2018-19 Economics and STS I

Science and Technology Studies and Economics

Philip Mirowski
University of Notre Dame
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Allen 314

STS and the Future(s) of Open Science

STS often likes to think of itself as ‘radical’, and one tenet of that belief is the conviction that ‘openness’ can fix whatever ails science. Consequently, everyone is enthusiastic that ‘open science’ is the wave of the future. Yet when one seriously examines the flaws in modern science that the movement proposes to remedy, the prospect for improvement in at least four areas are unimpressive. This suggests that the agenda is rather to effectively re-engineer science along the lines of platform capitalism, under the misleading banner of opening up science to the masses. This is one way that STS unwittingly falls into line with the larger neoliberal agenda.

Philip Mirowski is Charles E. Koch Professor of Economics and Policy Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including More Heat than Light: Economics of Social Physics (1989), Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (2001), and Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2013). He has edited volumes on, among others, the Mont Pelerin society, the natural imagery of economics, and the Chicago school. 


Samuel Delany
April 4, 2019
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Duke University
Nelson Music Room
1304 Campus Drive

Birthday and Conversation with Samuel R. Delany

Sex Radical, Grand Master of Science Fiction, and Acclaimed Afrofuturist Samuel R. Delany will speak about queer sex, sexual futures, and sex in fiction. Interviewed by Pete Sigal (Department of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University), Professor Delany will engage in a wide-ranging conversation with the Duke and Durham communities on the occasion of his 77th birthday and the release of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Times Square Red/Times Square Blue!

Novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany, author of science fiction classics Dhalgren, Babel-17, and The Einstein Intersection, had won four Nebula Awards and a Hugo Award by the time he was 27. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2002, and was chosen by the Lambda Literary Report as one of the 50 people who had done the most to change our view of gayness in the last half-century. In 2013, he was named the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Foundation Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Nicolas Guillén Award for philosophical fiction.

Birthday and Conversation with Samuel R. Delany


Frankenreads

Frankenreads

Join us in the reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's novel. All are invited to participate as readers.Co-sponsors Duke's Department of English, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, UNC's Department of English & Comparative Literature, UNC's Wilson Library Special Collections, and Book Harvest, Durham, NC (a 501c(3) chartable organization.Sign-up for a 10-minute reading slot: surveymonkey.com/r/FWVRBSZ