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In this new essay published in Dutch, and in English (different version), I discuss several concepts that can help us make sense of life in what I call the post-normal society. They include reality denial, ideology, utopia and trials of co-existence. I start the essay with a discussion of the idea of the post-normal itself, Continue reading "Five concepts for the post-normal society"
On 25 October, I will be in Berlin to give a lecture on The Non-Human Standpoint as part of the conference on Planetary Design at ICI Berlin. It will be live streamed. More info here. I will draw on my work with amazing humans in the AI in the street project to think through how Continue reading "Lecture at ICI Berlin: The Non-human Standpoint"
This coming May 21 I will give the Annual Lecture of the National Centre for Research Methods in London. I will discuss the new challenges that AI poses to the sciences of society. There are many, from the way social researchers are being encouraged to delegate knowledge acts to machines, which risks turning the process Continue reading "Lecture: After the Automation of Methods"
It began with an online workshop co-hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick) and the Digital Humanities Department (Kings College London) in June 2020 where we turned to Twitter to examine situational contraints on testing for Covid ( No phone. ). Now our paper on the testing situations that (not) testing for Covid gave Continue reading "New paper on the…
On February 1st, I discuss Bruno Latour s ecological politics at the Kairos counter-club in London. I will present his argument and vision for a politics of the earth and explore related work in sociology seeking to advance ecological politics. More info at Kairos Location: Vout-O-Reenee’s, The Crypt, 30 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB I draw Continue reading "Bruno Latour s politics of the earth"
Irena Veisaitė, literary and theatre scholar and Holocaust survivor, was born on January 9, 1928 in Kaunas, Lithuania, and died on December 11, 2020. She is remembered today at the National Philharmonic Concert Hall in Vilnius. When I landed at Vilnius airport for the first time in my life Irena stood outside waiting for us Continue reading "In memoriam: Irena Veisaite, 1928-2020"
Noortje Marres A short report of a guided walk organised as part of the CIM project Sampling Sounds of Coventry’s Future. Last Sunday the musician Sarah Farmer took us for a walk along Coventry’s Music Mile. She had brought along several speaker-balls which she handed out to us, quite casually, and, after a quick explanation, Continue reading "“The Godavarius”: Lost and Found — A field note"
It is with regret that Ana Viseu and I announce our resignations from our positions as elected members of the Council of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). When we joined Council in 2018, the Society was playing a key part in the on-going process of transforming the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology Continue reading "Why we resigned from 4S Council"
A participatory research project initiated with Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths) and Naomi Waltham-Smith (University of Warwick) March-October 2021 What does the future of Coventry sound like? The emergence of futures depends on many forces, elements, actors, and events, and engaging with the future demands attention to both the expected and the unexpected. In our Continue reading "What does the future…
Then, this summer, three of my papers are published more or less at the same time: Marres, N. (2020) For a situational analytics- An interpretative methodology for the study of situations in computational settings (proofs), Big Data Society, July–December: 1–16, DOI: 10.1177/2053951720949571 Marres, N. de Rijcke, S. (2020). From indicators to indicating interdisciplinarity: A participatory…