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CFP, ASA 2011 Panel Proposal: Silicon Valley: Knowledge, Economy, Geography
| Location: | Maryland, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2011-04-11 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-01-07 |
| Announcement ID: |
181923 |
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CFP, ASA 2011 Panel Proposal: Silicon Valley: Knowledge, Economy, Geography
The relationship between knowledge, economy, and geography has never been more intimate than in the neoliberal landscape called Silicon Valley. However, critical perspectives of this region too easily dismiss the importance of its unique material form. From Leland Stanford's demiurgic nineteenth century campus to Hewlett Packard's mythologized suburban garage, built space on the San Francisco peninsula has forcefully influenced intellectual subjectivities as well as transnational policies. This panel focuses on how utopian narratives surrounding the structural forms of Silicon Valley uniquely depoliticizes academic labor and knowledge production, while at the same time offering rich possibilities for excavating--or repairing--critical conceptions of cosmopolitanism in the present
Possible topics that this panel could interrogate include institutions, policies, historical actors, and visual cultures of Silicon Valley past and present. In what new ways can we discuss the relationship between capitalist development and the built space? How does this relationship engage with on-going narratives of the region’s purported multicultural equality? What are the specificities of neoliberalism in Silicon Valley and how does it operate as a looming ideology that guides how these utopias are imagined by residents, leaders, and critics of the region? Utilizing historical and literary approaches to urban planning, architecture, and subjectivities, this panel discusses how Silicon Valley creates economies of meaning through built space.
We invite 250 word proposals for panel speakers. Topics may include, though not limited to, the following:
--architecture and the knowledge economy
--interrogations of race, class, gender, sexuality in Silicon Valley
--campus planning, park planning, industrial park planning, corporate campus planning
--the corporate university in film and popular culture
--spatial analyses of Bangalore, Dublin, Skolkovo and other global articulations of Silicon Valley
Please submit abstracts to brchung@umich.edu or r.simpson@miami.edu. The deadline for proposals is January 26, 2011. Please contact either of us by January 20, 2011.
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Brian Chung
Program in American Culture
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
brchung@umich.edu
Email: brchung@umich.edu
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