{"id":20,"date":"2020-09-08T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2020-09-24T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:38:01","slug":"worlds-of-contradiction-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/worlds-of-contradiction-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds of Contradiction Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">The growing popularity of diaspora studies in the fields of cultural studies is happening around the same time as diasporic movements are generating renewed interests in the news media, as well as in art and literature \u2013 a phenomenon that is associated with the effects of globalization, particularly transmigration and transnationalization. Increasing social digitization arguably involves a fundamental change for these communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">The WoC lab takes on the task of theoretically exploring a fresh relationship between diaspora and (post-)digitality and using case studies to investigate how marginalized groups design themselves as decentralized \u201cimagined communities\u201d (B. Anderson) in the internet (as a potential space of transterritorial networking) and actively shape their self-image. A crucial notion to be discussed is the concept of \u201cdigital diaspora\u201d and its specificities as well as the consequences for diasporic communities\u2019 practices of self-representation and performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">The lab focuses on the intersections of diasporic existence in analogue reality and its digital projection: the notion of the \u201cpostdigital\u201d captures this dissolution of boundaries between these two areas. Although these intersections are a characteristic of diasporic communities in the present, they are not exempt from contradictions and conflicts that are to be examined. In any case, diasporic movements are unstable formations which can be put into relation with cultures of contradictions in multiple ways (discursively, poetologically, socially). For now, the lab embraces different philologies (Romance studies, German studies, English studies) whose frames of reference are linked to different diasporic traditions. It takes a decidedly cultural-scientific look at the \u201ctextures\u201d of digital diasporic movements. The lab\u2019s transdisciplinary perspective will be expanded successively.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing popularity of diaspora studies in the fields of cultural studies is happening around the same time as diasporic movements are generating renewed interests in the news media, as well as in art and literature \u2013 a phenomenon that is associated with the effects of globalization, particularly transmigration and transnationalization. Increasing social digitization arguably &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/worlds-of-contradiction-lab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worlds of Contradiction Lab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12459,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/digitaldiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}