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Lars Chr. RisanNorskTitle: Telephone:22841607 E-mail: lars.risanATtik.uio.no I hold a Ph.D on the breeding and enactments of a milk-producing cattle breed known as Norwegian Red Cattle. These \'enactments\' involve a wide variety of actors and actions, from the aggregated enactment of an entire breed (done by a large technoscientific network), to the daily care of cows. Those who do the enactment include people, machinery and cows.
Subject InterestScience studies. Anthropology of science and technology. Information technology in the space between nature and culture, that is, as this technology has worked in places such as cybernetics, AI, Artifical Life, and last but not least, in the enactment of the Norwegian Red Cow.Linux! Selected PublicationsThe Boundary of Animality To appear in Environment and planning. D, Society and Space.Master phil dissertation: Artificial Life: A Technoscience Leaving Modernity? An Anthropology of Subjects and Objects. Follow link below to Personal Homepage for online copies of these publications. ResearchCurrently I work as a researcher on the the EFFIN project (EFFIN - Efficiency through user involvement). More specifically I write the contemporary history of the Electronic Post Journal (EPJ) of the Norwegian State. Through EPJ Norwegian journalist are given web-access to the postjournals of most Norwegian departments and directorats. (The post journal of a department is the list of incoming and outgoing letters.) EPJ has already become a vital institution to Norwegian political journalism, but is still a test project with a somewhat uncertain and contested future.I am about to start a new research project on Linux. I will do an anthropological science study of what it takes to actually make a common of intelectual property, where the property in question is computer code. LinksPersonal HomepageThesis on Artificial Life A piece on Hacking |