Declan Kuch
Biographic Data
| ID | 2017552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Declan Kuch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Declan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuch |
| SIGNATURE | KUCH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5914-8152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine
Nanotechnology is a scientific field where STS scholars have observed the influence of magical thinking. Here we contribute to that literature by describing a phenomenon in the field of drug delivery called the EPR (Enhanced Permeability and Retention) Effect. When the 'nano' boom of the 2000s brought intense interest from outside pharmacology, EPR spawned so many efforts and enterprises in nano-based drug delivery that it became the leading basi…
Charger rage, digital vigilantism, and the cultural politics of EV infrastructure
Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics
Blackouts, though typically dismissed as momentary disruptions, can catalyze sweeping shifts in energy governance and public consciousness. In examining the 2016-2017 blackout in South Australia and the 2021 Texas Freeze, we introduce transitional electropolitics to capture how these infrastructural crises reveal both the fragility of incumbent fossil-fuel regimes and the potential for rapid transitions. We show how blackouts, as "cascades of un/…
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases. The inadequacy of decarbonization based on this system has prompted calls to expand climate governance to include restrictions on fossil fuel supply. Such initiatives could rely on accountability frameworks based on fossil fuel reserves, production, or infrastructure, yet there has been little consideration of the different implications of these options. We inf…
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
The promise of precision: Datafication in medicine, agriculture and education
This paper analyses how precision has become a ubiquitous prefix in medicine, agriculture and education. The accompanying imagination in each of these domains is that “data” will enable greater predictive accuracy through new sensors and interfaces. In this paper, we aim to provide insights regarding the ways in which precision assemblages function to augment and extend existing knowledge and data infrastructures, while also being underpinned by …
How to do things with metaphors: Engineering life as hodgepodge
This paper presents a collaboration between social scientists and a chemist exploring the promises for new therapy development at the intersection between synthetic biology and nanotechnology. Drawing from ethnographic studies of laboratories and a recorded discussion between the three authors, we interrogate the metaphors that underpin what Mackenzie (Futures 48:5-12 2013) has identified as a recursive relationship in the iconography of the life…
Fixing” climate change through carbon capture and storage: Situating industrial risk cultures
Radical Transactionalism: Legal Consciousness, Diverse Economies, and the Sharing Economy
This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciousness and diverse economies, it shows how struggles over transactional legality are a neglected site of activism for sustainability. Recognizing the diversity of economic life and forms of law illuminates what w…
The promise of precision: Datafication in medicine, agriculture and education
This paper analyses how precision has become a ubiquitous prefix in medicine, agriculture and education. The accompanying imagination in each of these domains is that “data” will enable greater predictive accuracy through new sensors and interfaces. In this paper, we aim to provide insights regarding the ways in which precision assemblages function to augment and extend existing knowledge and data infrastructures, while also being underpinned by …
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Fixing” climate change through carbon capture and storage: Situating industrial risk cultures
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases. The inadequacy of decarbonization based on this system has prompted calls to expand climate governance to include restrictions on fossil fuel supply. Such initiatives could rely on accountability frameworks based on fossil fuel reserves, production, or infrastructure, yet there has been little consideration of the different implications of these options. We inf…
Radical Transactionalism: Legal Consciousness, Diverse Economies, and the Sharing Economy
This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciousness and diverse economies, it shows how struggles over transactional legality are a neglected site of activism for sustainability. Recognizing the diversity of economic life and forms of law illuminates what w…
How to do things with metaphors: Engineering life as hodgepodge
This paper presents a collaboration between social scientists and a chemist exploring the promises for new therapy development at the intersection between synthetic biology and nanotechnology. Drawing from ethnographic studies of laboratories and a recorded discussion between the three authors, we interrogate the metaphors that underpin what Mackenzie (Futures 48:5-12 2013) has identified as a recursive relationship in the iconography of the life…
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism
Radical Transactionalism: Legal Consciousness, Diverse Economies, and the Sharing Economy
This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciousness and diverse economies, it shows how struggles over transactional legality are a neglected site of activism for sustainability. Recognizing the diversity of economic life and forms of law illuminates what w…
Fixing” climate change through carbon capture and storage: Situating industrial risk cultures
How to do things with metaphors: Engineering life as hodgepodge
This paper presents a collaboration between social scientists and a chemist exploring the promises for new therapy development at the intersection between synthetic biology and nanotechnology. Drawing from ethnographic studies of laboratories and a recorded discussion between the three authors, we interrogate the metaphors that underpin what Mackenzie (Futures 48:5-12 2013) has identified as a recursive relationship in the iconography of the life…
The promise of precision: Datafication in medicine, agriculture and education
This paper analyses how precision has become a ubiquitous prefix in medicine, agriculture and education. The accompanying imagination in each of these domains is that “data” will enable greater predictive accuracy through new sensors and interfaces. In this paper, we aim to provide insights regarding the ways in which precision assemblages function to augment and extend existing knowledge and data infrastructures, while also being underpinned by …
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases. The inadequacy of decarbonization based on this system has prompted calls to expand climate governance to include restrictions on fossil fuel supply. Such initiatives could rely on accountability frameworks based on fossil fuel reserves, production, or infrastructure, yet there has been little consideration of the different implications of these options. We inf…
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism
Charger rage, digital vigilantism, and the cultural politics of EV infrastructure
Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics
Blackouts, though typically dismissed as momentary disruptions, can catalyze sweeping shifts in energy governance and public consciousness. In examining the 2016-2017 blackout in South Australia and the 2021 Texas Freeze, we introduce transitional electropolitics to capture how these infrastructural crises reveal both the fragility of incumbent fossil-fuel regimes and the potential for rapid transitions. We show how blackouts, as "cascades of un/…
Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine
Nanotechnology is a scientific field where STS scholars have observed the influence of magical thinking. Here we contribute to that literature by describing a phenomenon in the field of drug delivery called the EPR (Enhanced Permeability and Retention) Effect. When the 'nano' boom of the 2000s brought intense interest from outside pharmacology, EPR spawned so many efforts and enterprises in nano-based drug delivery that it became the leading basi…
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