ICTs in the Contemporary World seminar

Global Culture and the media

Mark Poster
LSE Centennial Professor

Tuesday 7 October, 2008
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

venue NAB 2.14

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Increasing global relations catalyze the question of culture: are the basic conditions of culture changed, diminished or supplemented as a result of intensified exchanges across national, ethnic and territorial borders? What are the major discursive regimes that have emerged in connection with the phenomenon of global culture? What models of analysis are best suited to examine these exchanges – translation, transcoding, mixing, hybridity, homogenization? Do they appear to pose the most productive questions in the present context? What discursive positions enable asking the question of global culture? What are the conditions of writing/speech/word processing that open a critical stance on the question of global culture? Does the fact that a large proportion of global exchanges occur only with the mediation of information machines incite a need to redefine the notion of the other? These are the issue that inform my presentation today.

Mark Poster is Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies and a member of the History Department at the University of California, Irvine. He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature. He is a member of the Critical Theory Institute. His recent books are: Information Please: Culture and Politics in a Digital Age (Duke University Press, 2006); What’s the Matter with the Internet?: A Critical Theory of Cyberspace (University of Minnesota Press, 2001); The Information Subject in Critical Voices Series (New York: Gordon and Breach Arts International, 2001); Cultural History and Postmodernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997); The Second Media Age (London: Polity and New York: Blackwell, 1995); and The Mode of Information (London: Blackwell and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).

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