Date:
Friday, December 8, 2006.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: Encina Hall, 2nd floor, Room E-207, 616 Serra St., Stanford<BR/><BR/>
<p>During large infrastructural changes, there are often people who are left out of the changes, metaphorically making them orphans of infrastructure. This talk concerns how these people become disconnected from changing infrastructures, and the consequences in terms of suffering and isolation. How do people become "non-people", and how do science, medicine and technology play a part in that? What is the nature of being disconnected, and dismembered -- and commodified?</p>
<p>Susan Leigh Star is Professor of Women and Gender Studies, and Senior Scholar in STS at the University of Santa Clara. She received an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe in psychology and social relations, and a Ph.D from the University of California, San Francisco, in Sociology of Science and Medicine. She is President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and is best known for bringing symbolic interactionism back to the study of science and technology. Star is the author of "Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty" (Stanford, 1989); "Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences" (with Geoffrey Bowker, MIT, 1999) and of "Boundary Objects and the Poetics of Infrastructure" (MIT, forthcoming), as well as several edited volumes and many scientific papers.</p>
<p>Comment: Raymond McDermott</p><BR/>
Friday, December 8, 2006.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: Encina Hall, 2nd floor, Room E-207, 616 Serra St., Stanford<BR/><BR/>
<p>During large infrastructural changes, there are often people who are left out of the changes, metaphorically making them orphans of infrastructure. This talk concerns how these people become disconnected from changing infrastructures, and the consequences in terms of suffering and isolation. How do people become "non-people", and how do science, medicine and technology play a part in that? What is the nature of being disconnected, and dismembered -- and commodified?</p>
<p>Susan Leigh Star is Professor of Women and Gender Studies, and Senior Scholar in STS at the University of Santa Clara. She received an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe in psychology and social relations, and a Ph.D from the University of California, San Francisco, in Sociology of Science and Medicine. She is President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and is best known for bringing symbolic interactionism back to the study of science and technology. Star is the author of "Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty" (Stanford, 1989); "Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences" (with Geoffrey Bowker, MIT, 1999) and of "Boundary Objects and the Poetics of Infrastructure" (MIT, forthcoming), as well as several edited volumes and many scientific papers.</p>
<p>Comment: Raymond McDermott</p><BR/>