More thinking about the canonical in STS! Which concepts would you add to this list?

Murphy, Michelle (2017), The economization of life. doi.org/10.1515/9780... (h/t @ajth.bsky.social)

Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar (1986), Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691028323/laboratory-life

Law, John (1987), On the Social Explanation of Technical Change: The Case of the Portuguese Maritime Expansion. Technology and Culture. https://doi.org/10.2307/3105566

Latour, Bruno (2004), Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/421123

Gieryn, Thomas (1983), Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: Strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists. American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095325

Pinch, Trevor, and Wiebe Bijker (1984), The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631284014003004

Ong, Aihwa (1995), Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine and cultural citizenship in California. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(94)00230-Q

Edwards, Paul N. (2010), A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518635/a-vast-machine/

Callon, Michel (1986), Some elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the scallops of St. Brieuc Bay. Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge?. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1984.tb00113.x

Mol, Annemarie and John Law (1994), Regions, networks and fluids: Anaemia and social topology. . Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631279402400402

Irwin, Alan (2006), The Politics of Talk: Coming to Terms with the ‘New’ Scientific Governance. Social Studies of Science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312706053350

Callon, Michael (1994). Is science a public good? Science, Technology & Human Values.

Felt, Ulrike, and Maximillian Fochler (2010), Machineries for Making Publics: Inscribing and De-scribing Publics in Public Engagement. Minerva. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-010-9155-x

Law, John (2004), After method: Mess in social science research. https://archive.org/details/aftermethodmessi0000lawj (Paper suggested by @victortoom.bsky.social)

Tsing, Anna (2015), The Mushroom at the End of th World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77bcc

Verran, Helen (2002), A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies: Alternative Firing Regimes of Environmental Scientists and Aboriginal Landowners. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631270203200506

Wynne, Brian (1996), May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert–Lay Knowledge Divide. Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446221983.n3

Haraway, Donna (1988), Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3178066

Martin, Emily (2001), The woman in the body: A cultural analysis of reproduction. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/205988/the-woman-in-the-body-by-emily-martin/

Callon, Michel (1998), An essay on framing and overflowing: economic externalities revisited by sociology. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1998.tb03477.x

Jasanoff, Sheila (2004), States of Knowledge: the Co-Production of Science and the Social Order. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203413845

Bowker, Geoffrey, and Susan Leigh Star (1999), Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6352.001.0001

Hi #STS friends, the holidays are coming up and I’m looking for recent and urgent reads. What are you reading? #books @noortjem.bsky.social @stsbot.bsky.social @keanbirch.bsky.social @penders.bsky.social @alondra.bsky.social @avastmachine.bsky.social @Dominicboyer.bsky.social @joedeville.bsky.social

Callon, Michel and Bruno Latour (1981), Unscrewing the Big Leviathan: How actors macrostructure reality and how sociologists help them to do so. Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an Integration of Micro and Macro-Sociologies.

Mackenzie, Donald, and Judy Wajcman (1985), The social shaping of technology: how the refrigerator got its hum. https://search.worldcat.org/title/258556583

Porter, Theodore M. (1995), Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sp8x

Latour, Bruno (2004), Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013476

Haraway, Donna (1989), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203421918/primate-visions-donna-haraway

Law, John and John Urry (2004), Enacting the social. Economy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/0308514042000225716

Jasanoff, Sheila (1987), Contested boundaries in policy-relevant science. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631287017002001

Star, Leigh and James Griesemer (1989), Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631289019003001

Bloor, David (1976), Knowledge and Social Imagery.

Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer (1985), Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7sv46

Knorr Cetina, Karin (1999), Epistemic cultures: how the sciences make knowledge. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxw3q7f

Barry, Andrew (2006), Technological zones. European Journal of Social Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431006063343

Woolgar, Steve (1990), Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1990.tb03349.x

Wynne, Brian (1996), SSK's Identity Parade: Signing-Up, Off-and-On. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631296026002007

Vaughan, Diane (1996), The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA. https://archive.org/details/challengerlaunch0000vaug

One month into posting: What do you think of the STS classics so far? Share your suggestions or criticism in replies or DMs!

Haraway, Donna (1997), Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse. Feminism and Technoscience. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203731093

Mol, Annemarie, Ingunn Moser, and Jeanette Pols (2010), Care in practice: on tinkering in clinics, homes and farms. https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839414477

Barry, Andrew (2001), Political macines: governing a technological society. https://archive.org/details/politicalmachine0000barr

Stirling, Andy (2007), “Opening Up” and “Closing Down”: Power, Participation, and Pluralism in the Social Appraisal of Technology. Science, Technology & Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243907311265

Akrich, Madeleine (1992), The De-Scription of Technical Objects. Shaping Technology/Building Society. Studies in Socio-Technical Change.

Star, Leigh (1999), The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027649921955326

Landecker, Hannah (2010), Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039902

Muniesa, Fabian, Yuval Millo and Michel Callon (2007), An introduction to market devices. The Sociological Review. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00727.x

Epstein, Steven (1995), The Construction of Lay Expertise: AIDS Activism and the Forging of Credibility in the Reform of Clinical Trials. Science, Technology & Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1177/016224399502000402

Funtowicz, Silvio, and Jerome Ravetz (1993), Science for the Post-Normal Age. Futures. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/001632879390022L