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Body-Head Separation, or a Multihanded/Multiheaded Guanyin: Note on the Birth of the “Provincializing Sts” Forum

This forum was conceived with diverse emotions—excitement and uneasiness, inspiration and confusion.

Body-Head Separation, or a Multihanded/Multiheaded Guanyin: Note on the Birth of the “Provincializing Sts” Forum

Provincializing Sts: Postcoloniality, Symmetry, and Method

STS is not short of studies on postcoloniality. Collectively the discipline has explored how technoscience...

Provincializing Sts: Postcoloniality, Symmetry, and Method

Sts, Tcm, and Other Shi 勢 (Situated Dispositions of Power/Knowledge)

Reading John Law and Wen-yuan Lin's “Provincializing STS,” I can only suppose that I am expected to engage with it as...

Sts, Tcm, and Other Shi 勢 (Situated Dispositions of Power/Knowledge)

A Linguistic or an Ontological Problem? Some Comments

"Globalization, Scientific Lexicons, and the Future of Biology " is an ambitious and radical article in which...

A Linguistic or an Ontological Problem? Some Comments

What Can Be Derived from Evelyn Fox Keller's Article about Scientific Cultures? Some Thoughts about Language and Scientific Activity

Before becoming active in the history and philosophy of science, Evelyn Fox Keller had worked in physics...

What Can Be Derived from Evelyn Fox Keller's Article about Scientific Cultures? Some Thoughts about Language and Scientific Activity

What Can Cultural Psychology Give to Twenty-First-Century Biology?

In "Globalization, Scientific Lexicons, and the Future of Biology," Keller observes that biology has in the past been...

What Can Cultural Psychology Give to Twenty-First-Century Biology?

An Introduction to the Forum and Its Origins

In October and November of 2008, the distinguished feminist scientist and scholar Evelyn Fox Keller visited Taiwan...

An Introduction to the Forum and Its Origins

Response to Comments on “Globalization, Scientific Lexicons, and the Future of Biology”

First and foremost I would like to express my gratitude to both the organizers and participants on this panel...

Response to Comments on “Globalization, Scientific Lexicons, and the Future of Biology”

Gene: From Demarcation to Dynamic Meanings

Without a doubt, the noun gene is one of the most important words in life sciences. From its very introduction, it...

Gene: From Demarcation to Dynamic Meanings

The Stickiness of Knowing: Translation, Postcoloniality, and STS

“Provincializing STS” is one essay in a short continuing line of practical intellectual experiments that seek to...

The Stickiness of Knowing: Translation, Postcoloniality, and STS