<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The UTS Cultural Studies Research Group</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with the assistance of the Transforming Cultures Centre</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">presents its first seminar on </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#09050D">Thursday 4th</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#09050D"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#09050D">May, Bon Marche Building Room 210 5pm to 7pm</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Andrew Murphie</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#EE0B10"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#EE0B10">"Thought and 'Cognition' - New-ish Orders, Virtual Cognition and the Possibility of a Radical Empiricism"</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cognitive orders and processes form a complex - yet often unnoticed - horizon for contemporary politics. Everything is now tested or evaluated. Even the micro-moments of thought must be constantly enhanced in terms of cognitive performance (within certain prescribed limits - and with less and less time and space for alternatives). This talk sketches the contemporary "cognitive" horizon, the impact on the humanities, and the choices that lie somewhere between affirming new politicial micro-orders and a radical empiricism. The latter raises the question of a different kind of experimentalism attached to thought, and of what I am calling "virtual cognition". </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Andrew Murphie works in the School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales. <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107">He has published on a range of issues: philosophies of technics and of the virtual, the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, digital media and aesthetics, electronic music, performance and the visual arts, the culture and politics of theories of cognition. Editor of </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107"><B>The Fibreculture Journal</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107">, he has recently published</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107"><I>Culture and Technology</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107">, co-authored with John Potts,</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107">and is working on books on the relation between models of media, cognition and life; affect and the limits of theory, and "differential media" (about what might best be called media </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107"><I>divergences</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107">). He has in the past worked as a marketing manager and production manager for arts companies, and as a freelance theatre director (which has included work on productions of Samuel Beckett's shorter plays and Heiner Muller's </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107"><I>Hamlet-Machine</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030107">).</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#060407"><BR></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#060407"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P></BODY></HTML>