Digital Technology and Society Conference
The series ‘Undoing and Reimagining Technologies’, which will take place from 10 to 12 June in the M’Hamed Drissi lecture theatre at INSA Rennes (Beaulieu campus), offers a two-part exploration of the many ways of thinking about contemporary technologies. It invites participants to move from a conceptual and philosophical analysis of digital technology to an exploration of the social and material practices of technological reinvention.
Location:
INSA Rennes - Amphithéâtre M'Hamed Drissi - 20 Av. des Buttes de Coësmes, 35700 Rennes
The first stage of this series, on Wednesday 10 June, will take the form of a study day organised by b< >com and the University of Rennes. It will examine the conceptual frameworks and theoretical legacies that currently underpin the analysis of digital technology, with a view to exploring the potential for establishing a new discipline: the political philosophy of digital technology.
The second stage of the series will extend and shift this line of thinking. On 11 and 12 June, the conference ‘(Re)taking control of innovation’, organised by the LFPC (INSA Rennes), will broaden the focus by turning to the social, political and material practices through which various actors critique, halt, divert, repair or re-establish the trajectories of innovation. By bringing together fieldwork, experimentation and critical interventions, this conference will explore the social and institutional conditions for alternative ways of acting and thinking about technology.
