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Dear colleagues, (with apologies for cross-posting) you are heartily invited to our symposium in Oslo, 23 November! *Irresistible Forms of Interaction** – * *Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Media Culture* 23/11/2018, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, 12pm til 6pm. Free admission! Please register here: https://skjema.uio.no/102098 Confirmed speakers: - *Lynn Froggett* (Professor of Psychosocial Welfare, University of Central Lancashire)*: Deep Play and Video-Games* - *Jacob Johanssen* (Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster)*: Desiring Fascist Bodies? Incels and Fantasies of Masculinity* - *Vera King* (Head of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt): *Irresistible Interactions and Fragmented Attention* - *James Martin* (Professor of Political Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London):* The Flesh of Argument* - *Steffen Krüger* (Postdoc, University of Oslo)*: Platformed Selves - Caricatures of the Corporate Internet* *Description* This symposium brings together prolific voices from the fields of psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies, offering in-depth analyses of digital media culture. Presentations range from inquiries into fragmented attention to deep play and video-games, from fantasies of masculinity in the ‘Incel’ movement to the psychical dimensions of public argument and the libidinal economy of corporate online platforms. Our common denominator are *forms of interaction*. The psychoanalyst and sociologist Alfred Lorenzer (1922–2002) defined such forms as the fundamental building blocks of everyday life. These forms of interaction are literally irresistible, unfurling automatically in routine situations and offering an embodied and relational grounding to our being in the world. Forms of interaction both ‘keep us going’ and hold us in place. Their socialising forces reside in routines and habits. The commercial Internet has brought forth a plethora of such forms of interaction: *likes*, *swipes*, *streaks*, *tweets*, *shares*, *posts*, *pokes*, *comments*, *scrolls*, *votes* – all of them are now part of our social texture. Looking into these forms, this symposium sheds light on their overall *formative* *powers*. How is attention shaped online and with what effects? How are arguments fleshed out and how are they made to touch us? What fantasies about gender relations are circulating online? How are video-games played and with what socialising effects? What affective dispositions are produced by the commercial orientations of major Internet platforms? It is questions such as these that the symposium will take up and offer answers to from a psychoanalytically informed perspective. Organised by: Dr. Steffen Krüger, Guro Torget (MA) and Claudia L. V. Merkl (BA) Dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. With generous support from the Research Council of Norway (RCN), the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (IMK, UiO), Media-Aesthetics, as well as PolKom – Centre for the Study of Political Communication. CONTACT: Steffen Krüger: [log in to unmask] Claudia Merkl: [log in to unmask] -- Dr. Steffen Krüger lecturer and postdoctoral researcher Dept. of Media and Communication University of Oslo Forskningsparken II Gaustadalléen 21 0349 OSLO Norway skype: steff.krueger mob. 0047 4580 6466 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------