Conference: BODY:RESPONSE – Biomedial Politics in the Age of Digital Liveness.
Biopolitics is a modelling of the biological body and of the social body. http://www.transmediale.de/content/conference-bodyresponse-%E2%80%93-biomedial-politics-age-digital-liveness Franco Berardi “We are intertwined with all of humanity, and the whole of humanity with us,” predicted Marshall McLuhan almost fifty years ago. Today, thanks to the different forms of real-time media and networks, we can be anywhere at once. This hyper-presence has become a central aspect of our social practice. To be here, now, and to be online at the same time, changes our understanding of physicality and presence as individuals and as part of a community. What effect does this hybrid, transformative condition of digital liveness have on the concepts of identity in our society? This new quality that we call Digital liveness, fundamentally changes the relationship between body and technology, between the individual and society. The gendered and biogenetic characteristics of the biological body as much as the legal definitions of the social and political body are in flux and the cybernetic, cognitive-psychological and affective qualities of the live, digital hooking-up of our society must be expanded. What kind of transpersonality emerges here? Against this background, we need to rethink the significance of the political, namely as intervention (RESPONSE) and competence (ABILITY) in the info-genetic relationship between body, the biomedial universe and in the ecology of our cognitive layers. Under the title BODY:RESPONSE – Biomedial Politics in the Age of Digital Liveness, the transmediale.11 Conference investigates the biopolitical and psycho-political power configurations in the age of the Web which result from increasing biologisation of media (immersion, tactility) and communication technology and the hybridisation of real and virtual spaces with location-based social media forms like foursquare. How, in this new political configuration, can the disposition to act be mobilised? How would the form of resistance and the subversion of biopolitical power structures look, representing the biological and social body at the heart of its claim to power and control? more info on site... _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
