Heavy Processing Book Talk

"Heavy Processing: Trans-Feminist & Queer Methods for (more than) Digital Matters"

Everyone welcome.

FNB Creative Commons (2nd floor, near the FIMS Dean's Office).

Description: This FIMS-hosted talk is a book launch event for T.L. Cowan & Jas Rault’s book, Heavy Processing (November 2024, punctum books). If you want to read ahead, please download the open access pdf at punctum books. Hard copies of the book will be available for sale at the event. 

What happens when we take the joke of “lesbian processing” seriously as a research method? Heavy Processing does just this, by tracing the multi-directional genealogies and vast affinities of processing-heavy methods as innovations in information technologies (operating systems, central processing units, network designs). Part methods handbook, manifesto, and survival guide, this book opens up the fields of information studies, data studies, digital media studies, and digital humanities to critical digital methods, information technologies, and infrastructures: trans- feminist and queer (TFQ) cultural protocols and ways of working.