Dear colleagues,
this is a quick reminder that we still welcome submissions to our panel on
Practices and Materialities of Predictive Knowledge Systems at the STS-Hub
2025.
Conference: STS-Hub 2025: Diffracting the Critical, Berlin, March 1114,
2025, conference website: https://sts-hub.de/25/
Convenors: Kevin Wiggert, Ingmar Mundt, Jana Pannier
Panel description:
Two actual developments can be observed in the production of knowledge: On the
one hand, knowledge is becoming increasingly datafied and algorithmised. In
addition, more and more knowledge is being collected in an anticipatory or
predictive manner about future situations and conditions. This knowledge may
be relevant to decision-making for actors and organisations but it remains
highly speculative and contestable in ontological and epistemological terms,
especially when taking their material backing into account. This panel will
therefore focus less on existing approaches to future or anticipatory
imaginaries. In taking a diffractive approach, differences and interferences
between established and anticipatory or predictive forms of knowledge come
into view, as well as emerging concrete practices and their materialities.
Therefore, the aim of this panel is to examine these through the analytical
lenses of (a) which knowledge about the future is made tangible or durable
in the present and which material and temporal conditions are created for this
and (b) for whom which ontological and epistemological challenges arise. This
touches, for example, on questions of anticipatory or predictive
infrastructures, modes and practices of anticipating, enacting,
(re)organising, and contesting predictive knowledge systems, or governance
approaches to deal with future materialities.
We invite researchers of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Data and
Algorithm Studies as well as related fields to send us abstracts of not more
than 200 words (and a short bio of around 75 words) which address, but are not
limited to, the following questions:
How do predictive knowledge systems shape current practices, and
what material infrastructures support them?
What epistemological and/or ontological challenges arise when making
speculative knowledge durable in the present? What tensions exist between
established knowledge and predictive knowledge, and how are they negotiated?
How are predictive knowledge systems enacted, made sense of, and
contested in practice?
How do predictive knowledge systems reconfigure power relations, and
who benefits or is excluded?
How do the material and temporal conditions of predictive knowledge
systems influence the governance or practices of dealing with anticipatory
knowledge?
How are specific predictive or anticipatory artifacts (e.g.
predictive algorithms, prototypes, scenario analysis etc.) constituted,
stabilised or entangled in future-orientated practices?
How is data gathered, constituted, interpreted, and used within
predictive knowledge systems to make predictions towards the future?
Please send your abstract to
kevin.wiggert@tu-berlin.de and
jana.pannier@wzb.eu until October 31, 2024. We are
looking forward to your submissions! If you have any questions, please do not
hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Kevin, Ingmar, and Jana
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Ingmar Mundt
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Weizenbaum-Institut e.V.
Hardenbergstrae 32 \ 10623 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 700141 051
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