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Technicalities of Trust and Technologies of Sensing

Fri, September 6, 1:00 to 2:30pm, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Floor: Five, Grand Ballroom A

Abstract

This panel asks how trust and trustworthiness emerge from, and move through, bodies, and to what effect?

In the abstract ideal, technoscience distrusts subjectivity and raises practical and conceptual boundaries to keep it from corrupting the prospects for objective knowledge. However, this panel asks through what practices the coordinates of the body, the phenomenologies of researchers, and embodied histories are rendered as a corporeal reality. Trust is difficult to define. Nonetheless, given its centrality to the ways that scientific knowledge is produced and circulated, this panel asks how, exactly, trust and trustworthiness might be ethnographically conceptualized by attending to the ways that they are enacted. Moreover, as STS attends to the ways that knowledge produces social effects, this panel considers the ways that conceptions of trust give knowledge its grip on bodies. By attending to the role of trust within technoscientific practices that absorb elements that are generally viewed with suspicion - the body, the subjective, and the senses - this panel hopes to highlight the multiple and integral ways that trust figures into the production and circulation of knowledge.

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