WTMC PhD Autumn Workshop "Smart"
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<br>17 - 19 December 2018
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<br>Conference centre Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, the Netherlands
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<br>In this workshop, we will consider how smart technologies function as a sphere
<br>where issues of human-machine interaction are played out. Is "smart" shifting
<br>from a human attribute to techno-drenched settings, such as smart cities,
<br>thereby signaling new forms of subjectivity where machines also sense, record
<br>and respond? Is smart a euphemism for new technologies of control as well as
<br>out-of-control (big data), or do smart technologies (also) serve as objects of
<br>participation and engagement?
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<br>STS has since long engaged both empirically and conceptually with the
<br>relationships between humans/human societies and technologies. That
<br>relationship has variously been articulated as one of integration,
<br>co-production, domestication or control.
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<br>In this workshop, we will contrast two categorically different approaches to
<br>smart technologies. First, we will consider how they actively and often quite
<br>literally interfere, with and modify (take over?) the lives we lead and the
<br>bodies we have. Second we will consider how smart technologies are caught up
<br>in systems of accumulation, circulation and control.
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<br>In this workshop we ask, as always, conceptual, historical, methodological,
<br>empirical and normative questions about smart technologies posed and pose-able
<br>from STS.
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<br>Confirmed speakers: Fenneke Sysling, Martijn de Groot, Darryl Cressman and
<br>Merel Noorman (with reservation).
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<br>The registration form for this workshop is now available
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<br>Please register by Friday, 26 October 2018 !
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<br>Costs for WTMC members: meals 10 EUR /day.
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<br>Costs for everyone else: 695 EUR, including fee, accommodation and meals.
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<br>If you have any content-related questions regarding this workshop, please feel
<br>free to contact Anne Beaulieu: j.a.beaulieu@rug.nl
<br>or Bernike Pasveer:
<br>b.pasveer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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<br>For practical questions please contact Elize Schiweck:
<br>e.schiweck@utwente.nl
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