Officially finished the second semester @TUM_STS!
Was asked recently: "What would you say are the most impactful pieces you've read so far?"
To mark this accomplishment of completing the first year of graduate school - here is an #STS inspired reading list (12 total)
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They are broken up into two broad themes:
- Most impactful to me personally (First 6)
- Most impactful and now foundational to #STS as a discipline (after the person graduated from the field) (Second 6)
*Just my opinion, so eager to hear what others might choose*
'A clean kill?: the role of Patriot in the Gulf War' by #STS icons the late Trevor Pinch @STSCornell & Harry Collins of @cardiffuni
"but to see that this fog was just a dense version of the fog through which #golemscience always has to strain to see."
archive.org/details/golema…
'Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change' in "Society and technological change" by Rudi Volti
Whose Technology?
The Technological Fix
Why #Technology Can't Always Fix It
The Technocrat's Delusion
The Appeal of #Technocracy
archive.org/details/societ…
'See-through Science: Why public engagement needs to move upstream' by @jameswilsdon & @Bankfieldbecky
"But the public also wants answers to the more fundamental questions at stake in any new technology: Who owns it? Who benefits from it?"
sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/4785…
'#EpistemicActivism: Design Expertise as a Site of Intervention' by @AimiHamraie
Had to write a paper and chose this absolute gem. Incredible work!
Seminar Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1_E4P8v…
TLDR Text Summary: drive.google.com/file/d/1ctiJWm…
academic.oup.com/minnesota-scho…
'Risk and Danger' in "Risk and Blame" by Mary Douglas
"This is not because the public does not understand the sums, but because many other objectives which it cares about have been left out of the risk calculation."
archive.org/details/riskbl…
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
"Centrally managed social plans misfire...when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not—and cannot—be fully understood."
archive.org/details/seeing…
Next up are my six "most impactful and now foundational to #STS as a discipline (after the person graduated from the field)"
*OTHER than @langdonw's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" because it has been discussed already*
*Just my opinion, so eager to hear what others might choose*
Dikes and Dams, Thick with Politics by Wiebe E. Bijker of @wtmc_net
"Recognizing that things are thick with politics also draws
attention to the crucial relation of things to people, of things needing to be embedded in a culture if you want them to work."
researchgate.net/publication/23…
'Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea' by @SJasanoff & Sang-Hyun Kim
"This article aims to fill that gap by introducing the
concept of #SociotechnicalImaginaries "
researchgate.net/publication/22…
'Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil' by Timothy Mitchell
"Fossil fuels helped create both the possibility of twentieth-century democracy and its limits."
archive.org/details/carbon…
'Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation?' in "#DesignJustice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need" by @schock
"Chapter 1 addresses the question, “What values do we encode and reproduce in the objects and systems that we design?”"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
'Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science by @MajahorstI
"This paper will investigate the notion of #scicomm as
boundary crossing." #BoundaryObjects
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…
Policy Paradox: The art of Political Decision Making - Deborah Stone
"Paradoxes are nothing but trouble...Two contradictory interpretations can't both be true. A paradox is just such an impossible situation, and political life is full of them."
archive.org/details/policy…
Tried to link accessible versions so anyone could read. @internetarchive has a lot of the older ones, but to find any newer ones then this @AStrasser116 flowchart is really useful for anyone without access.
Would love to hear from #STStwitter what their most impactful texts are (both personally & foundational to the #STS field)
Reply back with your own list!
This last year has been absolutely incredible and I have learned so much.
Special shoutout to all the @TUM_STS professors, especially @smpfotenhauer, @MakTakahashi1, @BernhardIsopp, whose classes & lectures really made my think.
Looking forward to the remaining semesters!
@TUM_STS @smpfotenhauer @MakTakahashi1 @BernhardIsopp That's a wrap!
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