4S/EASST Panel: The Ends of Hope: Post-Optimistic Futures Worth Working Towards

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Jan 11, 2024, 1:24:10 PM1/11/24
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Queridxs xxx,

Espero que hayáis tenido unas buenas vacaciones.

Os escribo porque estamos organizando un panel para el próximo encuentro de 4S/EASST en Ámsterdam, del 16 al 19 de julio de 2024. 

El panel se centrará en la esperanza, y pretende explorar las narrativas de esperanza o desesperanza, los efectos de la esperanza y la desesperanza, y/o la conexión de la esperanza con los proyectos de investigación actuales, reflexionando acerca de o si confiamos o promovemos la esperanza y sus implicaciones. ¡Sería estupendo si os uniérais al panel con nosotrxs! 

Buscamos una diversidad de perspectivas, desde las más basadas en casos prácticos hasta las más teóricas, y también nos gustaría contar con ponencias tradicionales y formatos más creativos, como actuaciones, performances, música, vídeo, juegos, etc. (Ved los detalles más abajo).


PD. Por favor, quienes forméis parte de otras redes académicas en torno a los STS (ESOCITE, etc...), no dudéis en compartir y reenviar el mensaje. Gracias!

Un saludo y ¡feliz 2024!

Blanca

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The Ends of Hope: Post-Optimistic Futures Worth Working Towards

Recent work in STS has focused on the complex relations between hope, technoscience, and the worlds they each shape. Continuing that project, this panel seeks proposals that engage hope/hopelessness, optimism/pessimism, and the Ends of technology within, around, and beyond technoscience.

Call For Abstracts

Sociotechnical imaginaries of the future ground anticipatory attitudes,reveal unanticipated possibilities, and demand the improvised practices present in both our research sites and our research communities. They shape and sustain STS as a mode of acting towards, within, with or against technoscience. Amidst a proliferation of the promissory rhetoric of techno-optimism, we ask: when, where and for whom can technology give hope, now?

The panel invites in particular engagements with questions and practices of/around hope that lead to grounded, liberatory, resilient and interventionist socio-technical work, including:

  • material and creative engagements with hope/lessness, including ones that engage the conference’s making and doing theme  

  • investigations of hope as a principled method for shaping and sustaining counter-imaginaries

  • alternatives to, and new and experimental approaches beyond, techno-optimism

  • active forms of resistance, unlearning, unscripting, or agnosis that allow futuring or remembering otherwise

  • emancipatory investigations of hopelessness: accepting and acting with the trouble  

  • methods of anticipation, modes of improvisation, and/or techniques of memory 

  • analysis of the futures, pasts, and presents deployed in technoscientific narrative progress

  • articulations of Ends of technology: telos, terminus, termination, apocalypse, or alternatives

  • methodological reflections on the study of hope/lessness: how might these may be better incorporated into forms of critical analysis within and beyond STS


The panel’s convenors welcome any contribution motivated by equitable and just Ends in technoscience. This includes traditional abstract submissions along with creative expressions, artifacts, or embodied practice in dialogue with the panel’s themes.

Key Dates

Convenors:

  • Elliott Hauser

  • Sophia Efstathiou

  • Steven Jackson

  • Matt Ratto

  • Paul Dourish

  • Blanca Callen


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