CCSR’s seminar series for 2012-13 brings together a diverse set of concerns
under the heading of Culture and Polity, interrogating urgent questions of
cultural change in the context of new forms of community, contemporary
commodity forms and government policy. In Seminar 2 our invited speakers
will be examining the post-neoliberal subject as produced by the strategies
of behavioural economics, security screening and the discourse of virology.
What is the meaning of community and the social under these conditions? What
forms of governance emerge from new techniques of securitisation and
behaviour management and what are the implications for democratic processes?
Seminar 2 >> Security, Community & Democracy <<, February 6th, 2013,
2-4.30pm, University of East London, Docklands Campus
http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/. Room EB.G.10 (East Building)
*Will Davies: 'Experiments in Community: Relational Government and Audit
After Neoliberalism'*.
Will Davies is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary
Methodologies, University of Warwick. His research looks at the policy uses
of economic techniques and methods, especially with respect to the promotion
of competitiveness and wellbeing.
*Tony D Sampson: 'The Immunologic Strategem: How to Spread Fear by Not
Specifying Whom Your Enemy Is*'
Tony D. Sampson is a Reader in Digital Media and Communications at the
University of East London. His ongoing interest in contagion theory is
reflected in his recent publications, including The Spam Book: On Viruses,
Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture (2009), which
he coedited with Jussi Parikka, and Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of
Networks published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2012. He blogs
at http://viralcontagion.wordpress.com/
*Mark Maguire: 'Policing the Emotions: Abnormal Behaviour Detection in
Counter-Terrorism Operations*'
Mark Maguire is Head of the Department of Anthropology, National University
of Ireland, Maynooth. He researches the technologies and processes of
securitization, especially counter-terrorism, biometric security, affective
computing and the detection of abnormal behaviour and 'malintent'.
Chair: Debra Benita Shaw, School of Arts & Digital Industries, UEL. Full
details here http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/?page_id=1046
Dr Debra Benita Shaw
Reader in Cultural Theory/Programme Leader, Cultural Studies
School of Arts & Digital Industries
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London, E16 2RD, UK
http://culturalstudiesresearch.org
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