The most popular word in the paper titles of this conference is…
Object (10 mentions)
Runner-up: Media/mediation (9)
Honorable mention: Nonhuman; Affect/affectivity/affection; Animal(s)/animality (4 each).
Figure that… Yet, judging by yesterday’s plenaries, objects are under fire.
Under fire in the sense of most of the papers are critical of OOO?
Most plenaries so far (3 altogether) are critical or at least raise critical questions to OOO… We haven’t had break-out sessions yet, but my guess is that the pro-OOO will come out more there.
V. interesting. Catching some of it on the stream and it looks amazing.