AMCIS 2009: Socio-Technical Aspects of Information Systems
Please see the call for papers for the 15th Americas Conference on Information systems (AMCIS 2009) on 6-9 August 2009 in San Francisco, which includes the mini-track “Socio-Technical Aspects of...
View ArticleThe Deleuzian ‘Spatium’ and its ‘Becoming’
An interesting ISRF seminar coming up at ISIG, LSE on 29 January 2009, exploring the connections between Heidegger and Deleuze in relation to technology and organisations: Information Systems Research...
View ArticleRemembering the Harman Review
Many thanks to Graham Harman for reminding us of the first anniversary of the Harman Review symposium, and also for his gracious words. It was such an unusual and unlikely event; even in retrospect it...
View ArticleInvitation to 5th SSIT-ORF at LSE
The deadline for abstracts for this year’s Social Study of IT Open Research Forum (SSIT-ORF) has been extended to 30 March 2009. This great little conference will take place on 21 and 22 April 2009, at...
View ArticleA New Theory of Substance
Graham Harman will be speaking at two events at University College Dublin (UCD) in the coming weeks. The first one is a seminar, entitled “A New Theory of Substance” (with Dermot Moran as discussant),...
View ArticleAn apparatus for apparatchiks
Are apparatuses good or bad? But first, what is an apparatus? The shortest and very helpful definition comes from Giorgio Agamben’s essay, “What is an Apparatus?“ I shall call an apparatus literally...
View ArticlePhilosophy and social computing
Call for papers: abstract submission deadline extended to 28 February 2011 for the “Social Computing” track at the First International Conference of the International Association for Computing and...
View ArticleTechnology and the financial crisis
The Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics will be hosting the 11th Social Study of ICT (SSIT) Workshop on 28 March 2011. Here...
View ArticleInstalling (Social) Order
An interesting new blog focusing on the social studies of infrastructure, with a penchant for STS and ANT. No doubt that computer science is the formative mode of building the models of contemporary...
View ArticleAnother call for a Prince and the Wolf reading group
In addition to the seminar in Dublin, here is another call for a reading group (by Adam Greenfield at Urbanscale) around the themes of The Prince and the Wolf and The Prince of Networks, within the...
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