Future Visions: Unpacking the Technological Imaginaries of Science Fiction

Abstract

This panel brings together STS perspectives on future visions, speculations, and scientific representations. Ranging from studies of industry and labour to science fiction and science representation, the participants engage with an array of modes for unpacking imaginaries of science and technology.

Chair

• Konstantin Georgiev, Rice University

Individual Presentations

• SF as Method: Experiments in Post-Earthly Ethnography - Micha Rahder

• Placing the Space/Time Continuum: Cuban Sci Fi, Science and Socialism - Naomi Schoenfeld, UCSF

• The Descriptive Prescriptivity of Geography, Imbued with Science Fiction - Konstantin Georgiev, Rice University

Session Organizer

• Baki Cakici, IT University of Copenhagen