Delete: Strategies of Negation in the Age of Data Suffocation

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This conference revisits contemporary strategies of deletion as both instruments of power and practices of resistance, refusal, and, more radically, negation. Across disciplines, scholars have examined how digital regimes erase particular memories, histories, subjectivities, and forms of labour, while artists and activists have developed creative strategies to rupture or perforate the relentless proliferation of images, sounds, and texts. Find out more This conference revisits contemporary strategies of deletion as both instruments of power and practices of resistance, refusal, and, more radically, negation. Across disciplines, scholars have examined how digital regimes erase particular memories, histories, subjectivities, and forms of labour, while artists and activists have developed creative strategies to rupture or perforate the relentless proliferation of images, sounds, and texts.