What Are We Busy Doing
Engaging the Idiot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Michael (0000-0001-9272-2294, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 528-554 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0162243911428624 |
| OpenAlex | W2111652967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 44 |
Engagement events-whether interviews, installations, or participatory encounters-can entail a range of happenings which, in one way or another, "overspill" the empirical, analytic, or political framing of those engagement events. This article looks at how we might attend to these overspills-for instance, forms of "misbehavior" on the part of lay participants-not only to provide accounts of them but also to explore ways of deploying them creatively. In particular, Stengers' figure of the "idiot" is proposed as a device for deploying those overspills to interrogate "what we are busy doing" as social science researchers in engagement events. This interrogation is furthered by considering the proactive idiocy of "Speculative Design's" version of the public engagement with science which seems directly to engender "overspilling." Providing examples of speculative design prototypes and practices, the article develops an ideal typical contrast between social scientific and designerly perspectives on public engagement. It is suggested that speculative design can serve as a resource for supplementing "science and technology studies" (STS) conceptualizations of, and practices toward, public, engagement, and science
Citizen journalism · Civic engagement · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Idiot · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public engagement · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
Drawing Out by Drawing Into
Transforming power
Contradictory cares in community-led planning
Linhas de fuga do Antropoceno
Toward the abstractors
Into the wild online
Reluctant Objects
Speculative method in digital education research
Wilding AI as collective research-creation
Researching with young children
Love and Fear
ArtIA
A very public mess
Knowledge politics, vulnerability and recognition-based justice
Speculating with glitches
Between Wit and Reason
So much for snapshots’
Questionable devices
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments
Analytics for local knowledge
Public perceptions of geoengineering research governance
Making Energy Infrastructure
Empty Minds
Aesthetics and Affect
Who's the Pest? Imagining Human–Insect Futures Beyond Antagonism
Cosmopolitics of a Regulatory Fit
Berwick-Barcelona
What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’
The labour of infrastructuring
Toward a manifesto for the ‘public understanding of big data’
Can hype be a force for good
Crafting a public for geoengineering
STS and science communication
Destroying iPhones
Engaging With Strangers and Brief Encounters
Responsible innovation as empowering ways of knowing
Speculative approaches in social science and design research
Reimagining publics and (non) participation
The aesthetics of more-than-human design
Putting public health infrastructures to the test
Re-presenting, performing critical/post-critical research realities
Overspills’ of research with children
Attending to ‘Computational Universalism’
Speculative Method and Twitter
Public Deliberation on South Korean Nuclear Power Plants
Infrastructuring and Participatory Design
Otherwising or Attaching? Play, Care, and Critique in Interdisciplinary Public Engagement
What Was That Word? It’s Part of Ensuring Its Future Existence” Exploring Engagement Collectives at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”
Skinny as a Bird
The thickening of futures
Thinking complex interconnections
Making the microbiome public
Anticipation for Grand Challenges
Enacting Public Value on the Abc's Q&A
Engaging Publics
Bogeymen," "Murderers," and "Loonies
Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion
Opening Up the Participation Laboratory
Characterizing Hacking
Unpacking a citizen self-tracking device
Methodologically materialising hate
Prehending Addiction
Social innovation driven by citizen-led digital innovation
The problem and the productivity of ignorance
Teaching Anthropology Speculatively
Keeping Open by Re-Imagining Laughter and Fear
Life Story Talk
Notes toward a speculative methodology of everyday life
Features and form
Consumer databases as practical accomplishments
Prototyping as Event
Plans and Situated Actions
Design Noir
What Things Do
The Design of Everyday Life
Gender and technology in the making
Studies in ethnomethodology
How Users Matter
Unruly ethics
“… A Certain Amount of Engineering Involved”
Use of the deficit model in a shared culture of argumentation
To tell the truth
Publics performing publics
A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design with Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk
Introduction to Critical Theory
Consulting citizens
Homo Sacer
Public Participation in Science and Technology
Scientific citizenships
The Facts About Fictions And Vice Versa
Producing the Post-Fordist Public
Creating Public Alienation
The Issues Deserve More Credit
Shifting Subject Positions
Nations at Ease with Radical Knowledge
Machineries for Making Publics
Logics of interdisciplinarity
After Method
Acting in an uncertain world
On the Shoulders of Idiots
Parables for the Virtual
A Game of Cat's Cradle
An Essay on Framing and Overflowing
The Body Multiple
On Making Data Social
Consuming, Engaging and Confronting Science
Art-Science
Mapping deliberation
Gino's lesson on humanity
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |