Please note that this talk is sponsored by Anthropology, History, and Science, Technology, and Society at MIT.
The first of two Spring Semester talks will feature Prof. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra<https://sociology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty%20members/juan-pardo-guerra.html> on Monday, Feb. 5. The title of this colloquium is “Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds.” The talk is free and open to the public. The full details about Professor Pardo-Guerra’s talk, abstract, and bio are below: Monday, Feb. 5th, 2024, 4pm-5:30pm The Nexus in Hayden Library, 14S-130 Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra<https://pardoguerra.org/about/>, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego “Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds” Abstract: Markets are central to contemporary social life. Yet, their features are often reduced to transactions and exchange, hiding the rich forms of sociotechnical and organizational work that are necessary for their making, maintenance, and reproduction. In this talk, I explore these dimensions of markets through studies of two very different settings: stock exchanges, where ‘invisible’ organizational workers transformed the nature of trading and the social fabric of finance; and higher education, where scholars have awkwardly adopted forms of market-oriented quantification as mechanisms for sustaining their public value. Through these two studies, the talk concludes with thoughts about the nature of markets in contemporary societies, arguing for a notion of ‘reverse embeddedness’—that is, for a reclaiming of markets and market-devices as objects that can be shaped and designed for the production of a better common future. If you have any questions about the event, please let me know. We hope to see you there! MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society E51-163 Cambridge, MA 02139 sts-program.mit.edu<http://sts-program.mit.edu/> | http://web.mit.edu/hasts [cid:image001.jpg@01DA4A1D.ED3F0C10]
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