19 Jul 2026 01:00
S04E09 - Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy
Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy
Shownotes Orit Halpern
Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden:
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inhaber-in
Orit Halpern’s website:
Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and reason since 1945. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-data
Halpern, O., & Mitchell, R. (2023). The smartness mandate. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/the-smartness-mandate/
Hayek, F. A. (2013). The use of knowledge in society. In Modern understandings of liberty and property (pp. 27-38). Routledge.
https://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hayek.pdf
Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The atlantic monthly, 176(1), 101-108.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/005/11/0094-0103
on CERN:
https://home.cern/about/who-we-are/
on the Event Horizon Telescope:
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
on the IPCC:
on critiques of the Enlightenment:
https://polsci.institute/modern-political-philosophy/critiques-enlightenment-modernity/
Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W., & Noeri, G. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment. Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/dialectic-enlightenment
on Keynesianism:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismus
on MAGA:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again
on the Frankfurt School:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankfurt-School
on high modernism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_modernism
on totalitarianism according to Hannah Arendt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism
Friedrich Hayek:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_Hayek
on strict constitutionalism/constructionism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_constructionism
on the Electoral College:
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/about
on Stafford Beer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
https://www.kybernetik.ch/en/fs_beer.html
on post-sovereign planning:
Mohammed, S. Z. (2025). Post-sovereign planning? Nature, culture and care in the new socialist calculation debate. In Creative Construction (pp. 265-278). Bristol University Press.
