Event overview
This Goldsmiths public forum brings together Philip Mirowski, Nicholas Gane and Bernard Stiegler. Centre for Cultural Studies with support from Dept of Sociology.
’Neoliberalism’’ has been treated much more as a subject of abuse, eg, David Harvey and Mike Davies, than a subject of serious analysis. After Foucault’s ‘’Birth of Biopolitics’’, probably the most in-depth conceptual analysis of neoliberalism is in the work of Philip Mirowski’s, ‘’Machine Dreams’’ and ‘’The Road from Mount Pelerin’’. In Mirowski’s neoliberalism, the economy is cognitive, the market becomes brain and political economy is an information system. This puts the question of technological-information-communication systems at centre stage.
Speakers:
Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow of the Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame. He is author of, among others, Machine Dreams (2002), The Effortless Economy of Science? (2004), More Heat than Light (1989), Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2013), and ScienceMart: privatizing American science (2011). He is editor of Agreement on Demand (2006) and The Road from Mont Pèlerin: the making of the neoliberal thought collective (2009), and Building Chicago Economics (2011) among other works. Outside of ongoing research on the history and analysis of the commercialization of science, he is also working on a computational complexity approach to the crisis, and a new book on the history of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics, sometimes called the Nobel. He was awarded the Ludwig Fleck Prize from 4S in 2006, and has been visiting professor at Yale, Oxford, NYU, Duke, Paris, the University of Technology-Sydney and the University of Amsterdam.
Nicholas Gane was born in Brighton in 1971. He grew up in North London before studying for a BA in Sociology and an MA in Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick (1990-95). He returned to London to study for a PhD on Max Weber and Postmodern Theory, which he completed in 1999. Nicholas first joined the Department at York in 2002, before leaving for Brunel University in 2004. He rejoined the Department in September 2006. He is a board member of Sociology and Theory, Culture and Society, and is the editor of the Theory, Culture and Society Annual Review. His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the fields of social theory and the sociology of new media.
Bernard Stiegler is the Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, also a professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne where he teaches philosophy. Before taking up the post at the Pompidou Center, he was program director at the International College of Philosophy, Deputy Director General of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, then Director General at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM). Professor Stiegler has published numerous books and articles on philosophy, technology, digitization, capitalism, consumer culture, etc. Among his writings, his three volumes of La technique et le temps (English Translation: Technics and Time), two volumes of De la misère symbolique, three volumes of Mécréance et Discrédit and two volumes Constituer l'Europe are particularly well know.
Chair: Prof. Scott Lash
Dates & times
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11 Jun 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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