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Urban Infrastructure – (in)visibilities, rhythms and space

City | Infrastructure | Space | Urban STS

This week’s, I mean month’s … the new post is a contribution to the  blog of the STS Department at the University of Vienna. The blog post is a result of Monika Kurath‘s seminar  Reimagining Cities. Assemblages and the Social Construction of Urban Territories held in fall 2015 at the Department of Science and Technology Studies and raises the question of the entanglement of everyday practices and urban infrastructure. You can read the whole blog post here.

Other Posts

Sensing In/Security: it is out!
Klimburg-Witjes, N., Pöchhacker, N., Bowker GC. (eds). (2021) Sensing In/Security. Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures. Mattering Press: Manchester, UK It has been some time since the last entry here. The last two years were rather busy – and this kinda unplanned end-of-the-world scenario did for sure not help. However, we have not […]
Talk: Big Data Policing in Canada
I am very excited to announce an invited talk by Thomas Linder (Surveillance Studies Centre, Queens University) on Big Data Policing in Canada as part of our Workshop on Risk Assessment and Computational Knowledge Production in Legal Systems. Really looking forward to this!
Messenger Security, Trust, & Infrastructures
Now it happened – I had to install WhatsApp. I opposed the idea of using this app for a long time now, but it is the only communication channel to a new community I just “entered”. And so I complained and then complied. However, installing yet another messenger triggers many different questions in regard to […]
CfP Edited Volume: Sensing Security
Based on the experiences of the workshop Sensor Publics, organized by Laurrie Waller and Nina Witjes, there now will be an edited volume tackling questions of sensors, infrastructures and security, of which I have the honour to be a co-editor. We are hoping to get many of your great ideas/insights for this upcoming book. See […]
New Course on Security and Technology
This semester starts very interesting. After some meetings and long and interesting discussions a small group at the MCTS gathered exploring issues of Science & Technology in the context of security issues. As part of this endeavour, we assembled a course on diverse issues of security and technology in contemporary societies where we are able […]
CfP 4S Boston
The new year starts very busy 🙂 Here is the call for the open panel at the 4S in Boston that I am organizing together with Nina Witjes. Dear all, we are pleased to invited contributions to our panel on “Visualizing Security: Remote Sensing, Visualization Technologies and the Making of Risk and (In)securities”  at the Annual Meeting […]