INDEP online Panel – Methods and Methodologies in DEP Research – Speculative Technology and Materialist Semiotics

with Spyros Samothrakis and Nicolas Villarreal

This event will take place in English.

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Description:
The research and discourse on democratic economic planning are largely focused on the theoretical development of concepts of planned economies and empirical research analysing tendencies within the current economic order that hint towards democratic economic planning. For this panel discussion we focus on the research methods and methodologies in these research areas to provide an (insufficient) overview. Specifically, we focus on speculative technology/design and materialist semiotics. Therewith, we aim to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that goes beyond topics and perspectives to also engage with different methods and methodologies, and to encourage further research in this field.

People:
Spyros Samothrakis is a computer scientist, chief scientific advisor and senior lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) at the University of Essex.

Nicolas Villarreal is a writer on topics of economics and political theory. A contributor to Cosmonaut Magazine, his blog “Pre-History of an Encounter” and author of “A Soul of a New Type: Writings on Artificial Intelligence and Materialist Semiotics” as well as “The Inexorable Fall”.