Join us this Thursday, January 19th, from 16:15-17:45 hrs, German time, for the first RUSTLab lecture in 2023. Basil Wiesse will present his work on “Boundary Manipulations. Investigating Cybersecurity and the Formulation of a Heuristic”.
The field of cybersecurity is positioned at critical points of digital infrastructures. This makes the investigation of cybersecurity sociologically paramount — not only in order to facilitate a deeper understanding of contemporary societal challenges, but, and for the purposes of this talk, more importantly, to challenge its own traditional presumptions of sociality in our digitized present. With the heuristic concept of ‘boundary manipulations’, developed from the field’s own reflexive practical emphases, I will present for discussion one such challenge to sociological theory: Through its practical affirmation of entropy and disintegration, cybersecurity not only points us beyond pragmatist ‘creativity of action’ or the praxeological ‘game’, but formulates a strong critique of our predominant understanding and pursuit of social order as informed by cybernetics.
Basil Wiesse is a postdoctoral researcher at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His emphasis lies in praxeology, particularly ethnomethodology. His main research areas are theories of affect and the development of qualitative research methods and methodologies in digitally permeated social settings. For his habilitation project he is currently investigating working practices in the field of cybersecurity.
Location: on campus (Universitätsstr. 104, 2nd floor, 44799 Bochum) and Zoom
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/RUSTlab
PW: RUSTlab
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