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2025, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science

This paper examines Bruno Latour's reading of Leviathan and the Air-Pump, arguing that the Boyle-Hobbes controversy, as reconstructed by Shapin and Schaffer, becomes foundational for Latour's critique of modernity. It situates Latour's reception of the book within broader shifts in science studies during the 1980s, focusing on the principle of generalized symmetry and a critique of social constructivism-a critique that, in Latour's account, turns on the partition of representation introduced by the modern Constitution. This conceptual division assigns the representation of humans to politics and that of nonhumans to science-a structure that, according to Latour, emerged only with the settlement of the Boyle-Hobbes controversy. The paper shows how Latour appropriates the conceptual personae of Hobbes and Boyle as delineated by Shapin and Schaffer and transforms them into the founding figures of this bifurcation, while bringing to light the theologico-political dimension of the laboratory.

2025, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Uber, Waze, Airbnb… The algorithms that control these platforms are based on an optimisation of the service provided to the user rather than any collective, political or moral norms. The accusations against these algorithms expose the way technical architectures implicitly govern our lives Journalists in England, Italy and France1 create false profiles for restaurants, and manage to push them up in Tripadvisor's rankings thanks to flattering comments and high marks. This is a way of denouncing the artificial popularity calculations that deceive clients and encourage unfair competition between restaurants. Researchers denounce the presence of 'phantom cars' on the Uber application,2 proving that the ride sharing company simulates the supply and demand market that it claims to display as an unbiased intermediary, in order to control rates and give users the impression of an abundant offer. These two accusations against digital calculations are typical of the initiatives seeking to audit and criticise digital platforms and their algorithms. They reveal the growing concern among public authorities, market actors and citizens regarding the space these platforms occupy in our daily lives. With the rampant spread of mobile phone equipment (4,8 billion in 2017, 2,32 billion of which 1 "Comment 'L'OEil du 20 heures' a piégé TripAdvisor en créant un faux restaurant", France Info, 07/09/15; "Un journal italien invente un faux restaurant pour piéger le site TripAdvisor", France Info, 05/07/15.

2025, 10th STS Italia Conference. Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring

In recent decades, market-driven logic has increasingly shaped self-care, leading to its simplification and commodification (Fragnito & Tola, 2021, p.19). Personal well-being has been reduced to individualistic practices, the purchase of exclusive lifestyle products (The Care Collective, 2020, p.26), and technological devices for tracking biological parameters. This narrow perspective reinforces ideals of self-sufficiency, autonomy, and independence, promoting an anthropocentric view that ignores our fundamental dependence on other living and non-living entities, organic matter, and biochemical processes that connect us to planetary systems. In contrast, the intersection of ecology, feminism, and post anthropocentrism (Adams & Gruen, 2022; Braidotti, 2017; Haraway, 2018; Mies & Shiva, 1993; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017) points to the need to rethink capitalist models, hierarchical structures, and dualistic ontologies that have reinforced environmental and social injustices. Design, too, must evolve, embracing cooperative and symbiotic approaches, fostering interspecies care practices that support the well-being of human and non-human life forms, as well as technological assemblages. In this light, care transforms into a radical act, one that can carry political significance.

2025, Communication Research Trends

This article offers a critical and reflexive review of the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), tracing its genealogical development from early paradigmatic formulations to its current pluralistic landscape. Beginning with a re-examination of canonical texts and debates—most notably those of Kuhn, Popper, and Merton—it delineates three broad phases: pre-Kuhnian, Mertonian-Kuhnian, and post-Kuhnian STS. The review then shifts towards the contemporary field, examining how feminist, postcolonial, and queer interventions have challenged and reconfigured the epistemological foundations of STS. Special attention is given to the impact of neoliberal globalization and the inclusion of scholars and perspectives from the Global South, which have significantly decentered Euro-American knowledge regimes. Through the dual logics of “difference” and “convergence,” the article explores how intersectionality, co-production, and reflexivity serve as central methodological and conceptual tools in contemporary STS research. It also considers the emergence of new methodological clusters—meta-activism, experiments in participation, and boundary-crossing practice—and the broader implications of “making and doing” STS. By situating these developments within broader sociopolitical and institutional transformations, the article foregrounds the dynamic interplay between technoscientific systems and systemic social inequalities. The review concludes by reflecting on the field’s open-ended trajectories and argues for a historically grounded, methodologically plural, and politically engaged STS—one attentive to its own conditions of knowledge production. This article is intended as both a critical synthesis and an exploratory resource for scholars seeking to navigate the evolving contours of STS as a reflexive, transdisciplinary, and globally situated field.

2025, Mahdi ghandehari

Rapid urbanization in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city and a major religious hub, has intensified transportation challenges, including congestion, air pollution, and inadequate last-mile connectivity. This study proposes a data-driven urban development framework leveraging intelligent transportation systems (ITS) to enhance travel efficiency and sustainability. The framework integrates advanced geodatabases, real-time data exchange interfaces, and open platforms for urban mobility analytics. Using a mixed-methods approach, including MICMAC structural analysis and stakeholder surveys, we identify key drivers and barriers to ITS implementation. Virtual modeling and simulated traffic data demonstrate the framework's feasibility, showing a potential 15% reduction in peak-hour congestion. This research underscores the importance of integrated data governance, stakeholder collaboration, and smart mobility innovations to support sustainable urban growth in Mashhad.

2025, Handbuch Umweltethnologie

Abstract Englisch This contribution discusses ‚working together‘ as a method in a collaborative, co-laborative, experimental and multi-modal research practice and as a possible response to transformation processes in the Anthropocene. We... more

2025

Several studies have investigated how children of different ages respond to diverse musical styles. Age seems to be a determinant factor in the development of musical preferences. Although many teachers advocate the use of a wide variety of musical styles at different school levels, most of them seem to rarely include 20th century ‘art’ music in their lessons. Very few studies have examined children’s responses to this musical repertoire. In addition, most of the research on children’s musical preferences has been carried out in Europe and North America, with few cross-cultural comparisons. This study investigated the responses to and preferences for 20th century ‘art’

2025, American Anthropologist

If the Cold War space race culminated in a return to Earth, at present we are experiencing a renewed interest in space. Drawing on fieldwork among people working in the space sector in Sweden, this article focuses on some of the imaginaries underpinning this resurgence and the contemporary commercialization of space. Specifically, I hone in on the envisaged potential of miniaturized satellite technology to modify how humans relate to Earth and the cosmos. As I show, the allure of smallness relies on interscalar practices whereby something that shrinks in size simultaneously magnifies its scale of significance, meanwhile pushing the terrestrial infrastructures of space into the background and figuring largeness as an outcome, not a precondition. While this is often achieved with the help of logistical metaphors that conceal the material specificities of low Earth orbit, the proliferation of orbital debris throws such qualities into relief and presents expansiveness as a challenge to be addressed at scale. If space professionals posit smallness as ground rather than figure, emergent threats to their activities dramatically flip the order between smallness and largeness, thereby signaling that to bracket scale in the analytical interest of connectivity and comparison ultimately reintroduces scale as a problem.

2025

H eutzutage scheint d er Begriff »Ästhetik« zu viele B edeutungen zu haben: heutzutage versieht die Ästhetik A rgum entationen, die sich gar n ich t m eh r au f das fast-unbegrenzte W ort »Kunst« beziehen, sondern die w egen ih re r Bestre b u n g zur Vollständigkeit fast-tautologisch zu sein scheinen (m an d en k e n u r an die postm odem istischen A usführungen ü b er die »Ästhetisierung«). Die Ästhetik scheint au f alles h in d eu ten zu k ö n n en u n d an ein Ü berm aß an R echtm äßig keit zu leiden. Selten wird ein Versuch gem acht, je n e historischen B eg rü n d u n gen herauszufm den, die die Ä sthetik a u f so wirkungsvoller Weise -vielleicht sogar zu wirkungsvoll -m itlegitim iert haben. W enn d iese h eu tig e S itu atio n u n b e frie d ig e n d ist, w äre es v ielleich t an g e b rac h t, a u f je n e n A ugenblick zurückzugreifen, d e r die erste G eleg en h e it fü r diese D isziplin d arg estellt hat. Das M o m en t d e r G rü n d u n g d e r Äs th etik in d e n A b sich ten d e r Schulphilosophie besitzt in d e r T at n ic h t n u r d e n Reiz eines A nfangs (d e r n o c h offen fü r A usführungsw eisen ist, die sich von d em tatsächlich b efo lgten Weg u n te rs c h e id e n ), so n d ern au ch d e n zw eideu tigen Reiz ein es Projekts, das m öglicherw eise jen seits o d e r sogar geg en sei n e u rs p rü n g lic h e n A bsichten au sg e fü h rt w o rd en ist. M an will also d a m it folgendes sagen: an g e n o m m e n , daß sich die A ufklärung j e ein e Ä sthetik wie die gegenw ärtige gew ünscht h ab e (die sich m ittlerw eile w egen d e re n totalisie ren d e n B estreb u n g en in V e rleg en h eit ist), so h a t sie sie a b e r u n te r ei n e r b estim m ten B ed ingung verlangt. N ach d en W orten B aum gartens, h eiß t es also: die Ä sthetik b leib t vorw iegend »die W issenschaft d e r sin n lic h e n Er kenntnis«; sie ist ein m eth o d isch es M ittel, eine notw en d ig e E rg ä n zu n g d e r Logik. Z u d em w ird d e r oft d a ru n te r (n ic h t u n b e d in g t im k ü n stlerisch e n S in n ) v e rs ta n d e n e B egriff d e r S c h ö n h e it n ic h t von u n s e r e n -w e d e r ir rationellen, n o ch ausgleichenden, n o ch kritischen -Interessen g ed a ch t o d er g esteu ert. 1. Wohin gehört die Philosophie der K unst ? N ach la n g e n u n d m ü h se lig e n V o ra rb e ite n v e rö ffe n tlic h t d e r R est F e n n e r V erlag im ja h r e 1845 in L o n d o n die Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Die

2025, Predictive Policing in Nigeria: An Exploratory Analysis of Law Enforcement Approaches in Lagos State

The escalating crime and insecurity in Nigeria require key solutions of advanced law enforcement approaches. Lagos State, being an economic centre, has implemented predictive policing, a data-centric methodology for crime prevention and reduction. This exploratory study examines the ability of predictive policing in Lagos State. This study employs a qualitative research design, utilising in-depth interviews with law enforcement officials, policymakers, and community leaders. The results indicate that predictive policing has facilitated a decline in crime rates in Lagos State, especially concerning armed robbery, kidnapping, and cultism. Nevertheless, the study highlights considerable challenges, such as deficient data management systems, constrained resources, inadequate community involvement, and insufficient training for law enforcement officials. The study emphasises the necessity for a more collaborative methodology in predictive policing by engaging various stakeholders, such as community leaders, policymakers, and law enforcement agencies. The results of this study hold significant implications for the formulation of effective predictive policing strategies in Nigeria and analogous contexts. The study advocates for the enhancement of data management systems, augmented investment in technology and human resources, and improved community engagement and participation. The results offer significant insights for policymakers, law enforcement agencies, and community leaders aiming to formulate effective strategies for crime prevention and reduction in Nigeria.

2025

บทปริทรรศน์ชิ้นนี้สำรวจแนวคิดหลักจาก Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts ของ Bruno Latour และ Steve Woolgar โดยเน้นการวิเคราะห์กระบวนการสร้างข้อเท็จจริงในวิทยาศาสตร์ผ่านเลนส์ของมานุษยวิทยา ผู้เขียนตีความห้องปฏิบัติการในฐานะพื้นที่วัฒนธรรมที่เต็มไปด้วยพิธีกรรม วัตถุ ภาษา และกลยุทธ์การสื่อสาร ที่ล้วนมีบทบาทต่อการทำให้ข้อเสนอหนึ่ง ๆ ได้รับการยอมรับเป็นข้อเท็จจริง บทปริทรรศน์ชี้ให้เห็นว่าข้อเท็จจริงทางวิทยาศาสตร์ไม่ได้ดำรงอยู่ล่วงหน้าในธรรมชาติ หากแต่เกิดจากกระบวนการทางสังคมที่ซับซ้อน ตั้งแต่การใช้เครื่องมือบันทึกผล การจัดระเบียบข้อความทางวิทยาศาสตร์ การลดทอนความลังเล ไปจนถึงการต่อรองเครดิตและการวางข้อเสนอในบริบทที่เหมาะสม บทสรุปของงานพาเราย้อนกลับไปตั้งคำถามกับ “ความสงบ” และ “ความเป็นระเบียบ” ในโลกของวิทยาศาสตร์ ว่ามันไม่ได้เกิดขึ้นเอง แต่คือผลจากการจัดการกับเสียงรบกวน ความไม่แน่นอน และการผลักดันให้ข้อเสนอหนึ่งอยู่รอดในสนามที่เต็มไปด้วยการแข่งขัน บทปริทรรศน์นี้จึงมิได้เพียงสรุปสาระสำคัญของหนังสือ หากยังชวนให้เราทบทวนภาพจำเกี่ยวกับวิทยาศาสตร์ในฐานะพื้นที่แห่งความจริง และชี้ให้เห็นชีวิตของข้อเท็จจริงที่ถูกประกอบขึ้นผ่านกระบวนการที่มีทั้งความละเอียดอ่อนและอำนาจแฝงฝังอยู่ในทุกระดับของการผลิตความรู้

2025

บทปริทรรศน์นี้นำเสนอการวิเคราะห์หนังสือ The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002) ของ Annemarie Mol ผ่านมุมมองของมานุษยวิทยาและการศึกษาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี (STS) โดยเน้นการทำความเข้าใจแนวคิด “ontology-in-practice” หรือ... more

2025, Integral Urban Hub

Universes Entangled, reflects the core ethos of this project: to weave disparate voices, disciplines, and theories into a tapestry of critical inquiry. Here, science fiction dialogues with philosophy, posthumanist theory collides with... more

2025, Architecture Science ArS

In resilience thinking people's participation at the neighbourhood level in decision-making creates a bottom-up process. Resilience, which is defined as the ability of a social system to respond and recover from disasters, facilitates the ability of the social system to reorganize , change, and learn in response to a threat. In recent resilience thinking the interrelationship between social and ecological systems are gaining priorities. Community resilience is the continued ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations. By implementing a community resilience plan, a community can come together and overcome any disaster, while rebuilding physically and economically. Creating social interaction spaces in the neighbourhood social integration of the community can be increased. Communities build their social resilience system around or using natural elements like a river, water tanks etc. in different Asian countries. 'Designing Resilience in Asia' (DRIA) has taken up the agenda of addressing the threats and recurring damages of climate change in selected Asian cities since 2015 through global academic collaboration. In DRIA 2019, the design competition encouraged foresighted urban and architectural design proposals, as well as innovation in building technologies to ensure a community's resiliency, particularly before climate disaster events. This paper focuses on the shared common spaces that encourage the residents' interaction for creating a platform and creating awareness regarding the need for socially integrated shared spaces to ensure community interaction in the neighbourhood level. The study leads with the question of how the shared community spaces contribute to resilience by encouraging strong social networks. With an example of Veerathamman Temple Tank in Chennai and an organically developed neighbourhood on the banks of Dholaikhal canal and Sikkatuli pond in the congested old Dhaka, this paper also provides empirical evidence for spatial interaction between different social groups in those community spaces to build community resilience.

2025

En un trabajo anterior publicado en la Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana titulado: “Narrativas del paisaje andino colombiano: visión ecológica en la música carranguera de Jorge Velosa” (Cárdenas y Montes, 2009) se indagó en las nociones hermenéuticas, semióticas y en el análisis del discurso que expresan las canciones del álbum En cantos verdes. En esta oportunidad, desde un proceso de categorización etnográfica basado también en el análisis del discurso, se profundizará en dos asuntos centrales: los aspectos teóricos, metodológicos, y los resultados obtenidos en el proceso de investigación haciendo un énfasis particular en la utilización del video y la fotografía como medios y filosofía de indagación etnográfica. Los resultados del presente documento permiten comprender que la canción carranguera expresa razones prácticas (moral) dirigidas a replantear y a configurar una experiencia de orden tanto subjetiva, intersubjetiva, como objetiva en las relaciones cultura-ecosistema qu...

2025

The process of dispatching track guided means of transportation is a rather complex and sophisticated task. The track guidance implies a small number of possible dispatching possibilities on the one hand, but on the other hand strongly increases the interactions with other means of transportations. These interactions can be recognizes in practice as (knock-on) delays and disturbances of operation. In this context, the purpose of dispatching activities is to reduce or compensate interactions, which are experienced negatively. For a good quality of prognosis of these interactions and their consequences a microscopic consideration appears to be an appropriate approach, which enables realistic rescheduling and dispatching decisions, e.g. with respect to train protection systems and their behavior or to track topologies and routing alternatives. But the microscopic approach also implies a high quantity of data and information, so that the introduction and usage of computer based systems is self-evident.

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2025, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

This article focuses on a series of connections between space infrastructures and environments in northern Sweden. Swedish space professionals often highlight the centrality of outer space for contemporary imaginaries about the planet as an interconnected whole. At the same time, the country's sounding rocket range outside the city of Kiruna relies on deep-seated constructions of the subarctic environment as empty wilderness. With the ongoing development of small satellite launch capability, the surrounding landscape needs to be sustained as an impact area, with the consequence that Sámi land practices are increasingly pushed to the sidelines. By turning to reindeer herders' own uses of satellite technology, I delineate an oligoptic-satellitarian environment that runs athwart panopticonic understandings of satellite vision. Rather than trying to see everything from nowhere, the herders bring into view a limited set of more-than-human relations in order to challenge conceptions of the landscape as empty and exploitable. While showing that space activities in Sweden fold into and reproduce colonial histories, the article also argues that space infrastructures contain the potential for their own reconfiguration by eliciting the other worlds that are already being performed from within dominant socio-technical regimes.

2025, Revista Brasileira de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Regional

2025, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

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At the crossroads between food studies and science and technology studies, this paper analyzes the role of laboratories located within traditional cheese territories in the ecologization of cheese microbiology in France at the turn of the twentieth century. The paper argues that their connectedness with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) raw-milk cheese organizations advocating for a strong understanding of terroir played a key role in challenging the modern strain-by-strain approach and fostering a shift towards a new research object: microbial communities in their ecologies. Modernization and standardization in cheese production from the 1950s onwards laid indeed on the improvement of hygiene to get “cleaner” milks, and on lab research on microbial strains to develop selected starter cultures. This led to a dramatic loss of microbial abundance within raw milks, which progressively provoked milk processing issues, as well as a loss of cheese typicality, an issue for place-based cheeses. To face it, the modernist approach promoted more laboratorial research on microbial strains to develop new starter cultures and the diversification of microbial collections, within an ex-situ conservation framework. In contrast, microbiologists conducting applied research for raw-milk terroir cheeses investigated environmental microbial reservoirs, microbial fluxes, as well as farming practices that favor “natural seeding” and enrich milk native microflora. A new approach emerged, namely “practice-driven microbial ecology” (écologie microbienne dirigée), which enacts the dynamic and ubiquitous properties of microbial life. The paper offers a situated account on the “microbial (ecology) turn” described by other authors, highlighting the ecological approach developed in the 1990s-2000s by French microbiologists in search of “the microbial path to terroir”.

2025, kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology

Ojani, Chakad, Ullberg, Susann B., and Asta Vonderau. 2024. "Infrastructures and environments in late industrialism: An introduction." kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology 7 (1): 9-20.

2025, Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives

This chapter draws a series of connections between anthropology and science fictional world-building to reflect on the possibilities of ethnographic enquiry into the extraterrestrial. More specifically, the chapter hones in on Adrian Tchaikovsky’s novella Elder Race, in which an anthropologist-protagonist on another planet is used to displace earthbound assumptions in a manner that is strikingly reminiscent of how anthropologists engage in frontal comparison through ethnographic immersion on Earth. As such, Elder Race serves to highlight the science fictional qualities of anthropology, and especially those evinced by topological approaches to socio-material relations developed in the anthropology of infrastructures. Whereas situating anthropos in space becomes a means to investigate and unsettle earthbound categories, the anthropology of infrastructures helps foreground cosmic relations by exploring how extraterrestrial processes are brought down to Earth.

2025

Plataformas digitales y nuevas relaciones laborales y sus dinámicas en el espacio urbano.

Green, B. P., Gaudet, M. J., Checketts, L., Cutter, B., Herzfeld, N., Labrecque, C., Ramelow, A., Scherz, P., Vega, M., Vicini, A., & Wales, J. J. (2022). Artificial Intelligence and Moral Theology: A Conversation. Journal of Moral Theology, 11(Special Issue 1), 13–40.

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In 2019, REPRESENTATIVES FROM SANTA Clara University and the Pontifical Council for Culture began a conversation on artificial intelligence technology and its relevance for the Catholic Church and the world. The Vatican conference on “The Common Good in the Digital Age” in September of that year served as a focal point for some of these efforts, bringing together representatives from the Church, academia, the technology industry, and other organizations. In his address to the conference, Pope Francis exhorted those present to work to ensure that technology was used for the common good.

2025, The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Ed.

2025, Quadern De Les Idees Les Arts I Les Lletres

Amb aquest terme grec, ofelimós, atribut de qualsevol cosa capaç de satisfer una necessitat o un desig, oferim una sèrie de lliuraments plàstics que tenen com a principal objectiu aconseguir el gaudi visual que tota obra artística produeix. Es fa, precisament, des d'una publicació que porta ja molts anys especialitzant-se en la divulgació i en l'anàlisi de l'art en totes les seves facetes.

2025, Власть дискурса в постметафизике: между диалектическим материализмом и трансцендентализмом

В статье рассматривается значение “постметафизики” как продолжения философии деконструкции Деррида для разрешения философского конфликта между трансцендентальной и диалектической традициями мысли.
“Постметафизическое” направление стремится переосмыслить взаимоотношения языка и власти, пытаясь найти способ говорить о них так, чтобы теоретически не воспроизводить власть метафизического дискурса. Также оно стремится избежать ошибки систем, критикующих метафизический дискурс, которая заключается в том, что сама критика зачастую приобретает изощренную форму метафизики, чей исток максимально скрывается. В качестве центрального феномена, которое подвергается деконструкции в христианской постметафизической философии, в тексте выступает “политическая онто-теология”, то есть властный метафизический дискурс, используемый для выстраивания политической идеологии. В начале статьи автором рассматриваются два способа формулирования онто-теологии в философии – трансцендентальный и диалектический. Делается утверждение, что оба направления в современную эпоху сталкиваются со своим тупиком: трансцендентализм не может помыслить теорию как практическое осуществление мышления, диалектика не может избавиться в своей практике от формулирования трансцендентальной сверх-исторической истины. В тексте производится синтез концепций Капуто, Ваттимо и Десмонда, чтобы предложить политико-религиозный проект, продолжающий философию Деррида. Делается вывод, что постметафизика как «слабая мысль» может изменять и ослаблять политические структуры без того, чтобы полностью диалектически переходить в политическую онто-теологию, но не может быть полностью самостоятельной от метафизики областью или заменять ее.

2025

Segunda publicación del Encuentro Nacional de Escuelas de Diseño -ENEDI2014-. Este número tiene como temática los procesos relacionados con nuevas formas de aprendizaje, y cómo los avances de la tecnología y escenarios sociales contribuyen al desarrollo del Diseño dentro y fuera de las Escuelas. Palabras claves: makers, información, internet, tecnología, DIY, autogestión, agonismo.

2025

es una revista semestral dirigida a universidades, organismos nacionales e internacionales, profesionales y personas interesadas en el estudio de lo urbano. Su temática abarca distintos aspectos y perspectivas que contribuyen al análisis... more

2025, Revista de la Carrera de Sociologia

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En octubre del 2023 Mario Blaser participó en la mesa de cierre de las Jornadas de Homenaje a Bruno Latour organizadas en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (UBA). Allí presentó su propuesta basada en lo Incomún, la cual contrasta con la cosmopolítica latouriana y su tendencia hacia “lo grande” y la construcción de un mundo común. El objetivo del presente texto es darle continuidad a dicha presentación a partir de un diálogo extendido en el cual abordamos su trayectoria como investigador, sus lecturas de Latour y las diferencias con su propio planteo, las formas de la multiplicidad en el denominado giro ontológico y los desafíos en torno a una construcción política que tenga en cuenta a los “colectivos emplazados” y que permita escapar de la trampa tanto de las políticas de las identidades como del mundo único.

2025, Zygon

In this rejoinder for the Book Symposium on WILD EXPERIMENT, I consider several themes that recurred across the five responses. These themes are: the way we classify and morally position science, religion, and secularity; the relationship... more

2025

Tagung an der Universität Regensburg
Forschungsstelle Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft
Freitag, 14.11.2025, Deadline: 31.3.25

2025, Freiheit. Grundwert in Bedrängnis

2024

Esta comunicación tiene por objetivo realizar una nota crítica del libro After method. Mess in social science research, escrito por el inglés John Law. A tal fin, se presentará el argumento de la obra, tomando como eje de discusión sus fundamentos ontológicos, con el convencimiento que tal interpelación puede trasladarse al campo de la investigación psicopedagógica, permitiéndonos pensar el tratamiento que nuestra disciplina en sus prácticas de conocimiento da a los objetos de investigación. John Law es uno de los principales autores de la Teoría del Actor-Red, conocido en Argentina en el ámbito de la sociología de la ciencia y la tecnología pero con escasa inserción en el área de la metodología de la investigación. En este texto -publicado sólo en inglés-se propone realizar una revisión del estado de los métodos científicos en general, pero con particular énfasis en las ciencias sociales. Su propuesta se funda en una profunda crítica a la epistemología y metodología hegemónica y advierte las limitaciones de todo método: partes del mundo son captadas por los métodos pero otras partes no lo son, y si lo son, muchas veces lo hace distorsionándolas. A lo largo del libro, Law (2004) tensionará, interrogará, complejizará o anulará dichos supuestos epistemológicos. Para ello se valdrá de diversas investigaciones concretas, las que describirá detalladamente y a las que analizará auxiliado por los aportes de distintas perspectivas filosófico-epistemológico críticas. Analizando diferentes prácticas de conocimiento (científicas y no científicas), Law muestra la dimensión política y ética de cada una de ellas, pues deja al descubierto los diferentes regímenes ontológicos, epistemológicos y metodológicos que ellas instauran.

2024

Dit themanummer is gewijd aan verzekeringsactiviteit. Al de bijdragen benaderen ethische dimensies van de 'maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid'van verzekeringsmaatschappijen of, zo men wil, hun specifieke bijdragen aan een duurzame ontwikkeling. De teksten richten zich zowel tot de filosofische en moraalwetenschappelijke gemeenschap als tot die van de verzekeraars, waarvan sommigen direct en indirect hebben bijgedragen, actief of faciliterend.

2024, Метафизика и постметафизическое мышление / Под ред. И.И. Блауберг и А.М. Гагинского. — М.: Академический проект

В статье речь идет о критике понятия «мир» и связанного с ним понятия «метафизика». Маркус Габриэль предлагает теорию существования, которая интерпретирует существование как явление в поле смысла, т. е. принадлежность
предмета к определенной области, наряду с другими предметами и другими предметными областями. Мир, определяемый как тотальность всего сущего (поле смысла всех полей смысла), в таком случае оказывается противоречивым понятием, из чего следует, что мир не существует. Дж. Хилл показывает,
что для отрицания мира требуется квантификация сквозь все поля смысла, что подразумевает универсальное логическое пространство, т. е. мир. В заключение статьи в крайне общих чертах представлены варианты сохранения этих двух понятий и возможные варианты их понимания, в частности при сохранении и устранении проблемного момента — тотальности мира

2024, Tecnoscienza

Caselli’s work results from a vast and in-depth investigation, both theoretical and empirical, into the interplay between experts, political-administrative institutions, businesses, and the ur-ban social fabric, problematising the relationship between knowledge and power, governance, or public action in the context of a particularly relevant case study: the transformations of urban social policies across the 2008-2018 Italian crisis cycles. His study fills a dearth of attention in the Italian literature on the figure of experts in the welfare system, a key actor, albeit neglected.

2024, Lusotopie

Centrando-se nos discursos de três perspetivas distintas: i) a juventude angolana da província de Benguela, ii) os programas dos partidos políticos e iii) o debate público mediático durante a campanha eleitoral de 2022, este estudo analisa a eficácia da participação da juventude nos processos políticos em Angola. Ao fazê-lo, realiza uma análise discursiva e temática que coloca em primeiro plano os resultados de um inquérito realizado na véspera das eleições de 2022. O estudo apresenta as perceções dos jovens sobre a eficácia política e avalia até que ponto existem congruências temáticas entre a agenda política expressa pelos jovens, as prioridades apresentadas nos programas dos partidos políticos e os temas do debate público mediático angolano. Os resultados mostram que a juventude angolana considera que os programas políticos e os debates públicos não respondem as suas preocupações. Sobre a eficácia política, a juventude em análise faz uma avaliação da capacidade que possuem para a sua participação política mais positiva do que a avaliação que fazem sobre a responsividade do próprio sistema político. Esta avaliação positiva da participação está relacionada com a esperança de alternância nas eleições de 2022. Além da ineficácia política verificada, constata-se uma correlação entre a participação política e o nível de bem-estar, ou seja, quanto mais pobre, menor a participação política ou eleitoral.

2024, Ciencia, tecnologia y sociedad. Abordajes desde Argentina, Brasil y Mexico

Introducción: Tradiciones y nuevos ensamblajes en América Latina Marcela Amaro Rosales, Eduardo Robles Belmont y César Guzmán Tovar Primera Parte: Producción y prácticas de la ciencia y la tecnología Estudio bibliométrico sobre... more

2024

Ageing is not only a chronological matter. The following contributions at the crossroad of STS, material gerontology, design, and medical sociology offer alternative views on ageing and care. Ageing emerges as a boundary object through which authors explore the relationship with technologies and technology-based processes and practices. Authors point out that becoming older is a sociomaterial process and emphasize the importance of thinking with care when designing technology as well as the relevance of the socio-technical imaginary in conceptualizing older people.

2024

Link to publication in VU Research Portal citation for published version (APA) Bos, G. F. (2016). Antwoorden op andersheid: Over ontmoetingen tussen mensen met en zonder verstandelijke beperking in omgekeerde-integratiesettingen. [, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

2024, Locofolio

Einblicke in die historische Entwicklung der Form- und Lichtsignale der Schweizer Eisenbahnen

2024

This dissertation was supported by a grant from International Development Research Centre (106159-001) and Indonesian Higher Education Scholarship. I greatly owe Development Studies Graduate Program, Bandung Institute of Technology for hosting and providing me with financial and legal support for my fieldwork. Special thanks go to pak Sonny Yuliar, who 1 Alice in Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland vi introduced me to the world of social research and showed me the enjoyment of doing actornetwork theory. Many thanks to Ida Nurlaila, who accompanied most of my field works and made the experience of chasing informant full with sweet memories. Pak Sis, mba Dzuli and mas Ajie, thanks for the great team work and support during our visit to Kebumen, Purworejo and Yogyakarta. I won't be able to do research without my informants who allowed me to enter their private space and shared their precious stories. Thank you very much. Special thanks to my colleagues and friends at TU/e. Evelien de Hoop, what would my PhD life be without you? Thank you for making me laugh every day, for encouraging and cheering me up when I was down, for introducing me to the joy of gardening and for being a best friend. Sadaf Bashir, thanks for being a sister to me and for giving me a hand whenever I need you. Annelies Balkema, thanks for your enthusiasm in TvO and for your friendly atmosphere at our office. Many thanks to members of the Lentil club, Boukje Huijben, Johanna Höffken, Suyash Jolly, Frans Sengers, Lilianne Laan, Marloes Dignum and Bram Verhees for making my PhD journey colorful. Thanks to Negin Salimi, Frank Schipper, Carolina Castaldi, Rudi Bekkers, Arjan Kirkels, Fred Lambert, Giel Hooff and Önder Nomaler for the warm conversations during lunch and seminars. I would also like to thank Mieke Rompen and Letty Calamee for their support and help. I would like to extend a sincere word of thanks to pak Nico Schulte Nordholt, Jon C.

2024, Ohiolink

Performing Objects: Ephemerality and Liveness in Contemporary Dance and Nonhuman Performance, 1975-2022 explores nonhuman objects’ movement, mobility, performativity, and phenomenology to reframe the current discourse on cultural studies and social justice, representation politics, considers environmental justice as an integral component of social justice, and fills the gap of nonhuman research in dance studies. Performing objects as pivotal sites can simultaneously expand the boundaries of dance studies and facilitate critical interdisciplinary inquiries between dance studies and other fields within the humanities. By analyzing the works of dance artists like Eiko Otake, Shen Wei, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and Pina Bausch, I illustrate how performing objects redefine our notions of space, technology, and technique within both theater and site-specific dance. These performing objects include technological objects designed and created by humans and nonhuman elements such as animals, plants, and even the human body. I demonstrate how a nonhuman perspective alters our perception of the “other,” how nonhuman knowledge can dissolve binary oppositions within cultural representations, and how it challenges racism, colonialism, and sexism and contributes to the complexity of representation politics and intersectional social justice. In addition, my dissertation, which includes a historical component, delves into recognizing the “other,” otherness, and alterity, aligning with environmental justice and carving radical political possibilities from stage-based performances to everyday life and the broader natural environment.

2024, Tecnoscienza : Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies

: The paper introduces the ten years anniversary issue of Tecnoscienza. A short history of the journal is presented, together with some reflections about its evolution along the years. Sketching the texts that compose the anniversay issue, we identify some past, present and future themes in STS. Keywords : Tecnoscienza; anniversary; do-it-yourself; academic publishing; STS.

2024, ScholarSphere

The Future: A Very Short Introduction (2017, xiv +164 p) is part of Oxford University Press's "Very Short Introduction" series, which, since 1995, have delivered titles fit for "anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject." This review will consider whether or not the book is, as advertised, stimulating and accessible to readers, and then hazard a few remarks in conclusion. Our highest praise possible for a text like this: with virtually no room for self-indulgence or tangent, is that Gidley provides a distinctive, personalized perspective of the field that ultimately renders a hopeful view of the future to readers.