Call for Papers
Tracking, Targeting, Predicting.
Epistemological, Ontological, and Biopolitical Dimensions of
Techno-Security
Department of Media Studies, University of Paderborn, 20-22nd June 2013
Tracking, targeting, predicting: These are basic components of the
current high-tech military logic in the countries of the global North.
Strong, ubiquitous ICT-based networks, manned and unmanned systems are
used to control and monitor area-wide and over huge distances 24 hours
a day to reach a globespanning dominance based on a nearmonopoly of
space and air power (Graham). The Information Revolution in Military
Affairs is based on the intertwinement of information sovereignty,
technological superiority and the close networking of intelligence,
command centers and weapon technologies.
Surprisingly, the logic of civil security architectures seems to work
along very similar lines. An impressive example is the recent Domain
Awareness System in Manhattan, co-produced by Microsoft and the New
York City Police, with its more than 3000 cameras, 2500 sensors,
hundreds of license-plate-scanners, access to huge criminal as well as
terrorist databases, emergency calls etc. The system was introduced as
a super-tool in the fight against terrorism but is already deployed
for regular crime investigation. High-tech warfare and civil
security architectures seem to share a similar concept of
techno-security based on precautionary risk management, an emphasis on
advanced ICT, a preference for distanced operations and the reliance
on the idea of full spectrum dominance.
The aim of the workshop is to analyze closely the logic of
techno-security in its military and / or civil aspects as well as
their possible entanglements.
Relevant questions are:
- What are the ontological, epistemological and biopolitical
dimensions of todays techno-security, of the growing convergence of
recent sociotechnologies of surveillance and warfare?
- What role do technoscientific methods such as real time system
analysis, scenario techniques, or computer simulations play in the
logic of techno-security? How do technoscientific / biocybernetic
approaches conjoin with biopolitical militarized practices for
example, in operating unpredictability and in their attempt to model
the future?
- What is the impact of techno-(in)securities on everyday practices?
Do we experience a militarization of civil life, the civilization of
war, a militarization of visual culture (Kaplan)?
- What are gendered dimensions of techno-security? Does
techno-security contribute to social sorting in terms of gender, race,
age, ability?
- (How) Are the politics of fear (Massumi), the (game) culture of
tracking/targeting, and the entrepreneurial self (Bröckling)
interwoven?
Additional submissions are encouraged that address further questions
concerning the discourses and practices of techno-security in civil
and / or military contexts.
Please send your abstract of 500 words + references to
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They will be blind reviewed by the conference committee. Applicants
will be notified of the decision by February, 28th 2013. Author names
and addresses should only appear on a removable cover page to
facilitate blind review. Please submit manuscripts as an MS Word or a
Rich Text file. To grant sufficient time for intense discussions the
contributors will be asked to limit their presentation to a total
length of 25 minutes.
The conference will be open to the public. Conference language is
English. There is no conference fee. Financial support for travel
expenses may be granted to junior researchers upon request if the
necessary funds are available.
Keynote speakers: Caren Kaplan, University of California Davis, USA;
Stefan Kaufmann, University of Freiburg, Germany; Lucy Suchman,
Lancaster University, UK.
Conference Committee: Stefan Kaufmann, University of Freiburg,
Germany; Anna Leander, Copenhagen Business School, DK; Winifred R.
Poster, Washington University, St. Louis, USA; Lucy Suchman, Lancaster
University, UK; Peter Ullrich, Social Science Research Center Berlin,
Germany; Jutta Weber, University of Paderborn, Germany
For further questions please contact Katrin M. Kämpf and Göde Both at
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We are looking forward to your contributions.
--
Dr. phil. Dr. rer. med. Peter Ullrich
Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (i.G.)
Technische Universität Berlin
Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft
HBS 1, Hardenbergstr. 16-18, Zi. 4.16
10623 Berlin
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Fax:030/31426917
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