Dear colleagues and friends,
On March 22 and 23, we organize a seminar entitled "The State of Cybernetics.
The digitization of cities, bodies and communities” at the Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam.
The purpose of the seminar is to revisit the legacy of cybernetics to shed
light on contemporary digital politics. Many of the fundamental questions
asked by cyberneticians regain salience today. What remains of liberal
individualism when the boundaries between humans, machines and nature are
blurred? What are the systemic properties and operating routines of democracy
in a world in which machines and humans are increasingly entangled?
Scholars from fields as diverse as Philosophy, Anthropology, and Artificial
Intelligence will give presentations. The speakers include Simon Marvin,
Noortje Marres, Andrew Pickering, Willem Schinkel, Tsjalling Swierstra and
Linnet Taylor.
The seminar will be concluded with a public event on Friday afternoon with
lectures by Katherine Hayles, Luc Steels, a theatrical performance prepared
by Ricarda Franzen and concluding reflections by Andrew Pickering.
The overarching vision for this seminar is to build and strengthen a network
of thinkers and practitioners interested in developing critical perspectives
regarding digital politics and digital urbanism in particular. This network
stretches beyond academia and crosses over to multiple disciplines and fields
of practice. Starting September 2018, the aim is to work towards joint
research proposals, publications, and events.
We would be delighted if you could take part in this two-day journey. To allow
for an in-depth discussion, there is a limit to the number of participants.
The preliminary program is attached to this email.
Please register with Anne Hovingh: anne.hovingh@student.uva.nl
and make sure to specify whether you
register for the conference, for the public event, or both.
You can also click here
for info and registration for the Friday public event; and here
for more info and
registration for the seminar on Thursday and Friday.
After you register you will receive a more detailed program with abstracts,
locations and times.
The conference is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO) as part of the research project "Safeguarding long-term
stakeholdership in Smart Cities" and by the Center for Urban Studies of the
University of Amsterdam as part of a collaboration with the Sheffield Urban
Automation Institute.
We hope to see you the 22nd and 23d of March!
Justus Uitermark and Dorien Zandbergen
Political Sociology Department
University of Amsterdam
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