Outputs (2)

"Intimate Legacies" Workshop (2023)
Digital Artefact
Shayya, F. (2023). "Intimate Legacies" Workshop. [https://www.lse.ac.uk/middleeastcentre/research/collaboration-programme/2020-21/deen-sharp]

Intimate Legacies is a workshop that invited students to utilize concepts drawn from Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to trace how actors maintained/modified their social entanglements in the context of the October 2019 protests.

Protest is often ideali... Read More about "Intimate Legacies" Workshop.

The fuzzier frontiers of technology (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2023, February). The fuzzier frontiers of technology. Presented at YEFL Webinar “Smart Sustainable Communities and Frontier Technologies” celebrating World Engineering Day 2023, Online

This contribution argues for grounding Frontier Technologies (FTs) as sociotechnical associations. It highlights the techno- and anthropo-centric faith in FTs and challenges the notion of FTs as technological prescriptions. It offers an alternative a... Read More about The fuzzier frontiers of technology.