Event overview
Public Lecture and Seminar by Professor Ned Rossiter
Lecture: Sovereign Media and the Ruins of Logistical Future
This paper will look at how infrastructure of communication operate as a form of sovereign media, bringing the singularity of the state as a sovereign entity into question.
Sovereign media are not a return to the politics of exodus, but a way to scale autonomy beyond tactical media as demonstrated by WikiLeaks, among others. Part of such work involves unleashing alternative blueprints, prototypes, and test cases for a future that arises out of infrastructural ruins.
This paper surveys artistic strategies for hacking infrastructure, ranging from broadcasting planetary acoustics using demilitarized radio satellite systems in post-Soviet Latvia to the collective reengineering of financial technologies to devise parasitical enterprises that generate financial resources for cultural, social, and political projects. The sovereignty of infrastructural ruins includes a reformatting of the world after the orgy of capital accumulation and exploitation.
Seminar: Infrastructural Power and the Problem of Method
This seminar asks how we undertake collective modes of transdisciplinary research of infrastructural objects that in the first instance appear inaccessible and ‘black-boxed’.
Reading:
Shannon Mattern, ‘Cloud and Field’, Places, August 2016, https://placesjournal.org/article/cloud-and-field/
Bio: Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication at Western Sydney University and holds a joint position in the Institute for Culture and Society and the School of Humanities and Communication Arts.
He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Leuphana University’s Digital Cultures Resesearch Lab, Lüneburg. Ned is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Intitutions (Rotterdam: NAi, 2006) and Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (New York: Routledge, 2016).
Currently he is coordinating with Brett Neilson the tricontinental research project, Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour (http://logisticalworlds.org/), and starting a new Australian Research Council funded project on data centers, territory and labour regimes in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Oct 2016 | 2:00pm - 5:30pm |
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