STS Discussion Forum by Astrid https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay SOCM950 class discussions en-us 2018-10-03 12:10:37 UTC 2025-10-19 13:08:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Fertilizations story 1 aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/288565171 2018-10-03 12:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/288565171 Harding - Strong Objevtivity - Comprehension Questions aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397927400 - e.g. Harding says: "..... " on page x; what does she mean by z 

]]> 2019-10-15 14:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397927400 Harding - Strong Objevtivity - Discussion Questions aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397928079 - what do you think about Hardings claim " ....."  .... does she have a valid point?]]> 2019-10-15 14:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397928079 Haraway - Situated Knowledges -Comprehension Questions aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397930969 e.g.: what's the difference between a situation and a location?




]]> 2019-10-15 14:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397930969 Haraway - Situated Knowledges - Discussion Questions aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397932009 2019-10-15 14:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397932009 Daston - Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective - Comprehension Questions aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397932410 2019-10-15 14:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397932410 Daston - Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective - Discussion Questions aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397934271 2019-10-15 14:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/397934271 Is it the only way to inform a better future scientific practices by looking into the past scientific practise? https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398050774 2019-10-15 17:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398050774 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398052317 Author state that Politic guided research projects can be less partial and distorted results, but politic has its aim and that aim could be evil, how to prevent scientific result used by evil leader?]]> 2019-10-15 17:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398052317 Is there any possibility to achieve one hundred percent of rationality in science study? Like leave the work to Artificial Intelligence, if one day AI could be powerful enough to discover new theory, for Machine is pure-rational. https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398061277 2019-10-15 17:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398061277 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398063839 How can we realize our current knowledge toward our universe is 'objective'?]]> 2019-10-15 17:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398063839 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398073943 Is activist feminist able to be objective?  They struggle to insist their standpoint and that is strength needy, and easily to forget the origin of science is to seek truth. This question is applicable to any scientific community who insist their standpoint or their world of view.]]> 2019-10-15 17:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398073943 Will Haraway feel easy when all the scientist are the same gender? https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398093643 2019-10-15 18:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398093643 Daston: https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398188009 1) When scientists look for objectivity, are they looking for truth?
2) What could be a relationship between aperspectival objectivity and subjectivity?
3) Does technologies reflect (somehow) the aperspectival objectivity?]]> 2019-10-15 21:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398188009 Harding https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398188512 1) p.240 politics shape the very structure of society. What society are we talking about?
2) Let's leave beside the idea of aperspectival objectivity: how does it affects scientists everyday work? Can scientific work reflect this standpoint? how (in its contents, in its method...)?]]> 2019-10-15 21:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398188512 Haraway https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398189619 1) p.577: the strong program joins the tool of semiology. How does the strong program use semiology?
2) Isn't it better to leave the idea of objectivity in favor of a "more powerful method to build and interpret knowledge"?]]> 2019-10-15 21:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398189619 Harding https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398352246 1. What do we think about Harding's claim that knowledge is socially situated?
2. Harding appears to be suggesting that marginalised groups are able to produce superior standpoints because of their socially situated standpoint. What do we think about this claim?
3. Is Harding arguing that 'traditional science' where female empiricists are operating lacks a way for researchers to reflect on their social situation. With this is mind how then can people identify their own biases, if they are said to be blind to them?]]> 2019-10-16 09:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398352246 Haraway https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398355516 1. Haraway appears to me to suggest objectivity is compromised by power relations (white, male, privileged) therefore only seeming neutral. We know that throughout history there is evidence to support these claims in some research but Haraway's view doesn't appears to leave room for some such research to be objective. What does this do to the validity of such research and how it is perceived?
2. Does  Haraway argue that it isn't just about being aware of and documenting factors determining what we see and how we think but taking responsibility for this and finding ways to observe things from a different perspective?]]> 2019-10-16 09:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398355516 Daston https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398361833 This article somewhat confused me, I found it hard to read. My questions are more around what the article is saying.
1. Is Daston suggesting that recently objectivity has become one concept with multiple historical meanings?
2. Is Daston suggesting that scientists write less in the first person as a result of the new meanings attributed to objectivity?


]]> 2019-10-16 09:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398361833 Discussion Questions for Pickering aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923209 2019-10-17 10:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923209 Comprehension Questions for Pickering aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923333 2019-10-17 10:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923333 Discussion Questions for Barad aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923533 Agential realism offers a philosophical frame to understand the construction of what we used to call "subject", "object", and "phenomena". In this new ontology there are no "a priori" fixed onthological differencies among objects, it means that they are constructed each time.
In the intr-active production of material-discursive bodies, what is (where is) the role of prediction? (p.10)]]> 2019-10-17 10:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923533 Comprehension Questions for Barad aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923641 2019-10-17 10:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/398923641 Pickering https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/400382431 1.Does the Islands of stability explain the validity of Dualism? and how did it do that?
2. If everything is the result of intra-action, is that mean without the observer there will be no truth?]]> 2019-10-21 15:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/400382431 Pickering - Mangle https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/401107033 This blew my mind!

Is Pickering critiquing traditional social science in a way that suggests it is somehow invalid because of its emphasis on 'humans' in society, social relations and predetermined social categories and ignores nonhuman actors and networks that impact both society and technology? Or have I completely missed the point.

I do like the way he seems to take away the distinctiveness of being human, the way some think humans are 'special' 'different' 'superior' .... at least that's what I understood anyway!

I'd also like to understand what Pickering means when he talks about constraint and resistance, I understand his explanation but I am unclear of the context......anyone help with that?]]> 2019-10-22 19:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/401107033 Barad - Getting Real https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/401156376 It took me a while to get into Barad’s paper, I found it confusing and difficult to read, I had to Google so many words which didn’t seem to help in piecing together an understanding and I felt the conclusion was lacking something for me. Having re-read it a part of it made sense following the introduction of Casper’s perspective/critique. If I am honest, I don’t have any questions for this one yet as I want to check my understanding of it first before I question it. The example of ultrasonography seemed to make sense to me. I understand from this that Barad has reformed agency and realism to agential realism to include human and non-human actors but not in the sense of ANT but in a wider sense of knowledge, being and ethics in the context of matter, material and discourse. So I think rather than viewing a fetus as having agency and a pregnant woman as a technological environment for the fetus or in reverse viewing a fetus as an object, Barad’s theory allows us to recognise the intra-actions within the pregnant woman, fetus, uterus etc. I understand this to mean then that agency here is not something that someone has but agency within relationships, not independent of one another but surpasses the boundaries that we know and the agency emerges from relationships within the intra-actions. Sure I’ve completely missed the point on this one.

I found this which I thought was quite interesting though….. http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/120047/1/Disentangling%20Barad%20-%20version%20for%20repositories.pdf
]]> 2019-10-22 21:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/401156376 I uploaded some slides to ELE for tomorrow - have a look if you want - Astrid aschrader11 https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/401197949 2019-10-23 00:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrader11/w98j9f37umay/wish/401197949