[SIGCIS-Members] Nation/Culture/Infrastructure: A Grey Room Intervention, April 21st on Zoom

[Bernard Geoghegan]

Dear Colleagues: I'd be grateful if you spread word of this webinar next
week, particularly among colleagues, postdocs, and students who may be
interested in learning more about or submitting to *Grey Room* in the
future. We have a new editorial board and are eager to make new connections
and discover new directions. --Bernie



*Nation/Culture/Infrastructure: A Grey Room Intervention*



Tuesday, April 21st, 10:00 (PT) / 13:00 (ET) / 19:00 (CET) on Zoom



The editors of *Grey Room* announce an hour-long webinar on infrastructure
as a site of political sovereignty and media-technical force, featuring
Rosalind C. Morris (Columbia), Erhard Schüttpelz (Siegen), Julia Velkova
(Linköping), and Lisa Parks (Santa Barbara), moderated by Bernard Geoghegan
(editor, *Grey Room*). The conversation will reflect on twenty-first
century infrastructural imperialisms, from the conflicts in Ukraine and
Iran to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” in light of Marcel Mauss’s
1920s meditations on infrastructure and the nation (published in issue 102
of *Grey Room* with commentaries by Morris and Schüttpelz).



The conversation will also broach emerging questions of methodology and
political critique, with particular reference to Schüttpelz’s seminal essay
“The Media-Anthropological Turn of Cultural Techniques” (translated in
issue 102) and the infrastructural ethnography of Velkova and Parks,
“Reimagining Media Historiographies and Satellite Technologies in Bulgaria”
(published in issue 103).



For links to the webinar and optional readings, sign up at https
://bit.ly/GreyRoomInfrastructure <https://bit.ly/GreyRoomInfrastructure> or
via the QR code below.



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