[ecrea] CFP: A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow

>Call for contributions:
>A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow
>A One Day Workshop at the Swedenborg Society, London
>Thursday 21st October from 10 until 6
>
>A growing body of research, including literature 
>on cognitive anthropology, software studies and 
>cognitive capital suggests that whatever is 
>called 'thinking' occurs amidst mechanisms, 
>habits, codelike systems, devices and other 
>formally structured means. If intelligence, far 
>from being a property of 'the human', is an 
>informal and provisional function of the 
>ensemble of mechanisms and relations that 
>comprise a social field, then we need to explore 
>the co-relation of cultural and experiential 
>practices, thought and intelligent devices.
>
>In this day-long workshop, we would like to 
>evaluate the ways in which contemporary hardware 
>and software augment and distribute 
>intelligence, as well as the ensemble of social 
>relations which form around thinking practices 
>as they synchronise, mesh, de-couple, breakdown 
>and collapse with variable effects. To this end 
>we are seeking contributions that propose 
>analyses or working experiments with thinking 
>work as imbricated in cultural, material, 
>corporeal, technical, economic and psychic 
>practices. These might include design, creative, 
>analytic, management, personal, administrative, 
>scientific or technical thinking.
>
>We are particularly keen to solicit 
>contributions from researchers, practitioners 
>and writers who want to develop a 
>transdisciplinary⬨engagement with novel 
>philosophical, aesthetic and political 
>problematisations of ecologies of extended 
>cognition/ubiquitous⬨ computing/social intelligence.
>
>Please send proposals (no more than 400 words) 
>to Andrew Goffey, Matthew Fuller or Adrian 
>Mackenzie at (a.goffey /at/ mdx.ac.uk) , 
>(m.fuller /at/ gold.ac.uk) or (a.mackenzie /at/ lancaster.ac.uk) by July 31st at the latest
>

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