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Dear Colleagues,
We are seeking papers for the open panel #127 'Make Do and Mend': How to
Prepare for a "Post-Solar Flare Future" with and by Collaborative
Practices, organized for the annual 4S meeting to be held in Boston, MA,
August 30 - September 2, 2017.
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CfP: Open Panel #127 — ‘Make Do and Mend’: How to Prepare for a
“Post-Solar Flare Future” with and by Collaborative Practices
Organizers: Yana Boeva, York University; Leo Matteo Bachinger, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Discussant: Max Liboiron, Memorial University of Newfoundland
The technological promises and desires to cure and solve instabilities in
societies and systems recur with every new development. Nonetheless,
contemporary techno-societies become ever more fragile in their dependency
on global, techno-scientific infrastructures of information and
communication, transportation and logistics, medicine, food production and
distribution, etc. This panel assumes a highly speculative scenario: A
solar flare triggering a geomagnetic storm, wiping out global(ized)
electrical and communications networks on a large scale without a chance to
recover it. With this narrative intervention serving as starting point, we
seek to inspire questioning of globalized techno-social foundations, and
their political and social dimensions. Confronted with a troubling future,
this panel invites ideas for preparation, making do and mending. Extreme
scenarios serve to reveal humanity’s inescapable reliance on technology
in daily life, at the same time rendering us vulnerable. Narrative
strategies such as this are not new to STS, related academic disciplines,
or the realm of speculative fiction, and have produced a large array of
countercultural ideas, guides and movements, from Steward Brand’s
‘Whole Earth Catalog’ (1968) and Buckminster Fuller’s unconventional
constructions to contemporary collaborative technologies and practices
involving non-experts and users. Starting from this proposition, the panel
invites theoretical, empirical, artistic and speculative contributions that
address everyday issues of our global techno-society implementing practices
of self-sustainment such as do-it-yourself, tinkering, and care, and
consider how these can generate theory through
practice.------------------------------------------------------------
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2017
Please submit abstract of max. 250 words through the conference website
(https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s17/).If you want to submit
to this panel, please select panel #127 in the submission form.
More details about the conference here (http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/).
Yana Boeva
PhD Candidate
Science and Technology Studies
York University, Toronto
mobile DE +49 157 3032 4335
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