Events
The Cultural Science initiative welcomes researchers from universities, research institutes, government agencies and private industry to discuss ideas and principles across discipline in pursuit of innovative insights that will help shape future societies and markets.
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This
talk confronted questions surrounding the relations of
interpretation and the idea of the scientific through a consideration
of interpretive methods and in particular actor-network theory.
Within the field of possible interpretations, science centres on
questions about the world, but the question that interpretivist methods
must confront is what constitutes the world that is interpreted, in
other words, what is the ontological status of interpreted objects in
the world? Actor-network theory collapses ontological status and
recognizes the existence of relations as significant as what are
thought of as networks, transforming ontological constructs from
essences to relations, and with relations we have a new object of
interpretation that then generalized through the sciences along the
diverse frameworks of interpretation that in part define each
discipline and interdisciplinary science. These parallels
highlight the possibilities of rigorous, scientific interpretive
methods and why those methods are likely much more traditionally
understood as science, than modern formal methods and modelling.
This talk looked at the rise of hacker labs and hacker collectives as models of critical technical practice. Critical technical practice is a method of exploring, designing, building, and testing theoretical perspectives, usually social, political, cultural, and ethical theories, as opposed to merely technological designs. By analyzing the rise of these hacker collectives, through their internet presences, I argue that these are the next generation of a series of subcultural systems of technical empowerment and a specific subaltern to the predominant means of knowledge production and dissemination. I conclude by arguing that academia, through investigating the successes of these knowledge production and dissemination forms, could probably remodel areas of mode-2 research into similarly effective learning environments that develop critical technical practices in both faculty and students.
International conference "Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons"
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Joint Research Workshop "Creative Destruction: Lessons for Science and Innovation Policy from the Rise of the Creative Industries"
Organised by: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, and FEAST: Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation Joint Research Workshop Program
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