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[Transforming Cultures]

The UTS Cultural Studies Research Group

with the assistance of the Transforming Cultures Centre

presents its first seminar on

Thursday 4th  May, Bon Marche Building Room 210 5pm to 7pm


Andrew Murphie

"Thought and 'Cognition' - New-ish Orders, Virtual Cognition and the  
Possibility of a Radical Empiricism"

Cognitive orders and processes form a complex - yet often unnoticed -  
horizon for contemporary politics. Everything is now tested or  
evaluated. Even the micro-moments of thought must be constantly  
enhanced in terms of cognitive performance (within certain prescribed  
limits - and with less and less time and space for alternatives).  
This talk sketches the contemporary "cognitive" horizon, the impact  
on the humanities,  and the choices that lie somewhere between  
affirming new politicial micro-orders and a radical empiricism. The  
latter raises the question of a different kind of experimentalism  
attached to thought, and of what I am calling "virtual cognition".



Andrew Murphie works in the School of Media, Film and Theatre,  
University of New South Wales. He has published on a range of issues:  
philosophies of technics and of the virtual, the work of Gilles  
Deleuze and Felix Guattari, digital media and aesthetics, electronic  
music, performance and the visual arts, the culture and politics of  
theories of cognition. Editor of The Fibreculture Journal, he has  
recently published  Culture and Technology, co-authored with John  
Potts,  and is working on books on the relation between models of  
media, cognition and life; affect and the limits of theory, and  
"differential media" (about what might best be called media  
divergences). He has in the past worked as a marketing manager and  
production manager for arts companies, and as a freelance theatre  
director (which has included work on productions of Samuel Beckett's  
shorter plays and Heiner Muller's Hamlet-Machine).



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