Oct 5 2026
This article analyzes the debates which have emerged surrounding the Arroyo Seco Reuse Project in Pasadena, California to explore the nature of infrastructural "fixes" and the environment futures created by infrastructure.
Sep 14 2026
In this reflection, available in both English and Spanish, María Paula Hernández Ruiz proposes the notion of racialised risk and examines how infrastructure, racialisation, and inequality shaped the emergency response to the earthquake that struck western Colombia on 10 August 2026. Focusing on the country’s road network, she explores how infrastructural inequalities deepen risk for Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and peasant communities in the Pacific region, while considering t...
Sep 21 2026
Galls or cecidia are vegetal tissue outgrowths generated when insects or other organisms meet plants. They are resourceful common life entanglements, transdisciplinary by nature.
Aug 17 2026
This bilingual article (English and Portuguese) traces the creation of the Brazilian scientific journal Revista Brasileira de Estudos CTS (RBCTS), dedicated to STS, and its role in consolidating the field in Brazil and Latin America. It reflects on journals as infrastructures for knowledge circulation, exchange, and collective memory. The article discusses the challenges of building an open-access, interdisciplinary, and socially engaged space for STS scholarship.
Aug 3 2026
This article introduces 'technobotany' and the entanglements of botany and technology that shape the nature of science and society. It examines the new space race as a technobotanical frontier featuring photosynthetic technologies designed to power lunar outposts and Martian colonies, anticipating the extraction of rare metals and minerals for energy-intensive societies on Earth.
Jul 27 2026
In 2025, a controversy erupted over a study into the safety and “non-specific effects” of the hepatitis B vaccine among children in Guinea-Bissau. This post traces the life of the concept of “non-specific effects”, from the early 1990s to the political context of the mid-2020s.
Jul 20 2026
Anton Novenanto writes a thought-provoking reflection, offering to understand STS initiatives in Indonesia as projects countering the neoliberalisation of knowledge. The text is available in Indonesian and English.
Jun 19 2026
In this reflection piece, Tam Rayan draws upon the epistemology of wahda as a framework for understanding Palestinian counter-archival practices. Practices that persevere despite the widespread destruction of their documentary and cultural heritage and the continuous denial of liberation and sovereignty.
Apr 13 2026
Reflecting on the effects of lithium mining in Brazil, which results in the double degradation of local landscapes and their inhabitants, this article offers the concept of “the Common Body” to describe the interpenetration and reciprocal affectation between bodies.
Mar 16 2026
In this cross-listed post from Polyphony, Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the ‘lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities. Connecting the intellectual space of the Medical Humanities’ emphasis on the clinic and STS approaches to the laboratory, the authors propose the productivity of further exchanges between these two fields around these complex concepts.