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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Kaya Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are so pleased to see the Digital Intimacies symposium continue on, now in its 9th (!!) year. Following the fabulous Swinburne/ADM+S <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/14INGdAcJGHuiZsVNSnhvpETfpviIjZOdA1_Rdnpd5YxGc1yxUfRqdwZwIdV1B51iKx8L96p3IGi-9olRGHAivhUh4TWRTneloIEAgnGqGWNbFzpj-MduZn5ra8V0M6TCOG05Pv5pV-aFCx-1kZJe4uT0PPjmbdqvjNljZpD1biPspx9qq2q2jO1c02X1y0P3eYhbXUk3OVDDDvQc4ZGdj6TQ-rfxNh7TUl9SVwEdFjxXLwlUbSt4fTlVspWOgnj6GEHvvQY9HIrqlnAatVLq4AeZTpm6ASAId0hald_FedxrbzsQwWLLwm2x6SSZyQSWO-ngNVpOVghs_9i1KO8NolE9tUqzmxHtGE3GdY2p44Z_TtmaWGmyb_23375kJVbIz_abUvWCFeDrxO0pILvzazxaGyPQC-v7qRn5dWyzH411df-h1D-pmLMIwfnkcuRIDuEEZeimLw8RDiN8UHksyQc2rwyaGLYmRyF428HzP-8/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fevent%2Fsexy-messy%2F" target="_blank">Sexy
Messy symposium</a> earlier this year, the Digital Intimacies 9 symposium is to be held at QUT December 14 + 15. Co-hosted by the QUT Digital Media Research Centre and the Digital Cultures & Societies group at UQ. The full CFP is copied below: abstracts now
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/digital-intimacies-9/" target="_blank">https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/digital-intimacies-9/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please contact <a href="mailto:digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au" target="_blank">digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au</a> with any queries and feel free to share this CFP widely.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"> "Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not easy to know how to make
a life, much less avert planetary destruction. Luckily there is still company, human and not human. We can still explore the overgrown verges of our blasted landscapes…" (Tsing, 2015, pp. 282).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Digital intimate publics express that the “vibe is off”, a sense that things aren’t quite right as we doom scroll on and on and on. A state of precarity and instability
has left ruin and decay in its wake. From failed political systems, burnt-out utopias and bombed out landscapes, to the eerie and empty urban spaces of the mass industrial era, the persistent rubble left from (neo)colonisation and cultures threatened by climate
crises, to recently obsolescent technologies, hyperlinks rotting away, and glitchy automated systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Despite the rubble seeming dead and inert, Anna Tsing (2015) reminds us that ruins are lively places where new multi-species and multi-cultures thrive. From a flattened
out, ruined landscape, new possibilities grow. Ruins can be enclaves of hope as much as mourning, loss, and longing: they not only invoke nostalgic reflections, but open up space to dream and imagine the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Digital intimate publics share the affective experience of life amid the ruin. They are formed in circumstances of something being ‘off’, of being squeezed, constituted
from positions of non-dominance. Digital intimacies come to be not in the gleaming corporate towers and cathedrals, but in the messy in-between spaces where resilient, creative practices of ‘making do’ emerge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">For Digital Intimacies 9 we ask in what ways are digital intimacies reckoning with the ruined structures they find themselves in? We invite submissions across disciplines
to critically engage with, interpret, locate, theorise, or dissect the notion of life amid the ruins in abstract and creative ways. Additionally we encourage applicants to think broadly about the intersections between digital intimate publics and ruins to
look with a hopeful eye for what may grow on the edges of our worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome papers and presentations in various formats exploring topics including but not restricted to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Everyday responses to ruin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">The politics of nostalgia and the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Tsing, A. L. (2015). The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">To submit please email <a href="mailto:digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au" target="_blank">digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au</a> with a 200-300 word abstract and a 1-2 sentence
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The symposium will be a hybrid event held from the 14<sup>th</sup> to the 15<sup>th</sup> of December at QUT Gardens Point campus (lift access available) and online.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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If you have any further questions please feel free to email Digital Cultures and Societies UQ at <a href="mailto:digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au" target="_blank">digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jos" target="_blank">Journal of Sociology</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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