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Breaking, Crashing and Thinking: Technologies of the Self
Thursday 21 January, 10-12pm, IAS Seminar Room, Milburn House
Professor Peter Galison will be receiving an honorary degree from Warwick on Thursday 21 January. Whilst here he will also be leading a seminar entitled 'Breaking, Crashing and Thinking: Technologies of the Self'.
The seminar will be of value to anyone interested in the philosophy and history of science and is open to all. Professor Galison will discuss his new book about self-reforming technologies, from the Rorsasch Test to nuclear storage. He will also talk about his new film, Wastelands, which explores the meaning of lands that are removed from human occupation - either because of their purity (wilderness sites) or because of their impurity (waste land, nuclear contamination, etc).