Reading Room ♯45 Samira Ali Reza Beigi & Jan Masschelein: Another science

Practicalities:

When? 2025-12-12, from 18:00 to 21:00.
Where? Agency.

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Short summary: Researcher Samira Ali Reza Beigi proposes to invite Jan Masschelein in turn. Masschelein is a Professor at KU Leuven specialised in Educational Philosophy. He guides us through fragments from Isabelle Stengers’ Another Science is Possible (2017).

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Description:

Jan Masschelein guides us through fragments from Isabelle Stengers’ Another Science is Possible (2017). In this work, subtitled A Manifesto for Slow Science, Stengers claims that scientific practices have been enclosed by industrial interests. "He proposes to focus on the prevailing model of progress, one that is being vigorously implemented by the so-called ‘knowledge economy,’ of which also art is part."

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Guest(s): Samira Ali Reza Beigi, Jan Masschelein

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Links:

• https://www.jubilee-art.org/news/reading-room-45-agency-another-science

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Documents selected outside of the library:

"Another Science is Possible", Isabelle Stengers (2017)