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Einladung Workshop: Wissenschaftliche Philosophie | ÖAW | 12.-13. Dezember

by Zarah Weiss

Workshop: Wissenschaftliche Philosophie. Transformationen und Kontinuitäten im langen 19. Jahrhundert Die Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften der ÖAW lädt ein, bei einem Workshop die Transformationen und Kontinuitäten der Wissenschaftlichen Philosophie als Fachdisziplin im langen 19. Jahrhundert zu diskutieren. Termin: 12. bis 13. Dezember 2024 Ort: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Collegium Erdgeschoß, Seminarraum 1 Bäckerstraße 13 1010 Wien Kontakt: kgpw(at)oeaw.ac.at [1] T: +43 1 51581-3650 Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften der ÖAW [2] Wissenschaftliche Philosophie ist der Versuch, Philosophie ausgehend von den Kriterien der Einzelwissenschaften als eigenständige Wissenschaft zu etablieren. Die Frage nach ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte wirft folglich das Problem des komplexen und historisch kontingenten Verhältnisses von Philosophie und Wissenschaft auf. Die Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften der ÖAW lädt zum Workshop "Wissenschaftliche Philosophie" ein, um die Transformationsgeschichte vom 18. ins 19. Jahrhundert genauer zu beleuchten. Dabei sollen sowohl die logische Analyse und ihre empirische Basis thematisiert werden: Erstere liegt in einer Problematisierung der Natur der Mathematik, der Frage nach dem Gegenstand der Logik bzw. nach dem Status von regulativen Prinzipien und ihrer Apriorizität; zweitere im Empfindungsbegriff, dem Konzept raumzeitlicher Gegenstände und dem Elementbegriff. Anmeldung erbeten bis 9. Dezember 2024 an kgpw(at)oeaw.ac.at [1] Mehr Infos und Programm unter: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veranstaltung/wissenschaftliche-philosophie Links: ------ [1] https://www.oeaw.ac.at//# [2] http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kgpw/

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Vienna STS Talks - STS Talk by Matthew Kearnes

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 6th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025S [cid:image001.png@01DB459C.EF1C8500] INNORES Talk by : Matthew Kearnes School of Humanities & Languages, UNSW Sydney December 10, 2024 05:00 PM-06:30 PM Critical Circularity - (re)configuring repair and reuse Abstract Inasmuch as the circular economy has become a prominent topic within political and corporate discussions worldwide - imagining a wholescale transformation of linear modes of production and the creative recovery and repurposing of materials formerly classified as waste - a range of recent critical assessments have identified key faultlines in this discourse. These critiques have characterised the circular economy as a "refurbished version of market-oriented capitalism"(Genovese and Pansera 2021), and identified tendencies toward technocratic policy interventions such as "consumer nudging, quality assurance standards, and enhanced waste policies" (Niskanen and Mclaren 2023). Responding to these critiques in this paper we develop a notion of critical circularity, drawing on two overlapping projects focused on the configuration of projects of repair and reuse. Our first case is drawn from the fields of wastewater and sewage treatment. Emerging in the nineteenth century, through the consolidation of public health, sanitation and environmental science - together with what Schneider (2011) characterises as the technologies of industrial ecosystems in recent years sewage infrastructures have years emerged as sites of renewed political concern. In this context, visions of the circular reuse and anticipated monetisation of sewage have been troubled by a recognition of the ways in which wastewater is commonly contaminated by a range of toxic substances (including PFAS, microplastics and heavy metals). Basing our analysis in current research exploring the potential reuse of the solid waste produced through sewage treatment - commonly referred to as sludge or biosolids - we explore the ways in which anticipated transitions in sewage treatment entail situated negotiations of the mass and volume of solid waste, together with the ways in which biosolids are entangled with more-than-human and chemosocial relations, in the context of changing climatic dynamics. Our second case draws on an ongoing engagement with projects of repair and activism around the global 'right to repair' movement. In this case we explore how the objectives of a movement for a right to repair configure repair practices in ways that simultaneously preserve and subvert existing socio-material orders. We conclude by pointing to the prospects for critical and engaged conceptions of the circular economy. My coauthors for this work at Patrik Bonney (Deakin University) and Kevin Witzenberger (Queensland Universiyt of Technology). Biography Matthew is Professor of Environment and Society and Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW. His most recent books include the co-edited volumes Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics (with Jason Chilvers, Routledge, 2016) & Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory (with Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Anna Krzywoszynska & Manuel Tironi, Bloomsbury, 2020). Matthew is an editor of Science, Technology and Human Values (Sage), an associate editor for Science as Culture (Taylor & Francis). Organiser Department of Science and Technology Studies Location STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image002.jpg@01DB459C.EF1C8500]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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Buchpräsentation: Franz Roh 1890-1965 | IWK, 5. Dezember 19 Uhr

by Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft

Wir laden herzlich zur Buchpräsentation Franz Roh 1890-1965. Kunstkritiker, Vorkämpfer der Kultur-Moderne: Eine Kollektivbiographie *Datum/Zeit* Do 05/12/2024 /17:00–19:00/ *Ort *Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst Berggasse 17/1 1090 Wien* * <https://doi.org/10.48666/1031108> Hans-Joachim Dahms (ed.), /Franz Roh 1890-1965. Kunstkritiker, Vorkämpfer der Kulturmoderne. Eine Kollektivbiografie/, Vienna: Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism, 2024 Mit Beiträgen von *Hans-Joachim Dahms* und *Christian Damböck*. Das Buch „Franz Roh 1890-1965“ setzt sich zum Ziel, den Vordenker und Vorkämpfer der Kulturmoderne auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage nach intensivem Quellenstudium und Archivrecherchen vorzustellen. Keine Ausstellung, die sich mit der mitteleuropäischen Moderne der 1920 Jahre befasst, kommt heutzutage an Franz Roh als ihrem Begleiter und Vordenker vorbei. Bisher existiert aber keine zusammenhängende wissenschaftliche Erforschung seines Lebens und Werkes. Diese Lücke will dieser Band schließen. Die Beiträge sind von ausgewiesenen SpezialistInnen der zahlreichen Facetten seines Werks verfasst und ergeben , zusammen genommen, eine Kollektivbiographie Rohs, die von seinen Jugendjahren und seinem Fachwechsel von der Germanistik und Philosophie zur Kunstgeschichte noch vor dem ersten Weltkrieg bis hin zu den letzten Treffen mit lebenslangen Freunden in der Mitte der 1965er Jahre reicht. *Programm *Joachim Dahms: “Franz Roh und die Neue Sachlichkeit” Christian Damböck: “Roh und der Wiener Kreis” Diskussion Ausklang *Mehr Infos *https://www.iwk.ac.at/events/franz-roh-1890-1965-kunstkritiker-vorkaempfer-der-kultur-moderne-eine-kollektivbiographie/

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TODAY Vienna STS Talks - STS Talk by Louise Whiteley

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 5th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W [cid:image001.jpg@01DB449E.D012B4D0] STS Talk by Louise Whiteley Medical Museion & CBMR, University of Copenhagen December 02, 2024 05:00 PM-06:30 PM Attempting the Impossible: Communicating Microbe-Human Relations in a Research Museum. Abstract The idea that the microbes in our guts can affect our mental wellbeing has moved from niche interest to mainstream discourse over the last decade. Based on early-stage laboratory research with non-human animals, the proposition has nonetheless spread rapidly into popular media, commercial products, and alternative medical practices. The Microbes on the Mind project started from a curiosity about what this means for thinking about the human as an everyday, experiencing self in constant negotiation with concepts, practices, and systems of health. We investigated how microbe-mind relations are communicated, felt, and experienced, and asked whether this communication helps activate the potentially positive consequences of thinking about human wellbeing as partly-microbial. Throughout we experimented with offering new forms of communication and experience within a university museum, addressing the difficulties of communicating about relations between invisible multitudes and human subjectivity. In my talk I will share examples of our research and public engagement - from a podcast to an art-science exhibition. I will also discuss how this hybrid project was informed by an STS lens on what microbiome research means and does, and reflect on how we applied STS principles of mirroring the complexity of the world in research to our curatorial practice in the museum. Biography Louise Whiteley is an associate professor and curator at Medical Museion and CBMR, at the University of Copenhagen. Louise researches how biomedicine moves and shapes everyday ideas about what is to be human, through popular culture and public engagement. Within this frame, they have looked at neuroimaging, microbiome research, metabolic science, and most recently translational stem cell research. Louise also curates exhibitions, art-science collaborations, and public engagement events, in dialogue with research, and is passionate about the importance of communicating values within interdisciplinary collaboration. Organiser Department of Science and Technology Studies Location STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna & online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.6> [cid:image003.png@01DB449F.AFB03090] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image002.jpg@01DB449E.D012B4D0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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Job advertisement for a new student assistant position at the project SCARCE

by Dolores Šurlina

Dear students, The ERC-STG project SCARCE [1] (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is looking for a reliable and committed person to take on a variety of project-related tasks as a study assistant in a dynamic team and a pleasant working atmosphere. The position is based at the Institute of History at the University of Vienna and the field of work is in the area of history. As I am a research assistant on this project myself, I can highly recommend it. :) If you are interested, have a look at the specifications below. All best, Dolores Šurlina --- Scope of employment: · Working hours: 8-10 hours per week (negotiable) · Start: from begin of February · Duration of employment: limited to 12 months, extension possible by mutual agreement Job profile: · Project-related organisation and administration · Support with research tasks, e.g. literature review and bibliography · Archive research, (machine-aided) preparation of transcriptions · Maintenance of websites and blogs, possibly also social media channels Requirements profile: Required: · Current studies at the University of Vienna (BA, BEd, MA or MEd), no completed subject-related master's or diploma programme · Good knowledge of German and/or English · Organisational experience (within or outside the university) Of advantage: · Knowledge of other languages (especially Hungarian, Slavic languages, Dutch, French) · Experience in managing websites, blogs, social media · Knowledge of early modern history (1400-1800 CE) and experience in dealing with early modern sources · Good communication skills (written, oral, teamwork) · Time flexibility Form and content of the application: · CV incl. the following contact details: Name, email address, telephone number, matriculation number, study reference number · Letter of motivation considering your own interests (max. 1 page) · References or contact details of reference persons (if available) Deadline & addressee: · Please send applications exclusively as a PDF (1 document) to: scarce.geschichte(a)univie.ac.at If you have any questions, please contact Dolores Šurlina at dolores.surlina(a)univie.ac.at · Application deadline: 15. December 2024 · Submissions by post will not be considered Selection process: * Review of applications by project staff * Interviews are planned to take place 8-17 January * An acceptance or rejection will be made by the end of January 2025 General conditions for study assistants: According to § 30 of the collective agreement (KV) for university employees, study assistants belong to the group of student employees. This includes part-time employees who have not yet completed a master's (diploma) degree programme for the intended use when the employment contract is concluded. The employment relationship of a student employee ends, without the need for a termination declaration, at the end of the semester in which the Master's (diploma) programme is completed, but at the latest after a total period of two years. Like tutors, study assistants are student employees and are subject to salary group C: https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/jobs-recruiting/job-center/gehaltsschema Links: ------ [1] https://scarce.univie.ac.at/

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NEW LOCATION Studi Mett-Up Tonight!

by Vinzenz Fischer

Hey all, I'm sorry for the short-term change of plans. Unfortunately there has been an issue with our reservation at SpielBar. So our new location is: Today, 19:00 The Long Hall Bar Vienna https://maps.app.goo.gl/SaMJWQdqcDhhCzkg9 It is very close to the SpielBar, so the time it takes to get there should be very similar. Looking forward to tonight! Vinzenz

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December 3rd: Punsch, Glühwein and Planning!

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, we want to invite you to come have a Punsch or Glühwein (mulled wine) together at the Christmas Market at Altes AKH! The goal is to update each other on what we have been up to, and to make some new plans for providing support to underrepresented groups in philosophy. Bring your best ideas, your warmest socks and maybe an extra pair of tights - it's supposed to be fairly cold that day! UPSalon are a group of BA, MA, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers; the initiative aims at creating a space and community in Vienna where underrepresented philosophers – such as women, trans*, inter and non-binary persons, BIPoC, socioeconomically disadvantaged people, queer people, and people with disabilities – can connect on a regular basis. For more information, check out our website: upsalon.univie.ac.at People from all stages in their philosophical studies are welcome, and we are especially excited to meet new people! We will meet on Tuesday, 3rd of December, at 18:30 in front of NIG and then walk to the Christmas Market together. We are very much looking forward to meeting all of you, and to reconnect with those who already joined for the last regular's table :) Do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions you may have. Best regards, UPsalon Mail: upsalon.philosophy(a)univie.ac.at Web: https://upsalon.univie.ac.at

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Neue Professur Medizingeschichte und Workshop: Automated Order

by Anna Echterhölter

Liebe EST-ler, wir haben eine Einladung und eine gute Nachricht: Durch das große Engagement von Dietlind Hüchtker ist es gelungen, eine TT-Fast Track Professur *„Wissensgeschichte und politische Epistemologien von Biowissenschaften und Medizin im 20. Jahrhundert” für Prof. Birgit Nemec* am Fakultätszentrum für transdisziplinäre historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Studien einzurichten. Der Wechsel vom Institut für Medizingeschichte an der Charité Berlin wird bereits am 1.12.2024 erfolgen. Ein Forschungsschwerpunkt wird Rahmen eines ERC Forschungsprojektes gefördert und gilt dem Engagement von Patient:innen mit arzneimittelbedingten Behinderungen sowie dem Wandel im Umgang mit Risiken seit der Contergan-Katastrophe. https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/ Zudem wird Donnerstag und Freitag die*Tagung "Automated Order"* stattfinden, die Markus Ramsauer und ich mit Kolleg:innen veranstalten. Es geht um die Frage der Gesellschaftsbeschreibung durch neue statistische Verfahren, insbesondere Clusteringverfahren. Wer in letzter Zeit über die Frage von Algorithmen im US Wahlkampf diskutiert hat, über die Sicherung von Privatheit in Zeiten von AI nachdenkt oder mehr über die Geschiche der Sentiment Analysis erfahren will, ist ganz herzlich willkommen: Teilnahme ist unangemeldet möglich über Zoom (links auf der Homepage) oder Ihr kommt auf einen Kaffee im ifk vorbei (Reichratsstrasse 17, das Gebäude zwischen NIG und Hauptgebäude) https://automated-order.univie.ac.at/ Mit bestem Gruß Anna Echterhölter Clustering: Automated Order in the Social Sciences International Workshop, organized by Anna Echterhölter <https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitar…> and Markus Ramsauer <https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/projektmitarbeiterinnen…> in cooperation with the working group “How is AI Changing Science <https://howisaichangingscience.eu/projektbeschreibung/>”, University of Vienna <https://fsp-wissenschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/>, and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (ifk). Date: November 28-29, 2024 Venue: International Research Center for Cultural Studies (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften <https://www.ifk.ac.at/>), Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010 Vienna (ground floor) Online audience: Please use the following Zoom links: Donnerstag, 28.11. <https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87831389185?pwd=hPBpZ9CTmXdNqOj8M0dTeJ9MSJMQcn.1>us06web.zoom.us/j/87831389185 <https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87831389185?pwd=hPBpZ9CTmXdNqOj8M0dTeJ9MSJMQcn.1> Meeting-ID: 878 3138 9185 Kenncode: mcX7T5 Freitag, 29.11. <https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87613835276?pwd=xoYRKgybbq6HACrqcCpZ3Eme3F4EDn.1>us06web.zoom.us/j/87613835276 <https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87613835276?pwd=xoYRKgybbq6HACrqcCpZ3Eme3F4EDn.1> Meeting-ID: 876 1383 5276 Kenncode: ZwhF8y Download the poster:here <https://automated-order.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_geschichte/Ueb…> The workshop is part of the research project HiACS, funded by one of Europes largest research funding institutions, the Volkswagen Foundation Hannover. Members are Jens Schröter and Andreas Sudmann, University of Bonn, Alexander Waibel and Fabian Retkowski KIT/Carnegie Mellon, as well as Anna Echterhölter and Markus Elias Ramsauer, University of Vienna: howisaichangingscience.eu/projektbeschreibung/ <https://howisaichangingscience.eu/projektbeschreibung/> Programme Thursday, November 28, 2024 13.00 CET / Opening remarks / 7 am EST / Julia Boog-Kaminski <https://www.ifk.ac.at/kontakt-team/dr-in-julia-boog-kaminski.html>andAndreas Gehrlach <https://www.ifk.ac.at/kontakt-team/dr-andreas-gehrlach.html>(IFK): Welcome to the IFK Anna Echterhölter <https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitar…>andMarkus Ramsauer <https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/projektmitarbeiterinnen…>(University of Vienna): Introduction 13.20 CET / Keynote I / 7.20 am EST / Evangelos Pournaras <https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/computing/staff/6446/professor-evangelos-pournaras>(University of Leeds): Privacy as a Collective Value and how to Protect it in the Era of AI 14.20 CET coffee break 14.30 CET / Panel I – Perspectives from Media Ethnography and Archaeology / 8.30 am EST / Chair:Jens Schröter <https://www.medienkulturwissenschaft-bonn.de/mitarbeiter_prof_dr_jens_schro…>(University of Bonn) 14.30-15.00 Fabian Retkowski <https://isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu/english/21_9385.php> (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Andreas Sudmann <https://www.medienwissenschaft.uni-bonn.de/personen/abteilung-personenverze…> (University of Bonn): Automated Coding: Multilabel-Classification in Ethnography 15.00-15.30 CETAndreas Sudmann <https://www.medienwissenschaft.uni-bonn.de/personen/abteilung-personenverze…>andJens Schröter <https://www.medienkulturwissenschaft-bonn.de/mitarbeiter_prof_dr_jens_schro…>(University of Bonn): AI in Science and Epistemic Media 15.30 CET coffee break 16.00 CET / Panel II – Clustering and Detecting Tensions within the Social Order / 10 am EST / Chair:Clemens Apprich <https://medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at/en/project/univ-prof-mmag-dr-clemens-app…>(University of Applied Arts, Vienna) 16.00-16.30 CET Fenwick McKelvey <https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/fenwick-mckelvey.html>(Concordia University, Montreal): US Elections and the Electric Cluster Making Machine 16.30-17.00 CET Orit Halpern <https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inh…>(Dresden University of Technology): Mirror Worlds: Clustering, AI, and the Management of Catastrophe 17.00-17.30 CET Aaron Gluck-Thaler <https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/aaron-gluck-thaler>(Harvard University): Identification through Pattern Recognition in Cold War America 17.30 CET coffee break 18.00 CET / Keynote II / 12.00 am EST / Rebecca Lemov <https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/rebecca-lemov>(Harvard University): History of Sentiment Analysis Chair:Markus Ramsauer <https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/projektmitarbeiterinnen…>(University of Vienna) 20.00 CET dinner (ASPIC, Garnisongasse 10) Friday, November 29, 2024 09.00 CET / Panel III – Automated Social Order / 3 am EST / Chair:Sarah Davies <https://sts.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/scientific-staff/wissenschaftliche-ma/…>(University of Vienna) 09.00-09.30 CET Dinah Pfau <https://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/person/dinah-pfau-2>(Deutsches Museum, Munich): Epistemology of a Matrix, or How Communication Technology Invented the Human 09.30-10.00 CET Eva-Maria Gillich <https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=1626…>(Bielefeld University): Norms out of Patterns 10.00-10.30 CET Tobias Matzner <https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/person/65695>(Paderborn University): On some Similarities between Clustering and Embeddings 10.30 CET coffee break 11.00 CET / Panel IV – Clustering: Work and Health / 5 EST / Chair:Christian Dayé <https://www.tugraz.at/arbeitsgruppen/sts/publikationen/christian-daye>(Graz University of Technology) 11.00-11.30 CET Phoebe Moore <https://phoebevmoore.wordpress.com/>: (University of Essex): Affective Computing at Work: Policy Provocations and Rights for the Left 11.30-12.00 CET Rudolf Seising <https://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/person/rudolf-seising-2>(Deutsches Museum, Munich): Fuzzy Sets and Systems: An Alternative Approach to Blur and Inaccuracy for AI in the 20th Century 12.00-12.30 CET Wrap Up 13.00 CET lunch (Gastwirtschaft Blauensteiner, Lenaugasse 1) The research project and workshop are made possible by the Volkswagen Foundation. Visit MiniSeg, the new benchmark video segmentation model, or a database of European research projects using AI. Also more on the working group HIACS: https://howisaichangingscience.eu/ The venue is provided by ifk: https://www.ifk.ac.at/ For more in formation on the history of science working group in Vienna: https://fsp-wissenschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ Conference Abstract Clustering -- Automated Order in the Social Sciences ai\research\explorations workshop IV Organized by the Viennese working group of the project “How is AI Changing Science” in cooperation with the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) Vienna 28.-29. November 2024 One of the key elements in unsupervised learning is clustering. Thus, this particular data practice sits at the core of modern Artificial Intelligence, which is based on artificial neuronal networks. Whereas classification operates by organizing labeled data into specific categories, clustering relies on cheaper, unlabeled data for deciphering similarities inside a given set. While many scientific disciplines might be interested in this new element of technical progress, the social sciences should be. The workshop poses the open question if unsupervised data clustering has the potential of identifying and generating new patterns of the social. This idea is not new. As Orit Halpern has remarked, attempts to break free from stable categories like race, identity, territory, or ethnicity with the help of pattern recognition can be found e.g. in the works of political scientist Karl Deutsch already in the 1960s (Halpern 2014, p. 191). Can clustering come up with entirely new orders of the social, such as tribes of movements identifiable from telephone data, do they detect political party affiliation, friendship or kinship-patterns that are not blood-related, and thus resemble totemistic orders? Or does automatization in the analysis of social data reproduce older hierarchies and familiar stratifications with necessity? While it is crucial not to fall prey to techno-utopian fantasies of non-situated (AI) technologies ‘overcoming’ race, class or gender, the transformative potential of clustering practices for analysis and reorganization of society and resource management in crisis should not be dismissed entirely. While the history of quantification has made great strides to trace centers of calculation (Didier 2021; Wiggins and Jones 2023), while the cold war genealogy of AI is being established (Seising 2018; Dick 2021; Babintseva 2023), the history of data has developed additional perspectives. The focus lies with the practical handling of digital information as element of scientific or bureaucratic practices (Suchman 2006; Aronova 2017; Rheinberger 2018; De Chadarevian and Porter 2018; Dommann and Stadler 2020; Schlicht et al. 2021). The workshop singles out one particular episode from such a data journey (Leonelli and Tempini 2020). There are general discussions of classification and clustering (Arabie, Lawrence and de Soete 1996; Brunton and Kutz 2019; Bowker 2001), some already with respect to data practices within specific methods, and even fewer in the social sciences and humanities (Boumans and Leonelli 2020). Clustering practices are typical for automated learning across the disciplines, which relies on large amounts of data, thereby introducing an element of noise and ambiguity. They do seemingly replace human cognition as source of social order. Thus, automated ordering can be said to introduce a novel element of ambiguity to the representation of society. From this position we ask, if clustering algorithms like K-means introduce elements of irrationality into planning processes or sociological methods. The automated social order comes with a new level of imprecision. The history of rationality is thus faced with a new ambiguity, after the probabilistic revolution of the 19th century did already alter the accepted forms of evidence (Krüger et al. 1987). When during the cold war, “reason almost lost its mind” (Erickson et al. 2013), the mind now seems to prevail over rational forms of conclusion. We are particularly interested in this new mechanism that seemingly replaces conscious order with an automated process of matchmaking. As Sabina Leonelli has emphasized for the case of biology, clustering is the very pre-condition for data to become a representation of the world (Leonelli 2023, p. 317-318). Yet, in unsupervised learning, the outcomes seem to be uncontrollable. It stands to reason, which kind of tradeoff between rational planning and seemingly irrational ordering the new branch of computational sociology may soon come up with. Are we close to accepting a new age of similarities and epistemologies of similitudes which abandons factual evidence in exchange for patterns and noisy data clouds? Following the suggestions of the history of data this conference approaches AI in social sciences from the perspective of one key practice. The workshop invites media archaeologists, historians of science and quantification as well as computational sociologists and data curators to reflect on the history, promise a potential of clustering. For this we want to establish both, the analogue and digital histories of clustering. The Project: How is AI Changing science The workshop is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and part of a larger research project. We ask how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies do affect research and science? By following this perspective, the project is less concerned with research on AI per se than with how different disciplines use AI as a tool and as an epistemic entity within larger (post)digital infrastructures. The central focus lies on how heterogeneous concepts and operations of the social sciences and humanities, on the one hand, and the natural and technical sciences, on the other, are integrated into applications of AI. Research on the latter will also explore the extent to which critical perspectives inform and accompany the use of AI. The project concentrates on artificial neural networks (ANN) because of their dominant status among current AI approaches. Hence, the project not only explores the similarities and differences between the various areas of application of AI, but also sheds light on the cultural and national specificities inherent to these processes in an international context, particularly in Europe and the USA. howisaichangingscience.eu/projektbeschreibung/ <https://howisaichangingscience.eu/projektbeschreibung/> Members: Anna Echterhölter, Markus Elias Ramsauer University of Vienna, Jens Schröter and Andreas Sudmann, University of Bonn and Alexander Waibel and Fabian Retkowski KIT/Carnegie Mellon Literature: Arabie, Phipps, Lawrence J. Hubert, and Geert De Soete. Clustering and Classification. Singapore: World Scientific 1996. Aronova, Elena, von Oertzen, Christine und Sepkoski, David: Introduction: Historicizing Big Data. In: Osiris 32/2017, S. 1–17. Babintseva, Ekaterina: Rules of Creative Thinking: Algorithms, Heuristics, and Soviet Cybernetic Psychology. 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Reminder Next Studi Meet-Up

by Vinzenz Fischer

Hey all! This is a Reminder for the next Get-together on tuesday, 26.11. at 19:00 in the SpielBar. Here is a link to the Google Maps Site: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GHknyPbedXYnMpAK8 Best, Vinzenz

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REMINDER und Streaminglink: 32. Wiener Kreis Vorlesung über Moritz Schlick, 28. November 2024, 17 Uhr | 10 Uhr: Workshop über Moritz Schlick - Zwei Buchprojekte

by Vienna Circle Society

Das Institut Wiener Kreis und die Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft laden sehr herzlich zur 32. Wiener Kreis Vorlesung Massimo Ferrari (University of Turin) Moritz Schlick und sein Zirkel. Nach 100 Jahren Donnerstag, 28. November 2024 17 Uhr Aula am Campus Universität Wien Hof 1, Eingang 1.11 Spitalgasse 2-4 1090 Wien ACHTUNG: Die Veranstaltung wird zusätzlich für diejenigen, die nicht in Wien sind, bei YouTube gestreamt: Link zum Stream <https://www.youtube.com/live/tdXVJmb8RSY> Wir laden außerdem sehr herzlich zu einem Workshop am Vormittag: Neue Forschung über Moritz Schlick - Zwei Buchprojekte: Julia Franke-Reddig (Universität Siegen) Zur Kontinuität und Eigenständigkeit der Wissenschaftsphilosophie von Moritz Schlick (2025) Friedrich Stadler (Universität Wien) Moritz Schlick, Philosophie der Natur, Kultur und Geschichte. Ausgewählte Schriften aus dem Nachlass (2025) 28. November 2024, 10-12 Uhr Aula am Campus Vorträge in deutscher Sprache Eintritt frei, um Anmeldung wird gebeten: vcs(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:vcs@univie.ac.at> Weitere Informationen unter: https://vcs.univie.ac.at/SchlickWorkshop_und_WienerKreisVorlesung.pdf

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