3 March 2016 (Edita Wolf)
The Notion of Interdisciplinarity in The Postmodern Condition
Readings:
- Jean-François Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984 [1979]
Read the entire book or alternatively the introduction and pp.31-70.

24 March 2016 (Matyas Erdelyi)
Inventing the Right Numbers: Social Statistics, Commercial Reason, and the Public Good
Readings:
- Theodore M. Porter. ‘Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality.’ In Lorraine Daston (ed). Biographies of Scientific Objects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 226-246.
- Alain Desrosières. La Politique des Grands Nombres: Histoire de la Raison Statistique. Paris: La Découverte, 1993.

7 April 2016 (Jana Vargovčíková)
Studying the State through the Scandal: On the Epistemic Value of Transgression
Readings
- Damien de Blic & Cyril Lemieux. ‘Le scandale comme épreuve.’ Politix 71 (3): 9–38, 2005.
- Akhil Gupta. ‘Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State.’ American Ethnologist 22 (2): 375–402, 1995.
- Chris Jenkins. ‘Transgression: The Concept.’ Architectural Design 83 (6): 20, 2013.

21 April 2016 (Lara Bonneau)
The uses of analogy in human and social sciences
Readings
- Gilbert Simondon. L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique. Paris: PUF, 1964, pp. 264-268.
- Alan Sokal. ‘A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies.’ Lingua Franca May/June 1996, available at: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9605/sokal.html
- Aby Warburg. Miroirs de faille, A Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Edouard Manet. Paris: Presses du réel/L’écarquillé, 2011, pp. 62, 64.

5 May 2016 (Monika Brenišínová)
Architecture and Art as Historical Sources: On the Borders of Humanities and Social Sciences
Readings
- Clifford Geertz. ‘Art as Cultural System.’ MLN 91(6): 1473–1499, 1976.
- George Kubler. ‘History: Or Anthropology: Of Art?’ Critical Inquiry, 1(4): 757-767, 1975.