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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Dear
colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">We
invite you to submit proposals for the conference:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Delete: Strategies of Negation
in the Age of Data Suffocation<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Where:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">BLOC Cinema, <b>Queen
Mary University of London </b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">When:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> 17–18 September 2026</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">Apply until 31 March:</span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSdIk0FttwN7BI9Q0QlLw6_rWDt_S_ZM4CuW6gHIyDF4eKIZcQ%2Fviewform&data=05%7C02%7Cj.anger%40qmul.ac.uk%7C3ef7643c50a84f866ab308de88b25cb2%7C569df091b01340e386eebd9cb9e25814%7C0%7C0%7C639098496787575604%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6xurIUIufERE7bZP9DNBoCO1M2sdb3f%2Fdbi9pTE6s1w%3D&reserved=0" title="Původní adresa URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIk0FttwN7BI9Q0QlLw6_rWDt_S_ZM4CuW6gHIyDF4eKIZcQ/viewform. Na tento odkaz klikněte nebo klepněte, pokud ho považujete za důvěryhodný." style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIk0FttwN7BI9Q0QlLw6_rWDt_S_ZM4CuW6gHIyDF4eKIZcQ/viewform</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Read
CfP:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> <a href="https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/research-events/items/delete-strategies-of-negation-in-the-age-of-data-suffocation-call-for-papers-.html" title="https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/research-events/items/delete-strategies-of-negation-in-the-age-of-data-suffocation-call-for-papers-.html" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/research-events/items/delete-strategies-of-negation-in-the-age-of-data-suffocation-call-for-papers-.html</a> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Keynote
speakers: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Neta Alexander
(Yale University), Thomas Dekeyser (University of Southampton)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Seventeen
years ago, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argued that deleting is indissolubly linked
to our capacity to survive and move forward (Schönberger 2009). Yet even then,
a paradox emerged: while digital technologies expanded possibilities for
erasure, deletion’s critical and subversive function was already eroding. With
growing storage capacities and tracking mechanisms, deletion has become
reduced, contested, or even impossible. How has its status changed, as AI slop
and global political turbulence render this gesture seemingly futile?<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">In
the late 2000s, deleting still carried weight: we removed media to free space
and erased posts to avoid embarrassment, while glitchy images and sounds
remained worth preserving. By 2026, deletion has largely lost urgency.
Entertainment is accessed via subscription platforms, files are dispersed
across drives and clouds, and interactions (on social media or with AI models
like ChatGPT) are effectively permanent and extractable. We are surrounded by
lossless media, and even failures have become pauses between updates (Alexander
and Appadurai 2019). Meanwhile, disruption itself appears co-opted by Big Tech,
limiting its value for cultural production (Owens 2024).<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">This
conference revisits deletion as both a tool of power and a practice of
resistance, refusal, and negation. Current research shows how online regimes
delete memories, histories, subjectivities, and labour (Lingel 2021; Thylstrup
2025), while creative strategies attempt to rupture the deluge of digital
content (Dekeyser and Culp 2023; Klik 2026).<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Bringing
together <b>scholars, artists, archivists, and activists</b>, the conference aims to
collectively reflect on and experiment with infrastructures, methodologies, and
epistemologies in which deleting can once again operate as a meaningful
cultural and political act.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Possible
topics include (but are not limited to): <span></span></span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Aesthetics
of Deletion and Absence<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Media
Obsolescence and Forgotten Technologies<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">The
Politics of Digital Forgetting<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Creative
Erasure in Videographic Scholarship<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Failures,
Errors, and Digital Loss on Streaming Platforms<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Events
and Impact of Social Media Going Dark <span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Histories
of Digital Deletion<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Media
Preservation and the Fight Against Digital Deletion<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Cognitive
Tools and the Deletion of Traditional Memory Functions<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Algorithmic
Deletion and Digital Bias <span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Global
vs. Local Practices of Deletion and Digital Memory<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">AI and
Deletion<span></span></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">All the best, <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Veronika Hanáková, Jiří Anger, and
Daniel O</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">’</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Brien</span></p>
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