[Nettime-nl] lezing van Ingrid Hoofd a.s. vrijdag op de UvA

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-globalism and the Imperatives of Speed

Special closing MoM lecture and book launch by Ingrid M. Hoofd (NUS,  
Singapore)

Friday June 22, UvA, PC Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, room 1.04,  
Amsterdam, 15.00 - 17.00

Ingrid: "In this talk, I will present the main ideas around activism  
and new media from my book _Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-globalism  
and the Imperatives of Speed_ (Routledge, 2012). The book provides a  
critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter- 
globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It  
examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups  
(like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change  
activism), as well as left-wing intellectuals and academics (like  
Michael Hardt, Al Gore, Antonio Negri, and Hakim Bey), mobilize  
problematic discourses, tools, and divisions in an attempt to overcome  
gendered, raced, and classed oppressions worldwide. The book draws out  
how these mobilizations and theorizations, despite (or possibly  
because of) their liberatory claims, are actually implicated in the  
intensification of global hierarchies by repeatedly invoking  
narratives of transcendence, connection, progress, and in particular  
of speed. It eventually argues that the humanist ideals that underlie  
all these practices paradoxically trigger increasing  
disenfranchisements worldwide."

Bio: Ingrid M. Hoofd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of  
Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore  
(NUS). Her research interests are Issues of Representation, Feminist  
and Critical Theories, and Philosophy of Technology. Her work  
addresses the ways in which left-wing academics and activists mobilize  
discourses and divisions in an attempt to combat oppressions  
worldwide, and the ways in which such mobilization are implicated in  
what she calls 'speed-elitism.' Her work explores in particular the  
intersections between various forms of contemporary political activism  
and the oeuvre of Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio. Ingrid wrote her  
Masters thesis on Cyberfeminism at Utrecht University in The  
Netherlands. She has been involved in various feminist and new media  
activist projects, like Indymedia, Next Five Minutes, HelpB92, and  
NextGenderation.

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