Event overview
Jane L Guyer and Helen Verran take a critical look at what might be involved in our shifting relationship to number.
The proliferation of data and conventions for its visualization, a revival in forms of self-experimentation, and changing boundaries between ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’ forms of knowledge production raise the question of how our relationships with numbers and numbering practices are changing. How might different theoretical and methodological approaches address the ways in which new orientations towards numbers are emerging? What might we learn from past formulations of numbering?
Two distinguished international scholars of number and numbering will take a critical look at what might be involved in our shifting relationship to number:
Jane L. Guyer, George Armstrong Kelly Professor, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University: Percentages and Perchance: Archaic Forms in the 21st Century
Helen Verran, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne: A Political Arithmetic of Australia’s Fish? Examining the Performativity of the Numbers Embedded in a Proposed Intervention in a Domain of Australian Environmental Policy Formulation
Dates & times
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16 Feb 2012 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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