The SOAS Centre for Gender Studies and the SOAS LGBT Society Jointly Present:
Technologies of Violence and Control:
Performing Arab Queer Communities Online
This colloquium seeks to examine the formation of Arab queer collectivities, challenging traditional modes of identity politics and embodiment. Taking cyberspace as a site of analysis, Noor Al-Qasimi and Barrak Alzaid examine the ways in which various organizations and institutions that purport to advance sexual democracy produce a form of identity politics that effectively engenders violence and control.
Wednesday 13 January, 7-9pm, SOAS, Khalili lecture Theatre
How to Do Things With Violence: The Transmission of Affect and Production of Politicized Queer Identities Barrak Alzaid’s paper investigates the interplay between digital media and violence to create communities rooted in LGBT identity formations through an analysis of the Iraqi LGBT website, and the close reading of one embedded video
depicting the torture of a trans person in Iraq. The paper employs a methodology that combines a reflexive analysis of the author’s process of witnessing and translation of the author’s, coupled with a performative analysis of the work the video enacts.
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This paper was presented at ACH-ALLC ’99 Panel:
What is text?
A debate on the philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities computing research
ACHALLC Conference, University of Virginia, Thursday 10 June 1999
Modelling knowledge as a mark-up structure. Some references:
TEI bibliography
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Thinking of my reading.
Still, some suggestions, notes, and inks from
Humanities Computing by Willard McCarty:
- What distinguishes computers from other kinds of machines is taht ‘ they run by manipulating representations, and representations are always formulated in temrs of models’. (p. 25)
- Winograd’s deeper response comes by taking exception to the term ‘interface’, so often used to name the social boundary of computing. The idea of ‘interface’, he notes, ‘implies that we are focusing on two entities, the person and the machine, and on the space that lies between them. But beyond the interface, we operate in an “interspace” that is inhabites by multiple people, workstations, servers, and other devices in a complex web interactions. (p. 74)
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Winorgrad suggests we think of ‘habitat’ rather than ‘interface’. (p. 75)
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…Reading Humanities computing by Willard McCarty:
- “If by nature a model is a conjectural artifact, then any independence it may have beyond mere separateness lies not in its status as a object nor, strictly speaking, as something made-by-art. Rather the place to look is in the conjecture: in its implicit encapsulation of a certain way or template for thinking and acting. In what sense, then, might a conjecture be independent?”
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The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database which aims to cover all of the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the end of the eleventh century.
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