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Call for Submissions! Predictions is a short series edited by Mél Hogan, Stefan Laser and Edward Ongweso Jr. in which we ask critical thinkers to play with the form of the prediction. #openaccess #sts #predictions

For Vol. 1 (Open Access), check out the website of Mattering Press: www.matteringpress.org/books/predic... For the Call for Submission in full length, read this document (hosted on a university cloud): ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/pDyDideqak...

Call for Submissions! Predictions is a short series edited by Mél Hogan, Stefan Laser and Edward Ongweso Jr. in which we ask critical thinkers to play with the form of the prediction. #openaccess #sts #predictions

In doing so, we challenge a dominant form of power of our (digital, rationalistic, fossil-fuel-based) era and test what happens when we flip it on its head.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time showcasing: An Anthropology of Common Ground. Awkward Encounters in Heritage New York (2018) by Nathalia Brichet. #openaccess #scienceandtechnologystudies #anthropology #postcolonial

... might be noticed and supported and about how empirical research is done as relations between what is going on in the field and the way that the ethnographer chooses to tell the story of the field in the text.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time showcasing: An Anthropology of Common Ground. Awkward Encounters in Heritage New York (2018) by Nathalia Brichet. #openaccess #scienceandtechnologystudies #anthropology #postcolonial

... ‘inconclusive’ analyses, collaboratively generated in the course of the project work and in the process of writing ethnographically about it. The ambition is to nurture fieldwork as an opportunity for creating a common ground, on which to think about what heritage and ethnography could be.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time showcasing: An Anthropology of Common Ground. Awkward Encounters in Heritage New York (2018) by Nathalia Brichet. #openaccess #scienceandtechnologystudies #anthropology #postcolonial

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Moving on to: Inventing the Social (2018) Edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie. #openaccess #scienceandtechnology #social

To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Moving on to: Inventing the Social (2018) Edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie. #openaccess #scienceandtechnology #social

Presenting projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up ...

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Moving on to: Inventing the Social (2018) Edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie. #openaccess #scienceandtechnology #social

Inventing the Social showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next up: Energy Babble (2018)

All our books are open access! You can download for free here: www.matteringpress.org/books/energy...

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next up: Energy Babble (2018)

Developed for members of UK community groups working to promote sustainable energy practices, the Energy Babbles were designed to reflect the complex situations they navigate, provide information, encourage communication, and to help shed light on their engagements with energy policy and practice.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next up: Energy Babble (2018)

This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Our fourth book: Modes of Knowing. Resources from the Baroque (2016) Edited by John Law and Evelyn Ruppert.

It also involved knowing in ways that did not gather into a single point and knew itself to be performative. As part of a great Western division between rationalist and non-rationalist modes of knowing, the baroque is therefore a possible resource for creating ways of knowing differently.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Our fourth book: Modes of Knowing. Resources from the Baroque (2016) Edited by John Law and Evelyn Ruppert.

They are all more or less uneasy with the restrictions or the agendas implied by academic modes of knowing, and they have chosen to do this by working with, through, or against one important Western alternative — that of the baroque. Why the baroque?

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Our fourth book: Modes of Knowing. Resources from the Baroque (2016) Edited by John Law and Evelyn Ruppert.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next: Imagining Classrooms. Stories of children, teaching and ethnography (2016) by Vicki Macknight. #openaccess #sts

We wonder about the implications of these habits for good knowing and good doing. At the same time, the book shines a critical lens onto the imaginative practices of ethnographers and participant-observers, to help us think about how we define, how we class, and how we analyse our data.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next: Imagining Classrooms. Stories of children, teaching and ethnography (2016) by Vicki Macknight. #openaccess #sts

The book’s characters are children and teachers, with teachers working through the school day to give children the skills they will need to think, to think with and about others, and to be creative.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next: Imagining Classrooms. Stories of children, teaching and ethnography (2016) by Vicki Macknight. #openaccess #sts

In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imagination is being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time: On Curiosity. The Art of Market Seduction (2016) by Franck Cochoy.

Available in English for the first time, this major work will arouse readers’ curiosity over the course of its colourful journey. By the end, now better informed and more cautious, they will be able to identify the traps of which they are the target. So long as curiosity is kept at bay, at least!

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time: On Curiosity. The Art of Market Seduction (2016) by Franck Cochoy.

Curiosity is one of the favourite tricks of market seduction. Capturing a public — attracting the attention of a reader, seducing a customer, persuading a voter ... — often requires the construction of a set of technical devices that can play upon people’s inner motivations.

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time: On Curiosity. The Art of Market Seduction (2016) by Franck Cochoy.