Tuesday 23 January 2024 at 4pm HCMC time: online – all welcome
Topic: 30 Minute Methods TDTU – Title: Reflections on Organized Networks and Collective Research Methods
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Diễn giả: Giáo sư Ned Rossiter, Viện Văn hóa và Xã hội, Đại học Western Sydney
Chủ đề trình bày: Những Phản Ánh về Mạng Lưới có Tổ Chức và Những Phương Pháp Nghiên Cứu Tổng Hợp
Abstract: This talk gives an overview of organizing collective research staged in Beijing from 2007–2008. Drawing on techniques of urban intervention figuring in the art and activist scene in Europe in the early 2000s, the mobile reseach lab in Beijing proposed a ‘counter-mapping’ of creative industries – a policy discourse that had gained considerable traction with governments in many countries. Running over a period of three months in the hot Summer of Beijing, the project combined international and local researchers, artists, architects, designers, curators, film makers, activists, hackers, policy makers, political and cultural theorists. The ambition was to curate a repertoire of experimental methods to ask different kinds of questions about urban conditions, migrant politics and service labour, artistic practices, communication infrastructures, waste industries, and cultural economies.
The experiences gleaned from this research established the foundation for a series of subsquent projects that, broadly defined, examine new geopolitical formations associated with China’s rise as a global hegemon. These projects include Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders (2009-2011), Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour (2013–17), Data Farms: Circuits, Labour, Territory (2016–21), and The Geopolitics of Automation (2020–24). As a starting point, each of these projects investigates particular logistical and communication infrastructures such as shipping ports, data centres, and warehouses as a material instantiation of geopolitical formations made both concrete and ephemeral.
Bionote: Ned Rossiter is a media theorist noted for his research on network cultures, the politics of cultural labour, logistical media, and data politics. Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and Society and Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney. Rossiter is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006), Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016) and (with Geert Lovink) Organization after Social Media (2018). His writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, French, Finnish, Dutch, Chinese, Greek, Latvian, Hungarian, Turkish, and Polish.
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