A digital prelude: On overlay, indexicality, and being behind
In this talk I conduct a meta-analysis of my research in Indonesia and in virtual worlds, as well as the research of a number of other scholars, to address questions of temporality, repetition, and transformation. Drawing from a range of theoretical resources in queer studies, technology studies, linguistics, and other disciplines, I explore how the gap between the virtual and the actual provides a point of entre for considering how digital being - predicated on both constitutive discreteness and teleologies of locality, specificity, and difference - is powerfully shaping forms of everyday experience, community, and politics.
Location: Russell House All Rooms Sponsor: Center for the Humanities URL: Contact: Erinn Savage
esavage@wesleyan.edu
