This event brings together participants of the Researching BWPWAP workshop that preceded transmediale and was focused on the question of how BWPWAP can be interpreted in the context of research culture. This process culminated in the production of a peer-reviewed research newspaper—itself an experiment in new forms of scholarly publishing.
By addressing specific examples related to online sex and porn, porn-sourcing, love for sex machines and fictional characters, the objective is to investigate the current state of mediated desire and reimagine critical body politics.
“Depletion Design” suggests that ideas of exhaustion cut across cultural, environmentalist, and political idioms and offers ways to explore the emergence of new material assemblages. >> Read more.