ERICH HÖRL (Professor of Media Philosophy and Technology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
in cooperation with
MAREN SCHWIEGER (Evonik Doctoral Programme »Reconsidering Industry«) and
JAMES BURTON ((Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow).
The symposium pursues an understanding of ecology as an epochal concept, around which a new semantics for the description of our technological condition has been crystallising since at least the mid-20th century, and perhaps as early as the end of the 19th. Against this background, the historical and systematic, epistemological and ontological contours of our general ecological constitution are to be disclosed. A particular aim will be to clarify the extent to which the general ecologisation is related to, and perhaps even created by, the far-reaching deterritorialisation of contemporary capitalism, its media and technoscientific mobilisation and its posthumanist machinery of exploitation. The symposium overall serves to demonstrate this epochal movement, still unthought as such, which leads us to media technologies as the technoscientific grounding of an era characterised by new environmental agencies, and of a radically environmental way of being. The challenges and perspectives raised by this movement will be explored, particularly with respect to critical media theory and theory of technology.
Number of participants limited: please apply to general-ecology@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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| 2013_01_16 | |
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bkm lecture | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GABF 04/611 |
| 18:15 - 19:45 | Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) An Alternative Deep Time of the Media: A Geologically Tuned Media Ecology |
| 2013_01_17 | |
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Chair: Friedrich Balke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) |
| 9:30–9:45 | Welcome |
| 9:45–11:00 | Erich Hörl (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Towards a General Ecology: An Emergent Paradigm |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15–12:30 | Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University, Lubbock) Cycle and Flow: Steps to a General Ecology in Gregory Bateson and Félix Guattari |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunchbreak |
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Chair: Anna Tuschling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) |
| 14:00–15:15 | Mark B. N. Hansen (Duke University, Durham) Ecologies of Imitation and Experience |
| 15:15-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-16:45 | Elena Esposito (Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Virtual Contingency in the Web Communication |
| 16:45-17:00 | Break |
| 17:00–18:30 | STEFAN HERBRECHTER (Coventry University, UK) MANUELA ROSSINI (University of Bern) CARY WOLFE (Rice University, Houston) Posthuman(ist) Ecology: New Perspectives for the Critical Humanities // Panel Discussion |
| 2013_01_18 | |
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Chair: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) |
| 9:30–10:45 |
Cary Wolfe (Rice University, Houston) ›Life‹ Is Not Enough: The Biopolitics of Bioart |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–12:15 | Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) Perverse Post-Anthropocentrism and Becoming-Animal |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunchbreak |
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Chair: James Burton (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) |
| 13:30–14:45 | Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London) Devastation (co-author: Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Break |
| 15:00–16:15 | David Wills (SUNY, Albany) Positive Feedback: Towards an Ecology of Sound |
| 16:15–17:30 | Maren Schwieger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Why ›Ecology‹, Which Ecology? Rereading Haeckel in Favour of a Minor Ecology |
| 17:30-17:45 | Break |
| 17:45–19:00 | Plenary Discussion |
