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Контуры будущего: технологии и инновации в культурном контексте
This collection of papers contains the materials of the conference “Contours of the Future: Technology and Innovation in Cultural Context” that took place at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, November 1–3, 2017, and was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). More than 150 specialists and young scientists from many Russian cities and also from Armenia, Belarus, UK, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Egypt, Canada, the Netherlands, Portugal, USA, Finland, France, Switzerland, Estonia, South Africa took part in the event. Participants of the conference were interested in how, by whom and under what conditions the future is constructed and managed as a temporal abstraction and political instrument. The presented papers focused on the future as a field of struggle and contested interests of various actors; on philosophical and ethical aspects of production of knowledge about the future of science and technology; on “grammars of the future” and the role of narratives and metaphors; on power relations and their influence on the scenarios of the future; on aesthetic dimension of future technologies; on history and archives of the future.