STS/ANT
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In memory of Bruno Latour who responded quickly to this paper upon its publication//// This is an experimental essay to reconsider the meaning of animism in the time of science and technology studies when the boundary between human and... more
Who acts in during international relations? From state theory generally, and the field of International Relations specifically, the readymade answer is: ‘states do’ – so long as we assume states to be the high-modern regime of... more
With the Reform of school autonomy in the nineties, and later with the most recent education legislations, it was attempted to trigger processes of change with regard to mathematics and its teaching but these changes have proved difficult... more
What happened, in the years leading up to Valentine's Day 2014, that made a canister of nuclear waste burst open and spew out fire underground at a US facility for the long-term disposal of radioactive military waste? According to one... more
English abstract A new social actor has recently established itself in the food market, following values that are becoming more and more relevant today, such as simplicity, nature and tradition. It is the raw milk dispenser. This paper... more
By offering a new definition of ‘the Anthropos’ as a distributed-centered subject, or as a collective made of a multiplicity of actors belonging to different ontologies and forming attachments through a series of interrelated translations... more
The term "cable," as used in the context of diplomacy, is ambiguous. It denotes both a message and its technological messenger. Telegraph wires were used around the middle of the nineteenth century to connect the capitals of Europe. The... more
Esta dissertação tem por objetivo tecnografar as agências algorítmicas atreladas ao preço dinâmico da Uber a partir das dimensões retórica/narrativa, material/infraestrutural e afetiva/imaginária que o constituem. Mais especificamente,... more
Comme dans de nombreux domaines technologiques et industriels, l’exploration et l’exploitation minières s’appuient sur des instruments censés prévoir et organiser les développements futurs et leurs conséquences. Dans cet article, nous... more
The paper reflects on the extent to which design may be able to expand forms of intervention and inquiry into urban problems by generating spaces for collaboration, involvement and criticism. Following on from the urban hacking case with... more
O objetivo desta tese de doutorado é analisar o processo de "plataformização" do jornalismo pelo Facebook, com foco nas disputas e controvérsias em torno das parcerias comerciais, tecnológicas e editoriais estabelecidas entre a plataforma... more
(Final copyedited version) This chapter presents legal materiality as a distinct approach within law and humanities scholarship. Legal materiality is concerned with the conditions of possibility in and through which law arises, rather... more
The article focuses on the reconfiguration of analogue instant photography (Polaroid-like) in the digital age. Drawing on STS literature on the mutual shaping of users and technology, and on anthropology and the history of photography, it... more
En este capítulo se ofrece un argumento radical y poco convencional. En la medicina biomédica contemporánea, denominada medicina científica, el "hacer historias clínicas" y el "hacer clínica" no son dos cosas diferentes. Por tanto, aquí... more
Course description and objectives: This course will offer a survey of the main themes, theories, and approaches developed in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Graduate students will have the opportunity to explore... more
Wie hängen Innovation und Wandel bei den Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen zusammen? Woher kam der Druck zur Veränderung? Wer generierte innovative Ideen generiert und wie konnten sich diese durchsetzen? So lauten einige Kernfragen der... more
Open access: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LeibingPreventing This book is about the drastic change in the conceptualization of dementia and the impact this change has or may have on individuals and, more generally, on the... more
It is an essay reflectinhg on how Indians in Guyana, even being a majority are silenced both by their own government and larger society
Increasingly, a range of 'things' (e.g. infrastructure, data, knowledge, bodies, etc.) are configured and/or reconfigured as assets, or capitalized property. Accumulation strategies have changed as a result of this assetization process,... more
This essay examines five ideal–typical conceptions of politics in science and technology studies. Rather than evaluating these conceptions with reference to a single standard, the essay shows how different conceptions of politics serve... more
Since the early 1990s ‘Dutch Design’ has become increasingly visible in the international design field. Publications that attempt to explain its essence appeal to the idea that Dutch Design artefacts are somehow ‘typically Dutch’, where... more
In this commentary I argue that rather than going beyond race, we need to 'stay with the trouble' of race (Haraway 2016). Race, I want to suggest, is precisely 'trouble' because it is produced and sustained in everyday practices. To make... more
Proposes that we explore the way infrastructure (communications, networks, transport, buildings etc) structures intimate relations. These are PROOFS; don't quote from them without checking the final version: SIGNS Vol. 41, No. 2 (Winter... more
The main focus of this research was the ‚sociology of architecture’ and ‚its’ methods. On the one hand, the underlying interest can be described in systematizing the various range of subjects which a sociology of architecture unfurls. On... more
Article publié en 1991 dans la revue Critique, pour un volume coordonné par Vincent Descombes et consacré à quelques tendances émergentes des sciences sociales. Vincent m'avait demandé de discuter les thèses de Michel Callon et Bruno... more
This thesis investigates futurists’ capacity to engage with the future. Inspired by actor–network theory (ANT) and the laboratory studies of Karen Knorr-Cetina and Bruno Latour, it identifies and characterises two aspects of capacity to... more
Eighty years ago, Nicholas Berdyaev cautioned that new technological problems needed to be addressed with a new philosophical anthropology. Today, the transhumanist goal of mind uploading is perceived by many theologians and philosophers... more
A growing number of sociologists have recently addressed how meanings become materialized, how the built environment structures social interactions, or how it conveys power. This literature has contributed to a better understanding of the... more
This article examines the process of constructing, repairing, and improvising “human–signal assemblages” by drawing on in-depth interviews and virtual ethnography regarding the engineering of Wi-Fi connectivity in Taipei, Taiwan. It is... more
In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome racial inequalities in health; from heart disease to diabetes, the populations... more
La crisis resultado de la pandemia del covid-19 ha hecho visible la emergencia de pensar dos conceptos claves para la continuidad del planeta: los cuidados y el futuro. Las medidas sanitarias exigidas para la prevención de la difusión del... more
Formålet med artiklen er at afsøge, hvad videnskabs- og teknologi- studier eller Science and Technology Studies (STS) tilbyder humaniora og samfundsvidenskaberne med det nybrud, der er blevet kaldt den ontologiske vending. Med... more
Population registers are statistical and administrative devices aimed at providing an accurate and dynamic picture of the population, and thereby allowing authorities to acquire information on its composition and the ways people are... more
O artigo investiga os textos de dois GT da Compós: Epistemologia da Comunicação e Comunicação e Cibercultura. O objetivo é testar a hipótese de que o campo da comunicação no Brasil ainda é pouco sensível às teorias neomaterialistas, sendo... more