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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Coventry (Main Campus)
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) brings together media theorists, practitioners, activists and artists from more than 15 countries to critically investigate some of the core foundational concepts and values in the arts and humanities. CPC uses ‘affirmative disruption’ in the sense Roberto Esposito writes of an ‘affirmative biopolitics that is not defined negatively with respect to the dispositifs of modern power/knowledge but is rather situated along the line of tension that traverses and displaces them’. The CPC’s work in this area involves experimenting with a wide range of practices aimed at removing barriers around knowledge and research, and promoting collaboration with ‘others’ (understood in geographical terms and in terms of BAME, LGBTQI, working class and other nonconforming identities). This has led us to generate projects that address open access, open data and open education, through the sharing and gig economies, to media activism and so-called internet piracy, as well as ideas of the commons and commoning.
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