As a researcher of Philosophy at the AI for Retail (AIR) Lab Delft, Madelaine Ley discusses the role of intersectional feminism on her work.
Through his reflections on India’s Smart Cities Mission, Venkata Subrahmanian NV highlights the pitfalls of smart city narratives that uncritically rely on technological solutions.
In this post, Taylor Dotson reflects on the potential role of scientists in public controversies of high uncertainty and value disagreement.
Andreja Phillips, Mythily Meher, Dinithi Bowatte
Oct 31, 2022 | Report-Backs
This set of letters from the Wellington node of Australasian STS convey the impressions, sensitivities, and provocations carried from the most recent set of events held separately but synchronously across four cities.
This article investigates how Kenyan farmers' storage of potatoes follows a market logic of speculation and profit-maximization. Contrary to capitalist theories of modernization, this does not lead to better and safer food available for consumers but allows mould and rot to thrive.
Based on his work on the digitization of governance in Africa, Georges Macaire Eyenga reflects on the notion of agility as an emergent governance paradigm.
Adrian Wong, Gabriel Malo, Jingyi Gu
Oct 03, 2022 | Report-Backs
Just Infrastructures created a space where cross disciplinary scholars and practitioners cohered to question often invisibilized imbalances of power and their intersections in digital systems.
Nova Ahmed, Mahbuba Tasmin and Sayyed Mohammad Nasim Ibrahim
Sep 26, 2022 | Reflections
In this post, the authors share their personal reflections of what went into the writing of a journal article (published in Technology in Society) based on the experiences of urban women in Afghanistan and their technology usage.
Amil Varghese and Thamarai Selvan Kannan
Sep 12, 2022 | Report-Backs
This post reports on a seminar organized at IIT Madras as part of the Gwilim Project, an international project centred around the life of two English sisters who lived in Madras (now Chennai) in the early nineteenth century and documented the flora, fauna, climate, and ecology of the region around that time.
This week we are reblogging an essay by Max Lubell, where the author engages in chronicles of hurricanes and tropical storms in the American South to discuss the urgency of centering evacuation in climate change discourse.
