About

The Technoscience Research Unit fosters projects that rethink the genealogies contributing to the continually shifting field commonly called Science and Technology Studies. Technoscience as a term follows a 20th century itinerary from Gaston Bachelard to Bruno Latour to  Donna Haraway, where it was developed to connect the study of scientific knowledge and laboratory science with the politics of its technological and worldly results in processes as diverse as militarization, feminism, and governance. TRU aspires to build on this tradition of investigating the travels and transformations of technoscience in implicated and surprising itineraries.   Research at the  TRU draws from feminist studies, postcolonial studies, critical theory, cultural geography, visual studies, environmental studies, media studies, and other diverse fields to invigorate its research collaborations. In these ways, TRU seeks to gather together research in the Toronto area and beyond to rethink and enliven the politics of technoscience in ways accountable to our contemporary moment.

Animating Research Concerns Include:

• The making of knowledge, as well as its unmaking
• The enacting and contesting of race and sex with and through technoscience
• Cartographies of colonial, postcolonial, and transnational technoscience
• Materiality as it intersects with the politics of knowing and doing
• Experiments in interdisciplinarity and modes of intellectual craft
• Arrangements and juxtapositions of space, place, scale, and environment
• Layers and gaps, movements and immobilities in historical narratives of  technoscience
• mundane and quotidian manifestations of technoscience as much expert and professional
• Ontological politics:  the coming-into-being and coming-out-of-being of entities, relations, and qualities
• Expanding and questioning the intellectual genealogies included in Science and Technology Studies
• Investigating changing and persistent forms of life relative to technoscience
• Tracing and reimaging political economy, property, and formations of capital as they are entangled with technoscience