Forum+Prompt+Brainstorming

__Introductory Remarks/Background Information?__ - What is common ground between media studies and science and technology studies? - Why put them together? What are the stakes? - What is background of thinking these two fields together?
 * Both fields do a similar kind of knowledge-work; ask questions in the same way
 * Emphasis on a kind of empiricism, on objects

__Common Themes__ 1. Beginnings and Endings of Life 2. Networked Life 3. Life and Issues of Scale 4. Life as Production and Practice

__Potential Invited Guests__ Jussi Parikka Robert Mitchell Collin Milburn Richard Doyle Adam Zaretsky Donna Harraway* Eugene Thacker* Lisa Gitelman

(I know these are luminaries, but if you don't ask, then the answer is always no!)