Research group for the ethnographic inquiry into ecologies, infrastructures, bodies and knowledges
CfP: “Epistemic dizziness” (STS-Hub Aachen 2023)

CfP: “Epistemic dizziness” (STS-Hub Aachen 2023)

Members of the lab Britta Acksel, Jonna Josties and Maxime Le Calvé invite contributions to their panel at the STS-Hub which will take place in Aachen in March 2023.

“The vertigo triggered by the circulation of ideas and pictures in our research field can be intense. We are inviting proposals that toy with the discomfort triggered by proliferating metaphors and figures. We believe that this ambiguous kind of serious fun is a promising path for an engaged while playful anthropology of science and technology […]”

You can find the full call (and an amazing AI generated representation including many of anthropology’s beloved metaphors and figures) here.

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is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is currently working on an anthropological analysis of start-up ecosystems.

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is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe-University Frankfurt and a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen. Her research is about policy instruments to further ecological sustainability transformations in cities.