Technoscience Salon on Critical Itineraries
Toronto, Ont.
Sept. 6, 2013/Nov. 9, 2013
The Ontario node is pleased to support this event.
This year’s Technoscience Salon invites participants to craft and share critical itineraries that respond to the political urgencies of lives and worlds altered by colonialism and expanding global capitalism.
Through critical itineraries, the Salon will bring postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, critical race studies, and feminist and queer studies to bear on the ways we follow and tell stories about technoscience. We aspire to provoke interventions into our analytic, narrative, and political habits, to spark scholarship that is accountable to multiple histories and contemporary urgencies, and to rethink the relationships among diversely situated human and nonhuman actors. While recognizing how technoscience is deeply implicated in violence, how might we also attend to the non-hegemonic possibilities, alters, and elsewheres that are within technoscience?
For more details, please visit the Technoscience Salon website: http://technosalon.wordpress.com/
NOTICES:
We are inviting graduate students and other interested participants to a meeting to discuss how this year's Technoscience Salon might better involve you in Salon events. Interested in being a discussant? A chair? A presenter? Do you have an idea for shaking up the Salon format? Or perhaps an idea for a parallel Salon activity using social media or some other forum? We are excited to hear your ideas and find ways to incorporate them into the Salon's activities.
We will be meeting on Sept. 6th at the GSU pub at the University of Toronto at 2pm.
Please RSVP to Sebastian Gil-Riano so that we can keep track of numbers.
Technoscience Salon <techscisalon@gmail.com>
Sebastian Gil-Riano <sebastian.gil.riano@utoronto.ca>
If you cannot make this meeting, but still have an idea to share, or want to volunteer to more intimately involved in this year's Salon, please do send us an email.
This year's Technoscience Salon is co-organized by Michelle Murphy, Shiho Satsuka and Sebastian Gil-Riano around the format and theme of Critical Itineraries. Through critical itineraries, the Salon will bring postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, critical race studies, and feminist and queer studies to bear on the ways we follow and tell stories about technoscience. We aspire to provoke interventions into our analytic, narrative, and political habits, to spark scholarship that is accountable to multiple histories and contemporary urgencies, and to rethink the relationships among diversely situated human and nonhuman actors. While recognizing how technoscience is deeply implicated in violence, colonialism and capitalism, how might we also attend to the non-hegemonic possibilities, alters, and elsewheres that are within technoscience?
Some the presenters who will be crafting and sharing critical itineraries at this year's Salon are Celia Lowe, Alondra Nelson, Kavita Philip, Stacey Langwick, and Fa-Ti Fan. The Salon is also planning a field trip to Windsor in collaboration with Jennifer Willet and the Incubator Art Lab in March.