Dear all,
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<br>I invite you to apply to this open panel that, hopefully, will start a
<br>discussion on the role of taste and aesthetics in relation to the senses,
<br>which is something I hope to see more of in future studies of technoscience.
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<br>See the panel abstract below for more details.
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<br>I look forward to any applications, and hope to see you in New Orleans.
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<br>Kind regards,
<br>Chris
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<br>*Technoscience, Aesthetics, and the Senses *
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<br>Organiser: Chris Hesselbein, Cornell University
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<br>STS has thus far not developed a cohesive position on the role of aesthetic
<br>sensibilities in our engagement with facts and artefacts. Although
<br>subjective considerations of style, taste, and fashion and their embodied
<br>discernment are clearly relevant in the practices of natural scientists,
<br>engineers, doctors, and industrial designers, the role of such judgements
<br>in technoscience remains undertheorised. Subjectivity has, nevertheless,
<br>long been mobilised in STS as a means of problematizing notions of
<br>objectivity, rationality, and functionality. A number of studies in STS
<br>have recently begun to empirically examine the role of intersubjectivity in
<br>oenology (Shapin, 2016), aesthetic publics (Michael, 2018), and artistic
<br>practices in synthetic biology (Calvert and Schyfter, 2017), but the
<br>relationship between technoscientific innovation, sensory skills, and
<br>aesthetic judgment remains elusive.
<br>This panel seeks to understand the co-construction of technoscientific
<br>practices and aesthetic sensibilities. How might the reciprocal
<br>relationship between technoscience and the traditionally recognised senses
<br>(sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch) as well as other sensory
<br>modalities such as, among others, proprioception, balance, pain, and hunger
<br>be understood? How does, for example, the visual language of digital
<br>technologies shape what is considered a beautiful face or delicious food;
<br>how are algorithms used to capture and reproduce new aesthetic categories
<br>in online media; how are notions of aesthetic craft involved in practices
<br>as diverse as software coding, reconstructive surgery, restaurant menus, as
<br>well as numerous other everyday practices and tasks.
<br>This panel encourages experimental forms of presentation that go beyond the
<br>conventional paper and PowerPoint format.
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