Author Archives: Matias Milia

Matías Milia (he/him/el) | Postdoc @NotreDame Anthropology & member of @SEEKCommons Network | @GRIP Assoc. Res @OpenEnviroData Fellow | PhD @FLACSOmx. Data infrastructures, environmental challenges & knowledge circulation through STS lens. Practices of OpenAccess in LatAm/Africa.
A graphic representing the mission and activities of SEEKCommons. There are two blurbs on the the right and left, three arches connecting them, and a rectangular bar beneath this. The two blurbs say Open Technologies and Socio-Environmental Action. The arches connecting them are labelled Science and Technology Studies, supports (pointing from Open Technologies to Socio-Environmental Action), and informs (pointing from Socio-Environmental Action to Open Technologies). The rectangle underneath says "Projects (SeekCommons Network) / research + development + activism with common technologies for the planetary commons.

Common(s) in Science and Technology? Dispatches from the SEEKCommons Network

This is the Introduction post to our new SEEKCommons series. The posts in this series are forthcoming, and will be linked here in this Introduction as they are published over the next several months. What does the “common(s)” mean for the present and future of science and technology? Are there novel dynamics at play in how knowledge infrastructures are being built, controlled, and contested today? It is with the goal of exploring these interconnected questions that we conceived of the Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) network—a collective platform where the “common” stands as a political horizon for collaborative social, technical, and environmental work. (read more...)