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SUMMARY:Digital Environmental Politics and the New Geographies of Anonymou
 s Online Power - Brett Matulis
DTSTART:20161108T130000Z
DTEND:20161108T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Chris Sandbrook
DESCRIPTION:As the human encounter with nature takes place in an increasin
 gly digitally-mediated world\, we must work to understand environmental po
 litics in the context of digital activism. Already social media and other 
 means of virtual discourse are re-shaping conservation and environmental g
 overnance. The "surface web" is now ubiquitous in environmental campaignin
 g and an essential means of organising political action. Critiques of new-
 media-based social movements\, however\, have suggested that digital activ
 ism is too deeply embedded in the ideologies of neoliberalism - and online
  identity is too deeply exploited under cognitive capitalism - for it to f
 oster genuinely transformative politics. In light of this important critiq
 ue\, digital activists have been taking to the so-called "darknet" (an und
 erworld of technologically untraceable communication) to engage in *collec
 tive* political activism. In this talk\, I explore anonymous environmental
  activism coordinated on the darknet and work to conceptualise this growin
 g political arena. In addition\, I consider how these technologies may be 
 producing new spatialities of power wherein political actions can be coord
 inated and carried out from unknown and unfixed geographic locations simpl
 y by connecting to computer networks and exploiting vulnerabilities in net
 work security.
LOCATION:Seminar Room
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