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  CULTURES OF CHANGE. SOCIAL ATOMS AND ELECTRONIC LIVES studies the social and cultural dynamics from a highly multidisciplinary perspective, hand to hand with the complexity sciences and digital

2. Papers
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...d industry   Stamatia Portanova & Annalisa Piccirillo - Mereotopologies of Dance and Culture     Tony D Sampson - Contagion-Error: Collective Culpability i...

...al small-scale workshop is to develop insights into the processes that give rise to profound innovation in culture, for example new musical styles, literary forms, language constructions, gestural exp...

4. Papers and Publications
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...chives: Interdependencies in the discursive and non-discursive organisation of institutional rememberings. Culture & Psychology Vol 7, 2. 123-144, 2001 Brown, S.D. - ‘In the theatr...

5. Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change
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...rence Report from the Chair Across disciplines, intensive or topological approaches to the study of culture treat change as normal and immanent rather than exceptional and externally determined...

... of London) Celia Lury (Goldsmiths' University of London) A mini-symposium entitled "Global Culture Industry and New Media" has been held on 29 February 2008 at Duke University ...

Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht) The notion of culture and of cultural dynamics in my work and in the practice of the programmes I am involved in (both the Utrecht centre for the H

8. Internet and topology
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...start assessing what has been the value and the role played by topology in our understanding of Internet culture. ...

"Almost everything in culture can be measured in numbers, except the structures that matter most" Can you explain a little what do you expect from this project? I expect to gain f

10. Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
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...Celia Lury   Department: Sociology Department Key areas of expertise/interest: sociology of culture; branding, markets and the mediation of the economy; intellectual property; feminist ...

11. University of Aarhus (Denmark)
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...pology and Head of Cognitive Research, CFIN, director of the research program Cognition, Communication and Culture at the Faculty of Humanities. Conducts and directs cognitive brain imaging studies, p...

...of knowledge about contraception through social networks, and how cultural traits move on phylogeneties of cultures over historical time. Postdoc Fiona Jordan, and PhD students Tom Currie, Laura Fortu...

Principal Investigator: Dr Yannis Scarpelos Department: The Department of Communication, Media and Culture Key areas of expertise/interest: visual culture; visual sociology;  cultural s

14. University of Bologna (Italy)
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...Il Mulino, 1999. S. Mezzadra – A. Petrillo (editors), I confini della globalizzazione. Lavoro, culture, cittadinanza, Roma, Manifestolibri, 2000. S. Mezzadra, “Citizenship. Dis...

15. The Piet Zwart Institute (The Netherlands)
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...ted at the Piet Zwart Institute as a Media Design research fellow, wrote the essay Words Made Flesh, code, culture imagination and worked with students in workshops and tutorials. In summer 2006, he r...

...ale' Key areas of expertise/interest: new media studies; science and technology studies; sociology of culture; cultural and media studies. Publications: Corpi Nella Rete: Interfacce mul...

17. Calendar
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...ap 2009 September ATACD Annual report and ATACD newsletter 2 10-12 December Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change: Barcelona Organised by: Goldsmiths, University of London &amp...

...tics. This for me will imply an active effort to translate and reinvent the field of topology into that of culture and cultural studies. 2. Which cross disciplinary combinations do you expect to ...

19. Intro: Josep Perelló
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"A more complete landscape of culture dynamics" Josep Perelló Universitat de Barcelona

20.  Knowledge
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...   try a Keyword... Emergence | Complexity | Culture | Evolution | Analogue | Migration | Networks | Link | Observer | Environment | Self-...

21. Colloquium 2
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...hinking Suggested further reading: The Structure of vagueness, Lars Spuybroek Technical culture and the limites of interaction: a note on Simondon, Alberto Toscano Technical In...

22. Colloquium 1
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Topology for culture: metaphors and tools 29-30 November 2007 Organiser: Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Please consult the report from the ATACD Chair,

23. Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change
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On This Page General | Downloads | MAPs | Contact Us General More than 160 delegates world-wide attended the ATACD conference. Countries represented were:  Australia

24. Understanding the dynamics of culture
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Download the full publication in PDF (150 KB)  

25. Ivan Tchalakov (University of Plovdiv)
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...cal approach can help understand contemporary cultural dynamics? Frankly speaking, I do not know what 'the culture' is, neither what 'the nature' is. We are living in a pre-modern heterogeneous world ...

...evel of public discourse as well at the level of academic debates an “essentialist” concept of culture is still heavily influencing the representation of migrants. From this point of view,...

"A more complete landscape of culture dynamics"      Why do you think, from your very personal involvement with cultural thinking, that a topological approach can h

... and, conversely, large datasets as materials for ethnographic inquiry. If change is one main feature of culture today, why is this approach helpful in conceptualizing or unerstanding cultural chang...

29. Events
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... cultural agents. All these changes present important challenges to policy makers who are used to defining culture as a static element or completed work that needs to be preserved and protected. In th...

30. Project Description and Objectives
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... – 043415) Pathfinder Initiative: 2005/2006 Duration: 36 months Free keywords: Topology, culture, networks, interdisciplinary, modeling movement, co-evolution, form, potentiality, ma...

31. Project Description and Objectives
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On This Page Organization | Activities Project Title: ATACD - A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics (NEST – 043415) Pathfinder Initiative: 2005/2006 Duration: 36 months F

"Absence of normative judgement - anything but 'neutral'"   Why do you think, from your very personal involvement with cultural thinking, that a topological approach can hel

33. A topological approach to cultural dynamics
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Drawing inspiration from mathematical theories of topology, networks and complexity, the ATACD project will create a new way of looking at social change that emphasises links, driving forc


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Performing topology
22 March 2010
Television Studio, Lockwood Building
Goldsmiths, University of London

This workshop has been supported by funding under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union
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The Discovery of the New
26-27 February 2010
Union Chapel London, London, UK

This workshop has been supported by funding under the Sixth
Framework Programme of the European Union.
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Can experiments with humanoid robots tell us something about us?
25 February 2010
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Lecture given by: Luc Steels, University of Brussels (VUB AI Lab) & Sony Computer Science Lab (Paris)

This event has been supported by funding under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union.
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