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This CFP for a panel at the 2016 MLA Convention might be of interest to
some members of this list.

Best,
Paul Benzon

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*Objects of Global Media -- MLA 2016 (http://bit.ly/mla16objects
<http://bit.ly/mla16objects>)*

What are the symptomatic objects of global media? Where are they? What
characterizes the networks they circulate through, and what do their
circulations (or lack thereof) tell us about questions of power,
embodiment, law, temporality? What histories do they exist within, and how
might they help us reimagine those histories more critically and
productively? How might we see the stakes of global media culture
differently if we rethink them around an object such as the earbud, the
undersea cable, the SIM card, or the server rack?

In order to raise these and other questions, this proposed special session
builds on recent scholarly work in media archaeology and recent
conversations at MLA about the materiality of media to offer a context for
critical consideration of the technologies of global capital at a granular
scale. Following a pecha kucha format (20 slides shown for 20 seconds each,
for a total of 6 minutes, 40 seconds), proposed talks should focus on a
single—and indeed perhaps also singular—key object within the global media
landscape, whether small or large, and should offer a materially inflected
critical reading of that object as a way of raising larger issues including
globalization, media change, capital, and ecopolitics. Speakers might focus
on infrastructure, ephemera, waste, circulation, labor and supply chains,
or any number of other possible areas of inquiry. Please send 250-word
abstracts and CVs to [log in to unmask] by March 15 (general inquiries are
also welcome at this address).

Paul Benzon
Department of English
1127 Anderson Hall
Temple University
1801 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
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www.paulbenzon.com
twitter.com/pbenzon

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