[PD-ot] Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Begin forwarded message:
> Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media
> Conference and Celebration
> October 19th and 20th of 2006
>
> We don't know enough about digital media as something other than a  
> means to
> an end, as “instrumental culture”, where culture itself  —mainstream,
> alternative, underground, or otherwise—  is degraded to the status  
> of tools
> (some hard, some soft, all ware).
>
> We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, “popular
> culture”: alienated and commodified cultural forms; and on the other,
> “cultural theory”: paranoid cosmologies of hyper-rhetoric, and the
> ubiquitous inevitability of evil...
>
> Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media will provide a forum for the  
> discussion and
> presentation of some positive contributions to the field, in light  
> of these
> chronic imbalances.
>
> Atopia (David Turnbull and Jane Harrison)
> Katherine Carl
> Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
> Jodi Dean
> Karen Hall
> Tom Keenan
> Michael Liegl
> Geert Lovink
> Rev. Luke Murphy
> Eric Redlinger
> Richard Rogers
> Ruth Ron
> Michael Schumacher
> Steven Shaviro
> Juha Uitto
> Greg Van Alstyne
> McKenzie Wark
>

> Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th,
> 11am to 6pm
> Dibner Auditorium, Polytechnic University,
> 6 MetroTech, Brooklyn, 11201.
>
> Contact Carl Skelton at 718-260-4018 or cskelton at poly.edu.
>
> Check out~ http://idmi.poly.edu/drupal/?q=hyper and come join us!
>



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