The Lived Logics of Database Machinery
A one-day workshop organised by Computational Culture
www.computationalculture.net<http://www.computationalculture.net>
Date: Thursday 28th June, 10am - 6pm
Location: The Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road, London
With many of the most significant changes in the organisation and distribution of knowledge, practices of control, forms of communication and modes of governance taking shape around it, the database has remained surprisingly recalcitrant to anything other than technical forms of analysis. As a grey media technology, its ostensibly neutral technicity has allowed it to play a significant - yet largely overlooked - role in the ongoing modelling of populations and the configuration of practices, from organisational labour through knowledge production to creative practice.
The importance of the database for processes of gathering and analysing information has been a theme of many studies (especially those relating to surveillance) but the specific agency of the database as an active mediator in its own right, an actor in the construction, organisation and modification of social relations is less well understood.
This one-day workshop, organised by Computational Culture with the financial assistance of Middlesex University, seeks to redress this state of affairs with a series of papers and a roundtable discussion addressing the theme of the 'the social dynamics and political logics of database technologies'.
Programme attached.
The workshop is free but places are limited
Andrew Goffey
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