Materia: Narratives of the Sociotechnical

What is the role of narrative in sociotechnical imaginaries? There are obvious “grand narratives of scientific progress, such as pasteurization,” as Jasanoff puts it—or the ideologeme of progress outright, an always postponed if ever-present aspiration/imposition in/on the peripheries of global capital. But beyond those easily discernible narratives on a societal scale and their similarly discernible proleptic structure, there remains much to say about other, more subtle narrative formations—including novels and poems, but also audiovisual media and others.

A 2-day event on May 5 & 6, 2023 with a distinguished roster of interdisciplinary scholars. With a keynote by Jason Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life.

Hosted by materia, a DLCL focal group on anthropodecentric thought; Matter, Science, and Agency, a student-led interdisciplinary initiative; Modern Thought and Literature, the Center for Latin American Studies, German Studies, Anthropology, and Iberian and Latin American Cultures.