Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media

Conference and Celebration
October 19th and 20th of 2006

We don't know enough about digital media as something other than a means to
an end, as “instrumental culture”, where culture itself —mainstream,
alternative, underground, or otherwise— is degraded to the status of tools
(some hard, some soft, all ware).

We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, “popular
culture”: alienated and commodified cultural forms; and on the other,
“cultural theory”: paranoid cosmologies of hyper-rhetoric, and the
ubiquitous inevitability of evil...

Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media will provide a forum for the discussion and
presentation of some positive contributions to the field, in light of these
chronic imbalances.

Atopia (David Turnbull and Jane Harrison)
Katherine Carl
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Jodi Dean
Karen Hall
Tom Keenan
Michael Liegl
Geert Lovink
Rev. Luke Murphy
Eric Redlinger
Richard Rogers
Ruth Ron
Michael Schumacher
Steven Shaviro
Juha Uitto
Greg Van Alstyne
McKenzie Wark

Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th, 11am to 6pm, 2006 in Dibner
Auditorium, Polytechnic University, 6 MetroTech, Brooklyn, 11201.
Contact Carl Skelton at 718-260-4018 or cskelton@poly.edu.
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