Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics

Professors Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Richard Grusin and Warren Sack are among the speakers confirmed for the October Toronto event.

Veronica Barassi has continued the discussion on methods of internet-based research of network politics, time, temporality and ethnography in her response to Greg Elmer's original position paper. Please read Veronica's continuation to our RFC-section, and continue the discussion!

A call for papers has been released for the next event in the 'Exploring New Configurations of  Network Politics project'. This will be a syposium at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada in partnership with the Infoscape Research Lab. 
22 & 23 October, 2010, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada
'Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects'
 

Shintaro Miyazaki has added his
RFC response to Alex Galloway's original position
paper which focused on the protocol and the event of networks. In his response, Miyazaki expands these ideas towards what he calls algorhythmics of network -- a methodology close to media archaeology.

Seb Franklin has written an RFC response to Tiziana Terranova's original position paper on "what is network politics." Franklin focuses on reflecting "more broadly on the crucial notions of participation and science—and the more fundamental ideas of the social and the technical that they encapsulate—as crucial

Tony D. Sampson (UEL) has written an RFC response to Eugene Thacker's original position paper on microbes and contagion. Sampson continues on the theme of contagion theory, drawing especially on Gabriel Tarde's social theory of contagion. Please have a look at the very exciting ideas Sampson introduces and continue the discussions!

Jussi Parikka writes on Raiford Guins' book Edited Clean Version linking it to network politics of security. See the blog post here.

Dr Jussi Parikka's blog post on some of the key themes of the recent Networkpolitics-event

Many thanks to all those who attended and gave papers for the Thinking Network Politics conference. Lots of great ideas to take forward and to think about for the next gathering in Toronto later this year. More to follow on the event just passed and the event to come soon.

 We've had to update the schedule a little, so please note some minor changes. The latest version is on the web page and in the PDF version. 
 
 We have also now added a PDF file of the conference abstracts.