Research and Publications
Posted on 14 Feb 2018 by Anne Beaulieu
Trump, Brexit, the earthquakes in Groningen, interdisciplinarity in energy research, the poor showing of the Netherlands in the energy transition–this collection of glocal issues has recently spurred me to think and write about our systems of knowledge and how they come to matter. One…
Category: academicTags: epistemology, psychology, social technology
Posted on 28 Jan 2018 by Anne Beaulieu
In the aftermath of the American elections, discussions about knowledge and truth have been framed by concepts of post-truth and alternative facts. Even among those of us who consider themselves experts in the processes of truth-making and knowledge creation, this framing has stirred things…
Category: academicTags: epistemology, market, techniques of calculation
Posted on 3 Feb 2014 by Anne Beaulieu
In this keynote presentation at the upcoming Swiss STS meeting in Lausanne , I will consider big data as a form of knowledge production that has developed in relation the changes we have observed in the past decades in terms growth, accountability, network effects…
Category: academicTags: database, epistemology, new sites of knowledge production
Posted on 6 Dec 2013 by Anne Beaulieu
Our chapter in Representations in Scientific Practice Revisited discusses the development of authoritative collections of brain scans known as “brain atlases”, focusing in particular on how such scans are constituted as authoritative visual objects. Three dimensions are identified: first, brain scans are parts of…
Category: UncategorizedTags: brain atlas, brain imaging, epistemology, ethnography, experts, networks, neuroscience, visual knowing
