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January 2022

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* GHOSS (IHC-UAB)GHOSS (IHC-UAB)

Time: 12:00

Barend Noordam (UAB): “How to study the factor of war as a driver of early modern proto‐science: global perspectives and methodological considerations”

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* Cicle 30 aniversariCicle 30 aniversari

Time: 9:00

Marcos Cueto, president de la DHST-IUHPS
* Work in Progress (iHC-UAB)Work in Progress (iHC-UAB)

Time: 12:00

Celia Garcia-Diaz (Universidad de Málaga): "¿Locas y/o sujetas? Historia(s) de la sala 20 del Manicomio Provincial de Málaga (1909-1950)"

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* Seminari (IHC-UAB)Seminari (IHC-UAB)

Time: 11:00

Darina Martykánová (UAM): “Men of Science and Gentlemen: engineers and physicians and the challenges of liberal masculinity (19th‐Century Spain)"

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* Technology & CapitalismTechnology & Capitalism

Time: 18:30

"Material Political Economies: From High-Frequency Trading to Online Advertising", by DONALD MACKENZIE (University of Edinburgh). ABSTRACT: ‘Material political economy’ is a perspective on finance (and similar economic activities) that takes all three of those words seriously. It probes the material foundations of economic life; examines the politics of those foundations (both in the actor-network theory sense of ‘material politics’ and in the effect on, e.g., finance’s materiality of the interaction between finance and the political system); and is attentive to mundane but deeply consequential economic processes, including rent-seeking. The main case that will be examined is automated, ultrafast high-frequency trading or HFT. Among the effects of HFT’s extreme speed are surprising vulnerability to everyday material phenomena (rain, even bird droppings) and an exquisite sensitivity to the precise location of equipment. In HFT, the speed of light in a vacuum is no longer simply a theoretical limit but a practical constraint, and this makes HFT's materiality above all a spatial materiality. Two other cases will be discussed more briefly: bitcoin, which has a structural similarity to HFT, but one whose material manifestation is quite different; and online advertising, with its intimate material political economy, in which devices that we consider personal can act in surprising ways. Your phone, for example, may itself be conducting auctions for your attention.

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Category Key
	AB
	AB-CEHIC
	Altres
	CEHIC-UAB
	GIHS
	HCUB
	HCUB-SCHCT-IMF
	IHMC
	IME
	IME-SCHCT
	IMF
	MHMC
	SCHCT
	SCHCT-AAO
	SCHCT-CEHIC
	SCHCT-IHMC
	SCHCT-IMF
	UA
	UMH
	UMH-IME
	UPC
	UPF
	XEHC!

Calendar developed and supported by Kieran O'Shea