PHUN 2020: Envisioning Learning and Trust

In an age of technological growth, globalization, and neoliberalism, the ways we build trust are being dramatically transformed. Simultaneously, funding for education has become subject to market- and data-driven directives, neglecting the needs of vulnerable communities and ecologies. How do we learn to trust and trust in learning when our communities and connections are increasingly distant, ephemeral, and mediated? How do we avoid falling to game-theoretically governed social, economic, and informatic relations? What aspects of trust are under-considered in efforts for learning and change? Where are the flows of trust in above/below-ground networks (institutions, organizations, grassroots movements, communities of practice, etc.)? What’s left to learn, if anything, from posthumanism? Is trust even a useful conceptualization of relations anymore?

Full CFP is available here.

Conveners

Garrett Laroy Johnson (Arizona State University)

Jonathan Bratt (Arizona State University)

Organizing Committee

Angela Sakrison (Portland Community College, Arizona State University)

Cody Jones (University of Chicago)

Nat Mengist (University of Washington, Bothell)

Presenters

Chelsea Jeannette Davies (UW)

Alwyn Merry Mouton (UW)

Maxx Naoyuki Yamasaki (UW)

Rosemary Jones (UW)

Anisha Uppugonduri (UW)

Kim Adams and John Lindstrom (NYU)

Ioan Butiu (NYC)

Will Hallett (New Centre for Research and Practice)

Hannah Tardie (NYU)

Cody Jones (U. Chicago)

Muindi + Yfla Fanuel (UW)

Jo Ann Oravec (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)

Anani M. Vasquez (ASU)

Mira Petrillo (UW)

About PHuN

The Post-Human Network (PHuN or "Fun") is a collective of students and faculty based at Arizona State University. We engage with streams of ‘post-humanist’ thought and practice and seek to move beyond anthropocentrism in the academy and in society. Participants come from a number of disciplines across campus, including Arts Media and Engineering, Geography, and Literature. We aim to facilitate opportunities for collaborative study, creation, and experimentation. Our individual and collective production spans a variety of registers including, but not limited to, art, media, technoscience, urbanism, and design. Our work is influenced by areas of post-humanist thought such as vitalism, enactivism, process, new materialism, post-phenomenology, and systems theory.

The Post-Human Network meeting series has been supported by the ASU School of Arts Media and Engineering, the Lab for Critical Technics, the Synthesis Center, the ASU Department of English, the ASU School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, the Center for Science and the Imagination, and ASU Institute for Research in the Humanities.