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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 5h

The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought is an independent forum for intellectual and artistic study and experimentation, devoted to the speculative and critical exploration of potentials in the fissures of the planetary present. Sign up for updates! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought

The ICCT is an independent forum for intellectual and artistic study and experimentation, devoted to the speculative and critical exploration of potentials in the fissures of the planetary present.

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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 5h

Join us for the first in a series of @contemporarycriticalthought.org events! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/a-thous...

A Thousand Wet-Lands

Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 3d

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics" by Julien Larregue and Séverine Louvel @julienlarregue.bsky.social #epigenetics #biosocial #sociology #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics - Julien Larregue, Séverine Louvel, 2025

Social epigenetics is presented as a promising interdisciplinary avenue between the natural and social sciences to explore the links between neighborhood enviro...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 7d

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 13d

New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism"
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QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain - Na Fu, 2025

E-retail platforms are fundamentally restructuring global production networks, creating new forms of labor exploitation hidden behind digital interfaces. In Chi...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 17d

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Lina Pinto-García @linapintogarcia.bsky.social · 17d

What if harm reduction applied to drug production, not just drug use?

Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.

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Extending public health framings of drug use to the health impacts of drug production: The case of coca growers in Northeastern Colombia

This article critically examines the absence of a public health approach to the well-being of coca leaf producers in Colombia, a group disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs. While harm re...

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 17d

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.

🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961

#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 19d

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 26d

In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...

Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 26d

New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 26d

New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 10

New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025

Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Sep 10

It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!

Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 4

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025

Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 10

New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice - Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, Environmental Data...

The 2016 election of Donald Trump heightened the disproportionate risks from toxicants faced by minoritized communities from cuts in the US Environmental Protec...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 4

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025

Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 2

New OnlineFirst article: "Constructing Comparability: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transnational Settler Modularity of Desalination" by
Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · Aug 24

Congratulations Warwick! Wonderful news! 🥳

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Martin Savransky @martinsavransky.bsky.social · Aug 22

Glad to see this one out… open access.

Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene

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Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social · Aug 20

Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University Assistant (Post-doc) in Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Aug 13

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994

Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)!
#histmed #histstm #sts

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Aug 13

When we say we trust a technology, it's never just about the thing. It's also about the people around the thing.

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Aug 11

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Do Artifacts Have Political Economy?" by Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social #constructivist #politicaleconomy #assetization #LangdonWinner #RobertMoses #adtech #generativeAI #techbros journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025

Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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