Program

Location (unless indicated otherwise): ASU Tower Center B (Digital Arts Ranch / Center for Philosophical Technologies)


Presentation Abstracts


Thursday, February 14

5:00-6:30 (@ ASU Stauffer Hall B204)

Niklas Wild-Damiris (Stanford University): "Overcoming the Cybernetic Worldview while Re-envisioning Post-humanism and Sustainability: Insights from Quantum Physics and Finance for Alternate Economies-ecologies"

7:00-9:00 (@ Cornish Pasty (on University Drive))

Drinks + Dinner


Friday, February 15

8:15-9:00

Breakfast

8:50-9:00

Welcome

9:00-10:15

Sha Xin Wei (Arizona State University): "Golem 2.0: Automation vs Augmentation"

10:30-11:45

Michael Beach (University of Washington): "Emergent Techno-Botanical Networks: Paracosmic Dreams and Speculative Methods"

Nat Mengist (University of Washington): "From Regulation to Responsibility: Alchemical Fertilizers, Industrial Pesticides, and the Search for an Epistemic Antidote"

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:45

Garrett Laroy Johnson (Arizona State University): "'Why Do You Have to Be So Self-Centered?': Tactics for Disrupting Genealogies of Cybernetic Extension in Sociotechnical Systems"

Jonathan Bratt (Arizona State University): "Humanistic Geography's Cybernetic Blindspot"

3:00-4:15

Thierry Bardini (Université de Montréal): "Post (living, machines) and the Journey to the End of the Species"

4:30-5:45

Sarah Choukah (Université de Montréal): "Of Slime, Sweat, and Carbon Valley"

6:00-8:00 (@ Casey Moore's (haunted room!))

Drinks

8:00-10:00 (@ The Yard)

Dinner


Saturday, February 16

8:15-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-10:15

Angela Sakrison (Arizona State University): "The Cybernetic Nomad"

Muindi Fanuel Muindi (University of Washington): "(Re)Creating the Self; Or, the Technologies of Self-Parody"

10:30-11:45

Adam Nocek (Arizona State University) and Stacey Moran Nocek (Arizona State University): Workshop TBD

12:00-1:30

Lunch

12:45-1:30 (@ Matthews Center 224)

Informal iStage Visit

1:30-2:45

Phillip Thurtle (University of Washington): "Goth Biology"

3:00–4:15

Josh Grant-Young (University of Guelph): “"And the Seeds Will be Planted Again...": Love, Strange Ecological Partnerships, and Atomic Posthumanisms in Harvest

Desiree Foerster (Universität Potsdam, University of Chicago): "On Aesthetic Experience and the Formation of Habit in Atmospheric Milieus"

4:30-5:30

Wrap-up Session

6:00-8:00 (@ Handlebar)

Drinks

8:00-10:00 (@ Caffe Boa)

Dinner