The Social Life of Xg: Digital infrastructures and the reconfiguration of sovereignty and imagined communities

在疫情的影响和恢复推动的数字基础设施扩张的背景下，我们汇集了来自欧盟和英国的酷儿女权主义技术科学、移民和文化研究、社会和政治理论的观点，以调查基础设施想象如何(重新)配置民主主权、想象中的社区和欧盟的边界实践。我们建议通过以下方式来思考和调查主权：(A)通过技术创新建立和想象新基础设施和示范的基础设施和创业方式，以及(B)在建立新基础设施的努力与现有基础设施的努力相遇时出现的冲突。我们问，有没有可能在这里设想、实践和产生新的宪法？在围绕实施数字基础设施产生冲突和挑战后，我们将采用混合方法，包括参与性观察和实地笔记、非正式对话记录和现场访谈，以及网络制图、文件分析和专家访谈，以便与行为者开展实地工作，以资助、概念化(即法律/学术/智囊团)和实施数字转型(第一阶段)和当地环境，在这些环境中，基础设施的想象在日常谈判、重新配置和冲突中发挥作用(第二阶段)。通过研究这项研究的中心概念如何在与数字基础设施有关的想象中发展，该项目突出了这些基础设施和行为者在形成社区想象、重新配置主权、ethnos和演示方面的作用。该项目通过整合跨学科方法进行创新，在业务实践的参与者中推广关键知识，并通过与非政府组织和关注新数字基础设施的社会文化影响的艺术项目合作来进行创新。

In the context of an expansion of digital infrastructures driven by the impact and recovery of the pandemic, we bring together perspectives from queer feminist technoscience, migration and cultural studies, social and political theory, from the EU and the UK, in order to investigate how infrastructural imaginaries (re)configure democratic sovereignty, imagined communities, and practices of bordering of the European Union. We propose to think and investigate sovereignty through (a) infrastructural and entrepreneurial ways of constituting and imagining e'thnos and demos through technological innovations, and (b) conflicts that emerge where efforts to create new infrastructures meet existing ones. Is it possible, we ask, that new constitutionalities are being imagined, practiced, and produced here? Following conflicts and challenges arising around the implementation of digital infrastructures, we will draw on a mixed-method approach including participatory observations and field notes, minutes of informal conversations, and on-site interviews, as well as netnography, document analyses and expert interviews to conduct fieldwork with actors fund, conceptualize (i.e. legally/academic/think tanks) and implement digital transformation (phase 1) and local environments where infrastructural imaginaries play out in everyday negotiations, reconfigurations and conflicts (phase 2). By studying how the central concepts of the study develop in imaginaries tied to digital infrastructures, the project highlights the role of these infrastructures and actors in the formation of community imaginaries, reconfigurations of sovereignty, e'thnos and demos. The project innovates by integrating trans-disciplinary methods, advancing critical knowledge amongst actors of operational practices and by collaborating with NGOs and artistic projects concerned with the socio-cultural effects of new digital infrastructures.