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Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
May 2-5, 2003

State Technology - Technology and Culture

This theme in "Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future"
examines
the relationship between technology (in its many forms), state power,
conflicting notions of globalization, and cultural resistance or
autonomy.
We invite papers that explore the limitations of each field and elements
of
their interactions, at both practical and/or theoretical levels.

In Networking the World: 1794-2000 (2000), Armand Mattelart states that
the
rhetoric of globalization "constitutes a ready-made ideology that
conceals
the disorders of the new world order." He argues that such "[m]essianic
discourses about the democratic virtues of technology" are perceived as
fostering a return to an ideal information exchange in the public
sphere.
Nonetheless, these discourses actually "mask what is at stake in the
struggles for control of the structure and content of knowledge
networks,"
and such masking discourses are therefore "of use in geopolitics" (97).
Moreover, this disparity between the rhetoric of globalization and its
ideological practices is not exclusively a contemporary electronic
phenomenon, but exists within the history of media culture in general.

This theme intends to prompt responses to the suggestion that contrary
to
liberating the individual, as much of the rhetoric of globalization
claims,
the ideological practices of the technological machinery of
globalization
actually curbs the autonomy of the individual in the modern world.
Papers
are desired that creatively address such notions as the state hegemony
and
the online medium; globalization and technology; or autonomy and
ideology in
technological discourses, among others.

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Papers are invited from all disciplines and ranging from the practical
to
the theoretical. Topics may include but are not limited to:

* The autonomy of Hacker sub-culture versus the censorship of the
cultural
mainstream
* Pedagogical applications of technologies and curriculum
* Cultural currency of globalization rhetoric and cultural practice
* The economic and cultural stakes of file-sharing
* The Internet as a new field of Colonialism?
* Constructions of autonomy and selfhood online
* 'The Bias of Communication' and the shape of state or cultural
discourses
* The history of technological innovation and acts of social resistance
or
cultural change
* The 'electronic revolution' and the history of media culture

Deadline: February 1, 2002

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words for a proposed paper of
20
minutes to the theme coordinator.

Dr. Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2E5, Canada
<mfv@ualberta.ca>

The conference will also host workshops on a variety of technical
applications. Updates on workshops will be posted to the conference
website
early in 2003.


The conference is funded by the Canada Research Chairs programme.