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1. Grasping at Loose Bindings: Thoughts on Language, Literature, Communication in a Time of Change

   Davin Heckman is a Fulbright Scholar with Digital Culture this year, and will hold a lecture on his current research on Thursday, April 12, 2012.

   Heckman will discuss literature in a time of media change.  Part of an ongoing research project, this talk will explore the objective tendency of neoliberalism and the digital revolution, and the humanistic potential of emerging literary and critical practices.

   (Source: University of Bergen)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.04.2012 - 12:09

2. Narrative (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation, and Public Space

   Under consumer culture, self-surveillance—the act of submitting your own data to corporate interests like Amazon, TiVo or Facebook—becomes a revolutionary gesture of participation (Andrejevic 15)…or so corporate interests would have us believe. With the advent of social media, we now log our own data in the service of multinationals as we
   seemingly embrace the arrival of a technological Big Brother. Several digital media artists, however, have turned the tables or, more exactly, the camera on themselves by using digital media and self-surveillance as a means of creating new digital narratives.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 14:21

3. Literature: Lift this End

   The Internet epistemologist Richard Rodgers describes the latest evolution of digital culture as “the end of the virtual,” a moment at which attention can no longer be confined primarily to integration, encapsulation, or remediation, but must turn instead to natively computational questions and methods. The meaning of this periodic shift is clear enough for the social and information sciences, but less so for the humanities: especially for literature, a field recently split into core and periphery, a home ground of literature-proper set against a hazier outline or outland that has come to be called “the literary.”

   This talk begins by subverting the all-too-familiar topos of end-times or elegiac criticism (the end
   of some world as we know it), by insisting that end may as easily refer to contour or wrapping as
   termination or extinction. That is, an end may also be an edge, a line along which a structure becomes ready-to-hand, or available for manipulation. An end in this sense is an affordance for engagement: commonly, for lifting and carrying.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:34