Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK)
at the University of Oslo
February 2nd.- 3rd 2006

Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world!

Decades of science-studies have demonstrated the ways in which knowledge is power; the ways in which laboratories in particular, and science, in general, are generative and transformative nature-factories. Through these new objects, new matters of facts, are made available to the public and to politics. Thus it is up to politics to discuss and decide. However, in framing the issue this way we continue to treat politics as discourse, as ideas, as an exclusively human affair. Is it not time we started exploring the materialities of politics? Continue Reading »