Dr. Bernard Perley (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies UBC) will give a colloquium talk in the TFS seminar roo m:
Language Fantasies in Technotopia: Hammers\, Rabbits\, and Plugs…Oh My!
Abstract: The pandemic has forced all of us to become more familiar with techno-mediated communication and sociality in w ays some celebrate\, others bemoan\, and most accommodate as a necessary ad aptation to forced isolation. Despite isolation\, technophiles\, technopho bes\, and tech-agnostics gathered in virtual rooms to create disembodied so cial worlds. Language revitalization activities also shifted to virtual la nguage instruction classrooms in the Zoomscape. After a year and a half of living in the Zoomscape we find ourselves residents of Technotopia\, a bra ve new world of posthuman potential and access to limitless data and 24/7 c onnectivity to the hive-mind. Are we witness to a pivotal moment that will usher in the techno-panacea for endangered languages? Will Technotopian a lchemists create supercomputers for language documentation\, to enable lang uage instruction\, and to catalyze language vitality? This talk explores t hose possibilities using hammers\, rabbits\, and plugs.
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