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