Benjamin Bratton - Mobility Shifts | The New School

The New School (www.newschool.edu) presents Benjamin Bratton - Ambivalent Remarks on Computation, Political Geography, Pedagogy - a part of Mobility Shifts (mobilityshifts....) a panel on Digital Fluencies for the 21st Century
A two-part question about which I am conflicted: how do digital media affect the short and long circuits of education, both inside the classroom, where the responsibilities of one generation to train the attention of another is or is not performed, and outside, where shifts in the geography of political infrastructure perhaps de-link formal educational institutions from sponsoring States, both as recipients of funding and as replicators of State citizens? While we recognize that whatever format civil society is to take next will be organized through media of planetary-scale social computation, we also note that the capitalization of cognition -and as well our own stupification- is built into the language of our Cloud tools: from advertising to "gamification". Evading that superficiality, how might we re-imagine the global distribution of educational centers, research, curricula, methods such that our always imperiled responsibility to the future is fulfilled through a viably cosmopolitan, sovereign economy of learning? Against short circuits, how can an ethics of deep time architect the Cloud (and curriculum) we require?
Benjamin H. Bratton is sociological, media, and design theorist. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Center for Design & Geopolitics at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, one of the premier applied research institutes in the application of supercomputing and very-large scale data visualization across the sciences, humanities and social sciences.
Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center - Saturday October 15th 2011, 11:15 am - 1:15 pm

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