[ecrea] Work and Play Conference CFP

Work and Play: An Interdisciplinary Conference
6th July 2016
Hosted by Futureworks Media School, Manchester, UK.

Twenty-first century culture is reaching a crisis. Everywhere people are 
working, but seemingly nowhere are they getting paid. The workers 
generating cultural productions – “creatives” – have never been more 
ideologically valued, while the products of their creation – “content” – 
have arguably never been valued less. Traditional distinctions between 
work and play may no longer carry meaning, but what new patterns of 
production and consumption have arisen in their place? This conference 
aims to bring together researchers from media, music and sound, video 
games, film and TV, animation, sociology, history, literature, politics, 
art and aesthetics, to interrogate what it really means to work and play 
in the contemporary moment.

Abstracts for 20-minute papers are welcomed on subjects including, but 
not limited to:

•	How have working practices changed within the creative industries?
•	How does the contemporary cultural imagination conceive of work, or of 
play?
•	Should enjoyment be considered a form of labour if it generates capital?
•	What does it mean to play at working, or to work at playing?
•	What constitutes a “work”, be it a work of genius or a work-in-progress?
•	The working versus the broken. The playing versus the paused.
•	Working across mediums, from radio plays to Let’s Plays.
•	Play as a process of psychological working-through.

Please submit 250 word abstracts with accompanying 50-word bio and 5 
keywords to the conference organisers at 
(workandplayconference /at/ futureworks.co.uk) by 14th March 2016.

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