Click here to listen to (3 hours 24 minutes) or download (94.4MB) the recording of the symposium “The Harman Review: Bruno Latour’s Empirical Metaphysics” at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 5 February 2008. Speakers are Bruno Latour and Graham Harman. The panelists are Lucas Introna and Noortje Marres. The event is introduced by Leslie Willcocks and chaired by Edgar Whitley. There are also audience questions and comments. This event was organised by members of the ANTHEM Group and hosted by the Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) of the Department of Management, LSE.
About the speakers, the panellists, the chair, and the host:
- Bruno Latour is Professor and Vice-President for Research at Sciences Po Paris
- Graham Harman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo
- Lucas Introna is Professor of Organisation, Technology and Ethics & Head of the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School
- Noortje Marres is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Edgar Whitley is Reader in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Leslie Willcocks is Professor of Technology, Work and Globalization & Head of the Information Systems and Innovation Group in the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science
The event was organised by PhD students in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, LSE. The organising committee was comprised of Peter Erdélyi (lead organiser), Aleksi Aaltonen, Wifak Houij Gueddana, Ofer Engel, and Maha Shaikh, Research Officer at ISIG.
If you are interested in reading a copy of Graham Harman’s manuscript, “Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics,” which served as the basis for discussion at this symposium, please contact Graham Harman directly at graham@rinzai.com.
Tags: Edgar Whitley, empirical metaphysics, ISIG, Leslie Willcocks, LSE, Lucas Introna, Noortje Marres, The Harman Review
10 February 2008 at 3:22 pm |
Mark Fisher posted an interesting Lacanian reflection on the exchange between Peter Hallward and Graham Harman at this symposium on his k-punk blog.
11 February 2008 at 12:57 am |
[...] information (including photos, an audio recording, links and comments) about the event on the ANTHEM blog. And a high quality WMA recording of the whole symposium can be accessed directly [...]
13 February 2008 at 1:53 pm |
[...] gathering at the LSE in early February — ANTHEM made the recording available here (check also here). What provoked the gathering was, apparently, the fact that some doctoral [...]
18 February 2008 at 1:32 am |
[...] Entry at ANTHEM blog with links to audio recording [...]
24 February 2008 at 10:10 pm |
Also see Mark Fisher’s article “Clearing the Air” on Graham Harman in Frieze Magazine.
25 February 2008 at 11:27 pm |
And here are a few more exchanges in reference to the problematic of the symposium, at Poetix, at Doves to Crows, and at notebookeleven.
25 February 2008 at 11:46 pm |
A blog reaction from the Industrial IT Group.
9 March 2008 at 3:27 pm |
The news of the symposium has also reached the Badiou list.
9 April 2008 at 11:43 am |
While this is not strictly about the Harman Review, Nick at The Accursed Share has written an excellent post on Harman’s first book, Tool-Being, which can serve as a good backgrounder for this event.
5 May 2008 at 4:48 pm |
[...] of you who have read Graham Harman’s manuscript Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics will know that Quentin Meillassoux’s notion of correlationism features prominently in [...]
12 September 2008 at 2:19 pm |
[...] Harman gave one of us the hard copy of his paper, which set off a series of events culminating in The Harman Review in February [...]
28 November 2008 at 5:40 pm |
[...] Actors, Networks, and Plasma: Heidegger vs. Latour vs. Heidegger” on 29 November 2007 and “The Harman Review: Bruno Latour’s Empirical Metaphysics” on 5 February [...]
31 May 2009 at 6:52 pm |
[...] sounds too much like a fairy tale ending though, and as Harman has argued in the last couple years, there are some fundamental metaphysical differences between the Heideggerian “thing” [...]
16 June 2009 at 11:00 am |
[...] because it marks the fruition of a review process that we have been fortunate to be part of (see The Harman Review), but also because this book promises to be a milestone in the debate about the relationship [...]
17 December 2009 at 6:04 pm |
[...] because it marks the fruition of a review process that we have been fortunate to be part of (see The Harman Review), but also because this book promises to be a milestone in the debate about the relationship [...]
17 December 2009 at 6:12 pm |
[...] Actors, Networks, and Plasma: Heidegger vs. Latour vs. Heidegger” on 29 November 2007, and “The Harman Review: Bruno Latour’s Empirical Metaphysics” on 5 February [...]
19 December 2009 at 3:08 am |
[...] attention. But the most popular Harman download (besides the respectable 1,688 downloads of the Harman Review itself) seems to be his “Assemblages According to Manuel DeLanda” from November 2008, [...]
20 January 2010 at 5:14 am |
[...] with this as he does not want to let go of some losers (good losers – a point he makes in this recording), which raises the question of whether we are talking about ‘how do do research’ or ‘what are [...]
4 February 2010 at 4:41 am |
[...] At risk of distraction, I have a feeling that this might be what underlies Latour’s instance that all he does it serial description, but that to do good description one needs to me a good metaphysician (Harman review recording). [...]
22 September 2010 at 9:17 am |
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4 December 2010 at 2:42 pm |
Looks like the recording is available as separate MP3 files here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/newsAndEvents/2008events/HarmanLatour.htm
7 October 2010 at 6:20 pm |
[...] Source: http://www.anthem-group.net [...]
27 December 2010 at 2:26 am |
[...] Ryan Vu, published in POLYGRAPH 22 (2010) special issue on Ecology & Ideology. Even our little Harman Review gets mentioned a couple of times. Does Bruno Latour have a metaphysics? In an event at the London [...]
30 June 2011 at 6:44 pm |
[...] transcript of the 5 February 2008 debate between Bruno Latour and Graham Harman at the LSE has now been released in book form in the UK and [...]