Dear all
++ With apologies for cross posting ++
Please consider submitting an abstract for the session entitled ‘The ‘elsewhere’ of socio-technical life at night’ at the upcoming EASST/4S conference in Prague August 18-21 2020 (see CfP below) and share with anyone potentially interested.
Deadline for abstract submission: 20 February 2020, please send to [log in to unmask]
The ‘elsewheres’ of socio-technical life at night
If our desires to lead certain forms of life on earth that ultimately threaten our ability to do so in socially, politically, and environmentally just ways (Berlant, 2011; Povinelli, 2016), we must, as commentators suggest, rethink, reimagine and rework modes of ‘planetary inhabitation’ (Gabrys, 2018). As an analytical category for exploring intersecting processes of technological innovation, biological change and geological shifts, the night – and in particular the urban night – is claimed to offer alternative, multi-modal ways of conceptualising and imagining life on earth (Crary, 2013; Edensor, 2017; Ekirch, 2005; Melbin, 1987; Shaw, 2018). The techno-fixation that drives a global urban shift towards ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’ lighting infrastructures, simultaneously puts the conditions for life under threat ‘elsewhere.’ This session demands critical attention towards the ‘elsewheres’ of sociotechnical life at night, to address and undo present ways of living in un/desired ways. By turning towards the socio-technological infrastructures of light the session addresses the question: how can configurations of planetary life and ways of being human be rethought, reimagined and reworked through ‘light’? In addressing this question, the session invites papers that engage with historical and contemporary processes of ‘light’ extraction, production, design, consumption, inhabitation, and distribution to address their impacts on social (Ebbensgaard, 2019; Meier, Hasenöhrl, Krause, & Pottharst, 2015), biological (Rich & Longcore, 2006) and geologic (Gandy, 2017) ‘life’-forms. With an interest in developing a more hopeful, contestatory or radical future for ‘planetary inhabitation,’ the session welcomes contributions that develop alternative ways of imagining, representing, practicing and performing sociotechnical life at night.
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Keywords: night, lighting, environmental justice, inhabitation, planetary life
Categories: Engineering and Infrastructure/STS and Social Justice/Social Movement/Information, Computing and Media Technology
Best wishes
Casper Laing Ebbensgaard
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