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I just wanted to make a brief note about "compulsion" -- since I am sure
many of you wonder why I have chosen that word over something less
ideological. I've chosen the word "compulsion" because I am interested in a
exorbitant form of desire, which Derrida links to the perverse,
unreasonable, and queer. I've read numerous historical and cultural
critiques of "addiction" and "compulsion" (I've opted not to use
"addiction" for a variety of reasons), but I want to move past simply
exposing social constructs or a critique of the discourses of exorbitant
desires. (Susan Zieger, Helen Keane, Brenda Cossman, Janice Irvine, Jeffrey
Falla, and many other scholars have already mounted insightful and
effective arguments in this regard). Instead, I'd like to take seriously a
notion of exorbitant desire that is patient with its moods and
temporalities, its pleasures as well as its negative affects (frustration,
shame, for example), rather than moving too quickly to put them to good
use, dwelling with compulsion, rather than transforming it into something
acceptable, something normal.
That being said, I would to hear more during the discussion about the
problems of "compulsion" -- and what term might work better but still
acknowledge the social constructions of immersion in human-computer
exchange.
Patrick Keilty
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
http://www.patrickkeilty.com/
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Patrick Keilty <p.kei...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Following up on my previous post, I am pleased to introduce Katie Shilton
> (US) and Henry Warwick (CA/US) as the guest discussants for our first week.
>
>
> Katie Shilton is an assistant professor in the College of Information
> Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research explores
> ethics and policy for the design of information collections, systems and
> technologies. Current research projects include an investigation of ethics
> in mobile application development; a project focused on the values and
> policy implications of Named Data Networking, a new approach to Internet
> architecture; surveys of consumer privacy expectations in the mobile data
> ecosystem; and investigating researchers’ ethical beliefs and practices
> when using online open data sets. Her work has been supported by a Google
> Faculty Award and several awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation,
> including an NSF CAREER award. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College,
> a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in
> Information Studies from UCLA.
>
> Henry Warwick is an artist, composer, writer, and assistant professor in
> the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University in Toronto, and research
> fellow at the Infoscape Lab at Ryerson. He has an MFA from Goddard College
> in Interdisciplinary Art, and a PhD in Communications from the European
> Graduate School. To keep himself sane, he composes electronic music and
> DJ’s an eclectic radio show.
>
>
> Patrick Keilty
> Assistant Professor
> Faculty of Information
> Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
> University of Toronto
> http://www.patrickkeilty.com/
>
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