Monthly Archives: September 2010

Our 11th session concerns various ways in which we can address online social relations and the technicities they reflect and refract.

Our tenth session concerns issues of ethics and alternatives within and for the attention economy, as it has been theorised in this conference.

Michel Bauwens is our final keynote speaker, a founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives, who presents the first session of the third and final day on ‘The Role of Peer to Peer Values and Open Infrastructures in … Continue reading →

In the final session of papers of day 2, sociologist Aphra Kerr explicates and critiques the various ways in which ‘trust’ is articulated in the design of communications technologies and artist and curator Simon Poulter presents a critical intervention themed … Continue reading →

The second scoping and review session continued with the encouragement of delegates to engage with the themes that have arisen during the second day of sessions of the conference.  Another exciting discussion arose with contributions from speakers and from other … Continue reading →

Our seventh session continues the theme of (new) theories of attention and economy.

In our sixth session philosopher Bernard Stiegler addresses the sense in which ‘attention’ has a significance at once psychological and social, and one does not work without the other. For Steigler, this is intimately tied to what Simondon calls trans-individuation. … Continue reading →

Our first session on Wednesday is concerned with empirical engagements with various ways in which different actors attempt to appropriate, curate, control, direct or facilitate attention.  These range from artistic practices with cell/mobile phones to educational practices through Virtual Learning … Continue reading →