This is a response to a prompt over at the TAXIS blog, where we read the first chapter of the classic Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000). … Continue reading
In this chapter, Bowker and Star lay out the key critical points underying their concept of the “infrastructural inversion,” an analysis of classification systems which explicitly pays attention to the materiality and labor which leads them to be co-constructed with … Continue reading
A few things got in my way in terms of timeliness (lol dissertation) but if you’re still with us we’ve picked a new reading! Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. MIT press, 2000. … Continue reading
A couple of mistakes snowballed on my end in this first round of reading/discussing/writing: wanting to be more familiar with the topic, I read every paper on the list Eamonn put together. I think it was worth it, but that … Continue reading
I’m going to give this a try. I must admit, the format of the blog makes writing feel very exposed! Hope you’ll all forgive my argumentative meandering. I recently received a document with feedback from a double-blind review of … Continue reading
I’m excited to be able to kick things off with my reaction to excerpts from Ruha Benjamin’s new book mentioned in the first Readings post. I’d encourage group members to write as little or as much as they feel willing … Continue reading
Hi everyone, thanks so much for all your reading suggestions and feedback on the Getting Started post. Based on your feedback, we propose a cluster of readings that relate to race and technoscience, centered on a new book by Ruha … Continue reading
Dear group members, There was a bit of a delay getting this started (turns out dissertations take time to write??) but Eamonn and I had a brief chat and felt like the end of the year would be a good … Continue reading
Here is the group blog for a Humanities Commons group to facilitate the discussion of sound and technology as well as their past-present-future histories. – Eamonn