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In Art, Science and the Politics of Knowledge, Hannah Star Rogers challenges the traditional dichotomy between art and science, arguing that they share common approaches to knowledge-making. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and using compelling examples, Star Rogers illuminates the overlapping characteristics – such as emphases on visualisation, enquiry and experimentation – of the two knowledge domains, writes Andrew Karvonen. This blogpost … Continued

The new issue of "European Journal of Social Theory" (May 2023) features articles on "The Critical Theory of Society":* Patrick O'Mahony - "Introduction to special issue: The critical theory of society" (PDF)* Klaus Eder - "Pandora's box: The two sides of the public sphere" (PDF)* Piet Strydom - "The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility" (Abstract)* Johann P. Arnason - "Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society" (Abstract)* Hartmut Rosa & Peter Schulz - "Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory's ongoing search for a concept of society" (Abstract)* Regina Kreide - "Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas's colonisation thesis" (PDF)* Tracey Skillington - "Thinking beyond the ecological present: Critical theory on the self-problematization of society and its transformation" (PDF)* Patrick O'Mahony - "Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society" (PDF)* Daniel Chernilo - "On the relationships between critical theory and secularisation: The challenges of democratic fallibility and planetary survival" (Abstract)

The third post in our series on Joanne Yao's The Ideal River, today brought to you by Dr Kiran Phull. Kiran is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research centres on the politics of global knowledge production and the rise of opinion polling. She takes a critical … Continue reading In Praise of Undisciplined Knowledge: The Epistemic Entanglements of the River

To cast the Labour Theory of Value into colloquial terms - including the conclusion often reached from it. It's only human labour that really adds value to things. Therefore, all the value added to something should flow to labour. If capital, or the capitalists - who have not laboured to add value - gain some of that value than that's expropriation. We should therefore stop that and make sure that labour gains all the value added. Yes, pretty crude but at the general level of understanding that is what is meant by it. A veteran metal detectorist hit the jackpot when he turned up late to a group dig only to stumble across the largest gold nugget ever found in England after just 20 minutes of searching.Richard Brock, 67, travelled three-and-a-half hours from his home in Somerset in May 2023 to join an organised expedition on farmland in the Shropshire Hills.Despite his metal detector not in full working order, Mr Brock, who has been metal detecting for 35 years, discovered the biggest find of his life after unearthing a 64.8-gram (about 2.28 ounces) golden nugget.To a useful level of accuracy that's some £4,000 worth of gold. The nugget is estimated to sell for £30,000.Well, maybe it will and maybe it won't. But this does pose a terrible problem for that Labour Theory of Value.Yes, of course, we can go through any number of rathole iterations and insist that the labour of detectoring is what added the £26k in value and all that. Or say that natural finds are different or summat. But what we've actually got there is that the prices humans allocate to things are not objective. They are subjective. £4k of gold becomes £30k of nugget because there's a nice story attached. We can also continue down the rathole iterations and insist that the absence of a metal detector would lead to no value at all, therefore capital is being expropriated by not gaining all, let alone any, of that value.But the correct answer here is that the Labour Theory is simply wrong. Sure, we can construct ethical or moral systems in which it should be true. We can even insist that humans be reformed so as to make it true - tho' we'd observe that New Soviet Man sure took a long time comin'.Reality is simply that humans do not price things by the labour value in their production. Prices are subjective opinions, not objective realities. Sure, when 8 billion subjectives are aggregated we get to the "real price" of something but we've not an objective analysis underlying all of that. Given this it's not possible to have an objective split of the value added - for that value just isn't commensurable in that manner. That is, the Labour Theory of Value is just great except for the one thing - it doesn't apply to us, us humans, and the prices and values we apply to things.

Call for Papers for a Workshop Session at the Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association in Basel, Switzerland, on September 9–11, 2024. Deadline: January 15, 2024

Decolonial methods, and the bringing of attention to race in knowledge production is necessarily historical. It demands a close re-reading of archives, forgotten texts, and sometimes "canonical" works. As a result, through this special issue and the wider work the authors build upon, we now have a very different understanding of the historical entanglements of race and international affairs knowledge.

Mitchell Young While, as the name of this blog reflects, knowledge has become a central concern in European policymaking internally, it has not made the same inroads into the EU's external policy discourses. This neglect of knowledge in the field of international relations is not limited to the EU, but given the European policy context, […]
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Geopolitics of knowledge is a fact. Only few (conservative) colleagues would contend otherwise. Ingrid Robeyns wrote an entry for this blog dealing with this problem. There, Ingrid dealt mostly with the absence of non-Anglophone colleagues in political philosophy books and journals from the Anglophone centre. I want to stress that this is not a problem […]

Political scandal is a historically defining aspect of American politics. But, there's been very little scholarship on the political incentives that surround the production and consequences of scandals.

In a recent paper, "Political Scandal: A Theory", our very own Will Howell and Wioletta Dziuda create a new model of political scandal that makes these incentives clear. On this episode, we discuss how these incentives should reshape the way we think about political scandals.

As AI becomes increasingly entangled into different forms of knowledge work, Bert Verhoeven and Vishal Rana discuss how higher education can adapt to meet the needs of a changing labour market. Pointing to the limits of traditional forms of testing in higher education and the benefits of study in practice and authentic assessment, they argue … Continued

A new study says yes, but it has some serious problems.

By ADAM KOZACZKA

Review of Character: Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature, by Catherine O. Frank.

"On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand invites Bruce Pardy to discuss the origins of the Woke virus of the mind: critical theory, social justice, postmodernism and critical race theory." ~ Kate Wand