In the Land of the Blind…: Thoughts on Gingras

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 307-311

  Pickering, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84992920599     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631299029002015     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Yves Gingras, ‘The New Dialectics of Nature’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 27, No. 2 (April 1997), 317–34 [YG]
2. Andrew Pickering, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1995).
3. This tactic is reminiscent of Harry Collins' and Steven Yearley's rewriting of the works of Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, intended to demonstrate the ‘prosaic’ nature of the latter: see H.M. Collins and S. Yearley, ‘Epistemological Chicken’
4. M. Callon and B. Latour, ‘Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath School! A Reply to Collins and Yearley’, both in Andrew Pickering (ed.), Science as Practice and Culture (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1992), 301–326, 343–68
5. Gingras says: ‘It seems that what we observe here is a movement inward …: the microanalysis of practice first suggested by SSK is now pushed to the limit where, paradoxically, it converges on the individual’ [YG, 329–30]. The trend both within The Mangle and of my subsequent work actually goes in the opposite direction: on the latter see, for example, A. Pickering, ‘Cyborg History and the World War II Regime’, Perspectives on Science, Vol. 3 (1995), 1–48
6. Pickering, ‘History of Economics and the History of Agency’, in J. Henderson (ed.), The State of the History of Economics: Proceedings of the History of Economics Society (London: Routledge, 1997), 6–18
7. Pickering, ‘Science as Alchemy’, to appear in a volume edited by Clifford Geertz, Joan Scott and Michael Walzer (Russell Sage Foundation/Princeton University Press)
8. Pickering, ‘The Alchemical Wedding of Science and Industry: Synthetic Dyes and Social Theory’ (forthcoming).