ASSHH Conference 7-10 July 2013 This interdisciplinary roundtable discussion will generate a dialogue on the possibilities afforded by speculative research, in contrast to more familiar and accepted modes that seek to establish causal relations, predictive accounts etc. The session will be introduced with a brief account of what is meant by ‘topological thinking’ and ‘inventive […]
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Data Unhinged: relation, administration and novel aesthesias
Anna Munster A talk about data structures in network experience based on Anna Munster’s An Aesthesia of Networks: Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology (MIT Press, 2013) In An Aesthesia of Networks, I rethink the function and place of assemblages such as databases in network cultures, histories and aesthetics. Rather than the conceiving of database […]
A bid for novelty: Conceptions of creativity
Michael Halewood: Halewood, M – There is no Meaning (PDF download) Surprising as it may seem, Alfred North Whitehead coined the term “creativity” in the 1920s as a very specific, technical philosophical term. Since then, the term seems to have taken on a life of its own. Nowadays, creativity is something that we are expected […]
Becoming a nose
Katie Puckrik Smells in dialogue with: Alex Rhys-Taylor (Deputy Director CUCR): ‘Exploring sociality through the nostrils of urbanites’. Patricio Rojas (Doctoral candidate): Sensing and Smelling Healthy and Diseased Bodies (PDF Download) Agata Pacho (Doctoral candidate) Agata Pacho_ Smelling the sensual and the kinky as sexualities emerge (PDF Download) In an article titled ‘How to Talk […]
Critical Pluralism: False Memories and Real Epistemic Problems
Thursday 10th November 2016, 4.30-6-30pm, RHB144 Steve Brown, Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology, School of Management, University of Leicester. “Critical Pluralism: False Memories and Real Epistemic Problems” The term ‘false memory’ has a complex history. Initially coined as political term by social actors aiming to deconstruct the idea of ‘recovered memories’, it eventually became […]
“The Adventure of Relevance” Book Launch
Tuesday 24th January 2017, 6.30-8.30pm, at The Cube: Studio 5, 155 Commercial St, London E1 6BJ Discussants: Vinciane Despret, Monica Greco, Marsha Rosengarten At a time where the relevance of the social sciences is under threat, this innovative book offers a speculative experimentation on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences to rethink what […]