M Fukushima
Biographic Data
| ID | 28414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Fukushima |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fukushima |
| SIGNATURE | FUKUSHIMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tokyo University of the Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9120-9819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Enhancing the Biological Oxidation of H2S in a Sewer Pipe with Highly Conductive Concrete and Electricity-Producing Bacteria
Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) generated in sewer systems is problematic to public health and the environment, owing to its corrosive consequences, odor concerns, and poison control issues. In a previous work, conductive concrete, based on amorphous carbon with a mechanism that operates as a microbial fuel cell was investigated. The objective of the present study is to develop additional materials for highly conductive concrete, to mitigate the concent…
Noise in the landscape: Disputing the visibility of mundane technological objects
In recent years, a controversy has arisen in Japan regarding an ongoing landscape policy proposing to eliminate the forest of utility poles and electric wires that covers almost all urban and rural landscapes. The controversy is somewhat peculiar vis-à-vis the existing study of landscape, partly because of the utterly ubiquitous and non-monumental characteristics of the poles and partly because of the general apathy in public reaction to them. Dr…
Before Laboratory Life: Perry, Sullivan and the missed encounter between psychoanalysis and STS
The Experimental Zone of Learning: Mapping the Dynamics of Everyday Experiment
Arguments in science and technology studies have prompted us to rethink the meaning of experimentation in the wider context of our everyday life, though its dynamics have not been fully analyzed. This article argues that the legacy of the sociocultural approach to learning, with special reference to the Becker-Lave/Wenger dialogue, provides such a clue, and hence proposes a framework—“experimental zone of learning”—for such purpose. This zone is …
Value Oscillation in Knowledge Infrastructure: Observing its Dynamic in Japan’s Drug Discovery Pipeline
This paper analyses the dynamics of assigned values in two cases relating to the knowledge infrastructure of the national programme in Japan that develops drug discovery: in establishing a database of natural product compounds and in constructing a library of virtual compounds. The concepts of value oscillation and of the M-B (Marx-Bowker) index are proposed to designate the fluctuating appreciation of infrastructure value by its builders. These …
Blade Runner and Memory Devices: Reconsidering the Interrelations between the Body, Technology, and Enhancement
This article provides a theoretical basis for reconsidering current discussions on the relation between the body, technology, and enhancement. Using the conceptual distinctions of model 1 (which is based on the notion of the unmediated body and technology) and model 2 (which begins with the techno-body complex) types of understanding of enhancement, and emphasizing a reappraisal of Vygotskian tradition for demarcating the role of mediating signs …
Corpus mysticum digitale (mystical body digital): On the concept of two bodies in the era of digital technology
The purpose of this article is to analyse the theoretical connotation of the idea of our digital body surviving the death of our natural body, advocated by such evangelists of digital afterlife as Bell and Gemmel. For this purpose, I will explore the seminal notion of ‘two bodies in one’ first analysed by Ernst Kantorowicz in his The King’s Two Bodies, which details the emergence of the legal concept by which the king has both a natural body and …
Resilience in Scientific Research: Understanding How Natural Product Research Rebounded in an Adverse Situation
The recent declining rate in the discovery of new drugs has made natural product (NP) research—the traditional method of using living organisms to acquire drug candidates—regain its importance, despite the fact that it was once regarded as an obsolete method in the face of the exalted expectations about emerging new approaches since the 1990s. The concept of ‘resilience’ in scientific research provides a clue for understanding the dynamism of thi…
Constructing failure in big biology: The socio-technical anatomy of Japan’s Protein 3000 Project
This study focuses on the 5-year Protein 3000 Project launched in 2002, the largest biological project in Japan. The project aimed to overcome Japan's alleged failure to contribute fully to the Human Genome Project, by determining 3000 protein structures, 30 percent of the global target. Despite its achievement of this goal, the project was fiercely criticized in various sectors of society and was often branded an awkward failure. This article tr…
Between the Laboratory and the Policy Process: Research, Scientific Community, and Administration in Japan's Chemical Biology
This article analyzes the emergent new discipline known as chemical biology as part of the rapidly developing postgenomic research agenda. Despite chemical biology's academic as well as political significance in terms of its expected contribution to drug discovery, the international STS community has failed to pay serious attention to its dynamism thus far. The objective of this paper is to fill this gap by conducting a case study on the rapid fo…
On the Technology of Difference: Outline of a Theory of Ethnicity Construction
This paper attemps to reconeile the two different tendencies in the study of ethnicity in terms of objective and subjecti e approach The bifurcation of the argument into these two aspects derives from the processual nature of ethnieity construction which is to be analysed in view of how a certain Clifference among other differences is picked up and is nctivated so that the hypothetica ' ethnicitY ' is materialised or reified through the process o…
Setsuo Nishino. The Islamic Education in Indonesia . Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1990, 475p
The Closed Language: The Samin Movement and Its Philosophy of Language
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The Closed Language: The Samin Movement and Its Philosophy of Language
Setsuo Nishino. The Islamic Education in Indonesia . Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1990, 475p
On the Technology of Difference: Outline of a Theory of Ethnicity Construction
This paper attemps to reconeile the two different tendencies in the study of ethnicity in terms of objective and subjecti e approach The bifurcation of the argument into these two aspects derives from the processual nature of ethnieity construction which is to be analysed in view of how a certain Clifference among other differences is picked up and is nctivated so that the hypothetica ' ethnicitY ' is materialised or reified through the process o…
Between the Laboratory and the Policy Process: Research, Scientific Community, and Administration in Japan's Chemical Biology
This article analyzes the emergent new discipline known as chemical biology as part of the rapidly developing postgenomic research agenda. Despite chemical biology's academic as well as political significance in terms of its expected contribution to drug discovery, the international STS community has failed to pay serious attention to its dynamism thus far. The objective of this paper is to fill this gap by conducting a case study on the rapid fo…
Corpus mysticum digitale (mystical body digital): On the concept of two bodies in the era of digital technology
The purpose of this article is to analyse the theoretical connotation of the idea of our digital body surviving the death of our natural body, advocated by such evangelists of digital afterlife as Bell and Gemmel. For this purpose, I will explore the seminal notion of ‘two bodies in one’ first analysed by Ernst Kantorowicz in his The King’s Two Bodies, which details the emergence of the legal concept by which the king has both a natural body and …
Resilience in Scientific Research: Understanding How Natural Product Research Rebounded in an Adverse Situation
The recent declining rate in the discovery of new drugs has made natural product (NP) research—the traditional method of using living organisms to acquire drug candidates—regain its importance, despite the fact that it was once regarded as an obsolete method in the face of the exalted expectations about emerging new approaches since the 1990s. The concept of ‘resilience’ in scientific research provides a clue for understanding the dynamism of thi…
Constructing failure in big biology: The socio-technical anatomy of Japan’s Protein 3000 Project
This study focuses on the 5-year Protein 3000 Project launched in 2002, the largest biological project in Japan. The project aimed to overcome Japan's alleged failure to contribute fully to the Human Genome Project, by determining 3000 protein structures, 30 percent of the global target. Despite its achievement of this goal, the project was fiercely criticized in various sectors of society and was often branded an awkward failure. This article tr…
Value Oscillation in Knowledge Infrastructure: Observing its Dynamic in Japan’s Drug Discovery Pipeline
This paper analyses the dynamics of assigned values in two cases relating to the knowledge infrastructure of the national programme in Japan that develops drug discovery: in establishing a database of natural product compounds and in constructing a library of virtual compounds. The concepts of value oscillation and of the M-B (Marx-Bowker) index are proposed to designate the fluctuating appreciation of infrastructure value by its builders. These …
Blade Runner and Memory Devices: Reconsidering the Interrelations between the Body, Technology, and Enhancement
This article provides a theoretical basis for reconsidering current discussions on the relation between the body, technology, and enhancement. Using the conceptual distinctions of model 1 (which is based on the notion of the unmediated body and technology) and model 2 (which begins with the techno-body complex) types of understanding of enhancement, and emphasizing a reappraisal of Vygotskian tradition for demarcating the role of mediating signs …
The Experimental Zone of Learning: Mapping the Dynamics of Everyday Experiment
Arguments in science and technology studies have prompted us to rethink the meaning of experimentation in the wider context of our everyday life, though its dynamics have not been fully analyzed. This article argues that the legacy of the sociocultural approach to learning, with special reference to the Becker-Lave/Wenger dialogue, provides such a clue, and hence proposes a framework—“experimental zone of learning”—for such purpose. This zone is …
Before Laboratory Life: Perry, Sullivan and the missed encounter between psychoanalysis and STS
Noise in the landscape: Disputing the visibility of mundane technological objects
In recent years, a controversy has arisen in Japan regarding an ongoing landscape policy proposing to eliminate the forest of utility poles and electric wires that covers almost all urban and rural landscapes. The controversy is somewhat peculiar vis-à-vis the existing study of landscape, partly because of the utterly ubiquitous and non-monumental characteristics of the poles and partly because of the general apathy in public reaction to them. Dr…
Enhancing the Biological Oxidation of H2S in a Sewer Pipe with Highly Conductive Concrete and Electricity-Producing Bacteria
Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) generated in sewer systems is problematic to public health and the environment, owing to its corrosive consequences, odor concerns, and poison control issues. In a previous work, conductive concrete, based on amorphous carbon with a mechanism that operates as a microbial fuel cell was investigated. The objective of the present study is to develop additional materials for highly conductive concrete, to mitigate the concent…
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