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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hello Everyone. <br>
Long time listener, first - or possibly second - time caller.<br>
I am based at the New School, in Lang College's Culture & Media
Department. <br>
For a long time now I have been interested in libidinal economies, and
the ways in which they intersect with semiotic, symbolic, market, and
technological ones. More recently, I have also been trying to extend
this notion to ecology as well, which will be my elliptical entry-point
into this conference. Specifically, Trebor's provocative claim that
"Social participation is the oil of the digital economy." Come
November, I intend to tap this metaphor for all it's worth, in order to
explore the ways in which "peak oil" sets the cultural tone for our
lives and interactions to a degree that even Hubbert and Co. could not
foresee. <br>
For a list of my publications and some writing samples, see:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blackjelly.com/pettman">http://www.blackjelly.com/pettman</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=1664">http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=1664</a><br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Very much looking
forward to seeing those I know again, and finally putting faces to
names of those I haven't. <br>
best,<br>
dominic </font><br>
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