Digital Barricades: interventions in digital culture and politics Symposium and Book Series Launch
Speakers: Jodi Dean, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Joss Hands, Tim Jordan.
Monday May 11th, 1-5pm.
Small Meeting Hall, Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road London NW1 2BJ http://www.friendshouse.co.uk/small-meeting-hall
(Event is free but book via Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-barricades-symposium-and-book-series-launch-tickets-16394774211)
Sponsored by the Centre for Material and Digital Cultures University of Sussex and Pluto Press
Crisis and conflict open up opportunities for liberation. In the early twenty-first century, these moments are marked by struggles enacted over and across the boundaries of the virtual, the digital, the actual, and the real. Digital cultures and politics connect people even as they simultaneously place them under surveillance and allow their lives to be mined for advertising.
Emerging research on digital cultures and politics investigates the effects of the widespread digitisation of increasing numbers of cultural objects, the new channels of communication swirling around us and the changing means of producing, remixing and distributing digital objects. This research tends to oscillate between agendas of hope, that make remarkable claims for increased participation, and agendas of fear, that assume expanded repression and commodification. To avoid the opposites of hope and fear, the books in this series aggregate around the idea of the barricade. As sources of enclosure as well as defenses for liberated space, barricades are erected where struggles are fierce and the stakes are high. They are necessarily partisan divides, different politicizations and deployments of a common surface. In this sense, new media objects, their networked circuits and settings, as well as their material, informational, and biological carriers all act as digital barricades.
This event will examine these issues with leading commentators: Jodi Dean, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Paolo Gerbaudo, Joss Hands, Tim Jordan and Kate O'Riordan. The event will also launch a new book series from Pluto called Digital Barricades and the first to books in that series:
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex Tim Jordan, Information Politics: liberation and exploitation in the digital society
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/726045010837687/
Programme:
1-2 pm Jodi Dean, Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle
2-2.45 Panel 1: 'Objects of resistance: material and immaterial, real and unreal’, Kate O’Riordan, Joss Hands
2.45-3.15 Break
3.15-4.00 Panel 2: 'Networks, Crowds, Information: politics across generations of digital activism', Paolo Gerbaudo, Tim Jordan
4-5.00 Nick Dyer Witheford 'Cybernetics, Class Composition and the Cascade of Struggles'
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