Sensing collectives. The politics of world-making in sensing counter-practices

Sensors are ubiquitous. They are everywhere, and contemporary life is hard to imagine without them. And as such they are also elements of social order and social power. In response to Borbach and Kanderske (2025), who focus on sensor counter-practices, this contribution takes up the notion of the political, as discussed in their study, and contextualizes it in the political sociology of Latour. As such, this contribution is a beginning in an exploration of a possible political sociology of sensors that raises questions of world-making via sensing practices and the contribution of journalistic and academic inquiry in the stabilization of otherwise ephemeral political practices.