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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Technoscience"”.
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Perceptions of the Midwife’s Role: A Technoscience Perspective.
… exploratory phase , a postmodern feminist technoscience theoretical stance underpins the second phase of this study; in particular it draws on the work of Donna Haraway. Haraway’s notion of ‘situated knowledges’ provides the opportunity to locate the views of women and midwives. This …
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Test Cases: Reconfiguring American Law, Technoscience, and Democracy in the Nuclear Pacific
… the centrality of the entangled fields of technoscience and law in changing patterns of America’s offshore territoriality. It establishes the importance of law as a central arena of conflict in the transnational nuclear politics. Simultaneously, it shows how technoscience has been …
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The heterogeneous network of functional food technoscience, productive risk and impure nature
… the connections among food science, molecular biotechnoscience, the mass media and on-line communities formed around a specific brown rice variety with enhanced amount of GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid). I also conducted interviews with five Korean scientists who are actively involved in functional …
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Cultures of Technoscience: A Study of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Research in the United States and India
A starting point for this study is that even though the relationship is asymmetrical, techno-scientific research in and between non-western and western nations cannot be understood through simple conceptual dichotomies of center/periphery, dominant/dominated, or globalism/localism. The development …
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An Archaeology of Pain
… medicine. Through the discourses of biopower and technoscience pain is used to construct and maintain the social body. Biopower and technoscience are discursive practices that are enveloped within the disciplines of Western society. Specifically, the disciplines of education, science, and medicine …
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Overt and covert organization culture: a case study of the Office of Technology Assessment
… "company line" values and was characterized as "technoscience" culture, while the covert culture, characterized as reflexive science culture, was made up of deeper level motives or attitudes held implicitly at the personal level and that derive from the dynamics of the longer term developmental …
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Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
… systems. Drawing on work in feminist technoscience, disability studies, and the history and anthropology of computing, this dissertation weaves together different forms of HCI research to ask what work can or should be done by data representations across computational media.
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Against Eternity: A Critical Reading of Transhumanism
… computation. Beyond the curative potential of technoscience, transhumanism seeks to transcend the biological limits of the human body, including death. My research identifies a racist, colonial, patriarchal impulse in the transhuman pursuit of immortality. I begin by situating transhumanism …
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Viscera(l) Views: Performing on the Brink of the Human
… inquiry as a useful approach to the study of technoscience and its consequences. As a whole, this dissertation is a call for, theorization with, and performative demonstration of artful participation in the multi-layered discourses of technology and science that impact the lives of all beings …
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Inscrutability: An Epistemological Experiment
… how representation has been instrumentalized in technoscience through space research. Finally, the last two projects, the Poem Box (2024) and Micropoetry (2025) posit a way forward at the limits of representation by engaging with semiotic theory. By engaging with language games, poetry opens up …
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The Constructions of Sexual Identity and Women at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Cultural Curriculum Studeis: A Feminist Inquiry
… sexuality while also considering ways in which technoscience is reconfiguring notions of the construction of women’s identities through an exploration and analysis of the medium of television.</p>
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Cost-Benefit Analysis as Democratic Ritual: The Controversy Over a Proposed Uranium Mining and Milling Project in Virginia (1981-2013)
… between expertise and public controversy over technoscience by suggesting that cost-benefit analysis might serve a beneficial pro-democratic ritual role. To explore this question of the role played by expertise and what we might learn and recommend from approaching CBA as a democratic ritual, I …
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Points of Refusal: An Arts-Based Exploration of the Medicalization of Mad Trans Identity
… the gender binary, by using the concepts of crip technoscience and the glitch. This glitching of the technological software of the digital photograph leads to the creation of a final body of artworks that disrupt and visually disorient patriarchal readings and traditional perceptions of sex and …
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Ebbs and flows: more-than-human encounters with the Cape Flats Aquifer in a context of climate change
… integrated more-than-human relations as humans, technoscience, and nature become increasingly entangled in contexts of climate change and socio-ecological crisis. Researching in the environmental humanities between 2017 and 2020, I situate my study in Cape Town, South Africa, where the …
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Landsat in Contexts: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Data-to-Action Paradigm in Earth Remote Sensing
… yield action, and to guide us toward a more just technoscience. However, critiques—like data—require intentional, reconstructive interventions toward change. Here is an opportunity for a diffractive intervention: one in which we read STS and remote sensing through each other, to create space for …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
… upon the material-semiotic approach of feminist technoscience studies and its concept of enactment, I ask: What are the practices of recovery here? What forms of evidence are appropriate in demonstrating recovery? What does recovery as set of a socio-material practices tell us about mental (ill) …
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Sonic Apartheid: ecoracism, apartheid geographics and noise pollution in Cape Town's Blikkiesdorp
… can serve to disturb and resist evidence-based technoscience and processes of ecoracist governance.
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Assisting Technology: Disability Expertise and Labor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Work in China
… AI systems, but also to elevate crip technoscience by teasing out the disability expertise actually entailed in the production of AI.
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Synthetic Women: Gender, Power, and Humanoid Sex Robots
… gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist technoscience literature, this dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the androcentric imaginaries through which humanoid sex robots ("sexbots") emerge. Specifically, I utilize sexbots to interrogate and reflect on issues such …
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Mediated Cognition: Information Technologies and the Sciences of Mind
… a summary and some reflections on mind, culture, technoscience and markets as recursively interwoven causal systems.
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