Oct 14 2024
This report generates new insights to the concept of 'voicing' through a summary of panel discussions held during the EASST/4S meeting in Amsterdam to ask: What politics becomes possible through diverse and distributed practices of voicing attuned to soundings, and how do these politics translate into STS knowledge work?
Aug 14 2024
In this trilingual post, Jorge Alexander Daza Cardona reflects on his experiences at the XV Latin American Conference on Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE 2024), organized by the Latin American Association for the Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE)
Feb 26 2024
Ludovico Rella (Durham University) reports on the 'Making Data, Making Worlds' workshop conducted in September 2023, hosted by the Royal Geographical Society in London. This report engages with the processes of world-making associated with Artificial Intelligence algorithms and large-scale simulation environments, refracted through the critical and analytic lens of the 'generative turn' that produces new articulations between algorithms, simulations, predictive modeling based on ‘real data...
Sep 25 2018
Martin Perez Comisso and Farah Najar Aravelo report insights and challenges from a Café del Mundo workshop on Latin American (anti)futures, held this year at Arizona State University.
Jan 23 2023
Sandra P González-Santos, Alex Liebman and Teresa Nuñez Fortul reflect on what went into and what came out of the 'In Memoriam' project at 4S 2022, an occasion to remember and celebrate our academic ancestors, those who have been fundamental to our STS community and to our personal stories as academics.
Sep 10 2018
An examination of what is both revealed and hidden when looking at social media posts made during the EASSTS2018 conference.
Nov 8 2021
Report Back from the second Peruvian STS Meeting!
Jul 22 2024
In a three-day conference at Colby College, faculty across the small liberal arts college shared their research, teaching, and partnerships in critical medical and health humanities. Their goal was to collectively define the field by connecting their work to critical keywords.
Jul 20 2015
A productive debate would be one in which visual anthropology is discussed for its theoretical effects and potentialities. Otherwise, visual anthropology will get lost again in a "reality debate": Are we representing reality or not? Are we fair and accurate in representing the reality of the other? Such debate ends up in another even more complicated debate, that between us and them. The question of who is representing whom has been discussed in postcolonial studies of film for many de...
Jul 9 2018
A concise summary of the Critical by Design? conference, organized by the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures in Basel, Switzerland, could be that the relationship of design and critique is ambivalent. The conference concluded a three-year research project looking at the potentials and limitations of critical design as a practice as well as the relationship between design and critique. In an effort to understand how critical and speculative design approaches could help confront a...