Critical Tech Studies collective (CTSco)

Critical Tech Studies Collective is an interdisciplinary community of academics focusing on questioning the politics of technology in education.

The research group aims at discussing the participation of material actors in the social and institutional production of power and normality. The conversations promoted attempt to challenge the habitual narrations of both humanism and technology-driven change, decenter conventional research methods, and shift the focus from instrumental perspectives to collective and ethical stances. Through a critical engagement with the ways technologies connect to histories of exploitation and domination, it explores how a critical understanding of human and non-human entanglements can become environmental forces for political transformation and social justice.

The discussions of the group are organized around three main strands:

• Foregrounding theoretical and analytical perspectives on the politics of technology to grasp their implications for society and education.
• Studying the participation of material actors in the infrastructures of education, and the role of critical pedagogy as a space for political transformation through collective forms of technological redesign and resistance.
• Exploring imaginaries and practical alternatives to dominant regimes of techno-capitalism, growth and exploitation.

The collective meets approximately once a month at KU South Campus. If you are interested to join, send an email to Lucas Cone or Magda Pischetola.