Worlds Archives | Alex Taylor / by Alex Taylor Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:54:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 “Earthwide projects” at Shifting Borderlands, Aarhus 2015 /earthwide/ /earthwide/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:54:46 +0000 /?p=747 I was delighted to participate in last month’s “Shifting Borderlands” workshop at the decennial Aarhus Conference: Critical Alternatives . What an inspiring and memorable event! My sincerest thanks to the organisers, Silvia, Marisa, Lucian, Hrönn and Carl. The position papers—from a wonderful mix of people—are all online here. My own text was a short but rambling piece on some still underdeveloped [...]

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]]> I was delighted to participate in last month’s “Shifting Borderlands” workshop at the decennial Aarhus Conference: Critical Alternatives . What an inspiring and memorable event! My sincerest thanks to the organisers, Silvia, Marisa, Lucian, Hrönn and Carl.
The position papers—from a wonderful mix of people—are all online here. My own text was a short but rambling piece on some still underdeveloped ideas. I’ve been trying to think a little more critically about my role as a academician and a Microsoft researcher. Predictably, in combination, the roles raise all sorts of questions and frictions for me. Increasingly, I’ve directed my efforts at thinking about the worlds I’ve helped to enact and asking whether they are kinds of worlds that I would want to live in.
It’s hard to put it better than Donna Haraway:

My piece, “Impact and Counting”, is available here.

Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist studies, 14(3): 579.

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