Class themes & keywords
Themes covered in this class include, but are not limited to, the following:
After the ‘Science Wars’
science wars, realism, positivism, objectivity, universal knowledge, constructionism, subjectivity, local knowledge, materiality, truth claims, power, technoscience, technoculture
Interpreting technoscience
ontology, epistemology, methodology, paradigms, autonomy, extraterritoriality, scientific communities, politics, practice, lab studies
Technoscience, history and politics
history, historiography, politics, reflexivity, invention, innovation, discovery, progress, heroes, irony, humour, power
Technoscience, event and affect
events, histories, poeisis, praxis, contingencies, fictions, abstractions, experiments, authority, interests, mediation, artefacts, apparatuses, programmes, scripts, actor-networks, affects
Technoscience, multiple and partial truths
paradigms, ideologies, worldviews, subjects, objects, problematisation, interessment, enrolment, translation, mobilisation, singularities, networks, protocols, politics
Producing technoscience
assemblages, collections, parliament of things, collectives, hybrids, human-computer interactions, engineering, design, innovation, commodification, convergence, consensus, policy, labour
vitalism, artificial life, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, reproductive technologies, cloning, genetic engineering, transgenics, biomedicine, body modification, zeno-transplantation, non-humans, identity, gender, sexuality, politics, ethics
Technoscience and everyday life
cybernetics, networked technologies, new media, ubiquitous computing, mobile technology, wearable technology, biometrics, surveillance, privacy, hackers, gaming, consumption, identity, gender, race, ethnicity, class, citizenship, politics, ethics
