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Entrevistas con Mirowski y Davies en COES

June 9, 2020 – 9:00 am

El COES (Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social, ese mega-aglomerado de la investigación en social en Chile) acaba de publicar en su serie de documentos de trabajo dos entrevistas que aparecieron primero como podcast acá y acá. Ambas conversaciones fueron llevadas a cabo por Tomás Undurraga y contaron con la colaboración de José Ossandón en la elaboración de las preguntas. Acá van las referencias:

Undurraga, T., Ossandón, J. (2020) “Facebook te enseña a ser neoliberal. Entrevista a Philip Mirowski” Documento de Trabajo 39, Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social. https://coes.cl/wp-content/uploads/N%C2%BA39.-Facebook-te-ensena-a-ser-neoliberal.-Entrevista-a-Philip-Mirowski.pdf

Undurraga, T., Ossandón, J. (2020) “Los emprendedores son violentos: operan sin ningún tipo de régimen de justificación, simplemente actúan. Entrevista a Will Davies”, Documento de Trabajo 40, Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social. https://coes.cl/wp-content/uploads/N%C2%BA40.-Los-emprendedores.-Entrevista-a-Will-Davies.pdf

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Performances of Value

April 19, 2018 – 12:23 pm

[Ana Gross avisa del siguiente evento]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to attend a public event David Stark is organising to mark the end of his Performances of Value project on the 4th May in London. This was a project hosted at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at Warwick University and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It was aimed at developing an international network of scholars working in the field of valuation studies, with a strong focus placed on discussing the effects that rankings and ratings have in social life.

Please join us in what will be a very lively and interesting evening with interventions from Will Davies (Goldsmiths); Wendy Espeland (Northwestern); Kristian Kreiner (CBS); and Christine Musselin (Sciences-Po) followed by a drink reception.

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Cfp_Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

November 27, 2015 – 3:20 pm

[Ana Gross avisa de la siguiente conferencia que está co-organizando] 

Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices. 21st and 22nd of April 2016, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.

“What’s on your mind?” This is the question to which every Facebook status update now responds. Millions of users sharing their thoughts in one giant performance of what Clay Shirky once called “cognitive surplus”. Contemporary media platforms aren’t simply a stage for this cognitive performance. They are more like directors, staging scenes, tweaking scripts, working to get the best or fully “optimized” performance. As Katherine Hayles has pointed out, media theory has long taken for granted that we think “through, with and alongside media”. Pen and paper, the abacus, and modern calculators are obvious cases in point, but the list quickly expands and with it longstanding conceptions of the Cartesian mind dissolve away. Within the cognitive sciences, cognition is now routinely described as embodied, extended, and distributed. They too recognize that cognition takes place beyond the brain, in between people, between people and things, and combinations thereof. The varieties of specifically human thought, from decision-making to reasoning and interpretation, are now considered one part of a broader cognitive spectrum shared with other animals, systems, and intelligent devices. Continue reading →

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“Entrepreneurs are violent. They operate without any kind of regime of justification, they just act”. An interview with Will Davies.

November 17, 2014 – 12:14 am

Will Davies is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics at Goldsmith, University of London where he also co-directs the newly created Political Economy Research Centre, and a prolific blogger. His recently published book The Limits Of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty And The Logic Of Competition examines the efforts paid by economic and innovation experts to model society in terms of competition. In this conversation we discuss the usefulness of the concepts developed by the recent sociology of critique to study the limits of neoliberalism and how the economic critique of the state has been employed precisely to legitimate, empower and expand the state.

Introduction

Q1. TU. In the introduction of your book you mention that critics of neoliberalism will probably feel disappointed if they are expecting to find a sort of conspiracy theory being unveiled through your research. However, what your research does is to unveil the theoretical and ontological underpinning of competition and neoliberalism. But maybe I am missing part of your intentions. An introductory question: what were your initial hypotheses and/or motivations for studying competition and the rationality and authority of the neoliberal state?

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