Controversia Scientia
Hello from Canada! This has very little to do with the topic of today’s post. I’m just taking advantage of this moment to announce my recent arrival in Vancouver, BC. …
Review of Epistemology of the Concrete (Rheinberger)
Rheinberger H-J. (2010). An epistemology of the concrete: Twentieth-century histories of life. Durham: Duke University Press. Never before have I read a monograph which has left me so conflicted. In …
Review of Vibrant Matter (Bennett)
Bennett J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Durham: Duke University Press. Note: I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for a month or two now and …
Cosmopolitics I-1
Stengers, I. (2010). Cosmopolitics I. R. Bononno, (Trans.). Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press. *Note: I write about books for a number of reasons. Most often, it’s to share my thoughts …
Recent Readings in STS
I’ve been reading pretty voraciously over the past two months and as such, I’ve not had time to keep up with my book reviews. So this is a catch up …
RSA Recap
I’ve just returned a few days ago from the Rhetoric Society of American conference in beautiful Minneapolis, Mn (May28-31). I also attended the Association for the Rhetoric of Science and …
Pickering (2010) The Cybernetic Brain
Andrew Pickering’s (2010) The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future offers readers a thorough and detailed view into this history of cybernetic science. This history focuses on and is presented …
Cozzens, S.E. & Gieryn, T.F. (1990). Theories of science in society. Bloomington: Indiana UP.
In Theories of Science in Society, Cozzens and Gieryn’s have collected an impressive set of contributed chapters detailing major theories in the sociology of science and the sociology of scientific …
Jasanoff, S.S. (1987). Contested boundaries in policy-relevant science. Social Studies of Science 17, 195-230.
In “Contested Boundaries,: Sheila Jasanoff explores different conceptualizations of the science-policy interface as articulated by a variety of scientific and policy institutions. Jasanoff uses the debate over the regulation formaldehyde …
Wayne, B. (1989). Sheepfarming after Chernobyl. Environment, 31(2), 10-39.
In “Sheepfarming after Chernobyl,” Brian Wayne explores communicaitons problems between scientists, government officials, and sheepfarmers in Cumbria, UK following Chernobyl. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl incident, radioactive isotopes rained …