Experimental Systems, States, and Speculations: Anthropology at the Intersection of Life, Science, and Capital
April 13th-14th, 2007 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Social Sciences Plaza B (SSPB) 1208, UC Irvine [maps and directions]
This conference investigates science, the state, and capital through the lens of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's formulation of experimental systems. It juxtaposes accounts of experimental practice within the laboratory to those of experimental forms of knowledge production relevant to the operation of the state, laws, regulatory agencies, and political mechanisms. The formulation of "experimental systems, states, and speculations" signals the multiple scales which experimental work traverses, from the molecular to the organismic to the social, environmental, financial, and biopolitical.
National Science Foundation
Center for Ethnography, UC Irvine School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Joseph Dumit, Janet Alexanian, and Asya Anderson.
For additional information, please contact Janet (janeta@uci.edu) or Asya (asyaa@uci.edu).
