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Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n International Symposium<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 22 October \u2013 12 November 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Hosted by Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.westernsydney.edu.au\/ics\/events\/contagion_design<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Organizers:\u00a0<\/strong>Gay Hawkins and Ned Rossiter<\/p>\n Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n How is contagion designed? How do labour, migration, habits and data configure contagion? Across a program of four weeks of discussion and debate, this event explores the current conjuncture through these vectors to address issues of rising unemployment, restricted movement, increasing governance of populations through data systems and the compulsory redesign of habits. Design logics underscore both biological contagion and political technologies. Contagion is redesigning how labour and migration are differentially governed, experienced and indeed produced. Habits generate modes of exposure and protection from contagion and become a resource for managing biological and social life. Data turns contagion into models that make a virus actionable and calculable. But can the logic of pre-emption and prediction ever accommodate and control the contingencies of a virus? The aim of this event is to explore these issues and their implications for cultural, social and political research. If contagion never abandons the scene of the present, if it persists as a constitutive force in the production of social life, how might we redesign the viral as the friend we love to hate?<\/p>\n This event organised by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University includes speakers from the ICS together with national and international colleagues.<\/p>\n Please note:<\/strong>\u00a0there are 4 events held over a 4-week period. The details of each event are included below, including the links to register. You may register for all or some of the events. Please register separately for each event you would like to attend.<\/p>\n The full pdf of the symposium program can be downloaded from the URL above.<\/span><\/p>\n Migration and Labour<\/strong><\/p>\n 22 October,\u00a011:30am \u2013 1pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Register on Eventbrite:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yyyhns6s<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Chair: Brett Neilson<\/p>\n Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, \u2018Economic Informality and Democracy in India at the Time of Covid-19\u2019<\/p>\n Joyce Liu, \u2018What Comes After the Lockdown? A New Wave of Nationalisation and the Local Divide\u2019<\/p>\n Anne McNevin, \u2018Temporal Contagion as an Antidote to Renationalization\u2019<\/p>\n Contagious Mutualities<\/strong><\/p>\n 29 October, 4\u20135.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Register on Eventbrite:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y6x2brga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Chair: Katherine Gibson<\/p>\n Stephen Healy and Declan Kuch, \u2018Contagious Mutuality: Spreading Postcapitalist Possibilities\u2019<\/p>\n Peter North, \u2018Building Back Better in the UK or Back to Work?\u2019<\/p>\n Teppo Eskelinen, \u2018Redefining Community in Nordic Countries After the Pandemic\u2019<\/p>\n Habits of Contagion<\/strong><\/p>\n 4 November, 4\u20135.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n