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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture\, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder email.) \nGeorge Yúdice\, University of Miami\nGeorge Yúdice‘s The Expediency of Culture (2003) repositioned culture in connection with governmentality and biopower. The full force of social media\, Internet platforms and megadata was not yet evident at the time. The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has\, Yúdice thinks\, been borne out. Culture understood as the “terrain of struggle for interpretive power” needs to take into consideration its relocation and reconfiguration in new media and technologies. In that relocation key concepts of Cultural Studies need to be updated. This talk seeks to maps the requisite changes. \nGeorge Yúdice is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. \nThis event is co-sponsored with MIT Global Studies and Languages.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-studies-expediency-culture-rethought/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Driscoll\, CMS ’09\, and Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research\n(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nFor fifteen years before the graphical Web\, thousands of personal computer owners encountered the pleasures\, promises\, and challenges of online community through networks of dial-up bulletin-board systems (BBS). While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET\, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life. From chatting and flirting to shopping and multiplayer games\, it was on these locally-run systems that early modem users grappled with questions of trust\, identity\, anonymity\, and sexuality. In this talk\, Kevin Driscoll will map out the generative conditions that gave rise to amateur computer networking at the end of the 1970s and trace the diffusion of BBSing across diverse cultural and geographic terrain during the 1980s. This history provides lived examples of systems operated under vastly different social\, technical\, and political-economic conditions than the centralized platforms we inhabit today. Indeed\, remembering the grassroots past of today’s internet creates new opportunities to imagine a more just\, democratic tomorrow. \nKevin Driscoll (Ph.D.\, University of Southern California) is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. His research concerns the popular and political cultures of networked personal computing with special attention to myths about internet history. Previously\, he earned an M.S. in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught mathematics and computer science at Prospect Hill Academy.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kevin-driscoll-dial-up-history-of-social-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance\, Political Leadership\, and Black Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:(Co-sponsored with both MIT Global Studies and Languages and Women’s and Gender Studies.  And join our mailing list for an event reminder email.) \nThomas DeFrantz\, Duke University\n21st century popular culture\, circulated by media\, enables unusual affiliations of bodies in motion. When black social dances are practiced by American political leaders\, as when First Lady Michelle Obama demonstrates “the Dougie” in her “Let’s Move” anti-obesity campaign\, or when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dances alongside others during her 2012 tour of Africa\, black social dance moves toward a center of considerations of embodied knowledge.  This talk wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership\, conceived as the bodies of elected officials. In addition we will consider the commercial and socially-inscribed leaders of popular cultural\, including Beyonce and Brittany Spears\, as arbiters of African American social dance. Ultimately\, the talk suggests a haunting presence of queers-of-color aesthetic imperatives within political mobilizations of black social dance\, continually – and ironically – conceived as part and parcel of rhetorics of liberation and freedom of movement. As queer dances emerge in marginalized relationship to mainstream concerns of identity and gesture\, and then migrate toward shifting centers of popular culture\, they shimmer and switch\, bringing to light – perhaps – possibilities of creative aesthetic social dissent. \nThomas F. DeFrantz is Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University\, and director of SLIPPAGE: Performance\, Culture\, Technology\, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. His books include the edited volume Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture (de la Torre Bueno Prize\, Oxford University Press\, 2004)\, and Black Performance Theory\, co-edited with Anita Gonzalez (Duke University Press\, 2014). In 2013\, working with Takiyah Nur Amin and an outstanding group of artists and researchers\, he founded the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. A director and writer\, he is the outgoing President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. He taught at MIT for many years\, in Music and Theater Arts and Comparative Media Studies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thomas-defrantz-queer-social-dance-political-leadership-black-popular-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Ryan Cordell: "Melville in the First Age of Viral Media"
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nThis event kicks off MELCamp5\, a meeting of researchers from the Melville Electronic Library (MEL) April 30-May 2 to discuss an NEH-funded digital archive of Herman Melville’s work. Do come to a free public event on Friday May 1 in 2-105 on “The Critical Archive and the Future of MEL.” Moderator: Kurt Fendt (MIT)\, and Panelists Peter S. Donaldson (MIT)\, Julia Flanders (Northeastern University)\, John Unsworth (Brandeis University). All welcome. \n\nRyan Cordell\, Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts\, Maps\, and Networks at Northeastern University\nRyan Cordell\, co-director of the Viral Texts project\, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.  \nThe Viral Texts project seeks to develop theoretical models that will help scholars better understand what qualities—both textual and thematic—helped particular news stories\, short fiction\, and poetry “go viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.  What texts were reprinted and why? How did ideas—literary\, political\, scientific\, economic\, religious—circulate in the public sphere and achieve critical force among audiences?  How might computational methods reveal Melville’s popular reception and reputation or expose the shaping influence of the popular press on his writing? And how can these popular (perhaps even ephemeral) texts thicken our understanding of literary authors like Herman Melville? \nCordell is Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts\, Maps\, and Networks at Northeastern University. His scholarship focuses on convergences among literary\, periodical\, and religious culture in antebellum American mass media. Prof. Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English\, History\, and Computer Science on the NEH-funded Viral Texts project\, which uses robust data mining tools to discover reprinted content across large-scale archives of antebellum texts. These “viral texts” help us to trace lines of influence among antebellum writers and editors\, and to construct a model of viral textuality in the period. Cordell is currently a Mellon Fellow of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville\, Virginia. He also serves as vice president of the Digital Americanists scholarly society; is Co-Editor-in-Chief of centerNet’s forthcoming new journal\, DHCommons; and writes about technology in higher education for the group blog ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ryan-cordell-melville-in-the-first-age-of-viral-media/
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