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Security Bytes
Security/Life/Terror
Interdisciplinary Colloquium
July 17th - 19th 2004
Department of Politics & International Relations
Lancaster University
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Security bites. Security identifies 'life' as that which needs securing.
But what is the 'life' that is to be secured? And why is it that in
'securing life', life itself is always threatened? From the microbe to the
machine to the machinegun, security breeds insecurity. By considering how
security bytes, this colloquium focuses attention upon the increasing
convergence of digital networks, images, and formats with biopolitical,
post-biological, and subatomic 'life'.
The Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster
University is hosting this interdisciplinary conference from July 17th-19th
2004 to address emerging debates at the nexus of securitization,
digitialization, and molecularization and their implications for a broad
understanding of global politics and developmental life.
Confirmed speakers include:
Brian Massumi, author of Parables for the Virtual
Michael Shapiro, author of Violent Cartographies
Kathryn Hayles, author of How we became post-human
Richard Doyle, author of Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living
Confirmed panels include:
The Terror, Locating Security, PeaceWar, Society Must be Defended,
Aesthetics of Fear, Beyond Security, The Camp
Additional paper abstracts and panel proposals of no more than 400 words are
solicited from scholars in any discipline whose work creatively engages with
these themes. Explorations of how security bytes using digital media (short
films, photo essays, small installations) are also welcome.
Please send proposals to Danielle Beswick, Conference Administrator,
Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University,
Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YL, United Kingdom. Email:
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See our website for further information and on-line booking forms at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/politics/rsch/security%20bytes.htm
Proposal Deadline: 1 March 2004
Booking Deadline: 1 April 2004
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