What STS can learn from reflections on African philosophy

Jun 27 2022

In this post, David Kananizadeh reflects on decolonizing STS and what Souleymane...

Be Kind Rewind: Backchannels Review of 2021

Jan 3 2022

This post captures the previous year of Backchannels’ publications covered...

Documentary Review: Coded Bias

Mar 15 2021

When was the last time you were aware you interacted with algorithm? The politic...

Critical Practices for Making and Communicating Research: A Review of Kat Jungnickel’s Transmissions

Jan 18 2021

How do you make and communicate your research is the leading question of "T...

Documentary Review: Seeds of Freedom

Oct 17 2020

In this re-blog, Keerthana Balaji reviews the documentary Seeds of Freedom (2012...

Of Hopes and Struggles: How Young African Scientists Experience Working Conditions in Academia (A Review of The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa)

May 18 2020

The research output landscape in Africa and its complexities is central to the b...

Why Feminist Figurations Matter in Energy Futures

Dec 10 2019

An encounter with the ethnographer of futures Laura Watts and the Electric Nemes...

Seeking self-reflexivity within the global STS community: an interview with Sundar Sarukkai

Jul 27 2019

Sundar Sarukkai discusses the importance of the STS Handbook for the global Sout...

Academics, researchers and practitioners are calling for more justice and democratization of environmental agenda and preparing next parallel events to COP25 in Chile

Jul 3 2019

Academics, researchers, parliamentarians and civil society organizations strengt...

Extract to Predict: Getting a Life as Smooth and Clear as Glass (A review of Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism)

May 13 2019

This essay reviews The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshanna Zuboff. It di...