Very pleased to announce these three events at which I will get a chance to talk about work related to Virality and the follow up; a forthcoming book called The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Times of Neurocapitalism. The first draft manuscript of which will be with the publishers next week 🙂
The first, “On Crowds, Publics and the Potential of Political Assemblages,” is an introductory talk at a pre-election Club Critical Theory special event called Where is the Common Ground: Making Local Activism Work In Southend, Upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea in Essex on Sunday 3rd May, 2015 (7.45pm-12am). This event will also include a special guest talk by Jeremy Gilbert author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism (Pluto Press).
At the end of May I will travel to Paris for an invited talk at the Vital Mobilizations: Care and Surveillance in the Age of Global Connectivity conference at the Collège d’études mondiales, 1-2 June, 2015. More to follow on this one.
Finally, I am very pleased to confirm an invited talk at the Image of Network symposium at Winchester School of Art (Southampton) organized by Yigit Soncul and Jussi Parikka, Tuesday June 16, 2015. My talk is called “Waking the Somnambulist: The Capture of Affect, Attention and Memory (and why we need new weapons to stop it).”Other guest speakers include Olga Goriunova whose recent Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing (Bloomsbury) was published last year – Should be fun.
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