August 15, 2007
Esther Dyson on emerging technologies
For those interested in the question of emerging technologies, here’s a link to a discussion on the Charlie Rose television show with Esther Dyson . I don’t know much about Ms. Dyson, but she seems a particularly thoughtful variety of… what should I call her… investment capitalist.
Here she talks about everything from putting her own genome up on the web to facebook to what comes after google to weather reports for Indian farmers. These are not suprising topics of themselves, but what struck me was her sense of nuance in approaching them… an attitude a bit like the one I saw us trying to develop last year in our approach to the contemporary.
August 12, 2007
what kind of inquiry is conceptual inquiry?
Welcome to the CW Blog!
ARC has decided to intensify blog discussions about concept-work. Perhaps a good way to begin further explorations of concept work could be to discuss the difference between concept work and theory – between the kind of inquiry concept work is tailored for and the kind of inquiry that is driven by theoretical questions.
Last month I was invited to give a talk somewhere in Germany (formidable place, excellent research conditions, nice people). The aim was to make myself and my work known, to get in touch with German anthropology. I spent a couple of days there, presenting myself to various people (my talk was on the emergence of the global health movement but most of the time we talked about my dissertation, an anthropological analysis of the emergence of adult cerebral plasticity and the conceptual turbulences it caused in neurology). Read more »
August 10, 2007
Foucault Archives
I imagine most know about this already, but in case you don’t, here’s the link. I believe that the website is new, though the organization is not.
WORKING PAPERS UPDATE
The Working Papers have been reformatted and reposted. New papers will be added soon.
Welcome to Concept Work
ARC is beginning a new project on concept work, which will be housed on blog software. Our hope is that it can function as a new kind of space for the production of collaborative work.
The Concept Work Blog will focus on how concept work fits in to a broader approach to inquiry that is being developed in ARC. To some extent, exchanges on this topic have taken place on existing blogs, particularly on the Biopower and the Contemporary blog, which has been the site of extensive exchanges on What is a problematization? and on Dewey and Latour. By creating a space specifically for concept work, and limiting posts to extended discussions, we aspire to produce a series of such substantial exchanges in a disciplined fashion, and to capture these in ARC’s exchange series located in the document repository.
In the initial phase, the blog will be edited and moderated by Tobias Rees, who will also propose the first series of topics.
August 6, 2007
Knowledge Collaboration and Proximity
Hello fellow ARConauts. I hope Summer finds you pleasently dispersed.
Since I’m under the assumption that not everybody is a regular reader of European Urban and Regional Studies, I thought I’d bring the following article to your attention:
Moodysson, Jerker, and Ola Jonsson. 2007. ”Knowledge Collaboration and Proximity: The Spatial Organization of Biotech Innovation Projects.” European Urban and Regional Studies 14(2):115-131.