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SUMMARY:Neda Atanasoski & Nassim Parvin: Forging Feminist Futures from 'Creepy' Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Talk Abstract In this talk\, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin will discuss their recent book and edited volume\, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen\, published by Duke University Press in May 2025. New and emerging technologies\, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces\, relations\, homes\, and bodies\, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. The book introduces a feminist theory of creep\, substantiating it through critical engagement with smart homes\, smart dust\, smart desires\, and smart forests\, toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured\, assumed\, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Considering diverse technologies\, such as border surveillance and China’s credit system\, as well as sexcams and home assistants\, the volume’s essays and artworks demonstrate that the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/being seen\, privacy/surveillance\, or harmful/useful. Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park and Associate Director of Education for the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). Atanasoski’s interdisciplinary research has focused on feminism and AI\, feminist and critical race approaches to science and technology studies\, AI and the future of work\, militarism\, and human rights and humanitarianism. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013)\, co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019)\, and co-editor of Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution (2022) and Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (2025). Nassim Parvin is a Professor at the University of Washington (UW) Information School where she also serves as the Associate Dean for Inclusion\, Diversity\, Equity\, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Dr. Parvin’s interdisciplinary research integrates theoretically-driven humanistic scholarship and design-based inquiry. Her papers have appeared in design\, HCI\, and STS venues. Her designs have been deployed at nonprofit organizations and exhibited in venues such as the Smithsonian Museum. She is the co-author and co-editor of the book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (2025). She is an award-winning educator and served as one of the lead coeditors of Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience from 2018-2023. We strive to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.  A free copy of the authors’ new book\, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen\, will be offered to the first 25 in-person attendees on site. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://myumi.ch/QwGnk Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus here: https://myumi.ch/794by CART (live captioning) services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance\, and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible. Digital Studies Institue is hosting the event. The Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing is co-sponsoring the event with DISCO Network.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/neda-atanasoski-nassim-parvin-forging-feminist-futures-from-creepy-technologies/
LOCATION:1010 Weiser Hall
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