Liberal Innovation In ICT
In this post we take Gabriele Giacomini's Liberal Innovation proposal from The Arduous Road to Revolution and some of Sarah Lamdan's 'multifaceted solutions' from her Data Cartels book to look for similarities and divergencies. - Leggi
Read also: The Arduous Road to Revolution review and posts on tag algoritmo
The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age.
Jonathan Hankins reviews The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age, the latest book from Gabriele Giacomini. - Leggi
See also: Liberal Innovation In ICT and le interviste di Giacomini
Collective food procurement as responsible innovation
Collective food procurement is an emerging phenomenon at multiple levels, well beyond purchasing: for example through foraging and self-production; short food chains and direct sales; or food governance through local institutions, but also through networks of NGOs. On February 4th 2022 the 'Food Citizens?' Conference at Leiden University wrapped up the first four and half years of research of the ERC Consolidator project 'Collective Food Procurement in European Cities: Solidarity and Diversity, Skill and Scale'. - Leggi
Read also: Omeopatia del rifiuto and Innovating Food, Innovating the Law
OECD Conference on Technology in and for Society, December 2021
In this post, Jonathan Hankins offers some take-aways and personal thoughts on the recent OECD Conference on Technology in and for Society, held on the 6th and 7th of December 2021. - Leggi
Beyond Alternative Food Networks, a book review
Long time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently published her latest book 'Beyond Alternative Food Networks; Italy's solidarity purchase groups'. - Leggi
Read also: Uncertainty and disquiet and Omeopatia del rifiuto
Sustainable Innovation at the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Last week the American Anthropological Association (AAA) hosted a discussion about sustainable innovation. Grounded in observations of social practice in particular localities, two points were particularly striking. One was the close relationship between responsibility and sustainability; to be responsible, innovation must be sustainable... - Leggi
Read also: AAA Annual Meeting 2010 and AAA Meeting - Sustainable Innovations
An Interview with Dr.Marc Smith
- Leggi
See also: Microspheres by Andrea Pitasi
Categorie Sociology, Software development
Bruno Latour in FGB
On 27 October 2003 we opened the Call for Comments entitled 'No Innovation without Representation (A Parliament of things for the new Technical Democracies)'. Conducted by the sociologist Massimiano Bucchi, it was connected with the invitation extended by the Bassetti Foundation and the Politecnico to the sociologist Bruno Latour to give a Lecture in Milan. This CfC, closed on 20 December, served to introduce, accompany and support the arguments covered by Latour in his essay 'What rules of method for the new socio-scientific experiments?' and discussed in his lecture on 17 November. - Leggi

Categorie Sociology
Bruno Latour in FGB
On 27 October 2003 we opened the Call for Comments entitled 'No Innovation without Representation (A Parliament of things for the new Technical Democracies)'. Conducted by the sociologist Massimiano Bucchi, it was connected with the invitation extended by the Bassetti Foundation and the Politecnico to the sociologist Bruno Latour to give a Lecture in Milan. This CfC, closed on 20 December, served to introduce, accompany and support the arguments covered by Latour in his essay 'What rules of method for the new socio-scientific experiments?' and discussed in his lecture on 17 November. - Leggi

Categorie Interviews, Lecture