Microtemporalities in Network Ecology: In Bursts, Not Flows (Keynote)

Jussi Parikka is a media theorist, writer, and professor in Media & Design at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). In his presentation "Microtemporalities in Network Ecology: In Bursts, Not Flows," Parikka evokes Ernst’s argument for “a different sort of temporality…one of meticulous microengineering of network temporalities, their bursting nature, a world of data queues and synchronization.” Duke’s Mark BN Hansen, one of the leading scholars in the field of media theory and philosophy, responds to Parikka’s keynote afterwards.

Parikka has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland and in addition, he is Adjunct Professor (“docent”) of Digital Culture Theory at the University of Turku, Finland. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow at the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media.

Mark BN Hansen is a professor with Program in Literature and with the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies here at Duke. Hansen is also a media theorist and cultural critic whose work focuses on the experiential impact of new media technologies. His current research explores the experiential challenges posed by 21st century media, with particular emphasis on the expansion of sensibility through microcomputational sensing and the anticipatory, future-directed operation of data-driven media forms.