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Another Walk with Lefebvre:
Critique of Urbanism and Everyday Life in the Algorithmic Age
Host: China Academy of Art, Institute of Network Society
Opening: 2017/11/11 9:30
Panel Introduction
Panel 1: Marxist Philosophy and Critical Methods
Departing from Lefebvre’s life and theory, we explore his ways of practicing philosophy through his political engagement in the XXth century. His personal experience and his theoretical work have been the two sides of one inspiring adventure. Situating Lefebvre among the many generations of cultural and social theorists, the discussion will highlight his creative interpretation of Marx’s critical project. Parallels between the post-war European context and the post-reform China will be drawn to pinpoint the contemporary relevance of his ideas.
Panel 2: Today’s (Digital) Everyday
Following Lefebvre’s invitation to describe the minutiae of everyday life, this panel delves into our quotidian experience and its omnipresent digital mediations. Speakers will attempt to grasp new tensions arising between work and leisure through the redistribution of desire, boredom and enjoyment. Production and consumption implied, for Lefebvre, the unfolding of social temporality and subjectivity. Social media and mobile apps in China, as well as abroad, will serve as a focal point of inquiry.
Panel 3: Urban Imagination and New Geographies
Confronting the theoretical and empirical foundations of Lefebvre’s work, this panel takes us into urban development and architecture. We will reevaluate Lefebvre’s ideas on urbanism through a new critical analysis of our increasingly computerized-capitalized geographies. Lefebvre’s sensitivity to kinetics between the body and landscape in our daily spatial practices will emerge to call for a radical politics. It goes without saying that ambitious political imagination is needed to meet the challenges raised by technological policies such as that of the ‘Smart Cities’.
Panel 4: Global Algorithmic Production
This final panel will change scales, moving up from the quotidian and urban experience, to map out the shifts in territorial powers. The new divisions of labor, the integration of softwares, the mutation of infrastructures all express the need to update Lefebvre’s heritage of urban studies into the active investigations on globalization and the Internet of Things. In a time of networked cultures and transnational organizations, speakers will address the ways in which algorithmic modes of production challenge our conceptions of State, Power and Emancipation.
Highlights
Schedule
Time | Speakers / Topics | Location |
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11/11 | Nanshan Campus China Academy of Art Academic Hall |
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9:00-9:30 | Registration | |
9:30-10:00 | Welcoming Speech:Gao Shiming(video)(text in Chinese), Guan Huaibin(video)(text in Chinese), Huang Sunquan(video)(text in Chinese) | |
10:00-10:20 | Conference Origins & Perspectives: Lu Xinghua(video)(text in Chinese), Allan Bahroun(video)(text in Chinese) | |
Panel 1: Marxist Philosophy and Critical Methods Academic Host: Lu Xinghua | ||
10:30-11:00(11:00-11:15 Q&A) | Liu Huaiyu:From Everyday Life Philosopher to Postmodern Urban Society Theorist: The Productive Potential of Lefebvre in China: Dissemination, Critique, and Usage (video) | |
11:15-11:45(11:45-12:00 Q&A) | Simona de Simoni: A Critique of the Political Economy of Space and Time: the Research Program of Henri Lefebvre(video) | |
12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
Panel 2: Today’s (Digital) Everyday Academic Host: Huang Sunquan | ||
14:00-14:30 (14:30-14:45 Q&A) | Michael E. Gardiner: 21st-Century Boredom? Lefebvre, Bifo and the Semio-capitalist Turn (video) | |
14:45-15:15 (15:15-15:30 Q&A) | Alfie Bown: The SuperApp Dystopias: Hong Kong, London, New York (video) | |
15:30 —— | A Walk around the West Lake's Public Life : Tourist, Cleaner and Urban Life | West Lake |
11/12 | Nanshan Campus China Academy of Art Academic Hall | |
Panel 3: Urban Imagination and New Geographies Academic Host: Huang Sunquan | ||
9:30-10:00 (10:00-10:15 Q&A) | Lukasz Stanek: Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment’: Architectural Imagination After May 1968 (video) | |
10:15-10:45(10:45-11:00 Q&A) | LiZi: From the City to the Country: Online Everyday Life (video) | |
11:00-11:30(11:30-11:45 Q&A) | Li Hao: Hanmai, Live-streaming and Gawu: Public Space Transformation and Reconstruction in the Mobile Internet Era (video) | |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
Panel 4: Global Algorithmic Production Academic Host: Allan Bahroun | ||
13:00-13:30(13:30-13:45 Q&A) | Ned Rossiter: Automated Labour, Platform Capitalism, and State Transformation (video) | |
13:45-14:15(14:15-14:30 Q&A) | Shin Mizukoshi: Media Landscape without Apple: A critical workshop study for learning imagination of alternative media infrastructures (video) | |
14:30-15:00 (15:00-15:15 Q&A) | Fan Ling: Design Creativity and Device Intelligence (video) | |
14:15-15:30 | Break | |
15:30-16:30 | Plenary Discussion Academic Hosts: Huang Sunquan, Lu Xinghua, Allan Bahroun (video) | |