Computing and Thinking Beyond Capital

15 dicembre 2015
15 dicembre 2015

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Room A222 (building Povo1), Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico “Fabio Ferrari”, via Sommarive 5 - Povo (Trento)

Speaker
David Hakken, Indiana University

Abstract 
When, where, and how we compute is greatly affected by the social formations within which we do our work. At the same time computing has come to exercise substantial influence on the cultural imaginary - the ideas we share about the future of social formations and the material conditions of living. In this presentation, David Hakken and his co-authors Maurizio Teli and Barbara Andrews will talk about the place of computing in their recently-published (2015) Routledge book titled Beyond Capital: Values, Commons, Computing, and the Search for a Viable Future. In the book they identify aspects of contemporary computing that could provide the core of an alternative set of values that could move society beyond the commodification of everyday life. They also identify the special place this implies for computing professionals in discussions of where we want our social formations to be in the future.

About the Speakers 
David Hakken is an information ethnographer and he directs the track on Computing, Culture, & Society in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University in the USA. Maurizio Teli is a research fellow in the Interaction Lab here in DISI. Barbara Andrews is a feminist education scholar also affiliated with Indiana University.

Contact Person regarding this talk: Vincenzo D'Andrea vincenzo.dandrea [at] unitn.it