Category: Season 4
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Jussi Parikka: Digital Contagions
Digital Contagions: from Network Security to Viral Capitalism Jussi Parikka is a professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics at the University of Southampton, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. He leads the project Operational Images and Visual Culture (2019-2023), funded by the Czech Science Academy) and he is the author…
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JCU COM Department, Gabriella Coleman, Geert Lovink, & Shannon Mattern: From Hybrid Learning to Zoom Fatigue
From Hybrid Learning to Zoom Fatigue: Logging On and Checking Out Can you hear me? Are you there? If you can hear me, can you give me a sign? Our screen-mediated daily routine consists of waking up, scrolling down, and connecting to Teams, Meet or Zoom for learning, teaching, working, but also for our best…
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Queer Dada: A Queer Marathon Reading
Queer Dada is a live performance of writers –from across nations, genders, and the intersections that make up the human species. It is a trans-space inhabited by artists reaching out from beyond cultural boundaries, gender binaries, and the violence of the Anthropocene. In defiance against datafication and the quantification of the self, we celebrate queerness and the…
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C.I.R.C.E Research Group: The Daimons Game
Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack. Who are all these fellows that are increasingly taking over our life since the pandemic began? The time has come to get to know them better, and discover the demons inhabiting them (and ourselves). How do they behave with us, and how do we behave with them? What kind of reactions…
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Niels van Doorn, Sarah Gainsforth, & Simone Robutti: De-Platformisation
From a US President being banned from social media to the blocking of his supporters on AirBnB as well as the disappearance of the Parler app from the network; from the explosion of the lockdown revenues of Amazon to Google’s bio-surveillance of contagion; from the Uber/Lime bike/scooter-sharing colonisation of public grounds to the endless meetings…