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

Technoscience and bodies

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