ANTH 374 Readings (UIUC, Spr 2018)
NOTE: Readings are subject to change.
January 22 Introductions and Course Overview
January 24 Fischer, Michael MJ. “Four genealogies for a recombinant anthropology of science and technology.” Cultural anthropology 22, no. 4 (2007): 539–615.
USE INSTEAD: Martin, Emily. “Anthropology and the cultural study of science.” Science, technology, & human values 23, no. 1 (1998): 24–44.
Nader, Laura. 1996. “Introduction: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power and Knowledges.” In Naked Science. London: Routledge, 1–12.
January 29 Cassell, Joan. “Perturbing the system: ‘Hard science,’ ‘soft science,’” and social science, the anxiety and madness of method.” Human Organization 61, no. 2 (2002): 177–185.
Daston, Lorraine. “How probabilities came to be objective and subjective.” Historia Mathematica 21, no. 3 (1994): 330–344.
IN CLASS READING: Weiss, Kenneth. “Ludwik fleck and the art‐of‐fact.” Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 12, no. 4 (2003): 168–172.
NOTE: Tenth Day ADD/DROP Deadline
January 31 Ethics in the anthropological study of sciences and technologies
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/chaco-canyon-nagpra/
Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0) — online document
Gray, Mary L. “Big Data, Ethical Futures.” Anthropology News 58, no. 1 (2017).
February 5 Haraway, Donna. 1990. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 149–181.
Nakamura, Lisa http://culturedigitally.org/2013/12/glitch-racism-networks-as-actors-within-vernacular-internet-theory/
February 7 NO CLASS — Read Intro to Subramaniam, Ghost Stories for Darwin
Harding, Sandra. 1994. “Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities, Uncertainties.” Configurations 2(2): 301–330.
(Notes due through email at atienza2@illinois.edu)
February 12 Section One of Subramaniam, Ghost Stories for Darwin (Pg 27–94)
February 14 Reardon, Jenny, and Kim TallBear. ““Your DNA Is Our History” Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property.” Current Anthropology 53, no. S5 (2012): S233-S245.
February 19 Section Two of Subramaniam, Ghost Stories for Darwin (Pg 95–158)
February 21 Boas, Franz. “On alternating sounds.” American Anthropologist 2, no. 1 (1889): 47–54.
Martin, Emily. “The egg and the sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16, no. 3 (1991): 485–501.
February 26 Section Three of Subramaniam, Ghost Stories for Darwin (Pg 159–222)
Clancy, Kathryn BH, Katharine Lee, Erica M. Rodgers, and Christina Richey. “Double jeopardy in astronomy and planetary science: Women of color face greater risks of gendered and racial harassment.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 122, no. 7 (2017): 1610–1623.
February 28 selections from Traweek Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists. (Prologue and Pilgrim’s Progress)
March 5 Epstein, Steven. “The construction of lay expertise: AIDS activism and the forging of credibility in the reform of clinical trials.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 20, no. 4 (1995): 408–437.
Fujimura, Joan H., and Henry R. Luce. “Authorizing knowledge in science and anthropology.” American Anthropologist 100, no. 2 (1998): 347–360.
Subramaniam, Ghost Stories for Darwin (Conclusion)
March 7 MIDTERM during class
March 9 FRIDAY — last day to drop without receiving a “W”
March 12 REVIEW of readings since February 26.
March 14 Ingold, Tim. “Society, Nature, and the Concept of Technology.” In The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill. New York: Routledge, 312–322.
McPherson, Tara. “U.S. Operating Systems at Mid-Century: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX,” Race after the Internet. Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White, Eds. New York: Routledge, (2012): 21–37.
Winner, Langdon. Do Artifacts Have Politics? Daedulus. 109(1): 121–136.
SPRING BREAK
March 26 De Laet, Marianne, and Annemarie Mol. “The Zimbabwe bush pump: Mechanics of a fluid technology.” Social studies of science 30, no. 2 (2000): 225–263.
Leigh Star, Susan. “This is not a boundary object: Reflections on the origin of a concept.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 35, no. 5 (2010): 601–617.
March 28 NO CLASS/ Online Midterm available 2:00–3:20PM CST.
READING NOTES for Wacjman, Pressed for Time (Introduction and Chapter 1) submit through email at atienza2@illinois.edu.
March 30 FRIDAY — last day to withdraw
April 2 Wacjman, Pressed for Time (Chapters 2 and 3)
April 4 Coleman, E. Gabriella, and Alex Golub. “Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism.” Anthropological Theory 8, no. 3 (2008): 255–277.
Kelty, Christopher. “Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics.” Cultural Anthropology 20, no. 2 (2005): 185–214.
April 9 Wacjman, Pressed for Time (Chapters 4 and 5)
April 11 Class will meet at i-Hotel for Technocultural Futurisms symposium.Part of Illinois 150 celebration. Take note of travel time to and from main campus. NOTE: If you are unable to attend this day, please inform me no later than February 1 so I may assign you an alternate event.
April 16 Linchuan Qiu, Jack, Melissa Gregg, and Kate Crawford. “Circuits of Labour: A Labour Theory of the iPhone Era.” TripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society12, no. 2 (2014).
April 18 Wacjman, Pressed for Time (Chapter 6 and 7)
April 23 Albury, Kath, Jean Burgess, Ben Light, Kane Race, and Rowan Wilken. “Data Cultures of Mobile Dating and Hook-up Apps: Emerging Issues for Critical Social Science Research.” Big Data & Society 4, no. 2 (2017): 2053951717720950.
Duguay, Stefanie. “Dressing up Tinderella: Interrogating authenticity claims on the mobile dating app Tinder.” Information, Communication & Society 20, no. 3 (2017): 351–367.
Raj. Senthorun, “Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire”. In: Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. Volume 7.2, 2011: 1–12.
April 25 No Reading. Attend Class for #ChicagoGirl (2015) screening and in class assignment.
April 30 Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. Part One: What’s Left? The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. 11–52.
May 2 No Reading. Best of luck with finals exams and projects.
