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fabricating a future
GENEVA
6-7 MAY ʻ19
| BEIRUT
OCTOBER ʻ19
Convenors:
Jonathan Luke Austin
Anna Leander
www.politicsbeyond.tech
Grow up as good revolutionaries. Study
hard so that you can master technology,
which allows us to master nature.
Remember that it is the revolution
that is important, and each one of
us, alone, is worth nothing.
- Che Guevara
Throughout history, the emergence of novel
technologies has disoriented political
imaginations. With each ‘great leap forward’
in the organisation of society, those who
participate in, study, or simply ‘live with’
both local and global politics find them-
selves at sea. Empires have disintegrated,
nations regressed, wars begun, and individu-
al human beings been liberated or crushed
at the whim of the largely unpredictable,
exogenous, and fundamentally surprising
emergence of technology. And today we
seem to be living through a new era of such
technological flux. Despite their apparent
contemporary dominance, the spectres of
the nation state, banking systems, military
organisations, media conglomerates, and
beyond seem to be being unhinged by the
rise of a new set of radical technologies.
www.politicsbeyond.tech
Day One
Collective Discussion
10:30 – 11:30 What is Fabrication?
Academic-Practitioner Dialogue
14:00 – 15:30 Fabricating Resilience
Jean-Michel Molenaar (Terre des Hommes)
Panel
15:45 – 17:00 Fabrication and Risk
Panel
11:30 – 12:45 Fabrication and Practice
Panel
14:00 – 15:30 Fabrication and Technology
Closing discussion
16:00 – 17:00 Fabrication and IR