Mattering, Knowing, Comparing

Joe Deville

<H2>Mattering, Knowing, Comparing: Celebrating the Launch of Mattering Press </H2>
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Mattering Press and its first four books.
When: Monday 25th July, 6pm Where: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Nearest tube: Holborn
The event will feature short presentations from some of the editors of ‘Modes of Knowing’ and ‘Practising Comparison’, as well as from those involved in both supporting and producing the press.
Contributors include Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim, Zuzana Hrdličková, Carlos Lopez-Galviz, Evelyn Ruppert (all from either Goldsmiths, University of London, or Lancaster University).
Refreshments will be provided. The event is supported by the <A HREF="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-futures/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute for Social Futures</A> (Lancaster University), the <A HREF="http://www.gold.ac.uk/cisp/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Centre for Invention and Social Process</A> (Goldsmiths, University of London), and the <A HREF="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Centre for Mobilities Research</A> (Lancaster University).
About Mattering Press
Mattering Press is a new Open Access book mpublisher and registered charity, focusing on publishing books that analyse science, technology and society. Four years in the making, the press produces works that are available freely as ebooks and as printed books to purchase.
New books
To mark its launch, we will be celebrating with the editors of two of its first set of books.
The first is <A HREF="http://www.matteringpress.org/news/first-books-modes-knowing" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Modes of Knowing: Resources from the Baroque</A>, edited by John Law and Evelyn Ruppert. This a new collection asks: how might we think differently? It brings together leading social scientists interested in non-standard modes of knowing. The resource that the various contributions direct their attention to is the baroque. Rather than formulating a ‘baroque social science’, they instead work in a range of ways to explore how drawing on the ‘resources of the baroque’ can help us to think differently.
The second is <A HREF="http://www.matteringpress.org/news/first-books-practising-comparison" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations</A>, edited by Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim, Zuzana Hrdličková. As a collection, it is similarly interested in how knowledge is produced. But rather than the baroque, it looks to the opportunities and challenges of a venerable social scientific method: comparison. The book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas, while also being about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison, it argues, is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity.
We will also be introducing the two other new books: <A HREF="http://www.matteringpress.org/news/first-books-curiosity" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction</A>, by Franck Cochoy, and <A HREF="http://www.matteringpress.org/news/first-books-imagining-classrooms" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Imagining Classrooms: Stories of Children, Teaching and Ethnography</A> by Vicki Macknight.
Find out more at <A HREF="http://www.matteringpress.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">matteringpress.org</A> 
Follow Mattering Press on Twitter (<A HREF="https://twitter.com/matteringpress" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@matteringpress</A>) and Facebook (<A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/MatteringPress/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">facebook.com/MatteringPress</A>)
Image: <A HREF="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandavid/149718410/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Boston Public Library, by Jan David Hanrath</A>. Used under a Creative Commons license.

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