Rejecting Omniscience”

5.15 – 5.45 p.m.

Sum up

6-8 p.m.

Keynote by Eva Illouz (Jerusalem)

“Knowing way too much: Love, Therapy, technology”

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