[Air-L] CFP: 4S Open Panel: TECH/MONEY

[M.R.Sauter]

hello! apologies for cross posting BUT i am delighted to announce the call
for papers for our open panel on the theme of Tech/Money, as part of the
2025 4S conference. the organizers are particularly interested in the work
of comm and media studies scholars as related to this theme.

Conference date + location: 3-7 September 2025, Seattle WA

CFP due date: 31 January 2025

to submit, please go to the 4S submission page and select Open Panel #170
"Tech/Money"
https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php

4S 2025/Seattle
Open Panel #170: Tech/Money
https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php

ABSTRACT: This open panel is themed on “Tech/Money,” highlighting a
materialist, political economy approach to science and technology studies.
We seek work that emphasizes an understanding of the role played by money,
financing, and business structures in the study of technology and science.
Moving beyond an economic analysis, this work should highlight the role of
capital and finance’s movements, norms, and infrastructures in animating
science and technology, inflecting and directing the performance of these
spaces and their own ideologies, imaginaries, and infrastructures. We are
interested in exploring the constitutive nature of money, finance, funding,
and business models in the development of technologies and
technosocial/technopolitical landscapes.  Some sub-themes are of particular
interest include: temporalities of money, finance, and speculation;
imaginaries of risk, particularly financialized risk; the role of the
“frontier” (geographic, political, intellectual) in the technocapitalist
imaginary and its influence on the practices of firms; the connected lives
of “money,” “innovation,” and “science”; and the social meanings of money
and markets in science. We hope to engage with a variety of methods in this
project, with the particular hope that contributors will strongly engage
with the local. Dealing unapologetically with ways in which the global
logics of technocapital are often chewed up, altered, and digested by the
specificities of the local context provides an opportunity to examine the
tensions of resistance, collaboration, collusion, adaptation, and
imitations, and enmeshment that often accompany these projects. We are keen
on work that engages with the business to business sector, which
concretizes and makes visible formerly abstract, hidden, or obscured
processes and relationships. We are also interested in work that uses
corporate grey materials such as annual reports, financial filings, public
consultation publications, and other materials from the cultural circuit of
capital, such as expos, conferences, industry publications, and other
“in-group” communications.

please contact the panel chair with any questions
M. R. Sauter, University of Maryland, mrsauter at umd.edu

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m.r. sauter
he/they
assistant professor
university of maryland
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