Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Division: CISE-IIS-CHS (PI Lindtner).

The notion that we live in a moment of precarity and instability is central not only to scholarly work but also to broader discourse, mobilized by political leaders and media. Across diverse political and economic regions, entrepreneurship, innovation thinking, and hands-on tinkering are touted as solutions to this economic and social instability, all the while masking behind a rhetoric of techno-utopianism a further expansion of neoliberal ideals.