Episode 2 - Social science and the American defence establishment

Episode 6 - The Infrastructures of Prediction and Visual Culture

In this episode of The Art and Artifice of Prediction, we turn to art and visual culture. Maria Christou (University of Manchester) talks to Theo Reeves-Evison (Birmingham City University), who examines the ways in which infrastructures of prediction' are responded to in visual culture - or even initiated by it.

Episode 4 - The rise of climate modelling and the quantification of climate futures

Assoc. Prof. Ruth Morgan asked Professor Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University) about the rise of climate modelling and the quantification of climate futures. How did these techniques affect the ways we understand the climate and the effects of climate change?

Episode 2 - Social science and the American defence establishment

During the Cold War, social scientists contributed to the ‘military-intellectual complex’ of American foreign policy. Lise Butler spoke to the historian Daniel Bessner about the close relationship between social science and the American defence establishment in the mid-twentieth century, and the use of predictive methods, like the American RAND corporation’s Delphi system, in Cold War era foreign policy.