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sts issues

This page flags up current STS-related issues that puzzle or concern me. Its contents will change from time to time.

STS in the Social World
STS scholars have worked on the performativity of economics for some time, but we've thought less about how 'the social' and 'the political' get enacted as topics in their own right. This is changing. For an STSish view of how the UK 2010 general election was enacted see the CRESC blog on the social life of methods.
(posted 18th April, 2010)

The Conditions of Possibility
What can we say about enacted but hidden structuring realities? This continuing analytical and political concern leads to the genealogical territory of Michel Foucault. For an STS take on the hidden performativities of method see the paper on Collateral Realities.
(posted 29th December, 2009)

STS, Normativities and Politics
The puzzle is not the interest in politics, but the seemingly widespread STS view that general rules are necessary for good politics and proper demaractions. For an alternative situated view of politics that draws on Donna Haraway's work, see the paper on the Greer-Bush Test.
(posted 23rd December, 2009)