Michael M. J. Fischer

Film Review
November 20, 2021

The Pedagogical Work of Film for Technology Disaster Studies: Reassessing Fukushima through Film

Consider two brilliant, complementary, documentary films, both finished in 2016-17, both set diegetically five years...
book review
November 18, 2021

Robert Oppenheim, Kyongju Things: Assembling Places

The title, Kyongju Things, Assembling Places, signals two subjects of interest for EASTS: conflicts over the legacies...
Research Article
November 17, 2021

In the Science Zone Ii: The Fore, Papua New Guinea, and the Fight for Representation

Four questions—two for Dr. Anderson, the medically trained historian and STS scholar, and two for Professor Anderson...
Research Article
November 17, 2021

Asian Biopoleis: Practice, Place, and Life

Our title, “Asian Biopoleis: Practice, Place, and Life,” is also the name of a research initiative under way at the...
book review
November 15, 2021

Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research

These two books each touch on the molecular biology revolution in Asia (Singapore and South Korea in Thompson's case...
Research Note
November 15, 2021

Theorizing STS from Asia—Toward an STS Multiscale Bioecology Framework: A Blurred Genre Manifesto/Agenda for an Emergent Field

East Asia and Southeast Asia provide at least four relational locales or sites of cultural critique and materials for...
essay
November 15, 2021

The Internet in Asia through Singapore

The Internet or, as these authors argue, Internets (plural) in Asia are composed of cables and exchanges...