EL Putnam’s new book Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter considers how livestreaming constitutes new patterns of being together that are complex, ambivalent, and transformative. Digging into how humans and technology co-evolve, Putnam and Noel Fitzpatrick engage in conversation about relation and hyper-individualism, glitch and switchtasking, activism and hidden labor and performance and more.


EL Putnam is an artist-philosopher and assistant professor of digital media at Maynooth University, Ireland. Putnam is author of Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter in the University of Minnesota Press Forerunners series and The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption.

Noel Fitzpatrick is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics and the Academic Lead of the European Culture and Technology Laboratory at the Technological University Dublin..


Episode references:

Gilbert Simondon
Bernard Stiegler
Yuk Hui 
Hegel
Kant
Jackson Pollock
Heidegger
Paul Ricoeur
Ayana Evans
Ana Voog
N. Katherine Hayles
Miriam Wolf
Diamond Reynolds and the livestream of Philando Castile’s murder
Safiya Umoja Noble
Christina Sharpe
Saidiya Hartman
Tonia Sutherland
Jacques Rancière
Simone Browne
Èdouard Glissant
Susan Sontag
Sara Ahmed
H. P. Grice


Related works:
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects / Simondon
On the Existence of Digital Objects / Hui
Art and Cosmotechnics / Hui
Oneself as Another / Ricoeur
Memory, History, Forgetting / Ricoeur
Resurrecting the Black Body / Sutherland
Dark Matters / Browne
Regarding the Pain of Others / Sontag




Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.

Meaning and livestreaming: On technical encounter’s aesthetics and ethics.

Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna is a book that asks why so many big bluefin tuna have vanished from the Atlantic Ocean. Author Jen Telesca notes that the term “red gold” has emerged out of the exorbitant price her ruby-colored flesh commands on the global market; for reference, in January 2019, a 613-pound Pacific bluefin tuna sold at market in Tokyo for an astounding record of $3.1 million US dollars. To research this book, Telesca gained unparalleled access to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (also known as ICCAT) to show that the institution has faithfully executed the task assigned to it by international law: to fish as hard as possible to grow national economies. This interview between Telesca and editor Jason Weidemann was recorded in May 2020.

More about the book: http://z.umn.edu/redgold

A transcription of this conversation is available: z.umn.edu/t-redgold

Meaning and livestreaming: On technical encounter’s aesthetics and ethics.

University of Minnesota Press

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