Message posted on 29/10/2024
CfA: Diffracting chemistry at sts-hub in Berlin, March 2025
Dear colleagues, this is a gentle reminder to hand in abstracts to our open panel “*Diffracting chemistry: Challenged critique, novel collaborations, alternative ethics*” during the sts-hub in March 2025 in Berlin: https://sts-hub.de/25/ *Deadline* is this Thursday, *31st of October.* Please send via e-mail to: patrick.bieler@tum.de We look forward to your presentations and our exchange! All best, Nona & Patrick *OPEN PANEL: Diffracting chemistry: challenged critique, novel collaborations, alternative ethics* *Convenor(s): *Patrick Bieler (TU Munich), Nona Schulte-Römer (HU Berlin) *Abstract: *The production of artificial chemical substances in late industrial societies has pushed humanity “outside the safe operating space” (Persson et al. 2022). This has lasting implications for human and planetary health as well as social formations (e.g. Murphy 2017; Shapiro/Kirksey 2017). However, outside of these critical assessessments of chemicals, in this panel we query: what does it mean to acknowledge our lives are entangled with anthropochemicals all the way down (Papadopoulos 2022)? We propose to tackle this question along three reflexive paths (which are not exhaustive, of course): First, how do we reflect in how far STS’ common forms of deconstructive critique are themselves embedded in and shaped by 'petromodernity' (Klose/Steininger 2024), and what is the consequence thereof? Second, how do we remain sensitive to the logics and politics of scaling by which molecules come to shape large technological systems and societies (and vice versa)? Third, how can we initiate a collaborative socio-chemical project that aims to transform the chemical foundations of late industrial societies from within through generative critique and experimental practices? These questions open up chemicals as specific entities that are ‘good to think with’ (Boudia et al. 2021). They help us to critically diffract pressing questions of socio-technical, moral and natural order, North-South relationships, metabolic ethics (Landecker/Kelty 2019), knowledge and ignorance (Frickel/Elliog 2018) and the reconstitution of life itself and forms of sociality at the molecular level. -- Patrick Bieler Postdoc Researcher Anthropology of Science and Technology Technical University of Munich (TUM) TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology Department of Science, Technology and Society Augustenstr. 46, 80333 München Room 550 | +49(0)89 289 29233 https://www.sts.sot.tum.de/ https://knowledgeafterprogress.org/ Latest publications: Patrick Bieler (2024): Urbane Psyche: Alltagsgestaltung und Biopolitik in Berlin aus ethnografischer Perspektive. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus. E-Book (open access):https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/kulturwissenschaft/urbane_psyche-18238.html Jörg Niewöhner & Patrick Bieler (2024): Knowledge after Progress: Re-assembling life through socio-molecular studies.https://biosocieties.org/knowledge-after-progress/ _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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