Technologies, Their Creepiness & Desirable Futures - Feminist Insights

Workshop

Hosted by the Feminist AI Network¹, this Workshop will be part of the Conference Technological Futures Now² at CST.

Neda Atanasoski³ will present the new book she edited together
with Nassim Parvin: "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not
Seen". From the book description:
New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate
intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred
to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep
and the Politics of Things Not Seen Neda Atanasoski and
Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they
substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes,
smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of
feminist futures. Considering diverse technologies such as
border surveillance and China’s credit system to sexcams and
home assistants, the volume’s essays and artworks - including
contributing authors - demonstrate that the potentials and
pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic
technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/
being seen, privacy/surveillance, or harmful/useful. Together,
their multifaceted and multimodal approach transcends such
binaries, accounting for technological relations that exceed sight
to include touch, presence, trust, and diverse modes of
collectivity. As such, this volume develops creep as a feminist
analytic and creative mode on par with technology’s complex
entanglement with intimate, local, and global politics.