Day after my book talk at Warwick… https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi/news-events/
How to Think About Digital Subjectivity
Year: 2022
Last chance to book Southend-on-Zine!
Regarding Southend-on-Zine at 21 on Thursday… We have reached ticket capacity. I’ve added a few extra tickets on assumption that some might not be used, but best to book now, as we can’t exceed venue capacity.
Southend-on-Zine, Thurs 13th Oct 7pm
Club Critical Theory look forward to welcoming you to Twenty One on Thurs. Please try to arrive at 7pm to get a seat.
For those of you who have not been to Twenty-One before, the venue offers reasonably priced drinks, including local beer from Leigh brewery, lagers, wine, and food – various starters, pizzas and salads.
Full programme below. We will start with DJ sets, followed by a chaired discussion with our special guests, and opportunities to ask questions and comment.
We have an extension to after 11pm, so plenty of time afterwards to carry on discussions over a drink and more DJ sets.
About this event
Full Programme
Club Critical Theory Presents: Southend-on-Zine
We start at 7pm. Join us for a drink and DJ sets from Al Johnson (Ship Full Of Bombs Radio, Middle Aged Spread, Alien Music, Control Voltage) and Andrew Branch inspired by 50 years of fanzine cultures in Southend.
Introduction to CERG’s Club Critical Theory: Tony Sampson
Please join us for the main event centred around an open discussion on fanzine cultures and the publication of a new archive and reflection on zine cultures in Southend.
Graham Burnett, the author/archiver of the new book, Southend-on-Zine, moved to Southend on Sea when he was eight years old in 1969, and has lived here ever since. He started his own fanzine New Crimes with a couple of friends in early 1980. Inspired by punk’s anarchistic ‘Do It Yourself’ attitude and has been been self-publishing ever since.
Syd Moore, a bestselling novelist and activist. Her novels are mystery thrillers inspired by myths from the English county of Essex. Syd was the founding editor of Level 4, an arts and culture magazine, and co-creator of Superstrumps, the game that reclaims female stereotypes and the founder of The Essex Girls Liberation Front. https://sydmoore.com/
Tim Burrows (chair), a journalist and author. Through the years he has written for a wide range of publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Vice, the Telegraph Magazine, Dazed & Confused, the Quietus and Somesuch Stories. A recurring subject in his work is society, politics and Essex. He is from Southend. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-burrows
Russ Bestley, editor of journal Punk & Post-Punk, published by Intellect Books. Hitsville UK: Punk in the Faraway Towns. Graphic Subcultures Research Hub convened by Russ Bestley, based at LCC. https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/78-russ-bestley
After the discussion, we will return to DJ sets – event closes 11pm
The event is hosted by the Cultural Engine Research Group (Tony Sampson, Andrew Branch and Giles Tofield) and supported by the University of East London.
Registration, maps and more here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southend-on-zine-launch-event-for-new-archival-book-on-fanzine-culture-tickets-413989823707
Best wishes,
Tony, Andrew and Giles
Sleepwalker’s Guide to Social Media Book Talk
Club Critical Theory present: Southend-on-Zine. Oct 13th Twenty One, Southend
Club Critical Theory returns to Southend!
Club Critical Theory present: Southend-on-Zine: Launch event for new archival book on Fanzine culture. talks, DJs…
About this event
Free booking required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southend-on-zine-launch-event-for-new-archival-book-on-fanzine-culture-tickets-413989823707
Full Programme
Club Critical Theory Presents: Southend-on-Zine
We start at 7pm. Join us for a drink and DJ sets from Al Johnson (Ship Full Of Bombs Radio, Middle Aged Spread, Alien Music, Control Voltage) and Andrew Branch inspired by 50 years of fanzine cultures in Southend.
Introduction to CERG’s Club Critical Theory: Tony Sampson
Please join us for the main event centred around an open discussion on fanzine cultures and the publication of a new archive and reflection on zine cultures in Southend.
Confirmed special guests
Graham Burnett, the author/archiver of the new book, Southend-on-Zine, moved to Southend on Sea when he was eight years old in 1969, and has lived here ever since. He started his own fanzine New Crimes with a couple of…
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Full Programme for Zine Culture event on 13th Oct
Please see below details of the next Cultural Engine Research Group, Club Critical Theory event.
Club Critical Theory presents: Southend-on-Zine: Free launch event for new archival book on Fanzine culture, plus special guest speakers, DJs, bar
Thu, 13 October 2022 19:00 – 22:00 BST
Location
SS1 2EH – Twenty One Unit 21, Pier Approach Western Esplanade SS1 2EH
Free register required https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southend-on-zine-launch-event-for-new-archival-book-on-fanzine-culture-tickets-413989823707
Full Programme
Club Critical Theory Presents: Southend-on-Zine
We start at 7pm. Join us for a drink and DJ sets from Al Johnson (Ship Full Of Bombs Radio, Middle Aged Spread, Alien Music) and Andrew Branch inspired by 50 years of fanzine cultures in Southend.
Introduction to CERG’s Club Critical Theory: Tony Sampson
Please join us for the main event centred around an open discussion on fanzine cultures and the publication of a new archive and reflection on zine cultures in Southend.
Confirmed special guests
Graham Burnett, the author/archiver of the new book, Southend-on-Zine, moved to Southend on Sea when he was eight years old in 1969, and has lived here ever since. He started his own fanzine New Crimes with a couple of friends in early 1980. Inspired by punk’s anarchistic ‘Do It Yourself’ attitude and has been self-publishing ever since.
Syd Moore, a bestselling novelist and activist. Her novels are mystery thrillers inspired by myths from the English county of Essex. Syd was the founding editor of Level 4, an arts and culture magazine, and co-creator of Superstrumps, the game that reclaims female stereotypes and the founder of The Essex Girls Liberation Front. https://sydmoore.com/
Tim Burrows (chair), a journalist and author. Through the years he has written for a wide range of publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Vice, the Telegraph Magazine, Dazed & Confused, the Quietus and Somesuch Stories. A recurring subject in his work is society, politics and Essex. He is from Southend. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-burrows
Lu Williams , an artist producing sculpture, print, zines, drawing, writing, video, events and workshops through research, community engagement, collecting and collaboration. They make work through the lens of queerness, neurodivergence and working classness. https://luwilliams.com/
Russ Bestley, editor of journal Punk & Post-Punk, published by Intellect Books. Hitsville UK: Punk in the Faraway Towns. Graphic Subcultures Research Hub convened by Russ Bestley, based at LCC. https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/78-russ-bestley
After the discussion, we will return to DJ sets – event closes at 10pm.
The event is hosted by the Cultural Engine Research Group (Tony Sampson, Andrew Branch and Giles Tofield) and supported by the University of East London.
Free register required https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southend-on-zine-launch-event-for-new-archival-book-on-fanzine-culture-tickets-413989823707
UBEL DTP (ESRC) doctoral studentship in film, media and cultural studies in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, UEL
Good afternoon,
Please note, we are currently considering proposals for UBEL DTP (ESRC) doctoral studentship in film, media and cultural studies in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, UEL for 2023/24 entry. If you are interested, you are advised to make initial contact with Dr Tony Sampson (t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk) to discuss details of proposed research that fits well with UBEL (sociology pathway) no later than Oct 3rd.
There are two kinds of studentship – 1 +3 (MA Media and Communication Industries plus 3 years PhD) and +3 (direct entry to PhD).
More information about these options at UEL can be found here: https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-studentships2/pathways/sociology/
About UBEL
UBEL Website: https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/
What is on offer: https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-studentships/
UEL’s MA Media and Communications Industries: https://www.uel.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/ma-media-communication-industries
Best wishes,
Tony
THINKING WITH VIRUSES(OCTOBER 19-21, 2022)
Details of a free online series of workshops on virality (Zoom links provided) hosted by Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. I will be presenting a keynote on day three titled “Immunity, Community and Contagion: Three Propositions.” – based on my Polity book, A Sleepwalker’s Guide to Social Media.
Southend-on-Zine: Launch event for new archival book on Fanzine Culture
Interested in DIY media, zine cultures, archive? The Cultural Engine Research Group’s Club Critical Theory returns next month. We will be hosting this free event on Southend seafront (Essex), mixing discussions on 50 years of zine production, DJs, and lots more. A full programme will follow soon.
Sensorium@A&SM 15th July 12.00 UEL
Join us in east London for this special free event to preview The Affect Theory Reader II (Duke University Press, 2023).
About this event
Affect and Social Media/University of East London present a special Preview Symposium for the forthcoming publication of…
JOINING LINK FOR 15th JULY 2022 – 12.00-18.00 GMT
The Affect Theory Reader II
Worldings Tensions Futures
Coming sometime in the latter half of 2023: The Affect Theory Reader II: Worldings, Tensions, Futures from Duke University Press! Edited by Gregory Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell, this event will preview work from a few of the book’s almost two dozen contributors.
The reader’s second edition promises to unsettle and reorient the futures of affect theory, to leave particular tensions and ambiguities even more gloriously unresolved, and to assemble a shimmer of inventories that refuses closure around any kind of “monoaffective imaginary” (in the words of Lauren Berlant). Let’s get uncomfortable and unlearn a lot of what has already been thought and felt by affect theory in order to imagine worldings that might open up otherwise and elsewhere. Or at least flail again, flail better.
In addition to the editors, Gregory Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell, a full programme can be seen below.
The event is hosted by Affect and Social Media (A&SM) and includes a special Sensorium performance
Digital Twins – A Metaverse Quest
“Dear Prudence you are part of everything!” sings Dr. Kenco inviting us to reshape ideas of the meta-verse into a materially vital virtuality. Entangle with the ubiquitous consciousness of matter! This year’s Sensorium features an “immersive” dialogue between Confessor Kimey Peckpo and his Ai twin, Dr Pimpsy Kenco, developed by Peckpo and a team at CCNI. Expressing vibrant matter by an aggregate of algorithms, Kenco (Knowledge Emerging Neuro Cognitive Oscillator), leads us into a meta-physical entanglement with the virtual.
SO! Fasten your sensory seatbelt as you plunge in a visceral voyage of intellectual adventure and oceanic immersion. Peckpo and Kenco’s dialogue will pull you into a memorable, tangible-virtual, mind-bending assemblage of visual and sound sensations: a brain tingling wonder world of made-up meta-experience!!!”
Programme
July 15th 2022 (12.00-6pm)
Venue: University Square Stratford Campus: University of East London (UEL)1 Salway Place, London, England, E15 1NF – Rooms and link to MS Teams tbc
Starts at 12pm
Welcome to A&SM 12.30
12.30pm Sensorium Performance: Konfessor Kimey Peckpo and his Ai twin, Dr Pimpsy Kenco
Symposium
Opening Session (Live, in person) 1.30-2.30pm
Introduction: Carolyn Pedwell & Greg Seigworth (eds)
Lisa Blackman
Patrick Nickelson
Tony Sampson
15min break (w/ Q &A)
Session #1 (Live via MS Teams) 3-4pm
Ann Cvetkovich
Gail Hamner
Tyrone Palmer
Omar Kasmani
15min break (w/ Q &A)
Session #2 (Live via MS Teams) 4.15-5.15pm
Nathan Snaza
Ezekiel Dixon-Roman
Jason Read
Erin Manning
Wrap-up with Q & A
More details will be published here: https://viralcontagion.blog/
VIRALITY 