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CSISP LATEST
Here is a report of a CSISP day with SPEAP (the Science Po Programme for Experimentation in Art and Politics)
David Moats writes about the March 7 Latour/ Rogers lectures on the CSISP blog
Recordings of Bruno Latour and Richard Rogers joint lecture on Digital Societies: Between Ontology and Methods now available.
Read about HeHe's environmental Method on the CSISP blog
The New in Social Research: audio recording of Javier Lezaun on Cinema and Social Kinetics now available on the CSISP blog. This talk was the latest instalment of the CSISP series exploring claims to newness in social research.
Call for Papers for forthcoming CSISP event, Apples and Oranges: Practicing Comparison (13-15 September 2012).
CSISP, the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process is an active interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths. CSISP hosts events, research, and projects that examine the role of ‘invention’ and cognate terms (‘innovation’, ‘creativity’, ‘expectation’) in relation to contemporary dynamics in an array of substantive areas (HIV/AIDS, energy, design, information technology). CSISP seeks to facilitate forms of collaboration and mutual intervention across disciplines and practices that touch on the social broadly conceived (eg design and social science, biomedicine and social research, computing and sociology, issue advocacy and social methods, arts and environmental science).
CURRENT EVENTS
DOING INTERVENTION AND ENACTING THE 'EVERYDAY': HOW USERS FIGURE IN INNOVATION PROJECTS.
Speakers: Torben Elgaard Jensen & Morten Krogh Petersen
(The Technical University of Denmark)
16th May 2012 | 16:30-18:30
NAB LG01 (New Academic Building)
Goldsmiths
This event is co-hosted by The Interaction Research Studio and CSISP. Read more.
CSISP Reading Group
Organised by Visiting CSISP Fellow Anders Koed Madsen (Copenhagen Business School)
May 3rd, 16.00-17.30, WT1204
This reading group will examine the relevance of the early 20th century American Sociologist Charles Cooley for theorizing online forms of social inquiry. With an introduction by Anders Koed Madsen. Read More...
CSISP Salon: April 25th, 4.30pm
The CSISP Salon is springing back into action with its next installment. We invite anyone who is interested to join us on Wednesay April 25th in Warmington Tower, 4.30pm, in the 12th floor meeting room.
In the Salon we will be reading: Javier Lezaun: 'A Market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups' (2007).
We will place this alongside some textual fragments that we have pulled from the novella 'Mr Squishy' by David Foster Wallace.
One way the book can be read is as a satire on case studies and business management tools. The drama centres on an ad agency doing focus group testing, which is ultimately revealed to be a facade for other tests. The facilitator believes he is testing consumers. However simultaneous tests are being executed on the facilitator himself in an effort to further refine the information gleaned from the process. We see reading these fragments together with Lezaun as potentially touching on issues including of the artificiality of research practice, the politics of experimentation, including their relationships to scientific justification, as well as the enactment of control executed in such experimental settings.