ASTS as method

This contribution advocates for reconceptualizing Art, Science and Technology Studies (ASTS) as method rather than merely an interdisciplinary convergence. Rooted in the historical notion of technê – centring knowledge formations grounded in practice – the paper presents method as an active, performative mode of engaging with and shaping technoscientific realities. In dialogue with Science and Technology Studies (STS), especially its refusal to separate theory, method and practice, ASTS is positioned as extending this tradition by incorporating the epistemic, aesthetic and material capacities of artistic practice. Rather than observing from a distance, ASTS adopts a critical stance and intervenes within socio-technical systems, actively shaping them while highlighting the situated, contingent and political aspects of knowledge production. By presenting methods and case studies that embody this orientation, the contribution emphasizes how ASTS aims to work generatively with complexity – reconfiguring the infrastructures, imaginaries and modes of critique that shape contemporary technoscientific life

Managerialism · Performative utterance · Politics · Technoscience · ICT in Developing Communities · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

• How We Became Posthuman

  N Katherine Hayles•How We Became Posthuman•1999

  Incluir item

• Alien Agency

  Andrew Pickering, C J SALTER et al.•Alien Agency•2015

  Incluir item

• (De)constructing machines as critical technical practice

  Open Access•Winnie Soon, Pablo R Velasco•Convergence The International…•2024

  Incluir item

• What is technology? The issue of its origins and definitions∗

  Jean‐jacques Salomon•History and Technology•1984

  Incluir item

• What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’

  Open Access•Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter•Social Studies of Science•2016

  Incluir item

• Critical Making

  Matt Ratto•The Information Society•2011

  Incluir item

• Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation

  Open Access•Michel Callon•The Sociological Review•1984

  Incluir item