CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw (EASST panel D04)
CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK Convenors: Johan Söderberg (Göteborg University) & Maxigas (Lancaster University) Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2018. Submit abstracts and contact the conveners at: https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6286 We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our panel at EASST 2018 The panel investigates innovation processes driven by antagonistic relations between actors on both sides of the law. We invite case studies of how mutual hostilities between actors are pursued through technological change, whereby each actor seeks to gain an edge against their adversary. Three empirical fields that exemplify this dynamic are the surge of legal highs, information security and crypto-currencies. More examples of the same thing can be found in other fields of empirical investigation and suit this panel. What we will examine under the label of "outlaw innovation" is how conflict breeds innovation. Related to this is an awareness of the tenuous relation between legislation and innovation. The "outlaw" is just another word for an innovator. Concurrently, however, capitalism strives relentlessly to subsume and integrate its own outside, turning this unknown into innovation and new markets.
From this observation follows that the purported outsider position ascribed to various grassroots innovators, users, etc., must be scrutinized. States, capital and academic actors work in conjunction with these outlawed/independent researchers to produce a shared language of common concerns around risks and opportunities inherent in technological innovation, such as in the Tor project. The legal grey zone thus emerges as an incubator of innovation for legal businesses. We encourage paper submissions utilizing diverse theoretical approaches and a wide range of case studies to explore the concept of the "outlaw innovator".
-- Maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice Center for Science Studies Department of Sociology Lancaster University https://relay70.metatron.ai/ Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. ~ Yeats: Burnt Norton
Hi Maxigas and AoIR, With regard to the mention of Tor in this thread, and [Air-L], this email just got rejected from the Tor email list: Tor project people, This just emerged on Twitter from the MIT Tech Review: The FBI found Eric Marques by breaking the famed anonymity service Tor, and officials won’t reveal the vulnerability they used. That has activists and lawyers concerned. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-bu... https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1226212530856611840?s=20 What do you think? Re-Tweeted this here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch . The 'Security' wiki subject at World Univ & Sch is planned as wiki-schools in all ~200 countries' official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Security - with MIT OCW courses for credit for free-to-students' online degrees (licensing and accrediting) eventually ( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects). World Univ & Sch is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages with MIT OCW in 4 languages. Scott https://twitter.com/scottmacleod Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch . On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:19 PM maxigas <maxigas@anargeek.net> wrote:
CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK Convenors: Johan Söderberg (Göteborg University) & Maxigas (Lancaster University)
Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2018.
Submit abstracts and contact the conveners at: https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6286
We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our panel at EASST 2018
The panel investigates innovation processes driven by antagonistic relations between actors on both sides of the law. We invite case studies of how mutual hostilities between actors are pursued through technological change, whereby each actor seeks to gain an edge against their adversary. Three empirical fields that exemplify this dynamic are the surge of legal highs, information security and crypto-currencies. More examples of the same thing can be found in other fields of empirical investigation and suit this panel. What we will examine under the label of "outlaw innovation" is how conflict breeds innovation. Related to this is an awareness of the tenuous relation between legislation and innovation. The "outlaw" is just another word for an innovator. Concurrently, however, capitalism strives relentlessly to subsume and integrate its own outside, turning this unknown into innovation and new markets. From this observation follows that the purported outsider position ascribed to various grassroots innovators, users, etc., must be scrutinized. States, capital and academic actors work in conjunction with these outlawed/independent researchers to produce a shared language of common concerns around risks and opportunities inherent in technological innovation, such as in the Tor project. The legal grey zone thus emerges as an incubator of innovation for legal businesses. We encourage paper submissions utilizing diverse theoretical approaches and a wide range of case studies to explore the concept of the "outlaw innovator".
-- Maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice Center for Science Studies Department of Sociology Lancaster University
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