Part of the “In the Clouds?” lecture series at the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt University Berlin.

Rather than floating in the clouds, digital technologies are imagined, produced, and materialized in concrete settings. What are the practices and localities, actors, infrastructures, and histories that lie behind notions such as digital progress and disruption?

The lecture series assembles multiple perspectives that situate “the digital” in genealogies of statistics and cybernetics, in the material infrastructures that enable large-scale computation, in public administration, migration management, or in activist struggles.