[Air-L] International Symposium "The Secret Life of Objects".

Andre Lemos alemos at ufba.br
Mon Jun 25 03:33:22 PDT 2012


Dear list members,

The International Symposium The Secret Life of Objects will take place in São Paulo, July 30th and 31th, and in Salvador, August 6th, as well. 

More information:

São Paulo - http://vidadosobjetos-pucsp.com.br/2012/
Salvador - http://avidasecretadosobjetos.wordpress.com/

Best

André Lemos


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> 	Life of Objects", Rio de Janeiro, August 2012
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> Dear list members,
> 
> the International Symposium ?The Secret Life of Objects: Materialities,
> Medialities, Temporalities? will take place in Rio de Janeiro, between
> August 1st and 3rd. Promoted by the State University of Rio de Janeiro,
> along with several other academic institutions (such as the Vilem Flusser
> Archiv and Universit?t Wien), the event is intended to debate the emergence
> of new paradigms, epistemologies and intellectual scenarios within the
> Humanities (see the abstract bellow). The keynote speaker will be the
> French sociologist Bruno Latour and several other participants have already
> confirmed their presence (Graham Harman, Siegfried Zielinski, Joachim
> Paech, Richard Grusin, Steven Shaviro, Ian Bogost etc.). The event is free
> and open to the public. Enrollment is possible trough our website
> http://vidadosobjetos/inscricao. The form is in Portuguese, but it?s very
> easy to fill out:
> 
> 
> 
> Nome (name)
> 
> CPF (don?t bother that, something like a social security number)
> 
> Email
> 
> Profiss?o (Profession)
> 
> Institui??o (Institution)
> 
> Cidade/Estado (City/State)
> 
> Link para Redes Sociais (Link for social networks)
> 
> 
> 
> Erick Felinto (President) - UERJ
> 
> Adalberto M?ller ? UFF/Letras
> 
> Andr? Lemos - UFBA
> 
> Fernanda Bruno - UFRJ
> 
> L?cia Santaella - PUCSP
> 
> Maur?cio Lissovsky - UFRJ
> 
> Simone de S? - UFF
> 
> Vinicius Andrade Pereira - UERJ
> 
> 
> 
> Abstract: There are strong indications that a significant transformation is
> underway in the so-called ?human sciences? (Geisteswissenschaften, sciences
> humaines, Humanities). After a period of intense crisis and uncertainty, in
> which human sciences have frequently sought to mirror or approach the hard
> sciences, the beginning of the twenty-first century seems to witness a
> broad renewal of disciplines, approaches and methodologies. From the
> questioning of its traditional foundations, humanities are reinventing
> themselves by a broad reconfiguration of its borders and even of the notion
> of ?humanity? that served as its cornerstone. One of the areas where the
> wealth of this new scenario is most clearly displayed is that of media
> studies. Spurred by the impact of new digital technologies, media studies
> cleverly learned to appropriate the epistemological principles and major
> theoretical issues that have come to characterize the contemporary cultural
> scene. The objective of the Seminar "The Secret Life of Objects:
> Medialities, Materialities, Temporalities" is to sketch a systematization
> of this scenario from a transdisciplinary perspective, but with a decisive
> focus on communication studies and culture. The three axes that structure
> the Seminar represent articulating knots that cut across different
> disciplines in the humanities, from sociology to philosophy, but acquire
> special meaning in the context of new media studies. The underlying
> assumption is that we need to radically rethink the notion of epistemic
> agency in a context where the action and the impact of the objects, media
> and technological materialities become increasingly important. Thus, it is
> not only necessary to investigate the place of human actors in a world
> enriched by the life of polymorphic objects, but also to highlight the
> issues that the strong tradition of hermeneutics of the humanities have
> often obscured: what, without constituting meaning per se, contributes
> nonetheless to the production of meaning? What is a medium and how
> mediation processes unfold? In what ways does technological materiality
> inform cultural worlds and determine forms of cognition? What new models of
> historical research of techniques and culture are emerging within the
> current epistemological paradigms? In what ways is the material dimension
> of experience combined with the intangible dimensions of culture? What does
> it mean to purport an ?object-oriented? philosophy? In what sense does the
> category of the human reconfigure itself in light of our new relations with
> objects and nonhuman entities? How important is the legacy of the genealogy
> and archeology of knowledge (Nietzsche, Foucault) to a perspectivization of
> the impacts of "new" digital culture? By means of interdisciplinary panels,
> in which philosophers, anthropologists and scientists will discuss with
> experts in media studies, we intend to address these issues in order to
> elaborate a preliminary cartography of an epistemological territory still
> in its early stages of exploration.
> 
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