#Neoliberation: The Self in the Era of New Media
Conference at the Centre for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
9-10 June 2015
Free and open to all
http://neoliberation.tumblr.com
Is liberation passé? Or has liberation, in light of the potentialities
offered by a spectrum of new media, gained new relevance as a concept
and ideal - in other words, are we seeing the emergence of a
“neoliberation”? The proliferation of new media primarily, but not
exclusively, conditioned by the popularity and spread of the internet,
has fundamentally changed the world in which we are situated when it
comes to social relations, community, politics and the forming of the
self. This new landscape, which we, as a global community, are now a
part of, conditions and enables our thinking about questions concerning
the self, identity and emancipation.
How do language, media and technology bring about contemporary
understandings of who we are? What, indeed, is new about “new media” -
if anything at all? How does the proliferation of media interact with a
neoliberal capitalist economy and, given this context, how can we
conceive of emancipation? What political potentialities are contained in
new media, and how do they express themselves (for example in feminist
and postcolonial movements)? In other words, is liberation still, or
again, possible, or is this “neoliberation” simply a myth recounted by a
curated neoliberal self?
Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG001:
09.00 – 09.30: Coffee & Welcome
09.30 – 11.00: Panel I: (Self-)Surveillance and Models of Life
11.00 – 11.15: Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45: Keynote by Joanna Zylinska: ‘Neoliberation of the Eye/I:
Nonhuman Vision’
12.45 – 13.45: Lunch break
13.45 – 15.15: Keynote by Angela McRobbie: ‘Unpacking the Politics of
the Creative Industries’
15.15 – 15.45: Coffee break
15:45 – 17.15: Panel II: Participation and Emancipation in Visual Cultures
Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG002:
09.00 – 09.15: Coffee & Welcome
09.15 – 10.45: Panel III: Power and Politics in New Spaces
10.45 – 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30: Keynote by Matthew Fuller: ‘Black Sites & Transparency
Layers’
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch break
13.30 – 15.00: Panel IV: Neoliberal Narcissus: Self-representation and
Self-branding
15.00 – 15.15: Coffee break
15.15 – 16.00: Performance lecture, TBA
16.00 – 18.30: Break
18.30 – 21.45: Arts Night at The Albany (15 min walk from Goldsmiths)
followed by reception
More details and full programme:
http://neoliberation.tumblr.com
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Professor Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net
Curator of Photomediations Machine & Photomediations: An Open Book
http://www.photomediationsmachine.net
http://photomediationsopenbook.net
NEW BOOK, Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene, available open access:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/minimal-ethics.html
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