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Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics
3-4 June 2010, The University of Manchester
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html
Plenary speakers:
Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College)
Patricia Clough (Queens College, CUNY)
Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster University)
Melissa Gregg (The University of Sydney)
Athina Karatzogianni (The University of Hull)
Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith, University of London)
Organiser: Adi Kuntsman (RICC, The University of Manchester)
This
two-day international conference brings into creative tension two
fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies
of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one
hand, and scholarship on digital culture, new media and
information-communication technologies, on the other. The conference
aims to create a space for intellectual dialogue between the two fields
by examining the relations between technologies, and in particular, new
digital technologies – the Internet, digital cinema and photography,
mobile communication, CCTVs, computer games – and affective politics.
Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and
cultural studies, arts, politics and science and technology studies,
the conference will engage with the following questions: How does
affect work in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the
affective regimes of on-line sociality? What kind of perceptions,
sensations, affective movements and public feelings emerge in our
highly mediated and digitalised environments? What is the cybertouch of
war, violence, terror? What are the structures of feeling that operate
in the digitalised everyday and computerised ordinary? How can we
theorise psycho-political formations of nation, race, empire,
population and generation in the age of digital reproduction, mediated
visions and globalised communication technologies? How do digital
cultures shape our political horizons of fear, anxiety, mourning, hate,
hope?