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Marco Serino Dec 27, 2023

Ignacio Farias Dec 27, 2023

Stefan Helmreich and I are convening a panel on W ~ A • V ~ E .. S at EASST/4S conference

Waves: Environment, Excess, Transformation

Waves flicker in today’s visions of environmental transformation. Consider heat, seismic, COVID, and tsunami waves or the vibrations of wireless communication, light pollution, and noise. Waves transform the world; this panel invites STS scholars to tune in to how, when, where, and with what logics.

Submission: February 12, 2024
Details: https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14146

Open Panels - EASST-4S 2024 Call for Abstracts

Conference programme

EASST-4S 2024 Call for Abstracts - EASST-4S 2024 Call for Abstracts

Marco Serino Dec 7, 2023

#CfP: Maps of culture

The deadline of the #Callforpapers of @Poetics_Journal for the Special Issue “Mapping relational structures in culture”, co-edited by Fabien Eloire (University of Lille, Clersé-CNRS), Elisa Klüger (Aix-Marseille Université), Thierry Rossier (University of Fribourg & London School of Economics) and I (University of Naples Federico II) has been extended!

Full papers submission by January 15th 2024.

Please spread the word!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poetics/about/call-for-papers?fbclid=IwAR1hsBFdPkTJk4ytgp2qD6oYR7zXOCHa25eDSJY80wYyGjtcePaCKRJ3lQ4#mapping-relational-structures-in-culture

Marco Serino Dec 2, 2023

Relational thinking can lead you to either Bourdieu or Latour, among others. I ended up being led to studying both, despite the well-known distance between these thinkers. How can this be productive is a matter of time and hard work. But if there’s anybody experiencing a similar twofold interest in Bourdieusian/Latourian thinking it’d be great to have any suggestion or comment.

Marco Serino Sep 17, 2023

I just discovered “The Mushroom at the End of the World” by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. I heard it’s worth reading it, and it seems a promising trip.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world

The Mushroom at the End of the World

"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetA Flavorwire and Times Higher Education Book of the Year

Marco Serino Aug 17, 2023

I heard that sociologist Howard Saul Becker has passed away. He was among those who contributed most to the sociology of culture and the arts. His great ideas and works will stay with us and we’ll keep benefiting from them.

Marco Serino Jul 18, 2023

Cees Grootes Jul 18, 2023

‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done.

Interview Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi

Source: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/25/giorgio-parisi-nobel-prize-physics-spin-glasses-complex-systems-in-a-flight-of-starlings

#science #trust #NobelPrize #GiorioParisi

Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi: ‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done’

The Italian physicist puts the fiendishly tricky theory of complex systems in terms of birds and bus rides, as his new book aims to make his branch of science accessible to all

The Guardian

Marco Serino Jul 1, 2023

Recent social science conferences are increasingly focusing on future, upcoming worlds - mostly, in fact, on what will happen to our world.
This was one of the main concerns that informed the latest #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #STS conference in Bologna, Italy: “Interesting worlds to come”, with @NoortjeMarres among the keynote speakers.

Marco Serino Jun 30, 2023

Omar Lizardo Jun 29, 2023

New Socius data viz! Does economic crisis affect participation in the arts? Click to find out!

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231184968

Made with real farm to table data!

https://github.com/olizardo/Visualizing-the-Decline-in-Cultural-Participation-in-Europe-Post-Crisis

Marco Serino Jun 27, 2023

Jan Fuhse Jun 27, 2023

Just out: Nick Crossley's review of my book "Social Networks of Meaning in Communication" in the American Journal of Sociology:
https://journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723877
I am honored and happy about Nick's kind words about my work.
Not much of a surprise that he criticizes my take on meaning, and my drawing on Luhmann's theories of communication and communicative meaning.
Nick's book "Towards relational sociology" with his take on social networks inspired by pragmatism and SI is definitely worth reading.

Marco Serino Jun 25, 2023

#CfP: Maps of culture

I’d like to announce a #Callforpapers of @Poetics_Journal for a Special Issue titled “Mapping relational structures in culture”, co-edited by Fabien Eloire (University of Lille, Clersé-CNRS), Elisa Klüger (Aix-Marseille Université), Thierry Rossier (University of Fribourg & London School of Economics) and I (University of Naples Federico II).

Full papers submission by November 20th 2023.

Info available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poetics/about/call-for-papers#mapping-relational-structures-in-culture

Please circulate!