Please consider joining us for the following seminar stream at the ACLA meeting in New Orleans April 1-4 2010: The Culture Industry Reconfigured * Seminar Organizer: David Jenemann, U of Vermont; Gauti Sigthorsson, U of Greenwich In a recent essay, Antonio Negri writes that “Adorno’s model of cultural criticism genuinely uncovered the ontology of [modernity],” but that in post-modernity this model has “exhausted itself.” This panel seeks to explore the contours of the culture industry/industries under reconfigured relations of production, postmodern aesthetics and biopolitical regimes. Is there still a coherent form of the “culture industry” adequately captured by Adorno and Horkheimer’s formulation? Is it time to regard culture industries as plural and dispersed, more appropriately analyzed at the level of the body, habits, social networks, and interactions mediated by databases? How do the movements of information and peoples re-energize/hybridize the critique of culture? We seek contributions on both the general theme as well as on specific examples. Topics might include: * Mass media (and their “masses”) * Granular, individualized media forms: Social networks, games, mobile media and software * Voting as consumption; polling as market research * Spaces of cultural production * “Diasporic” culture industries * Creative and cultural industries policy * Intellectual property and forms of circulation * Political discourse as entertainment (Glenn Beck, etc.) Interested participants should submit their abstracts directly to acla.org. The deadline for abstracts is November 13, 2009. Please contact David Jenemann ([log in to unmask]) with any questions. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu