Noortje Marres: Postnormal: On the impossibility of co-existence with technology in the street скачать в хорошем качестве

Noortje Marres: Postnormal: On the impossibility of co-existence with technology in the street

Opening lecture of Cohabitability: Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth conference (8.,9.,10. October 2025 in Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences). The conference examined how ecology and technology shape the conditions of living together among humans, nonhumans, and the environment. The talk explores the everyday entanglement of people with technological infrastructures. The idea of the “postnormal” has recently been put forward by sociologists to capture the growing sense of ontological insecurity in contemporary societies. Here, everyday ways of doing, working and living are increasingly challenged, while underpinning mechanisms of solidarity, such as universal access to utilities like clean water, are under threat, and the capacity of state and industry to solve collective problems is called into question. The case of one street in Coventry makes clear that even as human, natural and technical entities must share the living environment of the street, their respective conditions of existence—what allows them to thrive in this setting—stand in tension, or even, are mutually exclusive. Noortje Marres is Professor in Science, Technology and Society in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK. She studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and the Ecole des Mines (Paris). Noortje has published two monographs Material Participation (2012) and Digital Sociology (2017) and has led various research projects investigating public engagement in technological societies, in areas such as sustainable living and automated mobility. More about Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P): cetep.eu. #lecture #cohabitability #sustainability #automated mobility