[Air-L] Call for chapters — The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures

[Martin Berg]

Dear colleagues,

What does automation do with us, our environment, and our imaginaries? What do we do, conversely, with automation, its environments, and its imaginative worlds? In addition to grand narratives and technology-driven design visions about the future, what else can automation offer? The growing prevalence of automated and algorithmic systems geared towards transforming humankind’s future has raised critical questions for scholars in the social sciences and humanities. 

The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures addresses these questions while complicating the techno-solutionist narratives that frame automation discourse in industry and policy circles. The handbook will be a comprehensive guide to imaginaries and interactions with automation technologies that cuts across different fields and disciplines, along with critical explorations of their potential impact. Importantly, it is grounded in a pedagogy that integrates perspectives at both philosophical and practical levels – from the understanding of automated futures to the development of skills and value judgments.

My colleague Vaike Fors and I are editing this handbook, and we are inviting you to submit an abstract! 

Deadline for abstracts is June 10, 2022. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! The full call can be accessed on: http://automatedfutures.se

Please consider submitting an abstract and sharing this call in your networks!

(Apologies for cross-posting!)

All the best wishes,

Martin Berg

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Professor Martin Berg
Department of Computer Science and Media Technology
Malmö University

https://mau.se/en/persons/martin.berg/