Techno Cultures
Nov 9–Nov 10, 2018
Lingnan University
Under the broad rubric of techno-cultures, this workshop aims to explore new methodologies and concepts for understanding the present, including: surveillance technology, the data subject, and the body of rights; the politics of search engines and the algorithmic regulation of the public sphere; financialization and platform capitalism; the techne of craft and labor in performance; virtual reality, empathy machines, internet dating, and the leakiness of social networks.
Workshop Resource Persons:
David Theo Goldberg
UCHRI
Ackbar Abbas
UC Irvine
Nishant Shah
University of the Arts, Netherlands
Jenna Ng
New York University
Tejaswini Niranjana
Lingnan University
Ip Iam Chong
Lingnan University
Soo Ryon Yoon
Lingnan University
Anjeline De Dios
Lingnan University
