Dear colleagues,
this is a last reminder to our panel organised at ASA 2018 - to those
who explore material cultures, media and technologies, from the
circumpolar regions to the heartlands of science cultures, to those,
who wonder about how the ludic changes things, and the materiality of
fun, this is your panel!
Please upload your submissions until April 20th here:
https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6788
eingereicht werden.
Title: Play things: materiality, time, and imagination
Short Abstract: How do playthings shape shared imaginations and social
possibilities?
Full Abstract:
³In the toy, as in no other site, can we grasp the temporality of history
in its pure differential and qualitative value.² (Agamben, In Playland)
This is a panel about playing with things. It asks what kinds of sociality
and imagination emerge in our playful engagements with objects (whether
explicitly intended as toys or not). We will explore the communalizing and
world-making (or breaking) power of mundane things, and ask how playthings
bring people together, drive them apart, or bring collective meanings or
conflicts into being.
We keep our definition of ³playthings² as broad as possible: it might
include miniatures, dolls, repurposed utensils, digital toys, simulations,
found objects, fidget spinners, or anything else that enables play.
Questions we ask include: how do playthings make new social configurations
or shared imaginations possible? Are playthings tools of nostalgic
stereotyping, maintain traditions, or can they help us envisage and build
other futures or other worlds? What do we actually do when we play with
things, and what do they do with us? And how do the material and formal
qualities of our playthings shape the possibilities of play itself?
Kindest regards
Anne Dippel (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) & Tom Boylston
(University of Edinburgh)
*** apologies for cross-posting ***
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The Big Data Game is Out! Learn more about the ludic constitution of science:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00048-017-0181-8
Dr. Anne Dippel
Scientific Researcher and Lecturer
Department for Cultural Anthropology and Cultural History
Institute for Cultural Sciences and the Arts
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Zwätzengasse 3
07743 Jena
URL:
www.http://www.vkkg.uni-jena.de/Seminar/Personen/Wiss_+MitarbeiterInnen/Dr_+Anne+Dippel-p-392.html
Tel: 0049-(0)3641-9-44393
--
Interferences/Events is Out! Get your electronic version here, and
think about the influence of media technologies on our way of
understanding world:
http://meson.press/books/interferences-and-events/
The Big Data Game is Out! Learn more about the ludic constitution of science:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00048-017-0181-8
Dr. Anne Dippel
Scientific Researcher and Lecturer
Department for Cultural Anthropology and Cultural History
Institute for Cultural Sciences and the Arts
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Zwätzengasse 3
07743 Jena
URL:
www.http://www.vkkg.uni-jena.de/Seminar/Personen/Wiss_+MitarbeiterInnen/Dr_+Anne+Dippel-p-392.html
Tel: 0049-(0)3641-9-44393
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