Posts Tagged ‘LSE’
8 March 2011
The Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics will be hosting the 11th Social Study of ICT (SSIT) Workshop on 28 March 2011. Here is the detailed programme and you can register here.
This year’s SSIT workshop has invited leading academics and practitioners to open the discussion on the way information systems development has coped with the continuous innovation in the financial sector in the past decade; the resulting information infrastructures; and the pressures for new enterprise architectures and IS development practice at the aftermath of the crisis.
In this one-day conference, organized by the Information Systems and Innovation Group of the Department of Management, information system scholars, social scientists and CIOs from commercial and central banks, will present their views and lead a discussion on this topic.
SSIT11 will be followed by the 7th Social Study of IT Open Research Forum (SSIT-ORF7) on 29 and 30 March 2011, also at the LSE. SSIT-ORF is a unique venue for PhD students and junior researchers to present their work in progress on technology and information systems related topics in a constructive atmosphere.
Tags:LSE, SSIT, SSIT-ORF
Posted in Conferences, information systems, Sociology, STS, Technology | Leave a Comment »
6 May 2010
“Beyond the Academy: Research as Exhibition” – a symposium at Tate Britain Auditorium on Friday 14 May 2010, 10.00–17.30, featuring, among others, Bruno Latour and Noortje Marres.
The exhibition is increasingly being reframed as a ‘research output’, but what can new forms of research and collaboration bring to the concept and curatorship of the exhibition? Is the idea of the exhibition being distorted or creatively extended by new disciplinary practices and knowledge? In what ways do new forms of research exhibitions create new types of knowledge and experience for the audience?
Hat tip to Mutable Matter.
Update (6 May 2010): I’ve been just told that Latour will also take part in a panel discussion at the following event at the LSE in the afternoon of 14 May:
Richard Sennett: The Sociology of Public Life
Sociology Department conference
Date: Friday 14 May 2010
Time: 2-6pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Bruno Latour, Alan Rusbridger, Professor Judy Wajcman, David Adjaye, Professor Geoff Mulgan, Lord Richard Rogers, Polly Toynbee
Chairs: Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, Professor Ricky Burdett
In this exciting half-day conference two panels on ‘Public Life and Public Policy’ and ‘Cities and the Public Realm’, discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist whose recent books include The Culture of the New Capitalism and The Craftsman.
Tags:Bruno Latour, LSE, Noortje Marres, Tate Britain
Posted in Actor-network-theory, art, Bruno Latour, Conferences, Social theory, Sociology, STS | 6 Comments »
19 December 2009
It is nice to learn from Graham Harman that his Bournemouth talk last year on Heidegger’s “origin of the work of art” essay has directly inspired this interesting forthcoming paper by Robert Jackson: “Heidegger, Harman and Algorithmic Allure.” That event was actually organised by Tammy Lu at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth (since then renamed as the Arts University College at Bournemouth), although I was the one who took this crazy photo of Graham:
Three days later Graham gave another talk on “The Greatness of McLuhan” at the Media School at Bournemouth University. We posted the recordings of both talks on this blog and they both became quite popular, however the Heidegger talk has the edge: it has been downloaded 1,027 times since 8 February 2008, as opposed to the 884 downloads of the McLuhan talk.
Strangely, both of these talks are more popular than Harman’s first lecture at the LSE “On Actors, Networks, and Plasma: Heidegger vs. Latour vs. Heidegger” on 29 November 2007, which has been downloaded 778 times, even though that was the event that launched the Heideggero-Latourian project most explicitly. I would have thought that the juxtaposition of Heidegger and Latour and the invocation of Latour’s concept of the plasma would be provocatively alluring (or alluringly provocative) enough to attract more 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, with 1,385 downloads since then.
[Although I should hasten to add that these figures are somewhat misleading, as both the plasma talk and the Harman Review are also available on the LSE website, so probably just as many people if not more would have downloaded them from there. As for the DeLanda talk, it received a boost after being listed on Speculative Heresy.]
Jackson’s paper sounds very interesting though, so I’ll reproduce his abstract here:
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Tags:Arts University College at Bournemouth, Bournemouth University, LSE, Manuel DeLanda, Marshall McLuhan, Robert Jackson, Tammy Lu
Posted in Actor-network-theory, ANTHEM, art, Audio recordings, Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, Manuel DeLanda, Martin Heidegger, Object-oriented philosophy, philosophy, Recorded ANTHEM sessions | 3 Comments »
18 March 2009
The deadline for abstracts for this year’s Social Study of IT Open Research Forum (SSIT-ORF) has been extended to 30 March 2009. This great little conference will take place on 21 and 22 April 2009, at the Information Systems and Innovation Group in the Department of Management at the LSE, hot on the heels of the SSIT9 Workshop. One interesting feature of the SSIT Open Research Forum is that presenters are discouraged from using PowerPoint or transparencies. This format contributes to a unique atmosphere that encourages open debate between the presenters, the panel chair, and the audience. Please see the full call for abstracts below.
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Tags:ISIG, LSE, SSIT Open Research Forum, SSIT-ORF, SSIT9
Posted in Conferences, information systems, Social theory, STS, Technology | Leave a Comment »
6 February 2009
Many thanks to Graham Harman for reminding us of the first anniversary of the Harman Review symposium, and also for his gracious words. It was such an unusual and unlikely event; even in retrospect it is difficult to believe it actually had taken place. What are the chances of hosting a metaphysical debate between a Heideggerian philosopher and a sociologist known for his dislike of Heidegger on the grounds of a management school, organised by PhD students of an information systems department? (more…)
Tags:Claudio Ciborra, ISIG, LSE, Prince of Networks, The Harman Review
Posted in Actor-network-theory, ANTHEM, Audio recordings, Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, information systems, Martin Heidegger, Object-oriented philosophy, Phenomenology, philosophy, Social theory, Sociology | 1 Comment »
23 January 2009
An interesting ISRF seminar coming up at ISIG, LSE on 29 January 2009, exploring the connections between Heidegger and Deleuze in relation to technology and organisations:
Information Systems Research Forum
Rethinking Technological Change in Organizations: The Deleuzian ‘Spatium’ and its ‘Becoming’
Eleni Lamprou
ISIG, LSE
Thursday 29 January 2009
In this presentation, I wish to address the potential contribution of the ontology provided by the French process philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the study of technological change in organizations. In the first part of the presentation, the connections of Deleuze’s work to the work of Martin Heidegger are outlined, as I explore the concept of the ‘spatium’. The ‘spatium’ enfolds Deleuze’s understanding that the physical position of people and technological artefacts within space lends only a partial understanding of the manner in which they actually relate. In the second part, I seek to theorize the manner in which such relationships actually develop through elaborating on Deleuze’s conceptualization of ‘becoming’. Emphasis is placed on what is portrayed by Deleuze as the motor of the ‘becoming’ process, namely, the ‘event’. The ideas presented in this seminar are drawn from the theoretical framework of my doctoral dissertation.
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Tags:Eleni Lamprou, ISIG, ISRF, LSE
Posted in Gilles Deleuze, information systems, ISRF, Martin Heidegger, Organization studies, Phenomenology, philosophy, Technology | Leave a Comment »
24 November 2008
As announced earlier, we are expecting Graham Harman to join us at Thursday’s ANTHEM seminar. Dr Harman has also very kindly agreed to give us a talk, accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, in order to summarise but also expand on the main points of the paper (“The Assemblage Theory of Society”) that he has shared with us. The title of his talk is “Assemblages According to Manuel DeLanda.” The main themes are realism, causation, emergence, assemblages, essence, DeLanda, Deleuze, Bhaskar, Latour, and Harman’s own (Heideggerian) object-orientated philosophy.
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Tags:assemblage, causation, emergence, essence, LSE, materialism, realism, Roy Bhaskar
Posted in Actor-network-theory, ANTHEM, art, Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Manuel DeLanda, Martin Heidegger, Object-oriented philosophy, philosophy | Leave a Comment »
20 November 2008
The ANTHEM group will be meeting from 4 to 7pm on Thursday 27 November 2008 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. We will be discussing a recent paper by Graham Harman, entitled “The Assemblage Theory of Society,” which examines the philosophical assumptions behind Manuel DeLanda’s Deleuzian assemblage theory, while contrasting it with the ontology of Bruno Latour. The main themes of the paper are realism, assemblage, essence, and emergence. We also expect Graham Harman to join us at some point (assuming his flight arrives on time).
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Tags:assemblage, emergence, LSE, ontology
Posted in Actor-network-theory, ANTHEM, Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Manuel DeLanda, Social theory | 2 Comments »
19 March 2008
The 4th Social Study of IT Open Research Forum (SSIT-ORF) will take place on 23 and 24 April 2008 at the Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) at the LSE. At ISIG there is a long tradition of research interest in both actor-network theory and Heidegger, as approaches to the study of technology. This event may be of particular interest to PhD students and junior researchers who would like to discuss their research with other PhD students and leading IS academics in this area. The deadline for registration has been extended to 30 March 2008. Register here.
Tags:ICT, information systems, information technology, ISIG, LSE, SSIT, SSIT-ORF
Posted in Actor-network-theory, Conferences, Phenomenology, Science Studies, Social theory, Technology | Leave a Comment »
8 February 2008
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.
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Tags:Edgar Whitley, empirical metaphysics, ISIG, Leslie Willcocks, LSE, Lucas Introna, Noortje Marres, The Harman Review
Posted in Actor-network-theory, ANTHEM, Audio recordings, Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, Martin Heidegger, Object-oriented philosophy, Phenomenology, Science Studies, Social theory | 24 Comments »
