THEME
Technologies are always more than the sum of their mechanical parts. Indeed, technologies are entangled in symbolic forms of a social and cultural nature. Technologies also contribute to the construction of new worldviews and new forms of life. Technological imaginaries are far more than phantasies detached from technological innovation. They are at the heart of innovation itself, of the invention as well as of the implementation and use of technology in our societies.
Technological imaginaries are embodied in the technologies themselves, as well as in norms and social and cultural practices. Technological imaginaries are often crystallized in scientific and non-scientific texts, documents, sounds, and images. They are always distributed on an axis that goes from ideology to utopia. At times, they serve to defend and strengthen the social and cultural status quo. At other times, they announce state of affairs that are not yet present – or never will be. In short, the notion of technological imaginaries places technologies within a wider world, made of nature and matter, but also language, images, ideas, institutions, symbols, intuitions, and dreams.
February 15th, 2021
Submission deadline
Abstracts for individual presentations and panels due
April 1st, 2021
Notification of acceptance
April 1st, 2021
April 15th 2021
Deadline specials papers
Papers due for best Early Career paper and best Graduate Student paper
June 1st, 2021
Registration deadline / Specials papers winners
Winners of the Early Career and Graduate Student papers notified
June 1st, 2021
June 28-30, 2021
The SPT conference