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SUMMARY:Neferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is a meditation on remaindered life\, the unsubsumable\, indivisible yet every-diminishing leftover of life-making practice for those who live in proximity to a social state of utter valuelessness. Drawing on diverse yet connected social contexts of redundant or superfluous populations\, including undocumented immigrants\, refugees\, guest workers\, and criminalized black and brown men and women\, in a global\, post-Fordist economy where all life bears the potential to serve as a direct means and source for the extraction of capitalist value\, the talk explores the significance of lives lived on the perpetual verge of being nothing not only to offer an alternative account of the current globopolitical order. Tracing the constitutive elements of slavery and colonialism in this global present\, the talk also reflects on the petty social currencies of small-time living as a speculative exercise on what is to be done next. \n\n  \nPODCAST: \n \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neferti-tadiar-next-to-nothing-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities\, and recognizes contemporary culture\, driven as it is by electronic digital computing\, as something like digital culture 2.0. Rather than seeing this shift strictly as a break\, we might consider it as one result of an overall intensification in the practices of quantification. Thus\, if capitalism was already a digital computer\, then “the invisible hand\,” as the non-subjective\, social summation of the individualized practices of the pursuit of private gain\, was an early expression of the computational unconscious. With the broadening and deepening of the imperative towards quantification and rational calculus posited then presupposed during the modern period by the expansionist program of Capital\, the process of the assignation of number to all variables first discernible in the commodity-form\, whereby every use-value was also an exchange-value\, entered into our machines\, rendering first the rationalization of production in the assembly line and then modern computing. Today\, as could be well known from everyday observation if not from media theory\, computation arguably underpins all productive activity\, and particularly significant for this argument\, activities that stretch from image-making\, to writing\, and therefore to thought. The contention here is not simply that capitalism is the unconscious of computation\, it is that the unconscious itself\, as the domain of the unthought that organizes thought\, is computational. Therefore\, not only is consciousness a computational effect\, but all the structural inequalities endemic to capitalist production – often appearing under variants of the ostensibly analog categories of race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, nation\, etc.\, but just as importantly and as often disappeared into our machines – inhere in the logistics of computation\, and consequently\, in the real-time organization of language\, which is to say\, our thought. \nJonathan Beller is Professor of English and Humanities and Critical and Visual Studies\, Pratt Institute. He is one of the foremost theorists of the visual turn and the attention economy. He works on the history of cinema and the way in which the screen-image has altered all aspects of social life. These alterations range from the lived experiences of gender\, sexuality and race\, to the socio-economic reorganization of peoples\, governments and the environment. His research and pedagogy is undertaken with a commitment to those struggling for social justice in what he calls “the world-media system.” Books and edited volumes include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle; Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality\, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System; and Feminist Media Theory (a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online). His current book projects are entitled The Rain of Images and Computational Capital. Beller also serves on the Editorial Collective of the internationally recognized journal Social Text\, and is the current director of The Graduate Program in Media Studies. He teaches Mediologies I and a variety of electives. \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”\n\nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues”\n\nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”\n\nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”\n\nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”\n\nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)”\n\nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”\n\nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-beller-the-computational-unconscious-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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