ANTHEM

The draft programme for the 2008 4S/EASST Conference in Rotterdam is now available from the 4S website [1MB PDF]. There are just too many interesting talks here for us to be able to even begin to list them, so we will stick with highlighting just the one session that is most closely in line with the ANTHEM theme: Session 1.3.16 “Actor Network Theory meets (Post)Phenomenology,” between 13:30-15:30 on 21 August 2008 in Room T3-31. Session organisers: Jack Post and Peter-Paul Verbeek. The talks:

• “I have never been Modern - nor has Postphenomenology been so,” by Don Ihde, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• “Posthuman Perceptions: on hybrids and human-technology relations,” by Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente

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Here is a recording (46 minutes) of this week’s discussion. The reading schedule can be viewed here.

A recording of the second ANTHEM session of the current term is available here (2 hours 13 minutes). The reading schedule can be accessed here.

Graham Harman will be giving a talk entitled “On Actors, Networks, and Plasma: Heidegger vs. Latour vs. Heidegger” at ISIG at the LSE at 12:00 on Thursday 29 November 2007.

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The first ANTHEM session of the current term from 16 October 2007 had been recorded and posted on this site. Click here to listen (1 hour 22 minutes). Further details on the current reading schedule are available here.

The ANTHEM reading sessions are currently under way. Please click here to see the current reading schedule. In the Michaelmas term (October to December 2007) we will be reading Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory in five instalments. Recordings of each session will be posted on this site. We invite you to join us in reading this book, listen to the discussion, and post your comments. If you would like to become a standing member of the ANTHEM gathering, you can apply for membership here. We are looking forward to a great discussion on this forum.