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Re-imagining land ownership in Australia
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In this paper, the authors re-imagined land ownership in Australia, and proposed a land ownership model based on postcolonial studies, which is similar to the one presented here.Abstract:
(1998). Re-imagining land ownership in Australia. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 237-254.read more
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Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
TL;DR: Figuring the human in AI and robotics: Demystifications and re-enchantments of the human-like machine examines the role of language in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics.
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Actor-network theory and material semiotics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the development of actor-network theory and feminist material semiotics by exploring case studies within Science and Technology Studies (STS), and note that STS develops its theoretical approaches through empirical case studies, and unless this is understood it is difficult to understand the significance of 'actor network theory' or any other STS theory or approach.
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Located accountabilities in technology production
TL;DR: The relevance of recent feminist reconstructions of objectivity for the development of alternative practices of technology production and use is explored and three contrasting positions for design are discussed as alternative bases for a politics of professional design practice.
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Situating Technoscience: An Inquiry into Spatialities
John Law,Annemarie Mol +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the spatial characteristics of science and technology are explored, and it is argued that the 'global' includes and is enacted in all four topological systems (region, network, topology and space).
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Nanotechnology, Governance, and Public Deliberation: What Role for the Social Sciences?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the emergent, undetermined nature of nanotechnologies calls for an open, experimental, and interdisciplinary model of social science research and set out a prospective agenda for the social sciences and its potential in the future shaping of nanotechnology research and innovation processes.
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer +1 more
TL;DR: In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do experiments and argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the airpump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on as mentioned in this paper.
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The Domestication of the Savage Mind
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of tables and figures of pre-literate societies and discuss the evolution and growth of knowledge in the preliterate world, including the Grand Dichotomy reconsidered.
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
TL;DR: Shapin this paper argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honour, and integrity.
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The Domestication of the Savage Mind
John Trimbur,Jack Goody +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of tables and figures of pre-literate societies and discuss the evolution and growth of knowledge in the preliterate world, including the Grand Dichotomy reconsidered.