So we’re off to the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies 2005 Conference, where we’ll be talking about all sorts of virtualities and materialities. If you see us, please say hello!
Session: Ritual Virtualities, Performative Materialities
Chair: Rob Shields, University of AlbertaJan Jagodzinski (University of Alberta) The Virtual in the Time Cinema of Deleuze: The Case of Elephant
Anne Galloway (Carleton University) Virtually Pervasive, Actually Situated: Mobile and Context-Aware Computing
Boulou E. de B’béri (University of Ottawa) Why ‘the’ Virtuality is not ‘the’ Intangible: Understanding the Process of Becoming A Crystal through Deleuzian Lenses Or Actuality and Virtuality: An Intermedial Process of Crystallizing Everyday Life Practices of Identity
Session: Insecure Flesh / Cultural Body Spaces
Chair: Anne Galloway, Carleton UniversityJason Boudreau (Carleton University) 2nd Life: Identity in Virtual Worlds
Erin Kruger (University of Alberta) The Ungovernable Spaces of Security
Joost Van Loon (Nottingham Trent University) Airports as Risk Zones