Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on
Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism
The 6th ICTs and Society Conference
May 20-21
University of Westminster, London
Hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies
Speakers:
Toni Negri, Jodi Dean, David Chandler, Christian Fuchs, Paolo Gerbaudo,
Orit Halpern, Kylie Jarrett, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Antoinette Rouvroy,
Etienne Turpin
Conference programme:
http://icts-and-society.net/events/digital-objects-digital-subjects-a-symposium-on-activism-research-critique-in-the-age-of-big-data-capitalism-the-6th-icts-society-conference/
Presenters at the symposium will engage with questions of the digital in
respect to activism, research and critique. The conference will engage
with the possibilities, potentials, pitfalls, limits, and ideologies of
digital activism. It will reflect on whether computational social
science, the digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication enable new
research approaches or result in a digital positivism that threatens the
independence of critical research and brings about the death of the
social sciences and humanities. The conference will explore the futures,
places and possibilities of critique in the age of digital subjects and
digital objects.
The event is free, but advance registration is required (some places are
left, but get occupied quickly). To register, please complete the
registration form
http://icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Registration-form-Digital-Objects-Digital-Subjects.docx
and send it to [log in to unmask]
Talks:
- Toni Negri: The Incorporation of the Digital Machine: A Metaphor?
- Jodi Dean: Critique or Collectivity?
- David Chandler: Governmentalities of the Digital: Mapping, Sensing and
Hacking
- Christian Fuchs: Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism
- Paolo Gerbaudo: The Platform Party: The Transformation of Political
Organisation in the Digital Era
- Orit Halpern: The Smart Mandate: Ubiquitous Computing, Environment,
and “Resilient Hope”
- Kylie Jarrett: The Digital Housewife: Labour at the Intersection of
Culture and Economy
- Jack Linchuan Qiu: Goodbye iSlave: Rethinking Smartphone, Activism,
and Chinese Labour
- Antoinette Rouvroy: Revitalizing Critique Against the Critical Sirens
of Algorithmic Governmentality
- Etienne Turpin: The Same River Twice: Torrential Formations of the
Anthropocene
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