Making Time:Understanding temporalities in STS

This book examines how time gets made, remade, and unmade through science and technology. It carefully traces the construction of time and temporalities to various empirical sites and explores how time-making is always already a political project tied up in concrete efforts to govern.<br/><br/>Situated in the emerging field between political theory and science, technology, and society (STS), the presentation will present a set of in-depth empirical investigations that reflect the broad topical scope of STS and its dedication to empirically rich scholarship.<br/><br/>The chapters will each unfold an original case, giving deep insights into how, where, and by which means time is made in and through science and technology and the implications of this for the exercise of power. Together, the chapters cover a broad spectrum of topics while being committed to the same project of understanding, from an STS perspective, the connection between time, politics, and science and technology.<br/><br/>We expect that applying the empirical sensibilities and constructionist analytics of STS will advance our knowledge of power, normativity, democracy, public reasoning, and subject formation in relation to the making of time, and open up a transdisciplinary field for the deliberation and conceptualization of the relation between science, technology, time, and politics. In doing so, the book will be an important preliminary step for future research in STS, political theory, and neighboring fields.