Deadline: March 21, 2020

Call for contributions

Decades of historical and sociological research have taught us some simple lessons: academic knowledge is a human artifact, it results from social and collective practices, and it is always produced in a specific place and at a particular time. Understanding and explaining the circulation of academic knowledge therefore has to pay careful attention to communication processes, in the broad sense of the term.

Although the study of the circulation of scholars, books, theories and concepts is not new, in the 1990s social scientists became interested in studying the circulation of data, practices, images, technologies, discourses and values, to the extent that the word ‘circulation’ has become a catchword for all kinds of transfers. How and why does knowledge circulate? How can we objectify the fact that knowledge circulates? How does the legitimacy of knowledge change when it circulates? Who has and who does not have access to it, and how does access shape circulation? These are major questions that guide our understanding of the cultural and political nature of science, social sciences and technology. It is this understanding that has been useful for cutting across regional and disciplinary boundaries. However, circulation is undertheorized in almost all disciplines, although empirical efforts have been made to describe and explain specific cases of circulation and, less frequently, some comparisons have been attempted. A systematic approach to the many theoretical, methodological and disciplinary ways of understanding circulation is still missing. This handbook aims to fill the gap. It will
explicitly focus on academic knowledge, its historicity and also on the ways in which it relates to other spaces, actors and types of knowledge.

Deadline: May 15, 2020

Convocatoria Dossier Volumen 8, número 16 (julio-diciembre 2020)

Estamos, ante el inicio de una nueva era, los años 20’s de un nuevo siglo, una transición hacia energías sustentables, una era caracterizada por las transformaciones tanto sociales, tecnológicas, medioambientales, etc. estos cambios a su vez, definen y dan forma a las estructuras dominantes de organización de la sociedad y su producción, así como la globalización de prácticas y discursos, produciendo nuevas maneras de pensar y solucionarlos problemas del mundo y por ende analizar nuestra sociedad. En este sentido, el desarrollo como discurso, estrategia y proceso ha sido clave en la transición hacia esta nueva era; sin embargo en los últimos años desde las teoría social hasta las instituciones internacionales, han impulsado y propagado una serie de discursos en mostrarnos el camino al desarrollo, un desarrollo desde “arriba” donde han intentado cooptar y neutralizar conceptos claves como participación, genero, sustentabilidad, empoderamiento, inclusión, democracia; en orden de impulsar y redirigir la idea hacia el mercado y alinearlo a la agenda institucional neoliberal.

Uno de los componentes más desarrollados en nuestros espacios web es el de CTS. tenemos la suerte de haber compartido artículos de académicos del nivel de José Antonio Acevedo y otrso muchos investigadores. Ello nos ha motivado a dedicar el segundo número de la revista al tema Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad.

Los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología, o estudios sobre ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS), constituyen un campo de trabajo en los ámbitos de la investigación académica, la educación y la política pública.

Deadline: March 1, 2020

Special Issue of Culture Machine
Machine Intelligences in Context: Beyond the Technological Sublime
Edited by Peter Jakobsson, Anne Kaun & Fredrik Stiernstedt

We are seeking contributions for a special issue of Culture Machine – an international open-access journal of culture and theory – exploring Machine Intelligences in Context.

Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory. Its aim is to seek out and promote scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to critical theory, Culture Machine calls for creative scholarship and research that contests globalizing technical narratives and their environmental logics of extraction.