March 7, 2007
Reminder: Adrian Monday @ Noon
Adrian will be giving a presentation in the AGORA brown bag series, this coming Monday, March 12, at noon until 1:30. Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall. His presentation is called “The Impossible Human of Humanitarianism.”
Biopolitics and Problematization
I just posted an article Andy and I wrote on Critical Infrastructure Protection on the Vital Systems Security blog. Among the relevant themes in it for discussions here are a use of the term problematization (which we more or less decided we didn’t understand while writing the piece) and an implicit engagement with biopolitics and reflexive modernization. Conversation (over there) would be much appreciated.
Where next at ARC?
I just had a conversation with two guys from the Institute for the Future of the Book, a little project started by the Annenberg school. They have a number of extremely cool projects underway, including a multimedia authoring tool called Sophie that is gorgeous and absurdly easy to use. More interesting for ARC, however, are the web experiments in creating better commenting and collaborative writing tools. Check out, for instance, their version of the Iraq Study Group report. This is the kind of thing I imagine being useful for ARC as it seeks to explore the co-creation of concepts, and the challenge of getting beyond single-author call and response forms of co-labor…