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The Specters of (Sociotechnical) Imaginaries. Oppressed Futures of the Past

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dc.creatorDoll, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-15T18:07:54Z
dc.date.available2024-01-15T18:07:54Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn my article I want to argue for a shift in focus in Media Studies when thinking about sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept prominently developed by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim. Whereas this concept is often used to think in rather sociological large scales—a society, a culture as a whole—I would like to provide a more humanities-specific small-scale approach with a strong emphasis on heterogeneities and ambivalences and with a focus on sociotechnical imaginaries from the past. First, I will elaborate on the (political) blind spots of thinking in rather large-scales (even if this is sometimes only implicitly articulated in the key sources). Second, I will develop a sketch of a methodology for analyzing sociotechnical imaginaries on a smaller scale by reference to the concept of »memory cultures«, and particularly to »storage memory» and »functional memories« founded by Aleida Assmann and further developed in terms of pluralities by Astrid Erll. And, third, I will outline the political implications of this media archaeology of sociotechnical imaginaries in the present. Can we understand these imaginaries with Derrida as specters that haunt us, as specters of past political futures connected to media technologies that remind us of what is no longer and what is not yet?en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21643
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/22871
dc.languageeng
dc.publisheruniversi – Universitätsverlag Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1619-1641
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNavigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectSociotechnicalen
dc.subjectImaginariesen
dc.subjectMedia Studiesen
dc.subjectHumanitiesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleThe Specters of (Sociotechnical) Imaginaries. Oppressed Futures of the Pasten
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2024-01-16T02:31:09
local.source.epage40
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage30
local.source.volume23

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