This intra-view follows a round-table discussion that took place during the New Materialist Informatics conference on 25 March 2021. The discussants – Indigenous researcher and game designer Outi Laiti, artists and researchers Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Femke Snelting and Caroline Ward – start with their own artistic, academic, and creative practices and discuss how these practices relate to otherwise-worldings in computing that engage materialist, anti-racist, decolonial, Indigenous, and trans*feminist thinking and doing. This discussion, facilitated by artist Ren Loren Britton and researcher Goda Klumbytė, brings up questions of collaboration and infrastructures needed to support otherwise practices in computing and design.

This article discusses the role that algorithmic thinking and management play in health care and the kind of exclusions this might create. We argue that evidence‐based medicine relies on research and data to create pathways for patient journeys. Coupled with data‐based algorithmic prediction tools in health care, they establish what could be called health care algorithmics—a mode of management of healthcare that produces forms of algorithmic governmentality. Relying on a critical posthumanist perspective, we show how healthcare algorithmics is contingent on the way authority over bodies is produced and how predictive health care algorithms can reproduce inequalities of the worlds from which they are made, centreing possible futures on existing normativities regulated through algorithmic biopower. In contrast to that, we explore posthuman speculative ethics as a way to challenge understanding of ‘ethics’ and ‘care’ in healthcare algorithmics. We suggest some possible avenues towards working speculative ethics into health care while still being critically attentive to algorithmic modes of management and prediction in health care.

In this article Britton and Paehr play with language around concrete, which makes-firm in language ("Please make this more concrete!") and hardens the grounds that feet, canes and wheels touch every day. Through three patched, sprouted and decomposed collages of concrete material experiments, attempt to unsettle concrete's supposed firmness. N. N. is that which has not been named. In these images N. N. is not concretized and remains open. We are finding ways of making other worlds possible that resist the foreclosing of access or possibilities. The work of these authors germinates with the crip technoscience manifesto from Aimi Hamraie and Kelly Fritsch where access is defined as both related to attack and contact (2019). Instead of the 'integration' of disabled body-minds into normative space, Hamraie and Fritsch uphold the ways in which disabled makers hack or make otherwise trans*feminist presents. Hacking and playing with concrete, we find moments of formlessness through patching, decomposing and sprouting. The authors discover access potentials within something that has been figured as hard, and yet is ontologically, metaphorically and physically not stable. By keeping concrete "open" by adding more water or other materials to interrupt the "curing", and by churning/stirring this mixture, sprouting, decomposing and patchworking operate as practices that resist hardening, firming, closing and foreclosing. N.N. (nomen nomiandum) holds things open and resists formation because, I may not know, but together we can access it.

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