Grant Jun Otsuki
Biographic Data
| ID | 131016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Jun Otsuki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant Jun |
| FAMILY NAME | Otsuki |
| SIGNATURE | OTSUKI G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2359-6313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Feel for Technology: Technocapitalism and the Symbiotic Ethic in Japan
In this article, I examine the work of human–technology interface researchers in Japan to argue for the emergence of a “symbiotic ethic” in their felt encounters with technologies. Using ethnographic fieldwork at university labs conducted since 2011, I explore why researchers create technologies that are made to be “felt” rather than “used” to show how they draw together theories of biological symbiosis, critiques of neoliberal society situated i…
An Agenda for Digital Communication Design Beyond Human-Centric Replication
In this section, we feature reports from conferences, symposia, workshops, and similar events, focusing on discussions where the boundaries of HCI and UX are being challenged and where debate is lively and ongoing
The Difference—and Promise—of ESTS
In this final editorial for the 2020–2025 Editorial Collective, we reflect on how we have worked to action on our key editorial commitments, which included: cultivating greater transnationalization in the field, deepening open access infrastructures, foregrounding pedagogies as a vital domain of STS scholarship and practice, and engaging audiences beyond STS. We share how editing Engaging Science, Technology, and Society has foregrounded differen…
Situating Microbes
Issue 11.1 includes the thematic collection “Situating Microbes.” The collected essays on microbe studies in STS aims to situates microbes in complex ecologies beyond their pathogenic formations. All the articles in this issue render invisible microbes visible by walking us through different sociomaterial contexts. These detailed explorations not only provide a deeper understanding of “situated microbes” but also addresses how location matters. T…
Transitioning ESTS
Contributions to this issue focus on a wide range of domains and problematics—environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, surveillance—that offer a thought-provoking commentary on the many issues that inhabit contemporary intersections of science, technology, and society. It seems more than ever, we need sharp analyses that can help us understand, too, the ways global and national power struggles le…
Caring for Scholarship in Transition
This editorial briefly reflects on the idea of transition—a theme that cuts across energy systems, migration, and education, to name a few—and is likely familiar to many readers. In this issue, we focus on transition within the context of scholarly publishing; maintenance and repair studies; and experimental methods. We reflect on how the Issue’s thematic collection, “Maintenance & its Knowledges” guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin, a…
Standards, Pedagogies, and Celebrating the STS Infrastructure Award to ESTS
Volume 10 comes in two parts, issue 1 and 2 published together. The double issue includes two Thematic Collections, “Standards and their Containers” and “Pedagogical Intersections.” It also includes two original research articles and an engagements piece. With this issue, ESTS also celebrates winning the Infrastructure Award 2024 awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Innovationism Across Transnational Landscapes
This editorial introduces the thematic collection on STS and innovation. The collection includes eleven Engagements exploring the relationships between innovation studies (IS) and STS across various geographies. There is also an Original Research Article in this issue, by Susan Bell, Patrick Grzanka, Kelly Joyce, and Laura Senier, examining masking and not masking during COVID-19. The issue is accompanied by another six supplemental materials in …
Towards Transnational STS
Transnational dialogues in STS matter and are at the heart of ESTS, exemplified by this issue. Two Original Research Articles, the first by Lucía Céspedes (2023) and the second co-authored by Gonçalo Santos, Naubahar Sharif, and Jack Linzhou Xing (2023) respectively, consider what is lost in translation—in the practice of astronomy in Argentina, and the translation of ‘STS’ in China’s academic institutions. The thematic collection, TRANSnationali…
Locating Naturecultures
Building upon two collaborative exhibits created for the 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) meetings in 2018 and 2019, this essay aims to question established modes of locating matters in STS and related fields. As these exhibits showed, Japan has been an active venue for anthropologists and STS scholars working with a diverse range of approaches and topics that may help us to rethink place and space beyond a humanist spatial politics of …
Posthuman Studies Reader: Core Readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism
“The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
Pursuing Transnational STS at Esocite/4S Joint Conference
In this editorial, the ESTS editorial collective (EC) reports on various events it had organized at the 2022 ESOCITE/4S joint meeting held at the Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla in Cholula, México. The EC hosted a journal “happy hour” meet-up and several roundtables on the “Politics of Language,” the challenges and opportunities for open research data in STS worlds, as well as a Managing Editor (ME) Roundtable collaborating with other OA journa…
Building Community with ESTS
This editorial describes the crucial role of building transnationally diverse STS communities that our Editorial Collective (EC) has imagined and sought to implement for Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS). Community-building as an ethic characterizes all aspects of our EC’s work: from editorial practices to infrastructural development, and from content publication to the broader initiatives that we undertake. In a context where the …
Open Research Data: Experimenting Towards a Publishing Infrastructure
In this editorial, we describe the work that has been undertaken by the ESTS editorial collective (EC) over the last two years towards establishing a publishing infrastructure for open research data. A broad movement in the scholarly community is pushing towards data sharing or “open data,” particularly in the natural sciences and medicine. Recognizing that there are compelling reasons why scholars are wary of data sharing and careful to protect …
The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
Infrastructuring ESTS
In our inaugural editorial, we, the incoming Editorial Collective (EC) of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS), describe the digital and social infrastructural work that we have undertaken since assuming editorship of the journal. We also note some of the changes we have introduced in terms of the journal’s content and policies. A key argument is that even though publishing infrastructures shape the form and movement of scholarly cont…
Publishing ESTS
In our previous editorial (Khandekar et al. 2021), we noted the blackboxing of scholarly publication infrastructure that we encountered when we assumed editorship of the journal. We outlined several aspects of infrastructuring that we have undertaken since, with an explicit goal of supporting transnational workflows and participation in ESTS. In this editorial, we continue describing our infrastructural work, highlighting especially the work of c…
Grant Jun Otsuki
No abstract available
Frame, Game, and Circuit: Truth and the Human in Japanese Human-machine Interface Research
This essay tracks the ‘human’ emergent in human-centred technologies (HCTs) in Japan. A primary aim of HCTs is to extract the true intention of the user and actualise it as machine action. Beyond this, HCT researchers maintained that creating such technologies would give them access to the truth of the human itself. In this essay, I examine the games of truth played in HCT, in which teachers exercise authority over students by defining their true…
Shit's Getting Real: A Cultural Analysis of Toilet Paper
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The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
Introduction Grant Jun Otsuki, Shiho Satsuka, Keiichi Omura, and Atsuro Morita PART I: Entangled worldings 2. Earth-beings: Andean religion, but not only Marisol de la Cadena 3. Vertiginous worlds and emetic anthropologies Casper Brun Jensen 4. Doing and undoing caribou/atiku: Diffractive and divergent multiplicities and their cosmopolitical orientations Mario Blaser 5. Maps in action: Quotidian politics through boundary translational matrix for …
World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
Shit's Getting Real: A Cultural Analysis of Toilet Paper
No description supplied
Locating Naturecultures
Building upon two collaborative exhibits created for the 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) meetings in 2018 and 2019, this essay aims to question established modes of locating matters in STS and related fields. As these exhibits showed, Japan has been an active venue for anthropologists and STS scholars working with a diverse range of approaches and topics that may help us to rethink place and space beyond a humanist spatial politics of …
The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
Introduction Grant Jun Otsuki, Shiho Satsuka, Keiichi Omura, and Atsuro Morita PART I: Entangled worldings 2. Earth-beings: Andean religion, but not only Marisol de la Cadena 3. Vertiginous worlds and emetic anthropologies Casper Brun Jensen 4. Doing and undoing caribou/atiku: Diffractive and divergent multiplicities and their cosmopolitical orientations Mario Blaser 5. Maps in action: Quotidian politics through boundary translational matrix for …
World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
Shit's Getting Real: A Cultural Analysis of Toilet Paper
No description supplied
Infrastructuring ESTS
In our inaugural editorial, we, the incoming Editorial Collective (EC) of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS), describe the digital and social infrastructural work that we have undertaken since assuming editorship of the journal. We also note some of the changes we have introduced in terms of the journal’s content and policies. A key argument is that even though publishing infrastructures shape the form and movement of scholarly cont…
Publishing ESTS
In our previous editorial (Khandekar et al. 2021), we noted the blackboxing of scholarly publication infrastructure that we encountered when we assumed editorship of the journal. We outlined several aspects of infrastructuring that we have undertaken since, with an explicit goal of supporting transnational workflows and participation in ESTS. In this editorial, we continue describing our infrastructural work, highlighting especially the work of c…
Grant Jun Otsuki
No abstract available
Frame, Game, and Circuit: Truth and the Human in Japanese Human-machine Interface Research
This essay tracks the ‘human’ emergent in human-centred technologies (HCTs) in Japan. A primary aim of HCTs is to extract the true intention of the user and actualise it as machine action. Beyond this, HCT researchers maintained that creating such technologies would give them access to the truth of the human itself. In this essay, I examine the games of truth played in HCT, in which teachers exercise authority over students by defining their true…
“The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
Pursuing Transnational STS at Esocite/4S Joint Conference
In this editorial, the ESTS editorial collective (EC) reports on various events it had organized at the 2022 ESOCITE/4S joint meeting held at the Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla in Cholula, México. The EC hosted a journal “happy hour” meet-up and several roundtables on the “Politics of Language,” the challenges and opportunities for open research data in STS worlds, as well as a Managing Editor (ME) Roundtable collaborating with other OA journa…
Building Community with ESTS
This editorial describes the crucial role of building transnationally diverse STS communities that our Editorial Collective (EC) has imagined and sought to implement for Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS). Community-building as an ethic characterizes all aspects of our EC’s work: from editorial practices to infrastructural development, and from content publication to the broader initiatives that we undertake. In a context where the …
Open Research Data: Experimenting Towards a Publishing Infrastructure
In this editorial, we describe the work that has been undertaken by the ESTS editorial collective (EC) over the last two years towards establishing a publishing infrastructure for open research data. A broad movement in the scholarly community is pushing towards data sharing or “open data,” particularly in the natural sciences and medicine. Recognizing that there are compelling reasons why scholars are wary of data sharing and careful to protect …
The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
Innovationism Across Transnational Landscapes
This editorial introduces the thematic collection on STS and innovation. The collection includes eleven Engagements exploring the relationships between innovation studies (IS) and STS across various geographies. There is also an Original Research Article in this issue, by Susan Bell, Patrick Grzanka, Kelly Joyce, and Laura Senier, examining masking and not masking during COVID-19. The issue is accompanied by another six supplemental materials in …
Towards Transnational STS
Transnational dialogues in STS matter and are at the heart of ESTS, exemplified by this issue. Two Original Research Articles, the first by Lucía Céspedes (2023) and the second co-authored by Gonçalo Santos, Naubahar Sharif, and Jack Linzhou Xing (2023) respectively, consider what is lost in translation—in the practice of astronomy in Argentina, and the translation of ‘STS’ in China’s academic institutions. The thematic collection, TRANSnationali…
Locating Naturecultures
Building upon two collaborative exhibits created for the 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) meetings in 2018 and 2019, this essay aims to question established modes of locating matters in STS and related fields. As these exhibits showed, Japan has been an active venue for anthropologists and STS scholars working with a diverse range of approaches and topics that may help us to rethink place and space beyond a humanist spatial politics of …
Posthuman Studies Reader: Core Readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism
Caring for Scholarship in Transition
This editorial briefly reflects on the idea of transition—a theme that cuts across energy systems, migration, and education, to name a few—and is likely familiar to many readers. In this issue, we focus on transition within the context of scholarly publishing; maintenance and repair studies; and experimental methods. We reflect on how the Issue’s thematic collection, “Maintenance & its Knowledges” guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin, a…
Standards, Pedagogies, and Celebrating the STS Infrastructure Award to ESTS
Volume 10 comes in two parts, issue 1 and 2 published together. The double issue includes two Thematic Collections, “Standards and their Containers” and “Pedagogical Intersections.” It also includes two original research articles and an engagements piece. With this issue, ESTS also celebrates winning the Infrastructure Award 2024 awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
The Difference—and Promise—of ESTS
In this final editorial for the 2020–2025 Editorial Collective, we reflect on how we have worked to action on our key editorial commitments, which included: cultivating greater transnationalization in the field, deepening open access infrastructures, foregrounding pedagogies as a vital domain of STS scholarship and practice, and engaging audiences beyond STS. We share how editing Engaging Science, Technology, and Society has foregrounded differen…
Situating Microbes
Issue 11.1 includes the thematic collection “Situating Microbes.” The collected essays on microbe studies in STS aims to situates microbes in complex ecologies beyond their pathogenic formations. All the articles in this issue render invisible microbes visible by walking us through different sociomaterial contexts. These detailed explorations not only provide a deeper understanding of “situated microbes” but also addresses how location matters. T…
Transitioning ESTS
Contributions to this issue focus on a wide range of domains and problematics—environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, surveillance—that offer a thought-provoking commentary on the many issues that inhabit contemporary intersections of science, technology, and society. It seems more than ever, we need sharp analyses that can help us understand, too, the ways global and national power struggles le…
A Feel for Technology: Technocapitalism and the Symbiotic Ethic in Japan
In this article, I examine the work of human–technology interface researchers in Japan to argue for the emergence of a “symbiotic ethic” in their felt encounters with technologies. Using ethnographic fieldwork at university labs conducted since 2011, I explore why researchers create technologies that are made to be “felt” rather than “used” to show how they draw together theories of biological symbiosis, critiques of neoliberal society situated i…
An Agenda for Digital Communication Design Beyond Human-Centric Replication
In this section, we feature reports from conferences, symposia, workshops, and similar events, focusing on discussions where the boundaries of HCI and UX are being challenged and where debate is lively and ongoing
Computer Science (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Library science (6 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Publishing (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works)