Digital Futures in the Making

Samantha Lutz is a cultural anthropologist affiliated with the Institute for Anthropological Studies in Culture and History, University of Hamburg, Germany.Anna Oechslen is a cultural anthropologist. She works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner, Germany.Quoc-Tan Tran is a cultural anthropologist. He works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Studies of Science at Bielefeld University, Germany.Gertraud Koch is a professor of anthropological studies in culture and history at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

• 0. Introduction: Digital futures in the making: TemporalitiesPart One: Imaginaries Futures in the making: Sociotechnical imaginaries in technological development1. Digital future-making in the military: Imaginaries, nostalgia, and disillusionment2. Politics of the unpolitical: Authoritarian futures in the making?3. Imagining and infrastructuring desirable futures with humans in the loop. Human Computation and Hybrid Intelligence as counter-imaginaries to artificial general intelligence4. Sociotechnical imaginaries of the museum: Conversational agents and visitor engagement5. Transmitting tradition in a ‘once-in-a-generation’ festival. Digital memory and the future of the Fête des VigneronsPart Two: Materialities Materialising futures: intra-actions with/of digital infrastructures6. The material side of digital evolution: On rhythms and relations of innovation making in the woodworking crafts7. Tablets, tutors, table charts. On digital technologies and future-making in the classroom8. Making futures material: Screenshotting mental therapy chatbots’ transactional exchanges as matters of carePart Three: Politics and Ethics Negotiating digital futures: Politics of technology and regimes of living9. A Matter of Pace: Contesting digital futures through boredom and disconnection10. The role of (research) ethics in applied artificial intelligence applications researchEpilogue11. The digital future is ‘electric blue’ – On brainrot and how (not) to get stuck in the aesthetics of the interface