{"id":657,"date":"2012-02-19T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charisma.local\/charisma2023\/char1smaSSL\/char1smaSSL\/?post_type=consumption&p=657"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:45:49","slug":"call-for-papers-the-lived-logics-of-database-machinery","status":"publish","type":"consumption","link":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/consumption\/call-for-papers-the-lived-logics-of-database-machinery","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers: The Lived Logics of Database Machinery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting looking conference from new journal Computational Culture<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The Lived Logics of Database Machinery<\/strong>
\nA one-day workshop organised by Computational Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

Date: Thursday 28th June
\nLocation: Central London<\/p>\n

With many of the most significant changes in the organisation and distribution of knowledge, practices of ordering, forms of communication and modes of governance taking shape around it, the database has remained surprisingly recalcitrant to anything other than technical forms of analysis. Its ostensibly neutral status as a technology has allowed it to play a significant \u2013 yet largely overlooked \u2013 role in\u00a0 modelling of populations and configuring practices, from organisational labour through knowledge production to art.<\/p>\n

The importance of the database for gathering and analysing information has been a theme of many studies (especially those relating to surveillance) but the specific agency of the database as an active mediator in its own right, as an actor in constructing, organising and modifying social relations is less well understood.<\/p>\n

A one-day workshop, organised by Computational Culture <\/em>seeks to rectify this state of affairs. We are looking for proposals for papers, interventions, poster presentations and critical accounts of practical projects that address the theme of the social, cultural and political logics of database technologies.<\/p>\n

Proposals should aim to address the intersection of the technical qualities of databases and their management systems with social or cultural relations and the critical questions these raise. We are particularly interested in work that addresses the ways in which entity-relations models, or structures of data-atomisation, become active logics in the construction of the world.\u00a0\u00a0Historical contributions that tease out the connections between the database \u2018condition\u2019 and antecedent technical and theoretical objects (from indexes and archives to set theory), or which develop critical accounts of transparency are also particularly welcome.<\/p>\n

The focus of the workshop on the lived social dynamics and political logics of database technologies is envisaged as a means of opening up paths of enquiry and addressing questions that typically get lost between the \u2018social\u2019 and the \u2018technological\u2019:<\/p>\n