[ecrea] Media Archaeology Workshop - Film Forum - Gorizia XVI Magis International Film Studies Spring School

*Media Archaeology Workshop - **Technologies of Power / Power of Technology*
Film Forum - XVI Magis International Film Studies Spring School*
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Gorizia, Università degli studi di Udine-Italy
March 3rd-7th 2018

Drawing on the theoretical frame elaborated during the last Film Forum 
(more specifically, as regards the notion of technological network), in 
the XVI Edition of our Spring School the Media Archaeology section will 
focus on the two-fold concept of “technologies of power / power of 
technology”. In other words, we aim to investigate how technological 
devices have taken shape in past and contemporary media landscapes in 
forms of “power” – a system for gathering consensus, for repression, for 
developing a “sense of community”, for elaborating political and social 
identities, for negotiating new syntheses between bios and zoé (Esposito 
2004; see also Parikka 2010; Väliaho 2010), for taking part in a 
bioderegulated society (Hennessy 2007, Crary 2013), and so on. 
Questioning the concept of dispositif (see Albera, Tortajada 2015) and 
the application of the notion of agencement by Deleuze and Guattari 
(Deleuze, Guattari 1980) to the field of film and media studies (Casetti 
2016), we will target the ways in which the technical basis of the 
dispositif engage in dialogue with “key notions or typesnotions [...], 
which at a given historical moment come to define a given dispositive”, 
and with the social and political stances of a specific 
timespan/geographical context. More specifically, we will focus on how 
the dispositif/agencement shapes “political subjectivities” and, 
vice-versa, how these subjectivities “perform” the dispositif, thereby 
transforming it. Moreover, we would like to stress the importance of the 
notion of “power” in respect to technological hardware and software: 
power as “life” of a technology; power as the “energy” set free by 
technological apparatuses, etc.

More specifically, we will welcome proposals on the following topics:

  * media technology and microphysics/biopolitics;
  * media dispositif/agencement and agency:
    media dispositions and “media gestures”, media and cultural agencies
    in the second half of the XXth century and in the XXIst century,
    media hacking, media and protests/strikes, etc;
  * media technologies of gender: media technology and Feminist Theory,
    discourses on media practices and gender;
  * media technology and Critical Race Theory;
  * media technologies and networks in post-industrial societies;
  * technologies, hardware and bodies: technology and embodiment,
    cyborgs, simians, cyberpunk culture, zombie media, etc.;
  * media technology and the everyday life: amateur practices and power
    relations in the XXth century and XXIst century, discourses on media
    in everyday life;
  * media hardware bricolage, hardware assembling/dismantling, hardware
    as a black box, etc.
  * power and energy: “how integrated are the circuits between physical
    modes of energy and physiological sources, between physiology and
    the psyche” (Elsaesser 2016);
  * power and the impact of connectivity, technological acceleration and
    the redefinition of temporality in the technological
    turbo-capitalistic societies (Crary 2013) etc.

We invite you to send us proposals for papers or panels. The deadline 
for their submission is October, 25th 2017. Proposals should not exceed 
one page in length. Please make sure to attach a short CV (10 lines 
max). A registration fee (€ 150) will be applied. For more information, 
please contact us at *(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)>*


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