Talk with Prof. Tim Barker
7.01.2024, 3 pm
Lothringer 13 Lokal
Hey, make sure you do not miss Tim Barker talking with me tomorrow, Sunday the 7th at 3 pm at Lothringer 13 Lokal! Really interesting way of looking at now technology affects our experiences of time! Part of the current “From Animal to Mineral Exhibition”.
Tim Barker is Professor of Media Technology and Aesthetics at the School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. Tim’s research interests include digital technology and new media, aesthetics and the philosophy of time. He is the author of Time and the Digital: Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time (2012) and Against Transmission: Media Philosophy and the Engineering of Time (2018) and numerous articles including the most recent “Unplayable games: time and digital culture” Kunsttexte (2023); “Michel Serres and the philosophy of technology” Theory, Culture and Society (2023), “Michel Serres’ messengers” Media Theory (2021) and “Between emergence and emergencies: an introduction to the special issue ‘Media, Materiality, and Emergency’” MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory (2020).
One of the concepts of the exhibition From Animal to Mineral is the radical openness of Deleuze and Guattari’s becoming “tout le mode,” like everybody, like the whole world. In his short talk Tim Barker will introduce the concept of “totipotence” as discussed in the philosophy of Michel Serres, biologically defining the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism. Serres uses this idea to discuss technological and cultural developments in evolutionary terms.
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