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Call for contributions:
A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow
A One Day Workshop at the Swedenborg Society, London
Thursday 21st October from 10 until 6
A growing body of research, including literature on cognitive anthropology, software studies and cognitive capital suggests that whatever is called 'thinking' occurs amidst mechanisms, habits, codelike systems, devices and other formally structured means. If intelligence, far from being a property of 'the human', is an informal and provisional function of the ensemble of mechanisms and relations that comprise a social field, then we need to explore the co-relation of cultural and experiential practices, thought and intelligent devices.
In this day-long workshop, we would like to evaluate the ways in which contemporary hardware and software augment and distribute intelligence, as well as the ensemble of social relations which form around thinking practices as they synchronise, mesh, de-couple, breakdown and collapse with variable effects. To this end we are seeking contributions that propose analyses or working experiments with thinking work as imbricated in cultural, material, corporeal, technical, economic and psychic practices. These might include design, creative, analytic, management, personal, administrative, scientific or technical thinking.
We are particularly keen to solicit contributions from researchers, practitioners and writers who want to develop a transdisciplinary
engagement with novel philosophical, aesthetic and political problematisations of ecologies of extended cognition/ubiquitous
 computing/social intelligence.
Please send proposals (no more than 400 words) to Andrew Goffey, Matthew Fuller or Adrian Mackenzie at [log in to unmask] , [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] by July 31st at the latest
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Dr Jo Littler
Senior Lecturer, Media and Cultural Studies
Middlesex University
Trent Park Campus
Bramley Road
London
N14 4YZ
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* Newish book: Radical Consumption: Shopping for change in contemporary culture (Open University Press, 2009) *
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