Hi Helen,
Looks interesting --- will try and make this.
wishing you well.
marc
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*Hi NetBehaviourists! *
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*We would like to invite you to Mel Chen's public talk, this_ Friday,
17th October 4pm_ at Goldsmiths, University of London.*
*Hope you can make it! Please share widely!*
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*best*
*Helen*
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*A special late addition to the Sensing Practices seminar series:*
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*Cognitive Fluctuation, Distributed Sensing, and the Marking of Illness*
*Mel Chen in the Citizen Sense "Sensing Practices" seminar series*
*Co-hosted with the Unit of Play*
17 October 2014
16.00 to 18.00
Location 256 Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
*Abstract*
In this talk Chen considers a number of intersecting phenomena: the
often feminized exceptionality of "brain fog" and other cognitive
departures from expected temporalities, overlapping with more
temporally durative (or unexcusable by other means) "chronic illness";
the narration of biochemical transactions in relation to bodies at
various scales; and the affectively rich play in geopolitical
adjudications between "toxicity" and "intoxication." Underneath all of
these considerations lies a series of investments that could be
understood as racially "tuned," an expression of Chen's interest in
the hidden intersections of race and disability.
*Bio*
Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley and the Director of Berkeley's
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Chen's /Animacies:
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect/(Duke University
Press, 2012, Alan Bray Memorial Award), explores questions of
racialization, queering, disability, and affective economies in
animate and inanimate "life" and "nonlife." Further writing appears in
/Women's Studies Quarterly, Discourse, Women in Performance,
Australian Feminist Studies, Amerasia, /and the /Journal of Literary
and Cultural Disability Studie/s. Along with Jasbir K. Puar,
Chen serves as series coeditor for a book series at Duke called
"Anima." Chensits on the board of directors for the Society for
Disability Studies.
*Sensing Practices*
The Citizen Sense research group is hosting a year-long seminar series
on "Sensing Practices." The series attends to questions about how
sensing and practice emerge, take hold, and form attachments across
environmental, material, political and aesthetic concerns. Rather than
take "the senses" as a fixed starting point, this seminar series
instead considers how sensing-as-practice is differently articulated
in relation to technologies of environmental monitoring, data gathered
for evidentiary claims, the formation of citizens, and more-than-human
entanglements. How might these expanded approaches to sensing
practices recast engagements with experience, and reconfigure
explorations of practice-based research?
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Helen Pritchard
Researcher on European Research Council project, Citizen Sense
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
United Kingdom
www.citizensense.net <http://www.citizensense.net/>
@citizen_sense
@helen_pritchard
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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