[Air-L] Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures: early bird registration ends tomorrow (15 April)

Adi Kuntsman adi_kuntsman at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 14 09:09:33 PDT 2010


***Please note that early bird registration ends tomorrow (15 April
2010). Final registration deadline is 15 May 2010 ***


Affective
fabrics
of
digital cultures: feelings, technologies, politics.  

3-4
June 2010, University Place, The University of
Manchester

For
further information and to
register,
please visit the conference website  http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html 
Plenary
speakers: Una
Chung
(Sarah
Lawrence
College); Patricia Clough (Queens College, CUNY);
Anne-Marie
Fortier (Lancaster University); Melissa Gregg (The University of
Sydney); Athina
Karatzogianni (The University of Hull)
This
two-day international conference brings into creative
tension two
fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies
of
affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand,
and
scholarship on digital culture, new media and information-communication
technologies, on the other. The conference aims to create a space for
intellectual dialogue between the two fields by examining the relations
between
technologies, and in particular, new digital technologies – the
Internet,
digital cinema and photography, mobile communication, CCTVs, computer
games –
and affective politics. Bringing together contributions from the fields
of sociology, media and
cultural studies, arts, politics and science and technology studies,
the
conference will engage with the following questions:  How does affect
work
in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the affective
regimes of
on-line sociality? What kind of perceptions, sensations, affective
movements
and public feelings emerge in our highly mediated and digitalised
environments?
What is the cybertouch of war, violence, terror? What are the
structures of
feeling that operate in the digitalised everyday and computerised
ordinary? How
can we theorise psycho-political formations of nation, race, empire,
population
and generation in the age of digital reproduction, mediated visions and
globalised communication technologies? How do digital cultures shape
our
political horizons of fear, anxiety, mourning, hate, hope? 

Registration
Early
Bird
Registration
Fee before 15th April: Waged: £60/ Unwaged: £35  
Full Conference Registration Fee after 15th April: Waged: £80/ Unwaged:
£45  
Registration fee covers refreshments, lunch and
wine reception.

Final
deadline
for
registration is 15th May
To register, please visit the conference website  http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html
For further information, please contact  Caitriona Devery at
caitriona.devery [@] manchester.ac.uk 



-- 

Dr. Adi Kuntsman 
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures 
The University of Manchester 
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007 
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK 
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html 
http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com 


      


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