Author: Sensorium
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Why Gilbert Simondon?
This is the editorial to the Sensorium Journal-issue on Gilbert Simondon (vol. 3, 2021). It started with curiosity: The name of the French philosopher seemed to pop up here and there, while we were working on dissertations and postdoc-projects. Not just, as we already knew, in the works of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze, Bernard…
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Video Tip: Media Theory in Action
In Jill Lepore’s book, IF THEN (2020) a fascinating clip from an American presidential election in the 1960s is mentioned. Lepore traces in her book the early history of voter manipulation and targeted communication, through the firm Simulamatics – a forgotten predecessor to companies such as Cambridge Analytica. In the clip mentioned, presidential candidate Adlai…
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Colonial ecologies
29th of January, 2020: Ph.D student at the research school of Language and Culture at Linköping University, Lene Asp, held a higher seminar in Linköping, on her project on Colonial Ecologies, with the title “Resounding the colonial archive with impressions from a field trip to Ghana”. Asp is retracing and documenting the Danish slave route,…
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Panel on cars at ACLA
One of our members organizes a seminar on cars at ACLA 2019 in Chicago. For anyone interested in assembly lines, energy humantities, petroculture or fordism, please consider sending in a proposal! Here is an excerpt from the presentation (for full seminar description, click here): A major proposed theme for this seminar is how artistic and…
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Workshop: Medieekologi
Sensorium arrangerer en workshop for doktorander og ferske forskere i Norden som jobber med begrepet ”medieøkologi/medieekologi” i sin forskning. Workshopen passer for doktorander og forskere fra medievitenskap, litteraturvitenskap, kunstvitenskap/kunsthistorie, kunstakademiet/konstfack eller andre relevante fagfelt, og åpner opp for både teoretisk og metodologisk begrepsutvikling, i tillegg til presiseringer og konkretiseringer av den bredere diskusjonen om samtidens…
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Doktorandkurs: Medieekologi och mediearkeologi – teori och praktik
Läsåret 2019/2020 arrangeras en doktorandkurs med titeln “medieekologi och mediearkeologi – teori och praktik”, 7,5 hp på Linköpings universitet. Syftet med denna kurs är att studera de omvandlingar som mediehistoria och medieteori genomgått under senare tid under intryck av begreppen ”arkeologi” och ”ekologi”. Det handlar, å ena sidan, om att undersöka hur föreställningen om medier…
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General Ecology: Lectures and Conversation with N. Katherine Hayles & Erich Hörl
Time: 22 maj, 13.00–16.00Place: KY31, Key-house, Campus Valla, LiU The Department of Culture and Communication is delighted to welcome to an afternoon symposium with N. Katherine Hayles, professor emerita at Duke University and Erich Hörl, professor in media culture at Leuphania University in Lüneburg, Germany. Following the symposium and seminar, a reception and post seminar will be held…
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Call for Papers (English)
Sensorium Journal vol.3 (Spring 2020) is dedicated to: Gilbert Simondon Within recent years the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon has attracted increased attention within the fields of aesthetic philosophy, media theory and artistic practices oriented towards materiality. His techno-philosophical perspective and especially his groundbreaking study Du mode d’existence des objets techniques from 1958…
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Call for papers: Gilbert Simondon
Sensorium Journal nr. 3 (vår 2020) har tema: Gilbert Simondon For English, click here. Den franske filosofen Gilbert Simondon har under senare år uppmärksammats i allt högre grad inom estetiska filosofi, medieteori och materiellt orienterade konstnärliga praktiker. Hans teknofilosofiska perspektiv, och särskilt hans verk Du mode d’existence des objets techniques från 1958 (som kom ut…
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Per Israelson: A Genre is an Ecosystem
Wednesday October 18 Sensorium-member and upcoming editor of Sensorium Journal, Per Israelson, visited Linköping to give a lecture on genres as an ecosystems. The lecture built on Israelson’s newly defended thesis, Ecologies of the Imagination: theorizing the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic (Stockholm University, 2017). Genre theory by among others Tzvetan Todorov was revised with…
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Visual summary of Det oförklarligas medieekologier
LMI, together with Norrköping konstmuseum and Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, held a symposium on media ecologies of the unexplained Thursdag September 14, 2017. Below you’ll find a visual summary of the afternoon.
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Release of Sensorium Journal 2, September 13, 2017
The second issue of Sensorium Journal is finished! Check out the issue online today, and download the issue in pdf Friday September 15, 2017.
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Editorial: Sensorium Journal 2
”Since Sputnik, the planet has become a global theatre under the proscenium arch of man-made satellites. Our psyches acquire thereby a totally new rim-spin.” (Marshall McLuhan, Culture is our business, 1970) With these words by Marshall McLuhan, you are hereby welcomed to the second issue of Sensorium Journal. This issue includes papers from the Geomedia…
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Vad är mediearkeologi? En enkät.
THOMAS GÖTSELIUS JOHN BRUMO SOLVEIG DAUGAARD JAKOB LIEN JOHAN FREDRIKZON SØREN POLD RAGNILD LOME JESPER OLSSON KNUT OVE ELIASSEN PELLE SNICKARS JACEK SMOLICKI THOMAS GÖTSELIUS Institutionen för kultur och estetik, Stockholms universitet To the top 1. Vad är ”mediearkeologi” enligt din åsikt? Är det en teori, en metod eller något tredje? (Hur förhåller sig…
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Visual summary of the SLSA conference in Atlanta 2016
Sensorium and LMI have recently been on the SLSA conference in Atlanta to talk about labs and networks. We did not manage to take any photos of our own presentations, but we brought home several images of other researchers’ powerpoint presentations and images of the views from the Westin Peachtree Hotel, the second highest all-hotel…
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Workshop on autopoiesis
Workshop on Autopoiesis, February 16, 10-16 in Linköping. Through the suggested readings and individual presentations (app. 10 minutes each), the aim of this workshop is to deepen our understanding of both the history, the significance and the critical potentials of the concept autopoiesis. Please write to sensorium@liu.se if you want to join, contribute or if…
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Efter boken: En visuell återblick
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Efter boken – ett symposium om svenska Artist Books
En av landets största samlingar med Artist Books finns på Stadsbiblioteket i Linköping. I samarbete med biblioteket bjuder forskargruppen LMI (Literature, Media History and Information Cultures) vid LiU in till ett endagssymposium om konstnärsböcker på Linköpings Stadsbibliotek den 21 april. PROGRAM: 13.00 – Bokens rum Föreläsning av Thomas Millroth (frilansande konsthistoriker, författare, kritiker). 14.00 – …
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Matthew Fuller in Linköping
Matthew Fuller is coming to Linköping April 12! Matthew Fuller is the author of the forthcoming, ‘How to Sleep, in art, biology and culture’, (Bloomsbury). Other titles include, include ‘Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture’, (MIT) ‘Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software’ and ‘Elephant & Castle’. (both Autonomedia) With Usman…
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Editorial: Sensorium Journal 1
This is the first issue of Sensorium Journal. Sensorium Journal is an academic publication, a platform for research and artistic practices that are sensitive to materiality, aesthetics and media technology. Sensorium Journal is collaborative, inclusive and open in its form. Thus, it is academically ambitious but not peer-reviewed, and it is a part of Sensorium,…