Authority and Political Technologies 2014 Conference: Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment

APT 2014: Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment
Ramphal Building, University of Warwick - June 2-3

Recordings of the plenaries now online:  
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/authorityandpoliticaltechnologies/apt2014/

MONDAY 2nd JUNE

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee and Registration [R0.03/4]

10:30 – 11:30 Plenary: Christian Borch “Shiller Sociality: On the Social Dynamics of Financial Markets” [R0.03/4 Chair Nathaniel Tkacz - Welcome with Claire Blencowe and Illan Rua Wall]

11:30 – 12:30 Plenary: Luciana Parisi “Digital Automation and Critical Thought” [R0.03/4 Chair Claire Blencowe]

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions

1) Authority, Becoming & Sovereignty in the (Post) Colony [R0.03/4 Chair Vicki Squire]

• Jayan Nayar “The (Extra-)Ordinariness of Decolonial Already-(Other-) Being”
  
• Emma Patchett “How Long Have I Erased Myself?: The Accident of Diasporic Corporeality in Law”
  
• Monika Halkort “Data Sovereignties. On Information, Rights and Self Determination in Humanitarian Governance.”
  
• Ernesto Schwartz-Marin & Amy Hinterberger “Sovereignty and the Contemporary Politics of Biology: Dilemmas of Enclosure, Capital and Temporality”
  

2) Materialism & the Political Meaning of Entanglement 1 [R1.03 Chair Lara Montesinos Coleman]

• Benoit Dillet “Proletarianisation and Deproletarianisation in Bernard Stiegler”
  
• Leila Dawney “Figures of Authority”
  
• Nathaniel O’Grady “Capturing and Governing the Future: The Pervasiveness of Risk as a Performative Set of Technologies”
  

3) Process and New Forms of Society(ism), Association and Being in Common 1 [R1.04 Chair Hannah Jones]

• Angharad Beckett & Tom Campbell “Understanding the Big Ideas of Social Movements as Oppositional Devices”
  
• Samuel Kirwan “The Emergent Authorities of Advice Work”
  
• Tuur Driesser “Visualising the City in Urban Informatics”?
  
• Arezu Imran Bari “Putting ‘Informal Urbanism’ on the Radar”
  

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Plenary: Amade M’Charek “(Sur)Face: On Generous Methods in Studies of Race” [Room R0.03/4 Chair Amy Hinterberger]

17:00 – 18:00 Plenary: Louise Amoore “The Politics of Possibility” [Room R0.03/4 Chair Nigel Thrift]

19.00-23.00 BBQ Conference Dinner

TUESDAY 3rd JUNE


10:00 – 11:00 Plenary: AbdouMaliq Simone “The Gravity of Leftovers: Reflections on Contemporary Urban Power in an Apparent Global South” [R0.03/4 Chair Celia Lury]

11:00 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions

1) Necropolitics & Human Rights [R0.03/4 Chair Olga Goriunova]

• Goldie Osuri “Rethinking Gendered Human Rights: Sovereignty and Bodily Technologies”
  
• Maurice Stierl “A Story of Struggle, A Story of EUrope”
  
• Ernesto Schwartz-Marin “Biological citizenship, death and the ‘Right to the Truth’ in Mexico and Colombia”
  
• Lara Montesinos Coleman “Struggles Over Rights: Beyond Discipline and Indistinction”
  

2) Materialism & The Political Meaning of Entanglement 2 [R1.03 Chair Stuart Elden]

• Julian Brigstocke “Affective Architectures of Authority in the Experimental Urbanism of Estudio Teddy Cruz’
  
• Callum McGregor “Social Movement Learning and Materialism(s) in Educational Research: Towards Socio-Material Movements Learning?”
  
• Jonna Pettersson “Thinking With Rivers”
  
• Naomi Millner “The Challenge and Authority of in situ Expertise: Decolonising Development with Food Justice Movements in El Salvador”
  

3) Silence, Spaces & Spiritualities of Power, Sovereignty & Law [R1.04 Chair Sam Adelman]

• Fabrizio Gesuelli “The House of Card and the Square: A Missed Promise”
  
• Henrique Carvalho “The Modern Imaginary of Criminal Justice”
  
• Jordi Alaman Tabero “Silence, Emptiness and Speech”
  

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions

1) Biopolitics & Political Spirituality/Religion [R0.03/4 Chair John Solomos]

• Abin Thomas “Claims on Sovereigny and Secular Body: Politics of Death and Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala”
  
• Justine Grønbæk Pors “Power and Contingency: Listening to the Noise of Contemporary Government”
  
• Leticia Dyniewicz “Carl Schmidt and Walter Benjamin: A Dialogue or Anthropophagy?”
  
  

2) Political Re/Imaginaries [R1.03 Chair Maria do Mar Pereira]

• Catherine Charrett “’Politics in Drag’: A Performance in Re-Imagining the Political Response to Hamas’s 2006 Electoral Success”
  
• Marijn Nieuwenhuis “Aerography: Politicising the Air”
  
• Cormac Deane “The Cinematic Control Room, 1971 – 2014”
  

3) Process and New Forms of Society(ism), Association and Being in Common 2 [R1.04 Chair Lynne Pettinger]

• David Murakami Wood “Ambient Government: The Technological Biopolitics of a Smart World”
  
• Hidefumi Nishiyama “From a Walled Racism to a Smooth Racism: Reflection on Control Societies”
  
• Mike Bourne, Heather Johnson, and Debbie Lisle “Following Forward: The Production, Enrolment and Contingency of Bordering Technologies”
  

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Plenary: Costas Douzinas “A Philosophy of Resistance” [R0.03/4 Chair Illan rua Wall]