Discovering Distinctive East Asian STS: An Introduction

Chen, Ruey-Lin

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“…We acknowledge that logics of structural political and economic power that rebuff techno-utopianism for western audiences (Jasanoff, 2004) are being contextually diversified in other locations such as Asia (see Chen, 2012). As evidence, Xu et al (2017) suggest that the ratio of publications, patents and businesses between biological (112) and commercial applications (229) shows a strong focus on manufacturing.…”

Section: Literature Review For Conceptualising 3d Printing and Workmentioning

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3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?

Heemsbergen¹,

Daly²,

Lu³

et al. 2019

Science, Technology and Society

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This article outlines preliminary findings from a futures forecasting exercise where participants in Shenzhen and Singapore considered the socio-technological construction of 3D printing in terms of work and social change. We offered participants ideal political-economic futures across local–global knowledge and capital–commons dimensions, and then had them backcast the contextual waypoints across markets, culture, policy, law and technology dimensions that help guide towards each future. Their discussion identified various contextually sensitive points, but also tended to dismiss the farthest reaches of each proposed ideal, often reverting to familiar contextual signifiers. Here, we offer discussion on how participants saw culture and industry shaping futures for pertinent political economic concerns in the twenty-first century.

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Section: Literature Review For Conceptualising 3d Printing and Workmentioning

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3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?

Heemsbergen¹,

Daly²,

Lu³

et al. 2019

Science, Technology and Society

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“… 2. Togo Tsukahara (2009) has explored dependent–independent relationships; Daiwie Fu (2012), Ruey-Lin Chen (2012a, 2012b) and Jia-shin Chen (2012) have examined and reflected on the distinctiveness of East Asian Science and Technology Studies (STS)/theory; Fa-ti Fan (2012) has suggested the need for critical regionalism; Susan Moon (2012) has pointed to the importance of intuition; Gregory Clancey (2009) has argued that it is important to take up local materials in the STS rubric; and Warwick Anderson (2012) has tentatively talked of Asia as method. …”

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A correlative STS: Lessons from a Chinese medical practice

Lin

Law

2014

Soc Stud Sci

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How might Science and Technology Studies learn more from the intersection between 'Western' and 'other' forms of knowledge? In this article, we use Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's writing on equivocal translation to explore a moment of encounter in a Chinese Medical consultation in Taiwan in which a practitioner hybridizes Chinese Medicine and biomedicine. Our description is symmetrical, but creates a descriptive equivocation in which 'Western' analytical terms are used to describe a 'Chinese' medical reality. Drawing on the history of Chinese Medicine, we argue that the latter is not analytical, but 'correlative' in a specifically 'Chinese' manner that explores patternings, flows, and propensities in local collections of things and symptoms. In particular, it both handles difference without seeking to unearth stable causal mechanisms and absorbs new elements including relevant features of biomedicine. We conclude by briefly considering the scope of a possible post-colonial and 'correlative' STS and show that a 'correlative' description of the same Chinese Medical consultation would differ markedly from one making use of 'Western' analytical assumptions.

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Explaining knowledge pluralisms; the intertwining of culture and materiality

Marlor

2020

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in

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Discovering Distinctive East Asian STS: An Introduction

Cited by 7 publications

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3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?

3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?

A correlative STS: Lessons from a Chinese medical practice

Explaining knowledge pluralisms; the intertwining of culture and materiality

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