October 22-23, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada.
Rogers Communication Centre, Room 202
A Symposium co-sponsored by the AHRC funded “New Configurations of Network Politics” 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 subject
, 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 ‘tool-being’. In so doing a correlate possibility of a ‘web’ 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 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.
Useful Information:
Symposium schedule, PDF version
Rogers Communications Centre, map
Symposium Schedule:
Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects
Friday 22 October
14.30 Welcome:
Dean’s Welcome, followed by an introduction by Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois, including a welcome from Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka.
15.00 Keynote: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun - Software as Thing (Chair: Jussi Parikka)
16.00 Break
16.15 Keynote panel:
Gary Genosko - Not Yet: Semiocapital Between Materiality and Immateriality
Robert Latham - Somewhere Beyond the Temporary/Permanent Divide
(Chair Greg Elmer)
17.45 Day concludes: drinks, and dinner.
Saturday 23 October
10.00 Keynote: Warren Sack: Mutual Recursion: What Happens When Politics Becomes Code?
(Chair - Ganaele Langlois)
11.00 Break
11.15 - Panel 1 (Chair - Joss Hands)
Erika Biddle - Polymorphous Techniques of Power: Obama and the Priapism of Affectual Regimes
Daniel Kreiss - Developing Technologies of Control: Disruption and Professionalization in Online Democratic Politics 2000-2008
Guy Hoskins - Slactivism as Narcotizing Dysfunction 2.0: The Enduring Concept of Vicarious
 Media
12.30 Lunch
14.00 - Panel 2 (Chair - Alessandra Renzi)
Steven James May - Facebook Suicide as a Tactical Rupturing of a Closed Brand
Svitlana Matviyenko - Avatar as an Object: Politics, Affect, Topology
Imar de Vries - Through the Looking Cell Phone Screen
15.15 Break
15.30 - Panel 3 (Chair - Jussi Parikka)
Fenwick McKelvey - No Time to Lose: The Fragmentation of Internet Time
Alessandra Renzi - Pirate Collectives, Network Connectives and the Repurposing of the Social
Mirko Tobias Schafer - Politics and Governance in Software Development and Web Applications
Marianne van den Boomen - All that is Solid Melts into the Cloud: How Metaphors Matter in Networked Noopolitics
17.00 Break
17.15 - Keynote: Richard Grusin - Premediation and the Politics of Everyday Affects (Chair - Greg Elmer)
18.15 - Closing
Drinks - including book introductions - Joss Hands (@ is for Activism) and Jussi Parikka (Insect Media)
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