[Air-L] CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw (EASST panel D04)

[Scott MacLeod]

Hi Maxigas and AoIR,

With regard to the mention of Tor in this thread, and [Air-L], this email
just got rejected from the Tor email list:

Tor project people,

This just emerged on Twitter from the MIT Tech Review:

The FBI found Eric Marques by breaking the famed anonymity service Tor, and
officials won’t reveal the vulnerability they used. That has activists and
lawyers concerned.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1226212530856611840?s=20

What do you think?

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On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:19 PM maxigas <maxigas at anargeek.net> wrote:

> CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw
> EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK
> Convenors: Johan Söderberg (Göteborg University) & Maxigas (Lancaster
> University)
>
> Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2018.
>
> Submit abstracts and contact the conveners at:
> https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6286
>
> We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our panel at EASST 2018
>
> The panel investigates innovation processes driven by antagonistic
> relations between actors
> on both sides of the law. We invite case studies of how mutual hostilities
> between actors are
> pursued through technological change, whereby each actor seeks to gain an
> edge against their
> adversary. Three empirical fields that exemplify this dynamic are the
> surge of legal highs,
> information security and crypto-currencies. More examples of the same
> thing can be found in
> other fields of empirical investigation and suit this panel. What we will
> examine under the
> label of "outlaw innovation" is how conflict breeds innovation. Related to
> this is an
> awareness of the tenuous relation between legislation and innovation. The
> "outlaw" is just
> another word for an innovator. Concurrently, however, capitalism strives
> relentlessly to
> subsume and integrate its own outside, turning this unknown into
> innovation and new markets.
> From this observation follows that the purported outsider position
> ascribed to various
> grassroots innovators, users, etc., must be scrutinized. States, capital
> and academic actors
> work in conjunction with these outlawed/independent researchers to produce
> a shared language
> of common concerns around risks and opportunities inherent in
> technological innovation, such
> as in the Tor project. The legal grey zone thus emerges as an incubator of
> innovation for
> legal businesses. We encourage paper submissions utilizing diverse
> theoretical approaches and
> a wide range of case studies to explore the concept of the "outlaw
> innovator".
>
> --
> Maxigas, kiberpunk
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> Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice
> Center for Science Studies
> Department of Sociology
> Lancaster University
>
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