interdisciplinary voices in critical computing
Technical research and development are embedded in social contexts, afforded by stakeholders, their goals and interests, values and assumptions, and the social and professional structures they are part of. The choice of research topics and many development decisions start from rather general, standard assumptions about […]
INTRODUCTION Taking as its starting point a family archive of 16mm colour material recorded in 1950’s Congo, We called her cyborg aunt is an ongoing artistic research project into the rhetorics and epistemic frameworks surrounding the “use” of technology, underlining the continuity of hierarchies and […]
Our lived realities are inextricably tied to technologies and digital infrastructures. This means that when we educate designers and computer scientists of the future, we have to do more than simply give them the technical skills needed for their future jobs. It is also our […]
A rehearsal in staying with painful technologies and a response-in-progress Key terms of tech trouble Cutting-edge surveillance, unverifiable tech, high-risk laboratory, ad-hoc-tech that leads to risky securityAbstractHow to do a close reading and unlearning at the same time? When engaging with trouble that moves with […]
The website submarinecablemap.com displays all known submarine cables as colorful lines on a world map. An abundance of distinct lines run in parallel between Europe, North America and Asia, while other lines form into knots in places where cables are distributed and split into various […]
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“The sense of place and embeddedness within local, mythical, and ritual landscapes is important. These senses of place serve as pegs on which people hang memories, construct meanings from events, and establish ritual and religious arenas of action.” Stewart and Straethern in Landscape, Memory and […]
In western contexts, a fixed binary notion of gender is deeply ingrained — something I experience personally on a nigh-daily basis. With recent changes in, e.g., Austrian, Dutch and German legislature, nonbinary genders are, at least in some areas within Europe, finally accepted as part […]
Dreamful computing is inquiring ways to store, transmit and process data for working on seemingly unsolvable societal problems, such as the distribution of wealth, the occurrence of injustice, income and wealth inequality, or even climate change in terms of a manageable transition process from neoliberalism/capitalism […]
Introduction Based on Flusser’s Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the fictional notions and relationships of space, sexuality, skin, modification are introduced. By setting up a unique character pair (ship) of vampire squid and “I”, the ideas of modding and shipping are clarified within fan studies and game studies […]