A talk of possible interest. Stay sane, keep washing those hands, and practice social solidarity as well as physical distancing, Jonathan Coopersmith ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bruce Hunt <bjhunt@austin.utexas.edu> Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 5:10 PM Subject: [hps] HPS Online Talk — 12:00 noon — Friday, Feb. 5 — Iván Chaar López — “Networked Asymmetries in Stories of Technoscience” To: <hps@utlists.utexas.edu> Dear all — Please join us online at noon on Friday, February 5, to hear Professor Iván Chaar López of UT Department of American Studies speak on “Networked Asymmetries in Stories of Technoscience.” To take part in this Zoom event, you will need to register in advance using this link: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUocO6przMpGN3B9g3V9MXP02bN9J_cyk0b After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The history of cybernetics has often displaced non-White actors and women from its accounts. Recentering them generates new understandings of the entanglements between computing, electronics, and racial formations. In paying attention to the racialized and gendered labor of these actors, this talk analyzes networked asymmetries, or the uneven associations and differential arrangements through which actors are enrolled in the making of technoscience— both as story and artifact. _____________________ Iván Chaar López is an assistant professor in Digital Studies in UT’s Department of American Studies. His research and teaching examine the politics of digital technologies. He is especially interested in the place of Latina/o/ xs as targets, users, and developers of digital lifeworlds. ––––––––––––––––––– Bruce Hunt and Megan Raby UT History Department