Workshop: The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution

16. Nov - 17. Nov

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Central building, room 601
Universitätsallee 1
21335 Lüneburg

Far from its initial promise, the so-called digital revolution has given way to reactionary politics. So far, it has served extractive and cognitive capitalist accumulation, combining exploitation and appropriation, leading to the acceleration of the restructuring of representational government mechanisms. At this moment we are faced with the virtual and present entangled into a hybrid reality, when intricate mediation systems are mistaken for direct contact, histories and realities intertwine. Taking its cue from both the realities of the really-existing digital world, and its relation to image-making, as well as from the archaeology of the digital, the workshop will explore the actuality of the digital, where derivatives, algorithms, meta-data, AI, and the likes - all non-visual entities, unattainable by the human eye - provide the perfect example to what Frederic Jameson has called a crisis of representation. With these, power becomes unattainable to the human eye, leading to new forms of aestheticization of politics.

A reader for the workshop will be provided after registration. The workshop consists of brief introductions into the texts which should be read beforehand, followed by a discussion of the texts.

For registration, please contact frieder.janz@leuphana.de

For more information, please contact susanne.leeb@leuphana.de

Program

Thursday 16.11.23

Session 1
15:00-17:00

Susanne Leeb
The Digital Image Research Program

Joshua Simon
The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution

Ana Teixeira Pinto
AI in Fiction – A Brief Prehistory

Session 2
17:00-19:00

Antonia Majaca
Three Notes: Irrationalism, New Materialism, Techno-vitalism

Daniel Nemenyi
Simulating Counterinsurgencies in the Sixties: The Case of Project CAM

Friday 17.11.23

Session 3
10:00-12:00

Noam Yuran
Prurient Puritanism: Sex and Ownership and Capital

Zachary Formwalt
Capture and the Noncapitalist Milieu

Session 4
14:00-17:00

Elena Vogman and Olexii Kuchanskyi
Mental Ecologies of War: A Proposition for an Ecosophic Gaze

David Riff
Beyond Ressentiment

Priority Program The Digital Image, Project: Jameson 2.0. Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Art
www.digitalesbild.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/en/elementor-22433/