4S/EASST Prague 2020
<br>24. Choreographies: Rhythms and Movements in Research
<br>Andrea Schikowitz, TU Munich; Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh; Filip
<br>Vostal, Czech Academy of Sciences
<br>Discussant: Charis Thompson, University of California, Berkeley
<br>This session aims to explore intersections between temporal and spatial
<br>dimensions of research through the mobilization of the concept of
<br>'choreography'. With an origin in the Greek language, combining 'dance' with
<br>'writing', the artistic metaphor evokes movements and their routinized
<br>sequences (cf. Pickering 1995 and his notion of 'dance of agency' and his
<br>overall theory of 'mangle of practice'). Emanating Thompson's (1998, 2005)
<br>concept of 'ontological choreography' - capturing the dynamic coordination of
<br>scientific, technical, legal, political, financial, relational and emotional
<br>aspects in clinics for Assisted Reproductive Technology - STS researchers have
<br>studied coordination and (de)alignment of research configurations, while
<br>leaving room for non-linear narratives, multiplicities and tensions. Analyses
<br>cover choreographies of disciplinary and trans-disciplinary fields,
<br>participation and identity formation (see work of Felt 2016; Moreira 2018;
<br>Schikowitz 2017, 2020; Vermeulen 2018). In turn, Coeckelbergh (2019) recently
<br>used choreography to show how science and (digital) technology can shape and
<br>organize human thinking, movements and lives. Consequently, this panel invites
<br>papers that further explore rhythms and movements in research, including its
<br>embodiment and imprint. We would like to bring together scholars working on
<br>the role of time and/or space in research to discuss spatio-temporal patterns,
<br>e.g. pacing, duration, circulation,(de)synchronisation, (de)centering, ebbing
<br>and flowing, acceleration and deceleration, openness and closedness, and the
<br>like.
<br>
<br>Coeckelberg, M (2019). Moved by Machines. Performance Metaphors and Philosophy
<br>of Technology. London: Routledge.
<br>Felt, Ulrike (2016) 'The Temporal Choreographies of Participation. Thinking
<br>Innovation and Society From a Time-Sensitive Perspective'. In Chilvers, Jason,
<br>and Kearnes, Matthew (eds), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and
<br>Emergent Publics. (London/New York: Routledge): 178-198
<br>Moreira, T (2018). 'Translating the Cell Biology of Aging? On the Importance
<br>of Choreographing Knowledge' Seminar at STS University of Michigan, February
<br>12.
<br>Pickering, A. (1995). The Mangle of Practice. Time, Agency and Science.
<br>Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
<br>Schikowitz, A. (2017). Choreographies of Togetherness. Re-Ordering
<br>Collectivity and Individuality in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in
<br>Austria. doctoral thesis. Vienna: Department of Science and Technology
<br>Studies/University of Vienna.
<br>Schikowitz, Andrea (2020, forthcoming): 'Being a Good Researcher in
<br>Transdisciplinary Research - Identity Beyond Community?'; Sociology of the
<br>Sciences Yearbook "Communities and Identities in Contemporary Technosciences
<br>", Eds: Karen Kastenhofer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson.
<br>
<br>Thompson, C. (2005). Making Parents. The Ontological Choreography of
<br>Reproductive Technologies. Cambridge: MIT Press.
<br>Thompson/Cussins, C. (1998). Ontological Choreography: Agency for Women
<br>Patients in an Infertility Clinic. In M. Berg & A. Mol (Eds.), Differences in
<br>Medicine. Untraveling Practices, Techniques and Bodies (pp. 166-201).
<br>Durham/London: Duke University Press.
<br>Vermeulen, N. (2018). The Choreography of a New Research Field: Aggregation,
<br>Circulation and Oscillation. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space,
<br>50(8), 1764-1784.
<br>Contact: nikivermeulen@gmail.com
<br>Keywords: Choreography, time, space, research practice
<br>Categories: Knowledge, Theory and Method
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