The lecture will take place in lecture hall 16 (the main building of the University of Lapland, address: Yliopistonkatu 8, Rovaniemi). It is free of charge. Welcome!


Hannu Eerikäinen
(b. 1947)

Hannu Eerikäinen’s doctoral thesis, titled Cybersex and Prosthetic God. “Sex”, Desire and the Posthuman Body in Cyber Discourse, will be examined on 28 November 2014 at the University of Lapland. In the thesis, Mr. Eerikäinen examines the transformation of “cyberspace” and “cyborg” – notions familiar from the world of science fiction – into a postmodern theory that celebrates technology and is thought to describe the advent of the posthuman human. The research, presented in a comprehensive, two-part work, terms this futuristic theorization, born of “Californian ideology”, cyber discourse. Mr. Eerikäinen criticizes postmodern theory for labouring under delusions generated by the theory itself.

Hannu Eerikäinen worked as film activist and documentary director in the period 1974–1981. He was a freelance journalist from 1974 to 1979 and 1984 to 1988 and a television journalist for YLE TV1 from 1979 to 1984. Between 1979 and 2002 he worked as a part-time teacher at the University of Industrial Arts, the Academy of Arts and the Lahti Institute of Design and as a lecturer at a number of universities in Finland. He was an assistant and special planner at the University of Lapland from 1992 to 1994 and a researcher-lecturer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, from 1994 to 1999. At present he works as a free-lance cultural researcher in Berlin. He completed his Licentiate of Art at the University of Lapland in 1994 with a major in media sciences.


Dr. Sam Inkinen
(b. 1970)

Dr. Sam Inkinen is a well-known Finnish media scholar, lecturer, writer and curator. His areas of expertise include the media and information society, new media technologies, computer-mediated communication, creative processes, the experience economy, digital culture and electronic art.

Dr. Inkinen has written, edited or co-edited dozens of books. His doctoral dissertation, defended in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland in 2000, was titled Teknokokemus ja Zeitgeist. Digitaalisen mediakulttuurin yhteisöjä, utopioita ja avantgarde-virtauksia (The Techno Experience and Zeitgeist. Communities, Utopias, and Avant-Garde Trends in Digital Media Culture).


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