Keynote Speaker
Ben's Ben Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities and a co-Director of Sussex Humanities Lab. Before taking up his post at Sussex, he held posts as a web programmer and as Lecturer in the School of Media, Design and Technology at the University of Bradford. Ben has published widely on the French media philosopher Bernard Stiegler. He also has an interest in media archaeology and has recently edited (with Mark Goodall) an essay collection called New Media Archaeologies. Ben was PI of the AHRC Automation Anxiety Network. The network aimed to be a springboard to allow participants from a range of different disciplines as well as non-academic areas to develop future projects addressing automation anxiety. Work from this network appeared as a special issue of the journal New Formations. Ben's keynote address is entitled 'What We Need is More Automation': The Utopian Horizon of Automated Futures. |