Call for Papers
Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects
October 22-23, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada
A Symposium co-sponsored by the AHRC
funded âNew Configurations of Network Politicsâ project at Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge
UK, and the Infoscape Centre
for the Study of Social Media, Ryerson
University, Canada
In
the network age, the question of political agency is becoming increasingly
troublesome, with a pressing need to reflect upon how collective distributed networks
as well as non-human actants re-define the field of the political.
This
symposium will investigate what counts as a political object or subjectâ, and how such objects/subjects
circulate and are controlled in the context of developing critical approaches
to networked politics.
The
symposium seeks to build upon object-oriented philosophy, which has shifted the
language of coding and programming into the domain of âtool-beingâ.
In so doing a correlate possibility of a âwebâ of subject-oriented
objects emerges, opened up by hyper-personalized web services and control
techniques that shape and recombine pseudo-subjects from the bio-political
detritus of data-mining software and algorithmic protocols. In the face of such
new assemblages, what sites, actants, and tactics potentially reinvent new
political affects?
The
symposium welcomes interventions on related questions and topics that answer or
complicate the notion of the âobjectsâ and âsubjectsâ
of network politics. The symposium seeks paper proposals that touch upon the
following set of themes:
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Theories and case studies of object/subject-oriented politics
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Networking of political artifacts: politicizing âparticipatory
cultureâ
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New epistemologies for networked politics
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Politics 2.0: personalization, customization and surveillance
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Activist platforms and recursive publics
The
event takes place October 22 & 23, 2010 at Ryerson University, Toronto and
is co-hosted by the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media and the AHRC funded project New
Configurations of Network Politics at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
UK.
Deadlines:
Paper
proposals (400 words): due 2 August, 2010
Acceptances: August 15, 2010
Please
email proposals to Network
Politics Project or directly contact Jussi Parikka and/or Joss Hands . For other inquiries
about the event please contact Greg Elmer.
Symposium
programming committee: Jussi Parikka (Anglia Ruskin U.), Joss Hands (Anglia
Ruskin U.), Greg Elmer (Ryerson University), Ganaele Langlois (U. of Ontario
Institute of Technology), and Alessandra Renzi (Ryerson University)
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Dr Jussi Parikka
Director of CoDE: Culture of the Digital Economy institute
Reader in Media Theory & History
Co-Director of ArcDigital
Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge, UK
Http://www.jussiparikka.com
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/code
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arcdigital
http://www.machinology.blogspot.com
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