Message posted on 16/10/2018

Reminder | Announcement WTMC PhD Autumn Workshop "Smart", 17-19 December 2018, Conference center Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, NL | Please register by 26 October 2018 !

WTMC PhD Autumn Workshop "Smart"

17 - 19 December 2018



Conference centre Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, the Netherlands



In this workshop, we will consider how smart technologies function as a sphere
where issues of human-machine interaction are played out. Is "smart" shifting
from a human attribute to techno-drenched settings, such as smart cities,
thereby signaling new forms of subjectivity where machines also sense, record
and respond? Is smart a euphemism for new technologies of control as well as
out-of-control (big data), or do smart technologies (also) serve as objects of
participation and engagement?

STS has since long engaged both empirically and conceptually with the
relationships between humans/human societies and technologies. That
relationship has variously been articulated as one of integration,
co-production, domestication or control.

In this workshop, we will contrast two categorically different approaches to
smart technologies. First, we will consider how they actively and often quite
literally interfere, with and modify (take over?) the lives we lead and the
bodies we have. Second we will consider how smart technologies are caught up
in systems of accumulation, circulation and control.

In this workshop we ask, as always, conceptual, historical, methodological,
empirical and normative questions about smart technologies posed and pose-able
from STS.



Confirmed speakers: Fenneke Sysling, Martijn de Groot.



The registration form for this workshop is now available
here.

Please register by Friday, 26 October 2018 !



Costs for WTMC members: meals 10 EUR /day.

Costs for everyone else: 695 EUR, including fee, accommodation and meals.



If you have any content-related questions regarding this workshop, please feel
free to contact Anne Beaulieu: j.a.beaulieu@rug.nl
or Bernike Pasveer:
b.pasveer@maastrichtuniversity.nl



For practical questions please contact Elize Schiweck:
e.schiweck@utwente.nl
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