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Digital Humanities 2015

Realist Social Theory

ontology

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In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Graham Scambler (UCL) talks about Action Sociology

Graham Scambler on Action Sociology

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Graham Scambler (UCL) talks about Realism, Health Inequalities and the Purpose of Sociological Inquiry

Graham Scambler on Realism, Health Inequalities and the Purpose of Sociological Inquiry

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Sue Clegg (Leeds Met) talks about Realism as Theoretical Resource 

Sue Clegg on Realism as Theoretical Resource

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Mark Creswell (Durham) talks about Pedagogy, Privilege and Resistance 

Mark Cresswell on the Pedagogy of the Privileged

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Dave Elder-Vass (Loughborough)  talks about Realism, ANT and the Post-Human

Dave Elder-Vass on Actor Network Theory

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Bob Carter (Leicester) talks about Realism, ANT and the Post-Human

Bob Carter on Realism, ANT and the Post-Human

Our planet gets up to no end of apocalyptic-like tricks over time---periods when it is nearly all ice, all melting ice, all desert, all sea water, all molten lava, and civilizations come and go, sometimes for geological or climate reasons.  The planet has samples of all of those conditions that can be visited right now, but no one in their right mind goes there.

Craig Childs goes there.  One of the world’s great intrepid travelers and story-tellers, he finds the places on Earth that are most geologically or climatically dangerous and hangs out, observing closely, giving personal as well as scientific perspective.  Through him, we experience “a field guide to the everending Earth.” 

"Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth" was given on July 29, 02013 as part of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:

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Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Craig Childs - Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth

Daniel Kahneman is the world’s most influential psychologist because he has, based on empirical research, figured out how we can notice when we are not thinking rationally.  That knowledge gives us the choice to think “slow”---ignore brisk intuition and notional risks---when we decide we really need to get something right.

His book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow", is an international best-seller in part because the reader (or listener of his lecture) is invited to make cognitive experiments while reading (or listening).  You catch your mind in the act of opting for illusion.  To engage Kahneman’s work is to experience a delightful carnival ride of one “Busted!” after another.  Your own brain becomes a co-instructor in how to use it better.

Kahneman received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 02002 for his work (with Amos Tversky) in “prospect theory” that founded the new discipline of behavioral economics.

"Thinking Fast and Slow" was given on August 13, 02013 as part of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:

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Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow

There is an appalling distance between here and the countless planets we’re discovering around stars other than our Sun.  At first glance we can never span those light years.  At second glance however...

“The 100-year Starship” is the name of now-culminating project that mustered a handful of scientists and science fiction writers to contemplate how humanity might, over the coming century, realistically develop the ability to escape our Solar System and travel the light years to others.

Participants included scientists such as Freeman Dyson and Martin Rees and writers such as Gregory Benford and Neal Stephenson.  The professional futurist in the group was Peter Schwartz, who contributed scenarios playing out four futures of starship ambitions.  To his surprise, exploring the scenarios suggested that getting effective star travel over the coming century or two is not a long shot.  Even by widely divergent paths, it looks like a near certainty.

Schwartz’s SALT talk will report on the exciting work by the 19 participants and spell out the logics of his scenarios.  The new book from the project, "Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon", will be available at the event.

"The Starships ARE Coming" was given on September 17, 02013 as part of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:

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Peter Schwartz - The Starships ARE Coming

Talk at the University of Washington about the Metropolis as concept. The associated presentation can be found at: http://prezi.com/4r6vhx-fb19_/

Metropolis as Media: Encounter, Disjunction, Asymmetry

James Ash

A tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.

99% Invisible-01- 99% Noise

99% Invisible-02- 99% 180

99% Invisible-03- 99% Reality (only)

99% Invisible-04- 99% Details

99% Invisible-05- 99% Forgotten

An introduction to social ontology given by Margaret Archer at a Centre for Social Ontology event in June 2014

What is social ontology? An introduction in 13 minutes by Margaret Archer

This podcast by Dave Elder-Vass (Loughborough University) is from a Centre for Social Ontology event in January 2015. Unfortunately it cuts off a few minutes from the end - sorry!

Prosumption – the unpaid performance of productive work by ‘consumers’ who thus help commercial businesses to generate a profit – is perhaps the most studied of the many hybrid forms of economic practice that have proliferated in the digital economy. A number of critical accounts have analysed prosumption in terms of Marx’s labour theory of value, suggesting for example that as prosumers do useful work for free they are infinitely exploited by the firms that profit as a result. But such accounts analyse the digital economy in terms that were derived from the nineteenth century factory – and terms that were highly questionable even in that context.

The spectacular mismatch between this model of capitalism and the case of prosumption exposes the inadequacy of the standard monolithic conception of capitalism as a homogeneous and universal contemporary economic form – a conception that at a certain level is also shared by the marketised discourse of mainstream economics. We need a new ontology of economic form that goes beyond the totalising concepts of mode of production and market economy and instead provides us with tools for understanding the sheer diversity of forms of economic practice in the contemporary economy. This paper offers the concept of appropriative practices as a contribution to such an ontology and applies it to the case of prosumption.

Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form

Margaret Archer’s recent contributions to our understanding of reflexivity in late capitalist society provide useful resources for theorizing across the substantive domains of sociology. Using illustrations from my own work on the sociology health inequalities in general, and my ideal type of the ‘vulnerable fractured reflexive’ in particular, I examine some of the pros and cons of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the structuring of agency. I conclude with a skeletal research programme involving interdisciplinary collaboration.

Reflexivity and an interdisciplinary approach to the ‘structuring of agency

A snippet of Deb Verhoeven's introduction to Genevieve Bell in which she discusses the "parade of patriarchs" at #DH2015 (the annual Digital Humanities conference). Missing the (funnier) opening section. 

Digital Humanities 2015 Deb Verhoeven

Nick Couldry at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

Refiguring the Social:  Remembering Elias

Emma Uprichard at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

Big Data, Complexity and Time

Susan Halford at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

The Challenge of Digital Ontology

Jochen Runde at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

Non-materiality and the Ontology of Digital Objects

Speaker(s): Dr Tim Lewens, Professor David Papineau | The speakers will discuss the importance of Darwin's thinking to central philosophical issues, including creationism, the human mind, and the nature of morality. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Darwin and Philosophy [Audio]

John Searle at the University of Cologne
American Philosopher accepts Albertus Magnus Professorship 2013

John Searle is one of the most important philosophers of language of our time. As Albertus Magnus Professor, he will be holding lectures and a seminar on the themes of "Language and Social Ontology", "Mind and Brain" as well as "Perception and Intentionality" from 6th till 8th May, 2013 at the University of Cologne.

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What is social ontology? An introduction in 13 minutes by Margaret Archer

Mark Carrigan