Tuesday 24th October - Stephen Muecke

The Centre for Cultural Studies presents:

a guest lecture by Professor Stephen Muecke - University or Technology, Sydney

"Science Studies and Cultural Studies: Ideas from Latour, Stengers and other 'radical empiricists'"

If critique is indeed 'running out of steam' (Latour), what would a post-critical cultural studies look like? Doing science studies means writing ethnographies of what scientists do, and in the process delving into their 'black boxes'. So maybe CS should observe what its practitioners do as opposed to listening to, then judging, their familiar critical positions. The subsequent analysis should give us a clearer idea of what such practitioners are capable of doing in their real empirical relations.

Venue, Goldsmiths Cinema, 6.30pm, Tuesday 24th October - all welcome.

(pic by Tom Carment, Sydney artist)
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