[Air-L] Collaborative working group on Imagining the (un)desired.

[Fridzema, N.]

Collaborative working group on Imagining the (un)desired.

Via this list I would like to make you aware of a research initiative me
and my colleague have started called Matter of Imagination
<https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/>:

Technologies are never merely material but are actively made sense of
through phenomena such as discourse and imagination. As sci-fi books
and movies, interface metaphors or blueprint texts, different forms
of imagining shape how we make sense of past, present and future
innovations. Deconstructing such discourses and positioning them
in historical contexts gives important insight into the materiality,
meaning, and morality of technology.

But how do we study this? What theoretical and methodological options
are there to assess both the matter of imagination and its real
(and not wishful) implications? This blog is an initiative of
Nathalie Fridzema <https://www.rug.nl/staff/n.fridzema/?lang=en> (PhD
Student at University of Groningen) and Anya Shchetvina
<https://www.kleine-formen.de/team/anya-shchetvina/> (PhD Student
at Humboldt University).

We treat "Matter of imagination" as an open-format working group that
attempts an inventorisation. We focus on collecting, structuring
and commenting on existing frameworks and track ongoing developments
in this field. The main focus is on complex digital networked technologies
(internet, its offsprings, precedents and alternatives) with occasional
steps to related or overlapping fields.


We want to update our shared reading list
<https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/readinglist> and would greatly
appreciate feedback and suggestions.

Many thanks and warm regards,
Nathalie Fridzema