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X-WR-CALNAME:STS Colloquium - Jake Silver
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DESCRIPTION:A Palestinian String Theory? On Ethnographic Engagements across
  Multiple Dimensions\n\nIn the past three years\, life in Palestine has be
 en an up-close encounter with mass death—and more than ever\, these deat
 hs have their origins in high-tech military technologies that are impercep
 tible and faraway while being precise and devastating. This talk begins fr
 om a theory from one Palestinian astronomer who understands this science f
 ictional (yet very real) situation through quantum theory: political empir
 e sneakily operates as a string in a dimension above our own\, with Palest
 inians left unable to sense that dimension yet intimately experiencing the
  murders and injuries that it propagates—its vibrations. In this talk\, 
 I dwell on the recitation of political life through a story of science\, a
 nd particularly through a new theory of science altogether. What does it m
 ean to take this story seriously\, and what might it assume or foreclose? 
 What can science as a story of life and death offer ethnography to narrate
  political life in all its density? This talk is an experiment in ethnogra
 phic closure\, wondering with the stakes of capturing the texture of every
 day life through certain genres\, epistemologies\, and vocabularies.\n\nJa
 ke Silver is a political anthropologist whose work revolves around Palesti
 ne\, the ever-transforming dimensions of settler colonialism\, outer space
 \, and epistemology. Through 4+ years of engaged work with Palestinian ast
 ronomers and others who engage the sky in the West Bank\, his work unearth
 s not only the political realities unfolding along the y-axis for those li
 ving on the ground in Palestine\, but also the politics of doing science a
 nd searching for interstellar knowledge in one of the most discursively ov
 erdetermined territories on our planet.
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LOCATION:Stimson Hall\, 206
SUMMARY:STS Colloquium - Jake Silver
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sts-colloquium-jake-silver
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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