This piece is dedicated to Stefan Stern, who picked up on – and ran with – a remark I made at this year’s Brain Bar Budapest, concerning the need for a ‘value-added’ account of being ‘human’ in a world in… Read More ›
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Nearly 100 podcasts by @ProfSteveFuller
Available online here. It would be great if more academics did this.
Sociology as the Science of Human Uplift: The Sacred Project of UK Sociology?
In this keynote talk from the 2014 British Sociological Association conference, Steve Fuller talks about “Sociology as the Science of Human Uplift”. I was struck when listening to his discussion of the early history of the discipline in the UK,… Read More ›
Privacy in a Digital Age
In this interesting debate from the iai.tv the “outspoken philosopher of science” Steve Fuller (also SI blogger and Warwick sociologist) debates Cory Doctorow and Kate Russell on the meaning of privacy in contemporary society. I’m pretty hostile to Fuller’s argument here but there’s some… Read More ›
On Improvisation
‘So what would an improvisation-friendly academia look like? Certainly standards of public performance would shift. We would become more tolerant of people who speak crudely without notes, if they can improve as they take questions from the audience. But we… Read More ›
Steve Fuller on The Proactionary Imperative
While I’m a bit sceptical about the ‘beyond left and right’ terms in which this is being framed, it’s nonetheless an extremely interesting idea:
Why Slavoj Zizek is a Waste of Space for the Social Scientifically Literate Left
Slavoj Zizek may be great at beating up on grand old men of the anti-establishment such as Chomsky, but he is a total waste of space for a self-described ‘Left’ that wants to remain politically relevant in the 21st century…. Read More ›
The craft of giving (bad) presentations
This presentation by Nick Hopwood seems to have circulated quite widely this morning. It’s a satirical presentation attached to this post, visually illustrating all the presentational mistakes he observes in the attached article. It makes a lot of useful points in… Read More ›
Being Human in the Information Age – Professor Steve Fuller
The hypothesis of the University of Warwick’s Being Human Research Network notes that, “Human life is increasingly driven and mediated by technology and technological change with profound implications for human identity and behaviour.” Indeed, the way in which we express… Read More ›
Wanted: Ph.D. student to put Harriet Martineau back in the sociological canon
Harriet Martineau () was one of the most remarkable women of letters – perhaps ever. Her body of work ranged across the social and biological sciences and even theology. Wikipedia gives a good introduction to the breadth of her writing. However, if… Read More ›
The best of @ProfSteveFuller on Sociological Imagination
“The best of @ProfSteveFuller on Sociological Imagination” on Bundlr
Wanted: Ph.D. student to put Harriet Martineau back in the sociological canon
Harriet Martineau () was one of the most remarkable women of letters – perhaps ever. Her body of work ranged across the social and biological sciences and even theology. Wikipedia gives a good introduction to the breadth of her writing…. Read More ›
Towards a Comtean Revival in Sociology
I have been closely associated with the field of science and technology studies (STS) since my graduate student days, nearly thirty years ago. In 1984, as a PhD student in history and philosophy of science, I published the first piece… Read More ›
Who will recognize Humanity 2.0 and will it recognize us?
SEA 2011 – Professor Steve Fuller from Virtual Futures on Vimeo. If ‘Humanity 1.0’ is the proverbial ‘normal human being’ that our laws have been traditionally designed to empower and protect, then who is ‘Humanity 2.0’? For the most part,… Read More ›
Is Precautionary the New Reactionary?
In recent months, both sides of the Atlantic have witnessed renewed calls to apply the so-called Precautionary Principle to limit, if not outright, stop a variety of publicly and privately funded research and development projects around the topic of ‘synthetic… Read More ›
Our 10 most popular posts in November
Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today Perhaps the most demotivating image EVER (speaking as a website edited by two near-to-completion PhD students) The University Project Privilege & Oppression, Conflict & Compassion Review of… Read More ›
Steve Fuller – The Posthuman Challenge to Ecological Correctness
This is Part One of an unscripted talk presented by Steve Fuller (in his office at the University of Warwick, UK, in September 2011) as a ‘Festvideo’ (cf. Festschrift) in honour of Eugene Rosa of Washington State University, one of… Read More ›
Humanity 2.0
In this series of videos
A sociological blog dedicated to ‘Humanity 2.0’
Recently a videoclip of me giving one of the first TEDx lectures at Warwick was posted here on ‘Humanity 2.0’, which is about changing definitions of the human, an issue central to the past, present and future of the social… Read More ›
Steve Fuller on Humanity 2.0
A video from TED Warwick where Steve Fuller talks about the problem of defining humanity.
Steve Fuller on the Impact Agenda
In this podcast Mark Carrigan discusses the impact agenda with Steve Fuller. The discussion encompasses the history of impact, its relationship to wider issues in higher education, existing academic responses to the impact agenda and strategic alternatives.
Discourses of Dissent – Public Universities and Public Futures
A round table session from Discourses of Dissent investigating how academic research, with a particular focus on social theory, might help us articulate and work towards a positive vision of shared futures which escape the discursive constraints which have defined… Read More ›
Discourses of Dissent: this Wednesday (16th) in Birmingham
Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In light of the coalition government’s austerity agenda and the emerging movement against it, the event asks how academic… Read More ›
Discourses of Dissent: Social Theory and Political Resistance
Public Symposium, Warwick Social Theory Centre 16th February 2011, 2-6pm, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged / £5 student, unwaged Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In… Read More ›
SI Interviews – Steve Fuller on the Future of the University
In this podcast Steve Fuller talks about the future of the university. At a time of crisis in the university, the discussion explores how academia has arrived at its present juncture and where it might go from here. It contextualises… Read More ›
Discourses of Dissent: Social Theory and Political Resistance
Public Symposium, Warwick Social Theory Centre 16th February 2011, 2-6pm, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged / £5 student, unwaged Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In… Read More ›
Steve Fuller on Student Protests
I was very impressed by the numbers who protested in London ten days ago. Indeed, the violence done to Tory Party HQ did not bother me as much as the lack of organized purpose in doing so. This ‘violence’ has… Read More ›