When speaking about digital media and cyberspace, we—scholars, critics, users—still tend to forget that even the most ephemeral-seeming media have a material past, present, and future. While this kind of alienation is a problem of all consumption under global capitalism, awareness of the specific histories of digital commodities like videogames strikes me as only a…

What is the connection between technology, environment, and race? Are the utopic promises of an inclusive space in the ‘technosphere’[1] impossible to reach? Is it time to question how the stratification of cyberspace leads to an uneven distribution of global scale? Arun Saldanha reflected upon some aspects of these questions. The title of his presentation…

“Geographers talk about maps, distances and all questions related to objective space science, but where does that leave the experience of a place?” (Saldunha, 2019). Drawing on Guattari’s analysis on the computerization and evaluation of the technological evolution, Arun Saldanha started his talk by discussing the experience and globalization in geography. For the market to…

Adam Nocek at the latest TİM seminar provided us with a close reading of Foucault’s dispositif and explained how and why design is helpful when reformulating Foucault’s concept of governmentality. The talk divided into four sections. In the last section “Xeno Design,” Nocek explained the place of design in the context of governmentality as he…

Playing with concepts, when we trace lines between them, new possibilities are drawn from the spaces these lines shape. As ideas are being connected, strings become cables and lines; connectors and limits. In this sense, to play with concepts is to connect them, while creating intermediate spaces of new relational possibilities. This process of thinking…

Emergence is the manifestation of a property of an object, phenomenon or system, not by virtue of any single one of its parts possessing that property, but through the coming-together and interaction of its different constituting elements. Through emergence, a phenomenon becomes truly “more than the sum of its parts” (Holland 1997, 32). For example,…

On this occasion at the TiM seminar we had the opportunity to come closer to the lure of Whitehead from a very new perspective. Adam Nocek introduced the framework of speculative design as an interdisciplinary approach to think of the circular processes in which lifeworlds and humans constitute each other. To start, it is important…

Offered by the Centre for the Humanities and Transmission in Motion, in collaboration with NICA and SPRING Performing Arts Festival.  In this masterclass, Prof. Peter Eckersall (CUNY, New York) will consider the theory and practice of new media dramaturgy.  As developed his recent book (co-authored with Edward Scheer and Helena Grehan), new media dramaturgy (NMD)…

Grabbing a broom and sweeping the floor is a simple and determined action. It is easy to place it in time and space. Then, sweeping the floor is an action like any other. Nevertheless, it is an action that is unique and universal, historical and forgettable, present and ubiquitous. Sweeping is an action that mimics…

After the last Transmission of Motion seminar with Tim Ingold, I was left with a vivid picture of him, as he described his experience of playing the cello. His talk revolved around the notions of experience, creativity, and habit to question the differences of bodily automatisms and skilled craft. To understand the differences between habitual…