Interstitial Politics
Thinking in Catastrophic Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5199409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Savransky (0000-0002-0807-8350, University of Bath, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1115-1139 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01622439251372845 |
| OpenAlex | W4413928936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respond to the here-and-now of planetary life. This paper relays these calls for these catastrophic times by considering the manner in which philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers has approached this problem. Proffering an extended reading of the mutations of Stengers's thought in the last decade, it argues that one of the lessons of her work is to connect the planetary catastrophe to the devastation of our knowledge-practices and the depletion of our imaginations, and to give to the catastrophe that marks the present the power to transform our ways of thinking in common. Resisting the mobilizations engendered by the question "what is to be done?", Stengers wagers on the generative capacities of interstitial practices to regenerate forms of collective intelligence, forms capable of protecting knowing and thinking practices from capture and experimentally reactivating the imagination even amid catastrophe. In so doing, the paper proffers a mode of imagining critical STS as an accomplice to collective experiments everywhere elaborating capacities to learn, for their own reasons, through their own means, how to pose their own questions
Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
The modernity of witchcraft
Introduction
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies
Passages to the outside
Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices
The Adventure of Relevance
The Right to Maim
What Is an STS Contribution Now
African Experiments in Health and Healing
Introduction
Relearning the Art of Paying Attention
The Humor of the Problematic
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Doing STS Now
Sustaining the unsustainable
Ecological uncivilisation
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
The Terms of Order
Politics of Nature
Problems All the Way Down
Putting Problematization to the Test of Our Present
Colonial management of death
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |