Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC)

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The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) was launched in February 2018. It brings together postdigital media theorists, practitioners, activists and artists from more than 15 countries speaking more than 20 languages. By drawing on transdisciplinary ideas associated with open, disruptive and immersive media, feminism, the posthuman, and the politics of care, CPC endeavours to help 21st century society and its cultural institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, museums, etc.) respond to the challenges faced in relation to the digital at a global, national and local level.

Researchers in the CPC adopt an innovative stance to exploring digital culture. CPC contends that the “digital” cannot be understood as a separate domain of culture. Digital information processing is present in every aspect of modern life. This includes global communication, entertainment, education, energy, banking, health, transport, manufacturing, food, and water-supply systems. Attention therefore needs to turn from 'the digital', to the various overlapping processes and infrastructures that shape and organise it, along with those that the digital helps to shape and organise in turn. This is what ‘postdigital’ means.

CPC investigates and reimagines such enmeshed models of culture, society, and the creative economy for the 21st century postdigital world. Members are interested in how people are born out of their relation to media – as opposed to seeing media simply as external instruments or tools, the latter being the classical Aristotelian view that has dominated understanding of media technologies to date.

The CPC will:

• Produce world class research in both theoretical and practice-applied humanities
• Create a sustainable research environment to support the centre's activities
• Grow the international CPC community
• Disseminate and celebrate research findings

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2017

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Coventry University
Coventry