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• うわ。このシンポジウムおもしろそー。ファンな先生（のひとり）がオーガナイズしてるし！しかーし、このまま順調にいけば僕この時期に多忙を極めているはず…。

http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/publicknowledge.html

Knowledge is currently undergoing some remarkable institutional re-locations. Universities are reorganizing themselves into interdisciplinary schools, and are signing collaborative knowledge-transfer agreements with industry. Industry, in its turn, is increasingly involved in redefining its stakes in/against nature and society. An example are bio-prospecting projects, where pharmaceutical companies are coming up with new conceptions of what makes the public domain, and are relocating the market within. The public itself is evanescing into new political objects, as in economists’ parlance of ‘global public goods’, where the social form of the market now contains its own (potential for) externalities. We seem to have entered, therefore, a new political era, where those with stakes in ‘knowledge’ have the power to say what society is all about (hence the label ‘knowledge society’), and where the appearance of knowledge as a social object becomes the defining criteria of a new political philosophy: the politics of public-ization (Hayden), or what Latour calls Dingpolitik, the move to ‘making things public’.
http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/publicknowledge.html