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Science Colloquium Talk Title: Co-sponsored with the Bovay Program, Information Science, and Anthropology Speaker: Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture & Communication, New York University Location: 374 Rockefeller Hall This talk presents a cultural history and political analysis of one of the oldest Internet wars, often referred to as "Internet vs Scientology," which in recent times has witnessed a different incarnation in the form of "Project Chanology." Orchestrated by a group called Anonymous they have moved offline to lead a series of online attacks and real world protests against Scientology. I argue that to understand the significance of these battles and protests, we must examine how the two groups stand in a culturally antipodal relation to each other.
Through this analysis of cultural inversion, I will consider how long-standing liberal ideals take cultural root in the context of these battles, use these two cases to reveal important political transformations in Internet/hacker culture between the mid 1990s and today and finally will map the tension between pleasure/freedom (the "lulz") and moral good ("free speech") found among Anonymous in terms of the tension between liberal freedom and romantic/Nietzschean freedom/pleasure. :
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