Between Locative Maps and the Blogger's Revolutionary Hopes
Place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid
Empiria Digital is a space for the discussion of empirical studies dedicated to the research of the social dimensions of the Internet and digital technologies.
This month's session includes presentations by Susana Zaragozá (Amsterdam University) and Adolfo Estalella (CSIC/UOC) discussing collective mapping, locative art and the blogosphere from the blogger' s perspective.
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(Un)documented Trails project by Simona Sofronie, Thomas Laureyssens and Tina Bastajian developed during GeoTales Workshop at iMal (Brussels).
PROGRAMME:
· Susana Zaragozá: Re-Animating the Location of Thought. Locative Maps and Non-Representational Geographies
The presentation discusses the state of a current technological input consisting of collectively mapping the space, and offers an alternative approximation to locative art beyond Situationism and criticism to control and surveillance. From a non-representational perspective, certain locative practices try to create new ways of expression and spatial knowledge related to affection and politics, based in the idea of thinking in action. This study is related to the intricate network of social relations in social research maps, but also to experimental locative artistic practices. The main objective here is to discover how information is distributed in space. This way, dynamic practices that occur in our daily routines (in physical and more abstract spaces, occurring through languages, in software and also movements and transport), open the event not only its own possibilities, but also to a new field to explore the microbiopolitics of resistance.
Adolfo Estalella: Assemblages of Hope. Expectations of a Revolution in Passionate Blogging
This presentations discusses the results of an etnography about the analysis of hope among bloggers with deep expectations in transforming society through Internet and digital technologies. Based in fieldwork from 2006-2007 in Spain, the study is centered in passionate bloggers, people actively involved in the construction of the Blogosphere. Through them, the ethnology analyses emergency, circulation, and material conditions that can realize these hopes. The analysis highlights the close relation between intensive temporalities in blogging and their unique orientation towards the future. Two dimensions mediated by the Blogosphere´s material infrastructure characterize the hopes of passionate bloggers.