We warmly invite abstract submissions to our panel at the 4S/EASST meeting in
<br>August 2020:
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<br>Re-evaluating the high-tech and the low-tech: ideals and ideologies of the
<br>material
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<br>Conference: 4S/EASST Prague 18th-21st Aug 2020
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<br>Convenors: Hannah Cowan (King's College London), Charlotte Khlbrandt (King's
<br>College London), Natassia Brenman (The University of Cambridge)
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<br>Submission Deadline: 29th February
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<br>Call for abstracts:
<br>This panel invites participants to question how values of high- and low-tech
<br>become attached to and emerge from particular kinds of materialities. There is
<br>growing concern in STS research around topics that get labelled
<br>'technoscience', such as CRISPR genetically-engineered babies and cyborg-esque
<br>uses of artificial intelligence. But here we want to trouble scholarly focus
<br>on the materialities that get labelled high-tech, by thinking about the
<br>"lowness" of low-tech (such as water supply, housing infrastructures etc). We
<br>question taken-for-granted urgencies created by the politics and ethics of the
<br>high-tech and point to stagnated material relations that perpetuate economic
<br>inequality. Building on new materialism's attention to the mundane as well as
<br>its often-neglected roots in historical materialism, this panel invites
<br>participants to think about how different kinds of materialities matter in
<br>particular spatiotemporal milieus. We encourage papers from different
<br>theoretical or ideological perspectives to ask: When and how should STS
<br>studies follow the biomedical endeavour to chase emerging worlds, and when
<br>should we pay more attention to the present, or even dare to imagine our own
<br>worlds? How should we as STS scholars collaborate or align ourselves with
<br>different kinds of materialities? And what are the effects of how medical
<br>practitioners, highly funded organisations, and STS scholars themselves, care
<br>for these different types of materialities?
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<br>Visit: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/prague20/ to submit.
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<br>Hannah Cowan
<br>Hannah.Cowan@kcl.ac.uk
<br>School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences
<br>King's College London
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