February 16, 5:30 PM 

Milieux Institute, EV Building, Room 11.705
1515 St-Catherine ST. W., Concordia University

Openness was supposed to save science. Heralded as modern science’s saving grace, the “open science” movement had its debut among the scientific and general community in the last 15 years, reputedly to render the field more accessible and democratic. In this talk, historian and philosopher of economic thought Philip Mirowski deconstructs the emergence of and current craze for “openness.” Starting with the work of some historians of science, he explores the indictments of the older regime of science by its advocates, and then outlines the neoliberal realizations of the program. The proper frame of understanding involves the quest to have the market validate truth, and to Taylorize the scientific process.

Algorithmic Media Observatory
Department of Communication Studies
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
RISK Working Group

Upcoming JOHN DURHAM PETERS event with the Media History Research Centre.

John Lilly, who made dolphins famous as cosmic minds in the water, was obsessed with their bioacoustic practices. Sound technologies, especially tape, were the conditio sine qua non of Lilly’s cetacean research. He used tape to decrypt dolphin communications. The taped infrastructure of his quest for alternate worlds makes Lilly’s work of vital interest for media history, our understanding of sound, the tape medium, and in the stakes of the quest for otherness.

September 22 | 5:30 PM
Henry F. Hall Building H-763
Sir George William Campus
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve W.

For more information, email fenwick.mckelvey@concordia.ca
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The Media History Research Centre presents

THE UNEASY HISTORY OF THE SOVIET INTERNET: BEYOND THE BOOK

 SPEAKER Benjamin Peters, Assistant Professor of Communication, from University of Tulsa

RESPONDENTS Fenwick McKelvey, Communication Studies, and Elena Razlogova, History, from Concordia University

WHEN Friday September 30 | 2 to 4 PM

WHERE CJ 1.114 | Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke W., Concordia University

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For further information, contact jeremy.stolow@concordia.ca