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Renaissance Technologies
A one-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Huddersfield in association with the Northern Renaissance Seminar
Saturday, March 16, 2002, 10am-5.30pm
Confirmed speakers: Stephen Clucas, Ceri Sullivan, Jonathan Sawday
This conference will focus on the theme of Renaissance Technologies.
Issues of technological innovation and revolution will be approached
from a variety of disciplinary standpoints and theoretical positions.
Fruitful avenues for investigation might be: - information and print
technology
- material consumption
- the commodification of technology
- interaction between human and machine
- representations of the
meta-human
- the economic influence and repercussions of technology
- the nature of the body
- banking and financial transactions
- imperial and republic technologies
- measurement and dominion
- definitions of spatial relations
- labour and agriculture
- medical technology and anatomical prints
- emblematic representation
Specific discussions could range from a discussion of the iron-man Talus in The Faerie Queene to the impact of new arms technology on early modern warfare or the effect of new time-keeping instruments on Restoration society. Theoretical considerations might deploy the work of Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard. Papers from Postgraduate students are welcomed.
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