GCAS What's Left of the (New Media) Technology Seminar is a English group. It is a CLOSED group. They attracted 28 members. So people rank it like a Tiny group. You can find this group by searching 353407561483547 on Google, Bing or Yahoo. We last updated on 2015-01-21 10:05:09.
Recently there are many voices that proclaim the symbolical end of the Internet, the closure marked by new centralization of once decentralized media. From early implementers to optimistic scientists and skeptical voices, all are pointing on the problematic moments of the Internet - surveillance, monopoly of the Internet giants (Google, Facebook, Apple) and commodification of user's informations. The course “What's Left of the (new media) technology?” will start from the notion that any emancipatory politics of technology or genuinely any collective cause concerned with technology must include (in traditional Marxist sense) critique of contemporary political economy. The course will take the initial cue as a possibility for departure from model of political pluralism actual in social theories of the Net (Manuel Castells, Pierre Lévy), as well as in broader political notion of a multitude (Hardt & Negri) and notion of the people (Jodi Dean) and investigate theoretical concepts of new media politics founded on the notion of antagonism. The course will present critique of post-ideological systems (Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou) as point of departures from the notions of universality of the Net, as well as optimistic notions of multitude and political concepts founded in cultural diversities and identity politics.