Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier bjuder in till de årliga Burmanföreläsningarna i filosofi. Årets gästföreläsare är C. Thi Nguyen, associate professor i filosofi vid University of Utah, som ger tre öppna föreläsningar under tre dagar.
Tisdag 15 oktober kl. 13.15-15.00, Hjortronlandet, Hörsal HUM.D.220
Abstract (på engelska): Games and institutions often use mechanical scoring systems. A game tells us exactly what gets us points; a bureaucracy tells us exactly how our productivity will be measured. Strangely, these mechanical scoring systems often inspire fun and free play in games – but in institutional life, they drain the life out of everything. Why? I offer a theory of the mechanical. A mechanical procedure is one where the procedures and criteria have been designed so as to be usable by anybody, to yield consistent results. Mechanical scoring systems perform a valuable social function: they guarantee convergence of evaluations, from those who have accepted the scoring system. To do this, however, such scoring systems need to strictly limit the kinds of criteria they can target. In games, this helps us be more fluid. But mechanical scoring systems perform a different function in institutions. Mechanical scoring systems are often used to make workers more replaceable. This deeply shapes the kinds of targets and goals that can be enshrined in institutions. And this process opens the door to the possibility of a kind of social selection process, whereby those agents who are willing to sacrifice all else, in the pursuit of higher mechanical scores, are rewarded with greater social power.
Föreläsning 1: Value Capture
Måndag 14 oktober kl. 13.15-15.00, Hjortronlandet, Hörsal HUM.D.220
Föreläsning 3: Bureaucratic Meanings and Semantic Self-Determination
Onsdag 16 oktober kl. 13.15-15.00, Hjortronlandet, Hörsal HUM.D.220
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