*Beyond Technoscientific Utopias/Dystopias: False Dichotomies on Images of
the Future, Socio-technical Imaginaries, and More-than-human Worlds*
*The submission period closes on 14 April 2022.*Details for submission
below.
Images of the future inundate our current realities, centering
technoscience as a crucial element in these images. This social
preoccupation with the future occurs because there are increasing fears and
uncertainty about “our loss of control” over what the future may hold:
global pandemic, climate emergency, forced migration, surveillance
capitalism, political polarization, among others. The technologies that are
supposed to improve and manage the unknown, tend to present us with
‘glaring uncertainties,’ making us uneasy, as the more knowledge we have,
the more potential risk we see (Brown et al., 2000).
For that reason, current images of the future tend to bring post-human and
post-nature perspectives, leaning towards extreme pessimism or fanciful
optimism. The dichotomic assumptions and values of hegemonic images of the
future constrain and erase the diversity of alternative futures (De la
Cadena & Blaise, 2019). In this session, we invite projects that
interrogate images of the future beyond the spotlight of utopias and/or
dystopias. Those tend to reproduce short-term technological solutionism,
strong modes of technological determinism, and other kinds of
socio-technical shortcomings that disrupt our understanding of current
cosmological crises.
This panel seeks multilingual contributions to the ongoing conversation
around the role of images of the future in STS, in particular projects and
practices looking at local, topical, or systemic images. We hope to have
contributions to understanding how to situate, nuance, and (de)center
“images of the futures”, to produce alternative realities, and restore
more-than-human balances from the unequal, unbalanced, and unfair relations
across scales.
Contact: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Convenors: Dayna Leann Jeffrey, Department of Science & Technology Studies,
York University; Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State
University
Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol,
Portuguese/Portugués
Keywords: Socio-technical utopias/dystopias, Images of the future,
Imaginaries, Sociology of expectations, More-than-human worlds--
More details:
https://www.4sonline.org/13-beyond-technoscientific-utopias-dystopias-false-dichotomies-on-images-of-the-future-socio-technical-imaginaries-and-more-than-human-worlds/
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Martín Pérez Comisso / @mapc <https://twitter.com/mapc>
http://www.mapc.tech/ <http://www.mapc.tech/>
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Ph.D. Student, Human and Social Dimension of Science and Technolgy
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School for the Future of Innovation in Society
土 龍 Oscillating from 1988
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