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We're kicking off our #conference "Urban Speculations" tonight @CDCLeuphana! If you're trying to grapple with #BigTech's influence on politics, futures, and #city worlds atm you're right with us! The best strategy right now seems to build alliances and get together. Hope to see you there or online!
In the mood for speculation?
A gentle reminder for our #cfp on "#Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures" with my dear colleagues @ranjodh et al. at #Leuphana #Lüneburg next year!
Submissions are due July 1, 2024!
What are you currently speculating on?
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@[email protected] About the call: Cities brim over with #speculation. Urban futures are conceived, dreamt of and calculated through a wide variety of speculative practices. Where finance has long speculated on cities, and the #city has served as a playground for sociological thought and more recently #datascience, the city has also become a test bed in the register of #smartcities and #platformurbanism. At the same time, the actors involved in urban speculation have expanded, from urban planners to data scientists and smart city consultants to #BigTech. Through tests and experiments, #technology is deployed to speculate on cultural, social and economic life in the city, and thus puts a claim on cities’ technoscientific futures. How has Big Tech normalized and monopolized speculations on #urbanfutures? What do these futures (potentially) look like? How do urbanites interfere in these mostly black-boxed prophecies and business models? And how are anti-speculations / speculative otherwises performed?
Happy to gather with a few of the CCSWG24 participants for a demo where @jeremydouglass and I shared some techniques for exploring code with LLMs. #critcode
About the call:
Cities brim over with #speculation. Urban futures are conceived, dreamt of and calculated through a wide variety of speculative practices. Where finance has long speculated on cities, and the #city has served as a playground for sociological thought and more recently #datascience, the city has also become a test bed in the register of #smartcities and #platformurbanism. At the same time, the actors involved in urban speculation have expanded, from urban planners to data scientists and smart city consultants to #BigTech. Through tests and experiments, #technology is deployed to speculate on cultural, social and economic life in the city, and thus puts a claim on cities’ technoscientific futures. How has Big Tech normalized and monopolized speculations on #urbanfutures? What do these futures (potentially) look like? How do urbanites interfere in these mostly black-boxed prophecies and business models? And how are anti-speculations / speculative otherwises performed?
#cfp 📢 My dear colleagues Ilia Antenucci, Armin Beverungen, @ranjodh, Randi Heinrichs and I would love to invite you to think with us through "#Urban #Speculations: #Cities, #Technologies, #Futures" on Feb 4-6 2025 in #Lüneburg!
If your work circles around forms of speculations in the urban world, tech universe or other conceptual galaxies, please join us!!🌌
End of submission is July 1, 2024. We warmly invite you to contribute and are looking forward to your take on all things speculative and spatial!
For more details, see https://logistical.city/conference/
#cfp 📢 Happy to share that my dear colleague @NiloufarVadiati and I are co-editing a special issue of Digital #Geography and Society about "Refusal and the Computational City - From (de)coding the machine to (en)coding #care"!
We believe we are in desperate need of collective and hopeful imaginaries that resist the corporate-dominated and colonialist narratives of (digitized) worlds to come. With this #specialissue, we would like to start a conversation that goes beyond the gates of the academy, recognizing that we cannot understand the #city from analyses alone. Thus, we are looking forward to articles jointly building a new vocabulary around movements of refusal in cities, from (de)coding the machine to (en)coding care.
Please feel warmly invited to contribute and share!!💜 Works of collectives, initatives, and activists from outside academia are very welcome!
If you wonder what we've been up to--Introducing VISAR, a GPT-powered AI assistant🤖 to enhance argumentative writing with rapid prototyping & visual programming🚀 If you want to try it out, let us know! We are planning a public deployment in a few weeks.
The design and development of VISAR were led by my Ph.D. student @roryzzhang and aided by Jie Gao. This project is a testament to a **very interdisciplinary** collaboration with @ranjodh from Notre Dame English Dept.
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