Sumitran Basu’s “Three Decades of Social Construction of Technology: Dynamic Yet Fuzzy? The Methodological Conundrum” (2022) provides insightful comments and builds a solid cornerstone for us to review and reflect on the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT). It is an… Read More ›
Volume 11, Issue 12, 1-81, December 2022 Podcast Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 3: “Faith, Knowing, and Believing.” Guest: Sister Mary Magdalene; Hosts: Fabien Medvecky and Michiel van Oudheusden. Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Sassower, Raphael 2022. “Why Does Latour the… Read More ›
It was sometime in the mid-1990s that I first met Bruno Latour in person. It was the annual 4S meeting, either in Seattle or Portland. It was a smallish room that held about thirty people. In walks a tall and… Read More ›
Values Without Facts In my experience, science studies scholars earn their livelihood criticising scientists who fail to appreciate how scientific enterprises are embedded within society, social norms, or cultural values. Roger Pielke, a scholar cited in STS and professor at… Read More ›
Some science studies scholars support creationist schooling (Steve Fuller), support free-thinking climate denialist think-tanks (Bruno Latour), lawyers’ dominance above scientists’ evidence and embrace media’s post-truth turn (Sheila Jasanoff), lament top-down reassurances of harmless mobile phone radiation (Jack Stilgoe), believe values… Read More ›
Volume 10, Issue 12, 1-79, December 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Levy, Neil. 2021. “Predictably Rational: A Further Response to Grundmann.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (12): 75-79. ❧ Sassower, Raphael. 2021. “It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment… Read More ›
How does it feel to be under lockdown because of the coronavirus epidemic? Bruno Latour, a leading scholar of the science studies community for the past four decades, answers: “I feel like a load of washing in the drum of… Read More ›
Bruno Latour’s new After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis (2021) offers to the reader in what is said in the text Latour at his best—and also, by what goes unsaid, Latour at his most cryptic … [please read below the rest of… Read More ›
In this sense, the present review essay is a form of critique, just as the anthology under review comprises of fourteen critiques and as a whole is a meta-critique. In philosophical circles, critique dates back to Socrates whose dialogues are… Read More ›
Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth explores the way in which global political action today embodies multiple contradictions in our relationship to land. More precisely, our relationship to that part of the Earth that comprises the crust and the atmosphere, where… Read More ›