[Commlist] Postdoc Position 2 years: "Contagious Digitalities" Leiden University

Link to the vacancy page: 
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2024/q2/24-38314981postdoctoral-researcher-in-the-project-contagious-digitalities-information-inoculation-immunity

Application Deadline : 30 September 2024 (via Leiden University website)

Project Description : Contagious Digitalities: Information, Inoculation, 
Immunity

This project examines the relationship between metaphors of contagion, 
spread, inoculation, and immunity in connection to problems of risk, 
information, data and the digital. The intent is to make visible a 
politics of inoculation that remains hidden from sight. A politics that 
is concerned with calculating, predicting, and managing the risk of 
contagion through the enforcement of inoculative policies first 
registered in Michel Foucault’s lectures on security, territory, and 
population, and aimed at the immunization of networks of control and 
information against noise, disruption, and breakdowns in communication 
(e.g. Deleuze, Serres, Mitropoulos).

As a result of COVID-19, recent years have seen an increase in 
theoretical, literary, and artistic work around issues of disease and 
vaccination. There, contagion, immunity, and inoculation are often 
understood in their biomedical inflection. This project investigates how 
inoculation operates not only in relation to the body, however, but 
proliferates outwards to the internet, the digital, and the operation of 
networks and protocols as diagrams of power (e.g. Guattari, Thacker).

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who is interested in doing 
theoretically inflected and politically urgent work on the intersection 
between digital culture and viral metaphors. The successful applicant 
must have a background in Cultural Analysis and/or Media Studies and is 
interested in the politics of the digital and bio- and necropolitical 
questions around immunity and inoculation. The successful candidate will 
study digital culture and metaphors of contagion through close readings 
of literature, art and other cultural objects. As part of their 
application, the candidate is asked to write a brief justification for 
the inclusion of a case study that they would like to work on as part of 
this project. The successful applicant will be given the chance to 
structure and further develop this project according to their own 
research interests.

For more information please consult: 
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2024/q2/24-38314981postdoctoral-researcher-in-the-project-contagious-digitalities-information-inoculation-immunity

Latest publication:

/“/Data that should not have been given: noise and immunity in James 
Newitt’s /HAVEN/” - 
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2022-0202/html 
<https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2022-0202/html>

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