Materials and devices of the public: an introduction
Materials and devices of the public: an introduction
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DOI：
10.1080/03085147.2011.602293
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Lezaun, Javier
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作者：
Marres, Noortje;Lezaun, Javier
本引言概述了以材料或设备为中心的公众参与研究方法，并阐明了构成本特殊部分的四篇论文的理论贡献。在后福柯时代关于公民身份和参与的物质维度的观点的背景下——这些观点将物质视为一种默契，构成集体组织中的力量，主要关注政治主体的制造——我们概述了一种将物质参与视为一种独特的公共行为模式的方法。那么，问题就是物体、装置、设置和材料如何获得明确的政治能力，以及它们如何作为一种特定的公共形式来制定物质参与。我们讨论了物质参与的社会研究与政治理论之间的联系，并定义了物质公众的经验主义方法的轮廓，这种方法以这些公众特有的价值观和标准作为其组织过程的一部分为中心线索。最后，我们将讨论本专题中论文的四个主题，即他们对(1)世俗技术，(2)物质参与的实验设备和设置，(3)努力和舒适的动态，以及(4)物质公众特征的遏制和扩散模式的关注。
This introduction provides an overview of material- or device-centred approaches to the study of public participation, and articulates the theoretical contributions of the four papers that make up this special section. Set against the background of post-Foucauldian perspectives on the material dimensions of citizenship and engagement - perspectives that treat matter as a tacit, constituting force in the organization of collectives and are predominantly concerned with the fabrication of political subjects - we outline an approach that considers material engagement as a distinct mode of performing the public. The question, then, is how objects, devices, settings and materials acquire explicit political capacities, and how they serve to enact material participation as a specific public form. We discuss the connections between social studies of material participation and political theory, and define the contours of an empiricist approach to material publics, one that takes as its central cue that the values and criteria particular to these publics emerge as part of the process of their organization. Finally, we discuss four themes that connect the papers in this special section, namely their focus on (1) mundane technologies, (2) experimental devices and settings for material participation, (3) the dynamic of effort and comfort, and (4) the modes of containment and proliferation that characterize material publics.