The Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College welcomes Rogers Brubaker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and author to discuss how digital hyper-connectivity has reshaped political life by transforming ways of knowing, feeling, and governing. He explores the tension between the technocratic premises of algorithmic governance and the populist regimes of digitally mediated knowing and feeling, and specifies how hyper-connectivity can promote both populism and its seeming antithesis, technocracy.
The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost’s Office.
Rogers Brubaker is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA, where he holds the UCLA Foundation Chair. He has written widely on social theory, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, populism, and digital hyperconnectivity. His recent books include Grounds for Difference, Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities, and, most recently, Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents, which treats digital hyperconnectivity as a “total social fact” and addresses transformations of the self, social interaction, culture, economics, and politics.
