THE ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES OF A

GENERAL ECOLOGY OF MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

Internat ional SymposiumJanuary 16th – 18th , 2013

Beckmannshof , Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum

Hosted by Er ich Hör l (Professor of Media Phi losophy and Technology, Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum)

in cooperat ion with Maren Schwieger (Evonik Doctora l Programme »Reconsider ing Industry«)

James Burton (A lexander von Humboldt Postdoctora l Research Fel low)

JUSSI PARIkkA(Winchester School of Ar t , Un ivers i ty of Southampton)An Al ternat ive Deep Time of the Media : A Geologica l ly Tuned Media Ecology

ERICH HöRL (Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum)Towards a Genera l Ecology: An Emergent Paradigm

BRUCE CLARkE (Texas Tech Univers i ty , Lubbock)Steps to a Genera l Ecology in Gregory Bateson‘s Steps to an Ecology of Mind

BERNARD STIEGLER ( IR I , Centre Georges Pompidou, Par is / Goldsmiths , Un ivers i ty of London)Ecology and Organology

LUCIANA PARIS I (Goldsmiths , Un ivers i ty of London)A lgor i thmic Matr ix and Automated Thought

MARk B. N . HANSEN (Duke Univers i ty , Durham)Ecologies of Imi tat ion and Exper ience

ELENA ESPOSITO (Univers i tà degl i stud i d i Modena e Reggio Emi l ia )V i r tua l Cont ingency in the Web Communicat ion

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CARY WOLFE (R ice Univers i ty , Houston)›L i fe‹ Is Not Enough: The B iopol i t ics of B ioar t

ROSI BRAIDOTTI (Utrecht Univers i ty)Perverse Post-Anthropocentr ism and Becoming-Animal

MATTHEW FULLER (Goldsmiths , Un ivers i ty of London) Devastat ion (co-author : Olga Gor iunova, Univers i ty of Warwick)

DAVID WILLS (SUNY, A lbany)Posi t ive Feedback: Towards an Ecology of Sound

MAREN SCHWIEGER (Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum)Why ›Ecology‹ , Which Ecology? Rereading Haeckel in Favour of a Minor Ecology

Plenary D iscuss ion

9 :30–10:30

10:30–11:45

12:00–13:15

14:45–16:00

16:15–17:30

17:45–19:00

Chai r : Fr iedr ich Ba lke (Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum)

Chai r : Anna Tuschl ing (Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum)

Chai r : Astr id Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum)

9 :30–10:45

11:00–12:15

13:30–14:45

15:00–16:15

16:15–17:30

17:45–19:00

Chai r : James Bur ton (Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum)

18:15–19:45

The symposium pursues an understanding of ecology as an epochal concept , around which a new semant ics for the descr ipt ion of our technologica l condi t ion has been crysta l l is ing s ince at least the mid-20th century , and perhaps as ear ly as the end of the 19th . Against th is background, the h istor ica l and systemat ic , ep istemologica l and ontologica l contours of our genera l ecologica l const i tut ion are to be d isc losed. A par t icu lar a im wi l l be to c lar i fy the extent to which the genera l ecologisat ion is re lated to, and perhaps even created by, the far- reaching deterr i tor ia l isat ion of contemporary capi ta l ism, i ts media and technoscient i f ic mobi l isat ion and i ts posthumanist machinery of exploi tat ion. The symposium overa l l serves to demonstrate th is epochal movement , st i l l unthought as such, which leads us to media technologies as the technoscient i f ic grounding of an era character ised by new envi ronmenta l agencies , and of a rad ica l ly envi ronmenta l way of being. The chal lenges and perspect ives ra ised by th is movement wi l l be explored, par t icu lar ly wi th respect to cr i t ica l media theory and theory of technology.

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PROGRAMMEbkm lecture | Ruhr-Univers i tät Bochum, GABF 04/611

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