Call for Papers
<br>SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE (4S) CONFERENCE OPEN PANEL
<br>
<br>2019 New Orleans Sept 4-7
<br>Organizing technoscientific capitalism: Epistemic values, practices &
<br>assets
<br>(https://www.academia.edu/38077632/CfP_4s_Open_Panel_-_Organizing_technoscien
<br>tific_capitalism_Epistemic_values_practices_and_assets)
<br>Organizers
<br>Jane Bjørn Vedel (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
<br>John Gardner (Monash University, Australia)
<br>Kean Birch (York University, Canada)
<br>Abstract
<br>Capitalism is increasingly technoscientific, by which we mean that it is
<br>increasingly configured by the development and distribution of
<br>technoscientific products, services, platforms, and activities; in turn,
<br>technoscience is increasingly configured by the accounting, management, and
<br>performativity of profit-oriented organizational logics. Technoscientific
<br>capitalism is, in this sense, underpinned by organizational dynamics and
<br>inter-organizational relationships that often get obscured within STS
<br>debates about the supposed neoliberalization of society and science. A key
<br>question to ask, then, is how is technoscientific capitalism organized?
<br>What are the epistemic values, practices, and assets that are deployed in
<br>the entanglement of capitalism and technoscience? There are many possible
<br>answers here, not only aimed at these questions but also raising further
<br>questions for debate. Of particular interest to this Open Panel are the
<br>range of analytical and/or empirical takes on (1) epistemic and economic
<br>valuations, (2) academic values and practices, (3) organizational assets,
<br>relationships, and management, and (4) public-private frameworks that
<br>configure science, technology, and innovation.
<br>Questions
<br>• How are socio-epistemic relationships, practices, and resources
<br>organized to solve societal problems? Or to produce socio-economic value?
<br>• What forms of knowledge and values do these relationships generate or
<br>constitute? How are these knowledges and values organized and managed?
<br>• Are different forms and practices of knowledge more or less subject to
<br>processes of assetization, commodification, and/or capitalization?
<br>• Do these processes assetization, commodification, and/or capitalization
<br>open up and/or close down the possibilities for inter-organizational
<br>relationships and practices?
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