FCJ-138 This is not a Bit-Pipe: A Political Economy of the Substrate Network
Rachel O’Dwyer and Linda Doyle Trinity College Dublin Abstract: Critiquing ‘free culture’ as a utopian gesture that fails to engage with the material circuits of cognitive capitalism, this paper...
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FCJ-140 Radio Feeds, Satellite Feeds, Network Feeds: Subjectivity Across the...
Nicholas Knouf Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Abstract: This paper engages with the practices surrounding the two fadaiat encounters that took place simultaneously in Spain and Morocco in the summers...
View ArticleFCJ-139 Sand14: Reconstructing the Future of the Mobile Telecoms Industry
Laura Watts IT University of Copenhagen Abstract: How is the future imagined and made in the mobile telecoms industry, and how might it be made otherwise? This paper is an experiment in future-making....
View ArticleFCJ-141 Spaces for Play – Architectures of Wisdom: Towards a Utopic Spatial...
Dan Frodsham University of Exeter Abstract: The paper speculatively proposes a critical artistic practice that takes utopia to be a dynamic and specifically spatial device for achieving social...
View ArticleFCJ-142 Spectacles and Tropes: Speculative Design and Contemporary Food Cultures
Carl DiSalvo Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Abstract: Speculative design is a particularly inventive mode of design that is concerned with developing imaginative futures or alternate...
View ArticleFCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias
Nathalie Casemajor Loustau and Heather Davis McGill University and Concordia University Abstract: In recent years, the commons has been revitalised as a utopian concept for resistance against global...
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FCJ-144 Healthymagination: Anticipating Health of our Future Selves
Marina Levina University of Memphis Abstract: In 2010 General Electric launched an initiative called Healthymagination. Healthymagination is an apt signifier of the emerging Health 2.0 movement - a...
View ArticleFCJ-145 Temporal Utopianism and Global Information Networks
Andrew White University of Nottingham Ningbo China Abstract: In the late nineteenth century western circumnavigation of the globe and ever more accurate cartography shifted the utopian genre from the...
View ArticleFCJ-146 Mannheim’s Paradox: Ideology, Utopia, Media Technologies, and the...
Rowan Wilken Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Abstract: This article explores the complicated historical relationship between ideology and utopia in European thought, and what this...
View ArticleFCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and...
Ulises A. Mejias SUNY Oswego Abstract: While the tendency in the West to refer to the Arab Spring movements as ‘Twitter Revolutions’ has passed, a liberal discourse of ‘liberation technology’...
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