Scholars @ Hallwalls - Nimble Knowledge Production in an Era of Academic Capitalism
Select Fridays between September 2014 and May 2015, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center becomes an intellectual salon. Scholars at Hallwalls features eight thought-provoking, award-winning lectures in the humanities, presented in the intellectual and inspiring setting of Hallwalls. Faculty Fellows will present their cutting-edge humanities research in terms accessible to those in other disciplines and outside academia. The events will continue to be social occasions as well, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres...
All lectures are free and open to the public.
The hunt for dollars has become a hallmark of the 21st century research university. Drawing on a three-year ethnography of two Artificial Intelligence labs, I step directly into the cluttered workspaces where researchers blur distinctions between academic science, industry research, and consumer markets. In this talk I develop the concept of "nimble knowledge production" in which scientists who rely on intermittent industry funding continually reassess and readjust their research program to take advantage of piecemeal commercial opportunities as they arise.
Steve G. Hoffman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research interests are in organizational studies, social psychology, interpretive social theory, and science and technology studies. He believes in a sociology that makes use of adjectives.
