With this second season of Digital Echoes, we expand the focus of our exploration for new normativities, lingering with ways of thinking, methodologies that may not immediately offer much in terms of perfecting knowledge in our own discipline but open novel trajectories to exploring and (re-)examining the presuppositions and underlying assumptions that inform much of what international legal thinking is about and to see it in light of different configurations of our epistemes. Rather than pursuing an endeavour of achieving something akin to an “exactitude in science” (or discussing law as science which is itself an age-old scene of trench warfare), the futility of which has famously and (beautifully) been explored by Jorge Luis Borges, we invite you for a stroll along and across the assumed borders and boundaries of thinking in terms of international law and technology. Together with you we want to explore different ways of drawing maps, unravelling their fabric and composition similar to the way done and encouraged by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler in their Calculating Empires project in which they offer a “Genealogy of Technology and Power” and traces different parallel and entangled technological and societal developments since 1500 up until the present moment. Thus, instead of stabilising our (collective) epistem the following episodes are about enriching our understanding of what we do when we think of in terms of international law and technology and how we might think otherwise when listening to new normativities.
We have been extremely lucky to have been able to talk to a number of brilliant minds that have been generously sharing their wisdom with us.
You will be able listen to conversations with:
- Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Queen Mary University of London
- Klaudia Klonowska, Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague and PhD Candidate in International Law at the University of Amsterdam as well as member of the interdisciplinary research project ‘Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence’ (DILEMA).
- Gail Lythgoe, Lecturer in Global Law at the University of Edinburgh.
- Laura Lotti, researcher, analyst and writer with 10-year experience investigating digital assets and networked organisations, currently exploring regenerative technocultures. She is also a recovering academic with a background in economics, media studies and philosophy.
- Erik Bordeleau, philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and media theorist based between Berlin and Lisbon, where he is currently researcher in Cinema and Philosophy at the NOVA University.
- Iyad Rahwan, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans & Machines.
- Ophelia Deroy, Professor of Philosophy and Neuroscience at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
The episodes of this season will be published here and on Spotify every second Monday, starting today!
Enjoy Listening to Digital Echoes!
A special thanks goes to Daniela Rau and Noah Boerhave for their excellent support in audio recording and editing.
Digital Echoes thank Eski Göten for allowing us to use parts of her song “Let the Love”.
