Murdoch University
The Krishna Somers Foundation announces the fifth lecture/talk of the year.
The presentation is by
Professor Mark Poster,
Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Please come to the talk and engage in a dialogue with Professor Poster over some excellent Western Australian wine (or orange juice).
Abstract
This paper examines the viability for critique of postcolonial theory in the context of globalization. It asks if the current “information Empire” changes the postcolonial context in a way that reduces the centrality of the figure of the colonizer-colonized? Do the movement of peoples, commodities and communications that characterize globalization alter the transcultural relations, diminishing the centrality of co-present colonizers and colonized peoples and increasing the importance of mediated relations? I examine the role of networked computing in the new configuration of globalization.
Mark Poster teaches at UCI both in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the History Department. He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information and Computer Science. He is a member of the Critical Theory Institute.
His recent books are:
What’s the Matter with the Internet? (University of Minnesota Press, May 2001)
The Information Subject in Critical Voices Series (New York: Gordon and Breach Arts International, January 2001)
Cultural History and Postmodernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)
The Second Media Age (London: Polity and New York: Blackwell, 1995)
The Mode of Information (London: Blackwell and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
