Hi NetBehaviourists!
We would like to
invite you to Mel Chen's public talk, this Friday, 17th
October 4pm at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Hope you can
make it! Please share widely!
best
Helen
A special late
addition to the Sensing Practices seminar series:
Cognitive Fluctuation,
Distributed Sensing, and the Marking of Illness
Mel Chen in
the Citizen Sense “Sensing Practices” seminar series
Co-hosted with the
Unit of Play
17
October 2014
16.00 to 18.00
Location 256
Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
Abstract
In this talk Chen considers
a number of intersecting phenomena: the often feminized
exceptionality of "brain fog" and other cognitive departures
from expected temporalities, overlapping with more temporally
durative (or unexcusable by other means) "chronic illness";
the narration of biochemical transactions in relation to
bodies at various scales; and the affectively rich play in
geopolitical adjudications between "toxicity" and
"intoxication." Underneath all of these considerations lies a
series of investments that could be understood as racially
"tuned," an expression of Chen’s
interest in the hidden intersections of race and disability.
Bio
Mel Y. Chen is
Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley and the Director of
Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Chen’s Animacies:
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect(Duke
University Press, 2012, Alan Bray Memorial Award), explores
questions of racialization, queering, disability, and
affective economies in animate and inanimate “life” and
“nonlife.” Further writing appears in Women’s Studies
Quarterly, Discourse, Women in Performance, Australian
Feminist Studies, Amerasia, and the Journal of
Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Along with
Jasbir K. Puar, Chen serves as series coeditor
for a book series at Duke called “Anima.” Chensits
on the board of directors for the Society for Disability
Studies.
Sensing Practices
The Citizen Sense
research group is hosting a year-long seminar series on
“Sensing Practices.” The series attends to questions about how
sensing and practice emerge, take hold, and form attachments
across environmental, material, political and aesthetic
concerns. Rather than take “the senses” as a fixed starting
point, this seminar series instead considers how
sensing-as-practice is differently articulated in relation to
technologies of environmental monitoring, data gathered for
evidentiary claims, the formation of citizens, and
more-than-human entanglements. How might these expanded
approaches to sensing practices recast engagements with
experience, and reconfigure explorations of practice-based
research?
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Helen Pritchard
Researcher on European Research Council project, Citizen Sense
Goldsmiths, University of London
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