[Mediaculturehipsters] UCR Dance Lecture: The Mobile-Imaging Body (May 16)

[jennifer buscher]

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> A broad discussion around the socialization of bodies, the  
> discipline of coding bodies, coding bodies for disciplinary action,  
> encoding bodily memory and function, decoding structures of  
> dominance through bodily force, this Spring the Dance Department  
> investigates interpolated corporeality in its series:  
> Architectonics of the Corpo-Real: Machines and Machinations of  
> Power. What is a body with a techno-habit? a credit card? a cell  
> block number? a social security card?
> a telephone number? a bpm?
>

>
> May 16
> Tuesday @ 12:45pm in PE 102
> The Mobile-Imaging Body:
> Autobiometry & the Biopolitics of Optimized Flesh
> Heidi Cooley, PhD candidate in School of Cinema-Television,  
> Division of Critical Studies, USC
>
> Mobile-imaging (picture-messaging, multi-media messaging, MMS-ing)  
> is an example of the cultural practice of “life-caching” and,  
> consequently, is invested in the recording of “one’s entire  
> life.”  “Life,” in this context, is not simply as the  
> accumulation of moments experienced by a person, but also  
> literally, “life” as an articulation of vital (biological)  
> processes.  Subsequently mobile-imaging, as it is currently  
> implemented, will be considered as: (1) a technique in medical  
> practice and (2) an aspect of an emerging logic of “healthful  
> living.” This talk will propose that mobile-imaging becomes a  
> means for the individual the “calculable person” to  
> “maximize” his/her (quality of) life through concerted and more  
> rigorous attention to his/her health.  Mobile-imaging instantiates  
> a modality of “wellness,” operating in relation to a general  
> complex of processes aimed at securing the “health and well- 
> being” of the population.  Turning to Foucault’s “care of the  
> self,” the talk will argue that mobile-imaging functions as a mode  
> of “care for” the mobile-imaging body and, as such, mobilizes  
> the bio-, i.e., life, upon which biopolitical strategies of  
> management and control are trained.
>
> Heidi Cooley is a PhD candidate in the School of Cinema-Television,  
> Division of Critical Studies at University of Southern California,  
> and she received a MA in Visual Studies at University of  
> California, Irvine.  Her scholarship is multidisciplinary,  
> articulating visual studies, documentary film studies, media theory  
> and philosophy of science and technology.  She is the author of two  
> articles, “It’s All about the Fit: The Hand, the Mobile Screenic  
> Device, and Tactile Vision” (journal of visual culture) and  
> “‘Identify’-ing A New Way of Seeing: Amateurs, Moblogs and  
> Practices in Mobile Imaging” (Spectator).  She is currently  
> working on a dissertation entitled “The Body and Its Thumbnails:  
> The Work of the Image in Mobile-Imaging.”
>
>
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>
> Visitors Welcome!
>
> Coordinated by  Anna Beatrice Scott, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, UCR Department of Dance
> Information: (951) 827.3865, anna.scott at ucr.edu
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