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The Sara Fine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce that Lucy Suchman will be speaking on November 6 at 3 pm. Please join us if you will be in the Pittsburgh area. More about Lucy and her talk below.</div>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">This talk sets out the motivating questions and initial analytic framing of my research in progress on the </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">problem
of ‘situational awareness’ within </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">contemporary forms of (particularly U.S.) warfare. My focus is on the interfaces that configure war fighters to </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">achieve
‘recognition’ of relevant subjects and objects, </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">including the discriminations of us and them that are prerequisites for defensible killing. </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">I’m
interested more </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">specifically in the logics and material practices of remotely-controlled weapon systems (particularly armed drones and weaponized robots), and military training simulations.
These configurations reveal the </span><span style="color: rgb(23, 55, 94); font-family: 'Lucida Bright';">complex relations of mediation and embodiment, distance and proximity, vulnerability and impunity that comprise contemporary warfare, as the virtual
is infused with real figurations with their own material effects, and the real environments of war fighting are increasingly virtual. The primary empirical basis for this research is the archive </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">of
Flatworld, an immersive training environment developed between 2001 and 2008 as the flagship project of the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. I read the project through a frame inspired by Judith Butler's theoretical </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">analysis
of figuration’s generative agencies, to try to </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">articulate further the training </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">simulation’s discursive and
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, and Co-</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">Director
of Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">Before taking up her present </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">post
she was a Principal Scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, where she spent twenty years as a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">researcher. Her research includes ethnographic studies of everyday
practices of technology design and use, and critical engagement with projects in the design of humanlike machines, informed by feminist science and technology studies. She is the author of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright,Italic'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">Human-Machine
Reconfigurations </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">(2007) and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright,Italic'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem
of Human-Machine Communication </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">(1984), both published by Cambridge University Press. In 2002 she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Sciences,
in 2010 the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Lifetime Research Award, and in 2014 the J.D. Bernal Prize for Distinguished Contribution to the Field from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Her current research
extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to contemporary warfighting, including the figurations that inform immersive simulations, and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">problems
of ‘situational awareness’ in remotely</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">-controlled weapon systems. </span></p>
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