We are thrilled to announce that the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) and the Technoscience Research Unit have received the J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award from the Society of American Archivists. This award recognizes the work of the TRU in hosting our Guerrilla Archiving event in December, which helped to launch over community…
Read TRU member Alessandro Delfanti’s work on “Distributed Biotechnology,” the new Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science (2017), edited by D. Tyfield R. Lave, S. Randalls, and C. Thorpe. Read Prof. Delfanti’s chapter on “Distributed Biotechnology” here. From the publisher “The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the…
Read TRU Member Nehal El-Hadi’s essay in The New Inquiry, “Death Undone.” The essay demands that new relations between death and social media technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life. Read the Excerpt: “ANOTHER Black man died on my feed. I didn’t know who Philando Castile was until July 6, 2016. Castile was in his…
Announcing the Techniques of the Corporation public keynote Corporate Speculation: Techniques for Calibrating Our Future by Professor Joseph Dumit (UC Davis, Anthropology) Thursday, May 4, 2017 from 4-6 George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place. Reception to follow. Please RSVP for reception here Abstract: I—like many, if not most of you—like to think of futures…
Job Description: TRU Program Assistant The Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) at the University of Toronto is searching for a program assistant who will work in close collaboration with the Director and TRU members. The TRU is a cross-faculty hub for critical and creative research on the politics of technoscience. The TRU is affiliated with…
2016-17 :: (De)Composing Futures April 7 :: Decomposing and Recomposing Plant/People Futures Join us for the Technoscience Salon’s final event of the season where we explore ways to restage plant/people relations in order to cultivate more livable futures for all. Our speakers and stirrers share insights from their work in postcolonial feminist science studies, anthropology, and…
TRU members Matt Price and Natasha Myers discussing practices for contesting attacks on public access to environment and climate government both in the U.S. and in Canada. Here them discuss their work in the Environmental Data and Government Initiative and the Write2Know Project.
Read TRU member’s Patrick Keilty new article on “Tedious: feminized labor in machine-readable cataloging” in the latest issue of Feminist Media Studies. Abstract This essay examines previously unexplored IBM reports and manuals that document the development of Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) in the 1960s to understand gendered assumptions manufacturers made about the labor of information retrieval…
We are pleased to announce that TRU members Bretton Fosbrook and Kira Lussier have published in the most recent issue of Business History Review (90.4, January 2016). Kira offers a history of “Managerial Intuition” and Bretton provides an analysis of the concept of Heterarchy in “The Evolution of the Heterarchical Organization.” Kira and Bretton, along with Justin Douglas,…
Learn about the TRU’s work preserving U.S. environmental data as part of the EDGI (the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. Michelle Murphy and Nick Shapiro talk about their work with Dominic Boyer and Cymene How in this Cultures of Energy Podcast from Rice University. http://culturesofenergy.com/ep-54-saving-environmental-data-feat-michelle-murphy-nick-shapiro/
The TRU is excited to announce the launch of the EDGI toolkit in support of data archiving events and #DataRescue. The toolkit was made possible by the efforts of TRU members and the Civic Tech TO community, and all those who participated at the Guerrilla Archiving Event. If you are thinking about hosting your own event,…
Call to Action: Care about Trump, data, or the environment? Join us for a full day of hackathon activities in preparation for the Trump presidency. Date: 10am-4pm, December 17, 2016 Location: Bissell Building, 4th Floor, 140 St. George St. University of Toronto RSVP and up-to-date information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1828129627464671/ Bring: laptops, power bars, and snacks. Coffee and Pizza…
