Lifeworld and Systems, 20 Oct 2019
Published: 20 October 2019
23 October 2019
2pm-4pm
Venue: 250 Gilbert Scott (Main Building)
Speakers :
Platform urbanism: changing urban intermediations through new socio-technical assemblages?
Simon Joss, Professor of Urban Futures (Urban Studies)
Description: This presentation discusses ongoing work on how to conceptualise and make sense of 'platform urbanism' - understood as an evolving category of the 'smart city' - and situate it within existing urban systems and life experiences.
Systems and lifeworld in the archive
Johanna Green, Lecturer (Information Studies) and Andrew Prescott, Professor of Digital Humanities (Critical Studies)
Description: Corporate archives of bodies such as governments, churches and companies provide our primary means of investigating past lifeworlds. However, archives are shaped by the bureaucratic systems that produce them so that past lifeworlds are always seen through the filter of the archive system. Thus, administrative archives document the life of Geoffrey Chaucer in great detail, but make no mention of his poetry. This archival system also dictates whose histories are recorded and how. The idea of systems and lifeworld provides a powerful way of conceptualising our engagement with archives. For reading we suggest chapter one and three of Arlette Farge, The Allure of Archives, trans Thomas Scott Railton (Yale University Press, 2013).
System, Lifeworld, Public Sphere
Philip Schlesinger Professor in Cultural Theory (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
Description: This brief provocation will consider the crisis of the public sphere in the digital age.
First published: 20 October 2019