JIAS Virtual Symposium “Technoscientific Futures”

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28May
Organiser: Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study & Law, Organization, Science and Technology Research Network

 

The advance of technoscience has introduced radical changes and fears as never experienced before. It transforms living, controls human and/as data migration, and at once accelerates social advancement and disseminates ecological destruction. In this virtual symposium we discuss Science and Technology Studies and Artificial Intelligence beyond coloniality, turning to the planetarity of technoscience that tie in with neoliberal modernity, the Anthropocene, Capitalocene and the futurity of the (corona)virus pandemic.

Chair

Fazil Moradi, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study & Law, Organization, Science and Technology Research Network

Speakers

Tshilidzi Marwala, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg

Richard Rottenburg, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research & Law, Organization, Science and Technology Research Network

Tanja Ahlin, University of Amsterdam

Date: 28 May 2020

Time: 16:00- 18:00 (SAST)

Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3cTtPN7

Meeting ID: 839 9769 5597
Password: 4Yx23X

 

 

CONTACT & NETWORK SPOKESPERSONS

info@lost-research-group.org

Johannesburg: Richard Rottenburg Halle: Sung-Joon Park

Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WISER)
University of the Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3
PO Box Wits
2050 South Africa

ABOUT THE LOST RESEARCH NETWORK

The acronym LOST stands for Law, Organization, Science and Technology. Anthropology of Law (L), Organization Studies (O), and Science and Technology Studies (ST) are three vigorous transdisciplinary fields. A growing academic current mingles these fields and thereby engenders provocative insights. Working at the intersection of these fields and fusing their approaches, we additionally emphasize the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of fact-making in the contemporary. The ambition of our detailed ethnographies is to respond to long-standing questions raised in social theory and philosophy and vice-versa, to render those questions into ethnographic inquiries with a special focus on critique. We address issues of global and planetary scope, although several of our empirical projects are situated in Africa. Since its inception in 2002 by Richard Rottenburg, LOST has expanded – from a small group localized in Halle to a decentralized network of independent scholars.

https://lost-research-group.org/