[SIGCIS-Members] [CfA EASST/4S Prague] [CfA EASST/4S Prague - Open Panel] Performative Futures: Fighting Reification Inertias through Open Anticipations

[Sergio Urueña López]

  Dear list members, 

Apologies for cross-posting.

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper proposal to our Open  
Panel “Performative Futures: Fighting Reification Inertias through  
Open Anticipations” to be held in the EASST/4S conference[1] (Prague,  
August 18th-21st 2020).  More information is included below.  Please  
feel free to circulate this call to anyone who might be interested and  
do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or doubts.  
Thanks!
 
Best regards,
Sergio Urueña, Hannot Rodríguez & Andoni Ibarra

 
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  OPEN PANEL - “PERFORMATIVE FUTURES: FIGHTING REIFICATION INERTIAS  
THROUGH OPEN ANTICIPATIONS” (EASST/4S)

  ABSTRACT
Science and technology practices are crucially shaped by  
representations of “the future”. Expectations, socio-technical  
imaginaries and techno-visions are constitutive elements in the de  
facto epistemic-political governance of research and innovation. Some  
scholars (e.g., van Lente, 2006; Jasanoff and Kim, 2015; Konrad and  
Palavicino, 2017; Lösch, 2017) as well as certain research policy  
frameworks (e.g., technology assessment, anticipatory governance, RRI)  
have emphasized this performative character of futures by approaching  
it as an object of responsibility. This intellectual endeavor has been  
especially fruitful in relation to the visualization and critique of  
existing reification inertias. That is to say, the frames,  
regulations, commitments, feelings and so on, orienting and  
constraining (i.e., reifying, or closing-down) the processes, outcomes  
and ends of research and innovation practices.
 
This panel aims to explore the theoretical and practical possibilities  
of developing interventive anticipatory resources capable of  
instrumentalizing “the future” in more open, inclusive and reflexive  
ways.
 
Some POTENTIAL QUESTIONS include:


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    To what extent are anticipatory narratives and practices within  
research and innovation policy systems open, inclusive and reflexive?

   *
    What constraining/enabling roles do socio-technical expectations,  
imaginaries and techno-visions of “the future” play in research and  
innovation practices?

   *
    What potentials and limits do anticipatory methods (e.g.,  
scenario-building, science-fiction prototyping, technology  
roadmapping, etc.) display with regard to reflexivity and de-reifying  
dynamics?

   *
    How is/should the epistemic-political quality of open anticipatory  
practices be enacted and/or assessed?

   *
    What role and relevance does anticipatory governance display in  
relation to more recent policy frameworks such as RRI and “Open  
Science”?

   
SUBMISSION
The panel is open to all disciplines, approaches and methods. We  
welcome researchers, practitioners and students.
 
If you are interested in participating in our Open Panel, please  
submit your proposal for an oral presentation (max. 250 words  
abstract, including the paper’s main arguments, methods and  
contribution) by logging into the Programme website  
(https://admin.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss20/) with your 4S  
credentials, selecting “Papers for Open Panels” and clicking in the  
Open Panel No. 132.
 
_Deadline_: FEBRUARY 29TH, 2020.
 


Vínculos:
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[1] https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/
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