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Imagined Networks, Glocal Connections
4/3/2012 Scholars Program lecture by Wendy Chun: “Imagined Networks, Glocal Connections
Location: Annenberg School for Communication, Room 109 at 6:15 p.m.
The Scholars Program in Culture and Communications at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication presents a public lecture by
Wendy Chun, “Imagined Networks, Glocal Connections.”
Abstract:
Networks” has become a defining concept of our epoch. From high-speed financial networks that erode national sovereignty to networking sites like Facebook.com that transform the meaning of the word “friend,” from Twitter feeds that foster new political alliances to unprecedented globe-spanning viral vectors that threaten world-wide catastrophe, networks allegedly encapsulate everything that is new about the structure and content of contemporary society. This talk asks ‘why?’ What is it about “networks” that makes them such a compelling, universal concept, employed by disciplines from literary theory to sociology, from physics to ecology? Why and how has the phrase “it’s a network” become a valid answer, the end, rather than the beginning, of an explanation? To answer these questions, there will be a focus on the types of imagined groupings--a series of “You’s” in crisis--that networks foster.
About the speaker:
Wendy Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011). She is co-editor of a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology and co-editor of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005). She is currently a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), where she is writing a monograph entitled Imagined Networks.