On 10/11/09 2:43 PM, "Matthew Allen" <M.Allen@exchange.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
For everyone not able to be at the Annual General Meeting of AoIR, a rough approximation can be found at http://www.netcrit.net/events/aoir-annual-general-meeting/
There is, however, no way I am blogging anything about the banquet :).
What happens in Milwaukee, stays in Milwaukee ... very nice blog, Matt - thanks! I would also add, at the risk of seriousness, that insofar as our meetings and conversations approach something like (gentle warning to Terri Senft, who's on record for banning the term 'public sphere' from AoIR conferences ...: I know you won't be happy with me using the phrase ... smile) a public sphere, they do so in ways that reflect, in my view, important critical revisions of the purely rational version thereof in early Habermas. As one example my colleague May Thorseth (NTNU, Trondheim) has (among others) critiqued and extended that early version in light of the work of Hannah Arendt, Iris Marion Young, and others, in order to recognize the legitimacy and significance of the emotive and the narrative as well. E.g., Nancy Baym's recalling for us a founding story ... (Terri - you'll like the part about how May draws a good chunk of this from Kant's third Critique! [As do, FWIW, several of the other articles in the special issue.]) Thorseth, May. 2008. Reflective judgment and enlarged thinking online. _Ethics and Information Technology_, Volume 10, Number 4. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-008-9166-6 Pages: 221-231 enjoy! - charles ess Past President (and thereby now a member of AoIR's jedi ghosts ...)