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capital | Joseph Dumit
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We want to maximize the number of new prescriptions… We want to identify people at risk at the earliest possible point… Pharmaceutical marketers want to maximize the number of prescriptions in order to maximize profits. They see clinical trials as investments whose purpose was to increase sales of medicines, Important clinical studies to conduct from Continue reading…. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology through Debt. Hear my radio interview about Drugs for Life on BBC 4 Thinking Allowed Every year the...
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CV | Joseph Dumit
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Academic Appointments and Teaching. 2014-Present Director, Institute for Social Sciences, UC Davis. 2009-Present Professor, STS and Anthropology, UC Davis. 2005-2014 Founding Director, Program in Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis. 2005-2009 Associate Professor, STS and Anthropology, UC Davis. 2002-2006 Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT. 1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT. 1996-1997 Lecturer, Anthropology, MIT. 2013-Pres...
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algorithms | Joseph Dumit
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How Flowcharts Got into the Brain. NSF Scholar’s award for Diagramming Brains, Minds and Computers Together. This project, supported by the Biology and Society initiative between the Science, Technology and Society Program and the BIO directorate at NSF, examines the role of flowcharts in neurosciences. Flowcharts are commonly used today in computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Despite the near ubiquity of diagrams Continue reading…. Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity.
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Ongoing | Joseph Dumit
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IMMERSe Gaming Studies Grant. GAME ON: MILBURN AND COLLEAGUES WIN 6-YEAR, $2.5 MILLION GRANT The Humanities Innovation Lab at UC Davis has been producing cutting-edge scholarship and facilitating unexpected collaborations since its inception in 2009. Over the next six years, the lab will see a major influx of new work and international collaboration. The Interactive and Multi-Modal Experience Research Syndicate (IMMERSe), Continue reading…. NSF CI-TEAM Grant for KeckCAVES. NSF Scholar’s award for D...
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Joe | Joseph Dumit
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I am Director of the new Institute for Social Sciences,. Chair of Performance Studies. As of July 1, 2015), Professor and former director of Science and Technology Studies. And Professor of Anthropology. At the University of California Davis. I am also on the faculty of the Cultural Studies PhD program. I’ve also just created an undergraduate program in Data Studies,. Helping undergrads learn to think critically and computationally about data. Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health.
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Long Publications | Joseph Dumit
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STS-CSIS Calendar | Joseph Dumit
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WRITING THE IMPLOSION: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time. This has been my mainstay form of doing and thinking ethnographically a connected and disconnected world. A reading of Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 2 in dialogue with Donna Haraway’s works and methods. Working through the former helps me unpack the process of Haraway’s inquisitive implosion method and some of its aims better. I describe this as Continue reading…. WRITING THE IMPLOSION: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time.
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Do | Joseph Dumit
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Other thing I do or you can do. Sleep is good, but when, how, where, how much? Matthew Wolf-Meyer has a new book, an ethnography of sleep, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life, that is amazing to read. The favorite bit of wisdom I heard about sleep types was that some people are popcorn and others are flowers. Popcorn people POP! Awake Continue reading…. Playing with gravity, exploring physics using bodies, finding the limits of attention and expanding them. Contact Improv...
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bodies | Joseph Dumit
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What are we talking about when we talk about embodiment, bodies, our bodies, other bodies? How did we learn to talk these ways that these words come so easily out of our mouths and fingers? And are we always improvising, and if so, how, and against what background of non-improvisation? Embodying Improvisation Class Winter 13 Continue reading…. Where does a body end? How does a body feel? Does a body have a machine? How can a body be extended? How does a body end? Sitting, Academic Style. STS as Equipment...
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brains | Joseph Dumit
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Plastic Neuroscience: Studying what the brain cares about. Drawing on Allan Newell’s You can’t play 20 questions with nature and win, this article proposes that neuroscience needs to go beyond binary hypothesis testing and design experiments that follow what neurons care about. Examples from Lettvin et. al. are used to demonstrate that one can experimentally play with neurons and generate surprising results. In Continue reading…. Objective Brains, Prejudicial Images. This has been my mainstay form of doi...
