Readings and Schedule
Syllabus
Week 1 (8/25): Introduction: Science + Technology - Interdisciplinary naturecultures
- Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto (originally published in 1985)
- Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (1990), Chapter 1, pages 1-12 only.
- Banu Subramaniam, The Ghosts of Darwin (2014), Preface and Introduction.
Week 2 (9/1): NO CLASS – 4S Conference in Barcelona, Spain
- Banu Subramaniam, The Ghosts of Darwin (2014), Chapters 2, 4, 7 - Skim Chapters 1,3.
Week 3 (9/8): Laboratory naturecultures I: History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science in Mid-20th Century
- Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton University Press, 1985. Ch. 1-3, 8.
- Optional: Robert K. Merton. ‘The Normative Structure of Science’, The Sociology of Science, University of Chicago Press, 1973. Ch. 13
Week 4 (9/15): Laboratory naturecultures II / Bowker
- Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, 1999. Ch. 1-4.
- Paul Edwards, Matthew S. Mayernik, Archer L. Batcheller, Geoffrey C. Bowker, and Christine L. Borgman. "Science friction: Data, Metadata, and Collaboration." Social Studies of Science. 2011.
- Brian Fay, Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science, 1996. Chapter 1: Do you have to be one to know one?
- Brian Fay, Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science, 1996. Chapter 9: Do we live stories or just tell them?
- Optional: Geoffrey Bowker, Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940 (1994). Introduciton.
- Optional: Geoffrey Bowker, Memory Practices in the Science (2005). Introduction.
Week 5 (9/22): Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) / Misa & Yost
- Tom Misa & Jeffrey Yost, FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World. (2014). Preface and Chapters 1-3.
- Chen, Mel Y. Animacies: Biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect. Duke University Press, 2012. Introduction and Chapter 5.
- Nakamura, Lisa. "Don't hate the player, hate the game: The racialization of labor in World of Warcraft." Critical Studies in Media Communication 26, no. 2 (2009): 128-144.
- Nakamura, Lisa. "Indigenous circuits: Navajo women and the racialization of early electronic manufacture." American Quarterly 66, no. 4 (2014): 919-941.
- Optional: Rayvon Fouche, Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation, 2003. Intro and Chapter 1.
- Optional: Tom Misa, Leonardo to the Internet: Technology & Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (2004). Introduction.
- Geof Bowker’s presentation at NCSA Sept 20 - "The Data Citizen: New Ways of Being in the World”.
- midweSTS Workshop 2016 Program.
Week 6 (9/29): Actor Network Theory / Latour
- Bruno Latour, Science in Action, Harvard U. Press, 1987. Introduction and Ch. 1, 2, 6.
- Jennifer Gabrys, Sensing an Experimental Forrest (2012).
- Jennifer Gabrys, Rethingifying the Internet of Things (2016).
- Bruno Latour, On Recalling ANT (1999).
Week 7 (10/6): Sociology of Objects / Vostral
- Sharra Vostral, Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology (2008). Chapters 1-5.
- David Serlin, "Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics after World War Two," in Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm (2002).
- Kirsten E. Gardner, "From Cotton to Silicone: Breast Prosthesis before 1950," in Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm (2002).
- Robert Altman, Silent Film Sound, 2004, Chapter 5: "From Peep Show to Projection"
Optional:
- Bruno Latour, ‘‘Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts,’’ in Shaping Technology-Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, 1992.
Week 8 (10/13): Human Machine Reconfigurations / Suchman
- Lucy Suchman, Human-Machine Reconfigurations. (2007). Pages vii (Acknowledgements) - 32.
- Lucy Suchman. (2008). "Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial." In The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. 3rd ed. Edited by E. Hackett O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch and J. Wajcman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007, pp. 139-163
- Lucy Suchman, "Anthropological Relocations and the Limits of Design." (2011). Annual Review of Anthropology, 40: 1–18.
- Lucy Suchman, "Subject Objects." Feminist Theory, 12 (2): 119–145. (2011)
- Klaus Krippendorf. 2006. The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design. Chapters 5: Meaning in the lives of artifacts.
- Klaus Krippendorf. 2006. The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design. Chapters 6: Meaning in an ecology of artifacts.
- Humberto R. Maturana & Bernhard Poerksen. 2004. Interview. "On the autonomy of systems A conversation: the limits of external determination." Excerpted from "From Being to Doing." The Origins of the Biology of Cognition" by Humberto R. Maturana and Bernhard Poerksen.
Beth's presentation.
Week 9 (10/20): Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience/Murphy
- Michelle Murphy, Seizing the Means of Reproduction (2012). Intro, Ch. 1 + 2.
- Nancy Tuana. Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance. Hypatia, Vol. 19, No. 1, Feminist Science Studies (Winter, 2004), pp. 194-232.
- Nancy Tuana. The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance. Hypatia, Vol. 21, No. 3, Feminist Epistemologies of Ignorance (Summer, 2006), pp.1-19.
- Lisa Jean Moore and Adele E. Clarke. Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphic Representations in Anatomy Texts, c1900-1991. Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 255-301
Week 10 (10/27): Postgenomic Conditions/ Reardon
- Jenny Reardon, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (2004). Introduction, Ch. 3, Ch. 5, Conclusion.
- Kim Tallbear. Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. (2013). Introduction, Ch. 1, Ch. 4.
Week 11 (11/3): Civic Technoscience's Experts, Lay Experts, Publics / Liboiron
- Sara Wylie, “Institutions for Civic Technoscience: How Critical Making is Transforming Environmental Research,” The Information Society, 2014.
- Max Liboiron, “Disaster Data, Data Activism: Grassroots Responses to Representations of Superstorm Sandy,” in Extreme Weather and Global Media. Eds. Diane Negra and Julia Leyda. (2015).
- Erica Robles-Anderson and Max Liboiron, “Coupling Complexity: Ecological Cybernetics as a Resource for Nonrepresentational Moves to Action,” in Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment. Eds. Nicole Starosielski & Janet Walker. (2016).
Readings from Katie:
- Jodi Dean. Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy. Cornell U. Press, (2002). Intro and Ch. 3. (notes to chapters here).
- Ned O'Gorman and Kevin Hamilton. "At the Interface: The Loaded Rhetorical Gestures of Nuclear Legitimacy and Illegitimacy," in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. (2011).
Week 12 (11/10): Postcolonial/Global Technoscience naturecultures
- Anna Tsing. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton University Press, 2004. Preface/Introduction, Ch. 4.
- Anna Tsing. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton U. Press, 2015. pages vii-43, 85-94, 217-225, 284-288.
Readings from Rea:
- Gaston Gordillo. Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction, 2014. Introduction and Chapter 5; pp. 1-28 and 131-152
- Hannah Appel. "Offshore Work: Oil, Modularity, and the How of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea," American Ethnologist, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 692–709, 2012.
Week 13 (11/17): Critical Design Cultures / Bardzell & Bardzell, Forlano, & Ratto
- Silvia Lindtner. "Making Subjectivities: How China’s DIY Makers remake Industrial Production, Innovation & the Self . Journal of China Information." 2014."
- From Lilah: Sven Dupré. "Trading Luxury Glass, Picturing Collections and ConsumingObjects of Knowledge in Early Seventeenth-Century Antwerp." Intellectual History Review. 2010.
- From David: Thierry de Duve. Kant After Duchamp, MIT Press. 1996. Chapter 8 and the Dada Manifesto, 1918.
Optional:
- Matt Ratto. “Critical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and Social Life,” The Information Society, Vol. 27, 4: 252-260. 2011.
- Shaowen and Jeff Bardzell. “What is “Critical” about Critical Design?” 2013. Silvia Lindtner. "Making Subjectivities: How China’s DIY Makers remake Industrial Production, Innovation & the Self . Journal of China Information." 2014.
- Laura Forlano and Megan Halpern, "Reimagining Work: Entanglements and Frictions around Future of Work Narratives.” Fibreculture. Special Issue on "Entanglements: Activism and Technology." 2016.
- Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research, University of Illinois: "Innovative Discoveries from the University of Illinois that Impact Our World."
- University of Illinois, Fiscal 2015 Annual Report.
- Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois, "MOOCs at Illinois - A Third Year Report"
Week 14 (11/24): NO CLASS /THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 15 (12/1): Presentations – FINAL CLASS
