CfP: A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow

CfP: A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow

CfP: A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow

CfP: A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow

A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow A One Day Workshop at the Swedenborg Society, London Thursday 21st October from 10 until 6

A growing body of research, including literature on cognitive anthropology, software studies and cognitive capital suggests that whatever is called ‘thinking’ occurs amidst mechanisms, habits, codelike systems, devices and other formally structured means. If intelligence, far from being a property of ‘the human’, is an informal and provisional function of the ensemble of mechanisms and relations that comprise a social field, then we need to explore the co-relation of cultural and experiential practices, thought and intelligent devices.

In this day-long workshop, we would like to evaluate the ways in which contemporary hardware and software augment and distribute intelligence, as well as the ensemble of social relations which form around thinking practices as they synchronise, mesh, de-couple, breakdown and collapse with variable effects. To this end we are seeking contributions that propose analyses or working experiments with thinking work as imbricated in cultural, material, corporeal, technical, economic and psychic practices. These might include design, creative, analytic, management, personal, administrative, scientific or technical thinking.

1 day left to apply to SEMIOTICS AND … | INTER-DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM (Urbino, IT, 9/5-6/2010)

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The International Centre for Intercultural Studies in Semiotics and Morphology (CiiSM, former CISeL) of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” organizes the inter-doctoral symposium

SEMIOTICS RESEARCH 2.
DIALOGUES, COMPARISONS, CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN SEMIOTICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
INTER-DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
 
Urbino, September 5th and 6th 2010


Doctoral students and doctors (dissertation defended during the current academic year) and researchers working in market research and consulting firms are invited to present their researches.

Tecnoscienza is now on line (first issue)

the first issue of
Tecnoscienza | Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies
is now on line

Tecnoscienza, Vol 1, No 1 (2010)
http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/issue/view/15/showToc

Tecnoscienza (ISSN 2038-3460 ) is a biannual on line, peer reviewed, open acces journal in Italian and in English
www.tecnoscienza.net

Contributions (in Italian or in English) are welcome
http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

PhD Course (5 ETCS): Framing Screens: Knowledge, Interaction and Practice

Framing Screens: Knowledge, Interaction and Practice

27-30 September 2010, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Lecturers: Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University), Helen Verran (University of Melbourne), Christopher Gad (IT University of Copenhagen)

Workshop '3D Foetal Ultrasound: Social and Clinical Meanings' : few places remaining

Early-career researchers are invited to attend the following workshop at the University of Warwick, UK:
3D Foetal Ultrasound: Social and Clinical Meanings
July 6th - 7th 2010.
The workshop will include a lecture from Lisa M. Mitchell (University of Victoria) and a guided visit to ‘Babybond’.
Attendance is free but places are very limited and we do ask you to book. Note that some funding is available for travel and accommodation.

Re: ESRC PhD Studentships at Sheffield

Dear all,

Invitation to workshop 'On the Fringes of Alchemy' 9-10 July 2010, Budapest

On the Fringes of Alchemy

International Workshop in Budapest, Hungary, 9-10 July 2010Central European UniversityMedieval Studies DepartmentRoom 409
Programme

Friday, 9 July 2010

9:00: Registration, coffee & tea