Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium

April 29-30, 2022
Virtual

Tweets by organizers @tangoldman @JoniHaywardM @unlikelymidge

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Here's the schedule for the "Media and/as Infrastructure" symposium on 29-30 April. Registration details link below. Please share widely!
https://t.co/Fmt44s5aJQ

[Dom Davies @DrDomDavies]

Registration (free) is still open for this workshop
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Race, Nation, Infrastructure: The Cultural Politics of "Levelling Up"
Friday 1 July 2022
@CityUniLondon

Full programme linked below, travel bursaries available from outside London

https://t.co/079GaqKQ80

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

@uljababulja Yep, we have them. DM me your email and will send private links.

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

"Media and/as Infrastructure: A Virtual Symposium" starts on Friday. All-star lineup. Registration link below.
https://t.co/Fmt44s5aJQ

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Two days after our @mediainfra22 symposium and my mind is overflowing with inspiration and challenging ideas that I'm eager to sit with and untangle. My brain synapses feel like these tangled wires (photo from Brian Larkin's keynote)

Signed, @tangoldman

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

A resounding THANK YOU to our keynotes, panelists, moderators, sponsors, + attendees. We never anticipated such a turnout!

As co-organizers we're signing off @tangoldman @JoniHaywardM @unlikelymidge for now.

Info regarding potential availability of recordings forthcoming.

[Natalia Orrego 📡 @natalia_orregot]

@mediainfra22 @mccNYU @n_str I learned so much❤ Thank you for making this symposium!

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

LIVE from the “Media and/as Infrastructure” virtual symposium. A concluding keynote by @mccNYU’s Nicole Starosielski (@n_str)! #media #infrastructure

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

As Nadine wraps up shortly, we'll be asking all of our previous speakers in attendance to come on camera and participate in a larger open conversation! #media #infrastructure

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Ruiz is followed by Nadine Chan who, centering the rainforest, thinks about infrastructure as an active physical and hermeneutical terrain. #media #infrastructure

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Starting off panel #4 is Rafico Ruiz: he uses case of a school in Canadian arctic to think thru mediating properties + affordances of thermal exchange, rereading the site as an energy infrastructure that mobilizes histories of settler colonial dispossession and forced settlement.

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Panel #4 starting now with Rafico Ruiz and Nadine Chan. Moderated by Rachel Jekanowski (@stalebreadzine)
#media #infrastructure

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Have you been attending @mediainfra22? Please share any thoughts, ideas, and comments you have with us!

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

.@Debashree2017 up next. She brings together island studies, postcolonial studies, and media studies, historicizing and interrogating a central logic of infrastructural becoming: mediating exchange over distance. #infrastructure #media

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

@jamesleocahill @ayomer @goingHan (I, @tangoldman) kept thinking of you in scuba gear a la Painleve.

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Correction — Ayesha Omer (@ayomer) is moderating panel #3. 🙃

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

And we're back with Panel #3! Speakers @Debashree2017 and @goingHan. Moderator by Rachel Jekanowski (@stalebreadzine). #media #infrastructure

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

First up on panel #3: Lisa Yin Han (@goingHan) presenting on deep sea cable networks.

She asks: "how might a media infrastructural reading of homo aquaticus [i.e., the aquatic man] complicate dominant narratives about the speculative union between humankind and the sea?"

[Rory Solomon (now at the new place) @rorys]

Very much looking forward to this event today.

Especially Rafico Ruiz & Nadine Chan's panel, which seems like somewhat of a follow-up to the #MediaTopography event that @sampkellogg & I organized last fall at @SocLitSciArts!

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

And we're back with Panel #3! Speakers @Debashree2017 and @goingHan. Moderator by Rachel Jekanowski (@stalebreadzine). #media #infrastructure

[Media and/as Infrastructure, A Symposium @mediainfra22]

Good morning-afternoon-or-night (depending on where you're Zooming in from!)

Day 2 of "Media and/as Infrastructure" starts in an hour (12 ET). Here's to more generative discussion!
#media #infrastructure