Karl Palmås

Associate Professor, Technology Management and Economics

karl.palmas@chalmers.se +46317728345 Find me http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7156-8136

Karl Palmås is a researcher at the Division of Science, Technology and Society. Originally trained as an engineer, he holds a doctorate in sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and has worked as associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology since 2012.
Karl studies and teaches on the relation between the things we build and the things we think - how machines and technological designs interrelate with social imaginaries.

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Technology and Society (TEK 226), Qualitative Research Methods (FTEK020)

Latest publications

2020
Re-presenting ruins, visualizing the toxic sublime: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in lens-based art

Author: Karl Palmås; Kalle Sanner; Anna Åberg

Published: 2020

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Publication type: Conference contribution
The state of suspension

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2020

Published in: Eurozine

Publication type: Magazine article
Det suspenderade tillståndet

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2020

Published in: Glänta

Publication type: Magazine article
Sculpting Responsibility? Historicising Nanoscience and Technology Development in Attendant Research and Innovation Ethics

Author: Nicholas Surber; Karl Palmås; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
Life in Laboratory Urbanism: Repression, Suspension and the Politics of Innovation

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
Peace piece: Dissonance and the stabilising of local innovations in urban design

Author: Stefan Molnar; Karl Palmås

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
2019
Too Late for History to End

Author: Karl Palmås; Kalle Sanner

Published: 2019

Published in:

Publication type: Other
From hacking to simulation: Periodizing digitally-inspired social theory

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2019

Published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Publication type: Journal article
2018
Volvo moments

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2018

Published in: lo Squaderno

Publication type: Magazine article
Jordfäst

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2018

Published in: Lukas/Markus

Publication type: Book chapter
Earthbound

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2018

Published in: Lukas/Markus

Publication type: Book chapter
2016
Social Means Do Not Justify Corruptible Ends: A Realist Perspective of Social Innovation and Design

Author: Otto Von Busch; Karl Palmås

Published: 2016

Published in: She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation

Publication type: Journal article
Digitalisering, innovation och hållbar urbanisering

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2016

Published in: Digitalisering för ett hållbart klimat

Publication type: Book chapter
Göteborg - mellan segregation och kreativitet

Author: Jan Jörnmark; Joakim Forsemalm; Karl Palmås

Published: 2016

Published in:

Publication type: Book
Laboratory urbanism in Schladming

Author: Magnus Eriksson; Karl Palmås

Published: 2016

Published in: Deleuze and the City

Publication type: Book chapter
Designing Consent: Can Design Thinking Manufacture Democratic Capitalism?

Author: Otto Von Busch; Karl Palmås

Published: 2016

Published in: Organizational Aesthetics

Publication type: Journal article
2015
From criminality to creativity: How studies of surfer subcultures reinvented invention

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2015

Published in: The Social Science of Sport: A Critical Analysis

Publication type: Book chapter
Inauthentically Intense: Coveillance and Consumer Culture among Speedsurfers

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2015

Published in: Surveillance & Society

Publication type: Journal article
Quasi-Quisling: co-design and the assembly of collaborateurs

Author: Karl Palmås; Otto Von Busch

Published: 2015

Published in: CoDesign

Publication type: Journal article
2014
Sports matter: The Routledge Handbook of Sports Technology and Engineering

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2014

Published in: Idrottsforum

Publication type: Magazine article
The Hambantota Connection: Constructing landscapes, contesting modernity

Author: Kerstin Hamilton; Jonas Lindberg; Karl Palmås

Published: 2014

Published in:

Publication type: Book
Cultures of consumption within GPS speedsurfing

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2014

Published in: The 6th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

Publication type: Paper in proceedings
Self-employment and generational inequality

Author: Olav Fumarola Unsgaard; Karl Palmås

Published: 2014

Published in: Inclusive Growth in Europe

Publication type: Book chapter
The liability of politicalness: legitimacy and legality in piracy-proximate entrepreneurship

Author: Karl Palmås; Jonas Andersson Schwarz; Stefan Larsson

Published: 2014

Published in: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Publication type: Journal article
Evenemang som laboratorium: Sporten, staden och sökandet efter innovationskraft

Author: Karl Palmås

Published: 2014

Published in: Management of Innovation and Technology

Publication type: Magazine article

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