Entropological Materialism: Infrastructure, Cybernetics, Environment

2025-11-12 - 2025-11-12

Ned Rossiter

Hybrid (online & in-person)

📌Date and Time: November 12, 2025, Wednesday, 14:00－17:00, Taipei Time (GMT+8)

📌Venue: Room 106, HC Building 2, Guangfu Campus, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)

📌Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85242644365?pwd=JtnWwltoEYyMj7Widj6iVxOir5hRdt.1

📌Forum Language: English

📌Moderator and Discussant

💭楊子樵 Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang

Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies,
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
 

📌Speakers:

💭Ned Rossiter

Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia

 

Ned Rossiter is a media theorist noted for his research on network cultures, the politics of cultural labour, logistical media, and data politics. Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and Society and Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University.

Rossiter is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006), Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016), and (with Geert Lovink) Organization after Social Media (2018). His writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, French, Finnish, Dutch, Chinese, Greek, Latvian, Hungarian, Turkish, and Polish.

Ned is currently working on two book projects, The Logistical Episteme and (with Soenke Zehle) Entropological Materialism: Diagnosing Anxieties of Prediction.

 

📌Organizer

國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心 International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University

• Subproject II: The Chip Era and Digital Governance (Principal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu)

 

📌Funding Source

教育部高等教育深耕計畫

Higher Education Sprout Project, Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan

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