Author Archives: danyi

The last Kitchen STS meeting of this term will take place on the 6th February, at 10.30 in Café Albatros. Our special guest this time will be Noortje Marres, senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, and … Continue reading →

Isaac Marrero-Guillamón’s monadic ethnography drew attention not only to monads as complex objects of descriptions, but also to different possible ways of narrating complexity. In order to discuss this further in our next meeting (which will take place on the … Continue reading →

One concern that came to the surface during our conversation about digital methods was related to the figure of the observer. Were Latour et al. fascinated with new digital tools as ethnographers or as researchers who themselves longed for their … Continue reading →

The rediscovery of Gabriel Tarde in the social sciences has important conceptual and methodological implications. The former is concerned with the redefinition of ‘the social’ – at least this is what Christian Borch argued last week. But what about the latter? … Continue reading →

The rediscovery of Gabriel Tarde can be understood as an attempt to respecify ‘the social’ not as something that explains certain phenomena, but the phenomenon that itself needs to be explained. This, at least, is what Bruno Latour claims in … Continue reading →

We’ll start the discussion in the winter semester 2014/2015 at 18.00 on Thursday the 30th October in the sociology kitchen area (PEG building 3G 204). After our excursions into performativity, multiple ontologies, and topology, this time we’ll stay at ‘home’ … Continue reading →

The last meeting of the summer term 2014 will take place at the usual time & place on the 10th July – we’ll continue our discussion about topologies with the help of Amade M’charek’s recent article on folded objects in Theory, … Continue reading →

The special guest of our next event will be Bernd Herzogenrath, who’s going to push forward our discussion of topological figures with the help of David Lynch’s Lost Highway. Please note that the meeting will take place on Tuesday the 17th … Continue reading →

Our special guest this week is Emmanuel Didier, with the help of whom we’ll return to the topologies of databases. The title of his talk (jointly organised by us, Thomas Lemke’s research group, and the Knowledge, Technology, Environment section of … Continue reading →

So far, we talked about topologies mostly in spatial terms. But what about temporalities? STS has sometimes been accused of ‘presentism’ – of being good at describing events and processes that take place here and now, involving actors that are … Continue reading →