Marine biologist Daniel Pauly’s TED talk gives us one example of how scientific practices are normative: establish, relate to, or can be derived from accepted standards. We’ve already talked about this using Bourdieu’s model of accumulating … [Read more]
Biosociality (13 Mar)
Ten minutes for the good of the order (Brent Maher). Before we get to Rabinow, we need to understand some Michel Foucault. Foucault’s ideas lie at the heart of contemporary critical thought, and anthropologist Paul Rabinow extended Foucault’s … [Read more]
Model-data symbiosis and the construction of knowledge (11 Mar)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Google Doc In this chapter, Edwards explains how to build a stable, reliable body of knowledge on climate change, a process that he refers to as infrastructural inversion: “constantly unpacking, … [Read more]
Sample Case Study Websites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xyHnyXWcs4 Red Wolf Recovery Fracking in the Marcellus Shale Grazing Rights in Nevada Catawba River Chesapeake Bay Natural Resource Management Cod Fishery in the Gulf of Maine … [Read more]
Parameters, Tuning, Policy (1 Mar)
Parameters and Tuning In terms of models, especially the global climate ones, it’s all about the parameters: the “fuzzy boundary between data, theory, and algorithms, a place deep within the practical, everyday work of general circulation modeling … [Read more]
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