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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">DIGITAL
CULTURES: KNOWLEDGE / CULTURES / TECHNOLOGY </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">International
Conference </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Co-organized
by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University
and the Institute
for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University, as
part of the <a
href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/knowledge_culture_series">Knowledge/Culture
Series</a><br>
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany <br>
19-22 September, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://digitalculturesconference.org/">https://digitalculturesconference.org/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Initiated by Armin Beverungen (CDC) & Ned Rossiter (ICS)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Organizing
Steering Committee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">CDC: Armin
Beverungen, Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad, Mathias Denecke, Randi
Heinrichs, Laura Hille, Claus Pias, Daniela Wentz<br>
ICS: Ilia Antenucci, Helen Barcham, Philippa Collin, Gay
Hawkins, Tsvetelina
Hristova, Liam Magee, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Teresa Swist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Submissions are now open and will close on 30 March, 2018. <br>
<br>
Please find the call below and visit our website for information
on detailed
topics, invited speakers and submission guidelines.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Call for
Papers</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The advent and ubiquity of digital
media
technologies precipitate a profound transformation of the
spheres of knowledge
and circuits of culture. Simultaneously, the background
operation of digital
systems in routines of daily life increasingly obscures the
materiality and
meaning of technologically induced change. Computational
architectures of
algorithmic governance prevail across a vast and differentiated
range of
institutional settings and organizational practices. Car
assembly plants,
warehousing, shipping ports, sensor cities, agriculture,
government agencies,
university campuses. These are just some of the infrastructural
sites overseen
by software operations designed to extract value, coordinate
practices and
manage populations in real-time. While Silicon Valley ideology
prevails over the design and production of the artefacts,
practices and
institutions that mark digital cultures, the architectures and
infrastructures
of its operations are continually rebuilt, hacked, broken and
maintained within
a proliferation of sites across the globe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">To analytically grasp the emerging
transformations requires media and cultural studies to inquire
into the epochal
changes taking place with the proliferation of digital media
technologies.
While in many ways the digital turn has long been in process,
its cultural
features and effects are far from even or comprehensively known.
Research needs
to attend to the infrastructural and environmental registrations
of the digital.
Critical historiographies attend to the world-making capacities
of digital
cultures, situating the massive diversity of practices within
specific
technical systems, geocultural dynamics and geopolitical forces.
At the same
time the contemporaneity of digital cultures invites new methods
that draw on
digital media technologies as tools, and, more importantly, that
engage the
intersection between media technologies, cultural practices and
institutional
settings. New organizational forms in digital economies, new
forms of
association and sociality, and new subjectivizations generated
from changing
human-machine configurations are among the primary
manifestations of the
digital that challenge disciplinary capacities in terms of
method. The empirics
of the digital, in other words, signals a transversality at the
level of
disciplinarity, methods and knowledge production.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This conference brings together
research
concerned with studying digital cultures and the ways that
digital media
technologies transform contemporary culture, society and
economy. The hosts
specifically encourage approaches to digital cultures emerging
from media and
cultural theory, along with transnational currents of
communications,
science and technology studies. We also explicitly invite
researchers from
digital humanities, digital anthropology, digital sociology,
gender studies,
postcolonial studies, urban studies, architecture, organization
studies,
environmental studies, geography and computer science to engage
in this
endeavor to develop a critical humanities and cultural studies
alert to the
operations, materialities and politics of digital cultures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Invited
speakers include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Simon
Denny, Artist, Berlin/Auckland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Jennifer
Gabrys, Goldsmiths, University of London</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Orit
Halpern, Concordia University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Nanna
Heidenreich, </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Internationale
Filmschule Köln </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Kara
Keeling, University of Southern California</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Felix
Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Ravi
Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS),
Delhi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">With more
coming soon, including details on spotlight sessions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Conference
themes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">[Histories]
Historiographies of Digital Cultures</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">[Ecologies]
Environmental Media, Media Ecologies and the Technosphere</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">[Economies]
Platforms, Economies and Organization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">[Subjectivities]
Biohacking, Quantification and Data Subjectivities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">[Collectivities]
Digital Publics, Movements and Populisms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">[Futures]
Contemporary Futures and Anticipatory Modelling</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Organized
with the following partners:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Department
of Media
Studies, University of Siegen<br>
Berlin Institute for Empirical Research in Integration and
Migration (BIM),
Humboldt University of Berlin<br>
ephemera: theory & politics in organization<br>
Meson Press</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Ned Rossiter<br>
Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and
Communication Arts<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
Parramatta Campus<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith NSW 2751<br>
Australia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;
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