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CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE VOL 33, NOS 1-2
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Announcement 06/011/2010 Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
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DIGITAL INFLECTIONS
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Topic: The Future of Digital Capitalism
Date and Time: June 17, 1pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), 3pm EDT
(Eastern Daylight Time)
To register for the session, please go to:
https://my.dimdim.com/pactac Capacity is limited.
'The Future of Digital Capitalism' will be the first topic treated in
what will be a regular series of CTheory global, online seminars on
critical digital studies.
We have invited Michael Betancourt, author
of a new CTheory article – "Immaterial Value and Scarcity in Digital
Capitalism," to present his work related to the future of digital
capitalism. Commentaries will be provided by Arthur Kroker,
co-author of _Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class_, and Simon
Glezos, postdoctoral research fellow at the Pacific Center for
Technology and Culture. We invite your participation in this global
discussion of the contemporary economic crisis.
Theme: The common thread in the periodic, convulsive meltdown of
contemporary capitalism is a radical transformation in the nature of
capitalism itself, from material value to a future of immaterial
value, from a history of financialization to the specter of automated
trading systems seemingly beyond human control, from production to
the illusion of "accumulation without production."
Circulating like a virus, the wild ride of digital capitalism brings
whole continents to their financial knees: the housing bubble in the
USA, the crisis of Euro-debt now, and incipient changes in China's
economy next. No country is exempt, no individual untouched, no
society unaffected, no empire immune. History is on the move once
again, and digital capitalism is at once its talisman and casualty
report.
Are we entering a new era of capitalism under the sign of "semiotic
manipulation," run by software programs that quickly accident whole
marketplaces, accelerated by the dream of accumulation without
production, in essence, a new regime of affective capitalism driven
forward by the regime of computation?
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Editors, CTheory
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* (University of New South Wales), Warren Magnusson (University of
* Victoria), Paul Hegarty (University College Cork), Joan Hawkins
* (Indiana University), Frances Dyson (University of California
* Davis), Mary Bryson (University of British Columbia), William
* Bogard (Whitman College) Andrew Wernick (Trent University),
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