Author Archives: danyi

Datafication

In our next session, to be held on the 24th January, we’ll be discussing a manuscript by James Maguire and Brit Ross Winthereik – both from the IT University in Copenhagen. It’s about ‘datafication’ and the role data centres play in the ongoing … Continue reading

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Critical Data Studies

Our next meting will be held on the 13th December – this time at 7pm – in PEG 3G 202. We’ll have pizza and a discussion about Critical Data Studies. Paula has suggested that we discuss this introductory text in Big Data … Continue reading

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Discussion on ‘Inventing the Social’

In the next meeting, at 6pm on the 22nd November, we’ll be discussing the introduction and selected chapters from Noortje Marres et al.’s Inventing the Social. You can access the PDF for free following the link below – or buy it … Continue reading

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Post-Lancaster and Sydney meeting

We meet for the first time in the new Winter term on the 18th October 2018 – looking forward to catching up after a summer of many STS events, including the EASST meeting in Lancaster and the 4S meeting in … Continue reading

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Matters of Life and Death symposium

Dear all, The next kitchen meeting will be the ‘Matters of Life and Death’ symposium, organised by Endre Dányi, Martina Kolanoski and Thomas Scheffer. The event will take place on 3 and 4 July 2018, in the university’s guest house … Continue reading

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The Elements of a Sociology of Digital Economic Geographies

Co-organised by the Human Geography and the Cultural Anthropology departments, the next kitchen session will be centred around Koray Çalışkan’s visit to Frankfurt on the 18th and the 19th June. Please find below a detailed description of the programme. *** The Elements … Continue reading

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Doing politics in meeting talk and text

The next guest of the STS kitchen will be Richard Freeman from Edinburgh, who at 18:00 on the 17th May will give a lecture on doing politics in meeting talk and text. The lecture will be held in the Normative Orders … Continue reading

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Interspecies Relations in Industrial Ruins

Our next meeting will take place on the 26th April, in the soc. kitchen area (PEG 3G 202) between 18:00 and 20:00. This time, we will look at a very fresh article by Elaine Gan, Anna Tsing and Daniel Sullivan. … Continue reading

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Storytelling for earthly survival

This week is our last session this term: we’ll meet at 18:00 on the 8th February to watch a recent documentary on Donna Haraway titled ‘Storytelling for earthly survival‘. You can watch the trailer here, if you wish: The plan … Continue reading

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The politics of the anthropocene

As you know, next week we’ll have two exciting events with Andrew Barry: on the 18th January he’ll deliver the inaugurating lecture of the new STS masters programme, followed by a roundtable discussion on STS and interdisciplinarity (18:00-22:00 in HZ15). … Continue reading

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