Experimental Subjects Workshop 14th - 15th January, Lancaster IAS

Workshop 3: Experimental Subjects

Date

14 January, 2010 - 15 January, 2010
Location

Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University
Description

Participants in this workshop will explore the different kinds of subjectivity and relations of power produced by different forms of experimentality. Themes will include:

‘experimental subjects’, such as subjects of clinical trials or of behaviourist-inspired public policy interventions;
the self as the site of self-experimentation in popular culture, alternative spirituality, performance art, and human resource discourses
the experimenter as a form of subjectivity in science, technology, and finance capital.

For more info visit the experimentalities site: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality/event/workshop3