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Reminder: deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st of February 2010.
Further details below
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*Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics*
*3-4 June 2010, The University of Manchester
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html
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*Plenary speakers:
*Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College)
Patricia Clough (Queens College, CUNY)
Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster University)
Melissa Gregg (The University of Sydney)
Athina Karatzogianni (The University of Hull)
Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith, University of London)**
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Organiser:* Adi Kuntsman (RICC, The University of Manchester)
This two-day international conference brings into creative tension two
fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies
of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand,
and scholarship on digital culture, new media and
information-communication technologies, on the other. The conference
aims to create a space for intellectual dialogue between the two fields
by examining the relations between technologies, and in particular, new
digital technologies -- the Internet, digital cinema and photography,
mobile communication, CCTVs, computer games -- and affective politics.
Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and
cultural studies, arts, politics and science and technology studies, the
conference will engage with the following questions: How does affect
work in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the affective
regimes of on-line sociality? What kind of perceptions, sensations,
affective movements and public feelings emerge in our highly mediated
and digitalised environments? What is the cybertouch of war, violence,
terror? What are the structures of feeling that operate in the
digitalised everyday and computerised ordinary? How can we theorise
psycho-political formations of nation, race, empire, population and
generation in the age of digital reproduction, mediated visions and
globalised communication technologies? How do digital cultures shape our
political horizons of fear, anxiety, mourning, hate, hope?
We invite submission of abstracts for individual papers or round tables.
Alternative presentation formats are welcome; please contact us to
discuss further options. Please send your abstract (300 words for
individual papers, 500 words for round tables) *by 1st of February 2010*
to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Candidates will be notified by 15th of March 2010. Selected papers will
be considered for post-conference publication.
--
Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The University of Manchester
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
_http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html_
_http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com_
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