The problem with such logic behind the incorporation of technology into border making is that it assumes social life can be rendered digitally knowable and thus (mis)constructs border subjects as material objects detached from their social and political contexts. The shaping of these mobile borders is heavily influenced by digital technologies that are assumed to have predictive powers and are generally conceptualized in terms of unfaltering efficiency and as panacea for securitizing transnational mobility. Accordingly, we are witnessing the emergence of complementary forms of state borders that depart from the norms of territorial linearity by becoming embedded into flows that can travel and be monitored continuously across space. Recently, we are witnessing a changing geographical imagination to incorporate a polyvalent perspective that acknowledges the relational nature of space and that is more in tune with a notion of space defined by mobility in the form of connections and nodes rather than by territorial proximity and distance decay. In political practice, this has lead to the division of the globe in mutually exclusive territorial units based on linear borders. The modern political-territorial organization of the world has been built on a geographical imagination that sees space in absolute terms, as a rigid object that can be broken into quantifiable pieces. Technological Determinism and the shaping of Mobile Borders Gabriel Popescu (IMéRA, AMU Indiana University South Bend, USA) Presentation of the antiAtlas Manifesto by Cédric Parizot (IMéRA, IREMAM – CNRS/AMU, France), Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (PACTE, UJF/CNRS, France), Antoine Vion (LEST, AMU/CNRS, France), Isabelle Arvers (commissaire d’exposition indépendante, France)(fr)ĭiscussion opening: “Pushing the frontiers of borders studies” by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly Representatives of public and private institutions and non-governmental organizations directly involved in issues relating to frontiers are invited to participate in the conference debates: the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), academics researching border issues, representatives of companies involved in border crossings (Thales, Cassidian, etc.), politicians, and representatives of institutions and associations working with migrants (Migreurop, La Cimade, etc.). Holding this conference simultaneously with the opening of the exhibition at the Musée des Tapisseries reinforces our efforts to break down the barriers between the worlds of research, art and politics. An extensive media campaign will ensure wide publicity coverage by the press, radio and television. This conference will present the project and its results to university researchers, public institutions, politicians and, of course, the general public. Nouveau Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence, Franceįrom 30 September to 2 October 2013, the Conservatoire of Aix en Provence hosts an international conference with participants from the world of humanities and scientific research, artists and professionals participating in the project. International Conference – antiAtlas of Borders
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