News archive 2011
For previous ARCMedia news and events please see the 2010 news archive.
Rethinking Revolutionary Processes: What is the Digital Difference? Network Power - Identity and Class
A Roundtable
Date: 24 November 2011
Time: 12.00 - 15.00
Venue: Coslett 406, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
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A Roundtable
Date: 24 November 2011
Time: 12.00 - 15.00
Venue: Coslett 406, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
More details
ARCDigital launch new Digital Capital reading group
ARCDigital will be convening a reading group on 'digital capital' for Autumn 2011. The aim of the group is to pair up some important readings from Marx with contemporary critical theory to explore how they speak to each other, and what they have to say about digital culture in the present era of precarity, collapse and neo-liberal accumulation crises.
The group will meet every other Tuesday from 4 October 2011 between 17.30 - 19.30 in Helmore 115 on the Cambridge campus. Anyone interested in sharing their thoughts and working through some key readings together is very welcome to come along.
Please see the PDF below for more information:
ARCDigital will be convening a reading group on 'digital capital' for Autumn 2011. The aim of the group is to pair up some important readings from Marx with contemporary critical theory to explore how they speak to each other, and what they have to say about digital culture in the present era of precarity, collapse and neo-liberal accumulation crises.
The group will meet every other Tuesday from 4 October 2011 between 17.30 - 19.30 in Helmore 115 on the Cambridge campus. Anyone interested in sharing their thoughts and working through some key readings together is very welcome to come along.
Please see the PDF below for more information:
Platform Politics conference a sell-out success
The conference 'Platform Politics' successfully concluded after a wide range of excellent papers and discussions.
A number of commentaries and responses are available on the conference website, as well as a link to a video archive of many of the talks.
The conference 'Platform Politics' successfully concluded after a wide range of excellent papers and discussions.
A number of commentaries and responses are available on the conference website, as well as a link to a video archive of many of the talks.
Final Network Politics conference arranged for May 2011
The Network Politics project, led by Dr Joss Hands and Dr Jussi Parikka, will hold its third and final conference on 11-13 May 2011 in Cambridge. Under the theme of 'Platform Politics', the aim is to look at the new platforms and forms of politics emerging from social media culture.
The conference will feature some of the most established political and media critics among its speakers, including Michel Bauwens, Tiziana Terranova, Dmitry Kleiner, Tim Jordan, Nick Couldry, Michael Goddard, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Felix Stalder and David M. Berry. Following up from previous collaborations, Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois from the Toronto based Infoscape-research lab will also be present. The presentations will address new regimes of politics, labour and activism.
More info on the event and the project can be found on the Network Politics website.
The Network Politics project, led by Dr Joss Hands and Dr Jussi Parikka, will hold its third and final conference on 11-13 May 2011 in Cambridge. Under the theme of 'Platform Politics', the aim is to look at the new platforms and forms of politics emerging from social media culture.
The conference will feature some of the most established political and media critics among its speakers, including Michel Bauwens, Tiziana Terranova, Dmitry Kleiner, Tim Jordan, Nick Couldry, Michael Goddard, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Felix Stalder and David M. Berry. Following up from previous collaborations, Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois from the Toronto based Infoscape-research lab will also be present. The presentations will address new regimes of politics, labour and activism.
More info on the event and the project can be found on the Network Politics website.
ARCDigital Co-Director's book chosen as the Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Foundation's book of the week
Dr Jussi Parikka's recent book, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, has been selected and featured as the Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Foundation's book of the week for end of February. As a take on the animal forces in contemporary technology and media culture, the book touches on topics including a critical history of the notion of swarms, group intelligence and behaviour. The book will be introduced in Berlin on March 4 at a launch event at the cultural venue Generalpublic.
Dr Jussi Parikka's recent book, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, has been selected and featured as the Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Foundation's book of the week for end of February. As a take on the animal forces in contemporary technology and media culture, the book touches on topics including a critical history of the notion of swarms, group intelligence and behaviour. The book will be introduced in Berlin on March 4 at a launch event at the cultural venue Generalpublic.
New Directions in Media Studies: Questioning The Digital Turn
Date: 22 February 2011
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: Helmore 251, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
All welcome!
In their new books Anglia Ruskin lecturers Joss Hands (@ is for Activism) and Jussi Parikka (Insect Media) address some of the pressing new issues in Media Studies emerging from the digital revolution in communication technology. This event will act as a book launch, but also offers the chance to address the relevancy of innovative cross disciplinary themes in contemporary Media Studies.
Both books are characterized by distinct theoretical and political perspectives on issues such as the impact of digital networks on collective action, the ontology of politics, economic production, the 'post-human' subject and science-arts interdisciplinarity.
Hands and Parikka will offer short introductions to key themes in their books and welcome questions and discussion over wine and nibbles.
The event is sponsored by CoDE - Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin, and the campus bookshop John Smith's is offering both books to be purchased during the event.
More information can be found on the publishers' websites for both @ is for Activism and Insect Media.
ARCDigital Co-Director interviewed by New Left Project
Dr Joss Hands was recently interviewed by New Left Project on Activism in a Digital Culture. You can read the full interview on the New Left Project website.
ARCDigital Co-director's new book examines link between insect behaviour and digital technology
Dr Jussi Parikka's fascinating new book uncovers the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society. Out in December, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology analyses how insect forms of social organization - swarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence - have been used to structure modern media technologies and the network society, providing a radical new perspective on the interconnection of biology and technology.
Parikka develops an insect theory of media, one that conceptualises modern media as more than the products of individual human actors, social interests, or technological determinants. They are, rather, profoundly nonhuman phenomena that both draw on and mimic the alien lifeworlds of insects.
For more information on Insect Media please visit the University of Minnesota Press website or contact Dr Jussi Parikka.
ARCDigital Co-director releases new book on Digital Media
Dr Joss Hands' new book @ is for Activism will be released next month, published by Pluto Press.
@ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing. Joss maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have emerged. This analysis is applied to the organisation and practice of alternative politics, showing how they have developed and embraced the new political and technological environment.
Described as 'essential for activists and students of politics and media', the book offers a comprehensive critical survey of existing literature, as well as an original perspective on networks and political change. The book includes many illustrative case studies including the anti-war and global justice movements, peer production, user created TV and 'Twitter' activism. @ is for Activism is essential for activists and students of politics and media.
CoDE and ARCDigital Director nominated for Transmediale 2011 digital culture and art festival award
Dr Jussi Parikka has been nominated for the Vilem Flusser theory award for a piece co-written with California based artist and writer Garnet Hertz, entitled "Zombie Media: Circuit Bending Media Archaeology into an Art Method". The nomination, picked alongside three other submissions, is an important and prestigious international recognition of the media theoretical work done at the CoDE Research Institute, ARCDigital, and Anglia Ruskin University.
The Vilém Flusser Theory Award (VFTA) promotes innovative media theory and practice-oriented research exploring current and pending positions in digital art, media culture and networked society. The call was open to publications, positions, and projects from a broad range of theoretical, artistic, critical or design-based research that seek to establish and define new forms of exchange, vocabularies and cultural dialogue.
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