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The conference reimagined: postcards, letters, and camping together in undressed places
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posted on 2023-06-07, 08:23 authored by Soile Veijola, Emily Höckert, David Carlin, Ann LightAnn Light, Janne SäynäjäkangasIn this paper, five authors account for the rethinking of a conference as a series of postcards, letters, rules and silent moments so that traditional hierarchies of knowledge could be overturned or, at least, sidelined. We recount how the place we convened was enlisted as an actor and the dramas and devices we applied to encounter it. We use this accounting to problematize the conventional practices of goal-oriented meetings and co-authored papers as forms of academic meaning-making. In finding a meeting point where expertise was disorientated and status undressed, we were able to investigate the idea of co-being between human and nonhuman realities as the step social theory needs to take to become a point of connection with the social world, instead of an escape from it. Our conclusion is that this involved silence and necessary fictions as a means to consider the future and past in the moment of meeting.
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Digithum: A Relational Perspective on Culture and SocietyISSN
1575-2275Publisher
Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaExternal DOI
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24Volume
2019Page range
21-35Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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2019-06-25First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2019-06-24Usage metrics
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