[{"id": "catalyst-28784", "words": "6853", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Subramaniam, Banu; Willey, Angela", "title": "Introduction:Feminism\u2019s Sciences", "date": "2017", "keywords": "catalyst; feminist; knowledge; new; press; science; scientific; studies; subramaniam; technoscience; theory; university; willey", "summary": "Moored in this logic, recent accounts of what we might call feminist science have called for a shift in feminism\u2019s relationship with science. Such histories help us to understand not only why Science cannot be trusted out of hand, but why we need feminist sciences that don\u2019t \u201cleave biology to scientists\u201d who are not held accountable (Birke 2000).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28785", "words": "7669", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Oikkonen, Venla", "title": "Temporality and Belonging as Transdisciplinary Objects: Strategic Encounters between Queer Theory and Population Genetic Technologies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "belonging; dna; feminism; genetics; oikkonen; population; present; project; queer; technoscience; temporality; theory; time", "summary": "Each of these approaches could be brought\u2014alone or together\u2014into a strategic encounter with the specificity of population genetic technologies, and each encounter would turn the studied object\u2014population genetic temporality and belonging\u2014 toward a slightly different angle, rendering visible different constellations of temporality, belonging, technology, and materiality. In this case study, the encounter between the material specificity of technological practices and queer approaches to temporality enables me to view population genetic temporality and belonging as materially and technologically grounded, yet entangled with cultural narratives and affective frameworks in complex ways.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28786", "words": "8535", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Bhattarai, Pratistha", "title": "Algorithmic Value: Cultural Encoding, Textuality, and the Myth of \u201cSource Code\u201d", "date": "2017", "keywords": "algorithms; bhattarai; catalyst; code; cultural; data; economic; feminism; knowledge; source; spivak; technoscience; theory; value", "summary": "Value coding, then, can be understood as the ways in which value, as a differential, not only expresses economic value in the narrow sense but also makes representation in a wider sense possible. Algorithmic Value: Cultural Encoding, Textuality, and the Myth of \u201cSource Code\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28787", "words": "8465", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Takeshita, Chikako", "title": "From Mother/Fetus to Holobiont(s): A Material Feminist Ontology of the Pregnant Body", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bacteria; birth; body; catalyst; cells; feminist; fetal; fetus; gilbert; holobiont; human; immune; mother; pregnancy; takeshita; technoscience; theory", "summary": "Howes, whose objective is to reconstruct immunological reactions during pregnancy from a feminist perspective, maintains that \u201cthe exchange of immune cells and biochemicals between mother and fetus is routine and the relationship between them is beneficially interconnected and dynamic\u201d (p. 264). In essence, this cyborg figure queers reproduction and moves pregnant bodies into a more fluid space that opens the door for alternative approaches to scientific and feminist studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28788", "words": "8867", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Vostral, Sharra", "title": "Toxic Shock Syndrome, Tampon Absorbency, and Feminist Science", "date": "2017", "keywords": "absorbency; advocates; blood; catalyst; consumer; feminist; force; health; manufacturers; reame; rome; swankin; tampon; task; technoscience; theory; vostral; women", "summary": "Standard for performance characteristics of menstrual tampons. Abstract In 1980, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that women limit their use of superabsorbent tampons since the risk for Toxic Shock Syndrome increased with greater levels of absorption.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28789", "words": "8634", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Weaver, Harlan Eugene", "title": "Feminisms, Fuzzy Sciences, and Interspecies Intersectionalities: The Promises and Perils of Contemporary Dog Training", "date": "2017", "keywords": "catalyst; dog; dogs; dominance; feminism; fuzzy; intersectionalities; interspecies; sciences; technoscience; theory; training; weaver; work", "summary": "Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 3 (1), 1-27 http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Weaver, 2017 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license ARTICLE Feminisms, Fuzzy Sciences, and Interspecies Intersectionalities: The Promises and Perils of Contemporary Dog Training Harlan Eugene Weaver Kansas State University harlanweaver@ksu.edu Abstract Tracing histories of interventions in dog training, this paper examines the contemporary divide between dominance and positive reinforcement training practices. The article concludes by thinking through the lens of interspecies intersectionalities in order to elucidate a promising expansion of the feminist fuzzy sciences of dog training.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28790", "words": "8001", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Giordano, Sara", "title": "Those who can\u2019t, teach: critical science literacy as a queer science of failure", "date": "2017", "keywords": "failure; feminist; giordano; knowledge; literacy; new; power; science; studies; technoscience; theory; women", "summary": "For decades, feminist science studies (FSS) scholars have debated the possibilities of doing feminist science (Giordano, 2014; Longino, 1990; Roy, 2004; Spanier, 1986). The question I raise in this article is how to keep central the political justifications and potential consequences of working towards feminist sciences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28791", "words": "4309", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Murphy, Michelle", "title": "What Can't a Body Do?", "date": "2017", "keywords": "alterlife; bodies; catalyst; chemical; embodiment; feminism; murphy; technoscience; theory; violence", "summary": "Taking Frantz Fanon as a starting point for a decolonial STS, for example, we might begin by noticing how he navigated, and refused to disavow, the contradictions making up embodiment, how Fanon theorized within a set of tensions or toggles: for example, the toggle between the hopeful care for embodied difference, and the pessimistic ways bodies are already materialized in colonial and racist worlds, the toggle between medicine\u2019s racist apprehension of pathological bodies, and the ways that bodies also exceeded those materializations (Fanon, 1963, 1965, 1967). From the epidermal schema of anti- black racism to the heteropartriarchy of gender, bodies are already caught in painful and contradictory matrixes of support and negation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28792", "words": "13994", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Lee, Rachel", "title": "Four Interviews with Scientists on \u201cScience Out of Feminism\u201d", "date": "2017", "keywords": "catalyst; chemistry; feminism; lee; people; research; science; students; technoscience; theory; things; women; work", "summary": "With a room full of students we can generate a class dataset and different students are going to pull different things out of that. HG: I sort of have this philosophy that, not that suffering is good, but having gone through difficult life circumstances makes people more humble and more appreciative, that different people struggle with different things, and those are valuable perspectives to have as a mentor.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28793", "words": "10786", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Pollock, Anne; Roy, Deboleena; O. Platt, Manu; Adams, Morgann; Dusabamoro, Theophilia; Fearce, Chelesa; Fennell, Imani; Gaillard, Ebony; Harrison, Courtney; Sihwa, Daphney; Williams, Phoenix; Jackson, Kimberly; Wheaton, Lewis A.; Lewis, C. Holly; Pingel, Emily; Belcher Platt, Aziza; Webster, Joni-Leigh; Singh, Jennifer; Shelby, Renee; Abatsis McHenry, Kristen", "title": "How do Black Lives Matter in Teaching, Lab Practices, and Research?", "date": "2017", "keywords": "black; blm; breast; cancer; catalyst; cell; community; disease; evidence; feminism; health; lives; matter; new; people; pollock; race; research; roy; roy catalyst; sickle; technoscience; theory; women", "summary": "The principles of Black Lives Matter help me to better understand the structural constraints that shape the experience of Black women who are navigating the labyrinth of services needed for children with autism. The remainder of the entries below are from academics who explore how the Black Lives Matter movement frames their own specific research, especially as centered by the experiences of Black women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28794", "words": "13695", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Lyons, Kristina; Salazar Parre\u00f1as, Juno; Tamarkin, Noah; Subramaniam, Banu; Green, Lesley; P\u00e9rez-Bustos, Tania", "title": "Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS", "date": "2017", "keywords": "africa; american; catalyst; decoloniality; decolonization; decolonizing; feminism; hindu; india; knowledge; latin; lemba; lyons; modernity; new; parre\u00f1as; politics; postcolonial; practices; press; research; science; south; sts; studies; tamarkin; technology; technoscience; theory; university; world", "summary": "A postcolonial moment in science studies: Alternative firing regimes of environmental scientists and Aboriginal landowners. More recently, scholars interested in decentering science studies from English/Euro-American analytics have proposed what they call a \u201cpostcolonial version of the principle of symmetry\u201d to ask \u201cwhat might happen if STS were to make more systematic use of non-Western ideas\u201d (Law & Lin, 2015 p. 2).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28795", "words": "4293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Molldrem, Stephen; Thakor, Mitali", "title": "Genealogies and Futures of Queer STS: Issues in Theory, Method, and Institutionalization", "date": "2017", "keywords": "feminist; molldrem; press; queer; queer sts; sexuality; sts; studies; thakor; theory; university", "summary": "Queer STS Theory: From Lack to Materialization We realized the need for a reproducible body of Queer STS theory after we discovered that, as graduate students, we had no template or guide for building Queer STS prelims or field examinations reading lists. In the first section, we address the realm of Queer STS theory\u2014as in a body of texts, set of structuring claims, or a corpus of literature that could ground and/or orient Queer STS inquiry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28796", "words": "1548", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "29", "author": "Pulsifer, Rebecah", "title": "Review of Teaching with Feminist Materialisms (Utrecht: ATGENDER, 2015)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "feminist; materialism; practices; teaching; theory", "summary": "This critical account of feminist materialism raises questions about whether\u2014and, if so, how\u2014 feminist materialism might be distinguished from new materialism more broadly, or from related areas of inquiry, such as feminist science studies. Their introduction, therefore, does not delineate feminist materialism from other forms of materialism so much as shed light on new materialism\u2019s feminist backbone.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28797", "words": "3401", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Visperas, Cristina; Brown, Kimberly Juanita; Sexton, Jared", "title": "Introduction", "date": "2016", "keywords": "black; blackness; feminist; health; hela; new; press; race; science; studies; university", "summary": "The extensive literatures on the intersections of Blackness and technoscience collectively highlight both the urgency and difficulty of redefining the subject of STS and the human as \u201cwe\u201d generally know it, examining the origins and continuance of racial classifications in scientific, medical, and technological advancements (Braun, 2014; Browne, 2015; Duster, 2003; Fullwiley, 2008; Pollock, 2012; Roberts, 2011; Wailoo, 2007), as well as analyzing the instrumental uses of Black bodies in the latter (Bankole, 1998; Tilley, 2008; Washington, 2008) and addressing local struggles against health inequalities (Benjamin, 2013; Nelson, 2011).\u00a0 A cogent framework for examining the hypervisibility of Black women, Bailey\u2019s mysoginoir combines \u201cmisogyny, \u2018the hatred of women,\u2019 and noir, which means \u2018black\u2019 but also carries film and media connotations\u201d\u2014making it an especially useful analytic for addressing the ways both anti-Blackness and misogyny inform media and medical representations of Black trans and cis women.\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28798", "words": "6608", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Benjamin, Ruha", "title": "Racial Fictions, Biological Facts: Expanding the Sociological Imagination through Speculative Methods", "date": "2016", "keywords": "aiyana; council; fiction; future; new; people; police; race; raiders; reparations; sandra; science; time; university; violence; world", "summary": "Aiyana Mo\u2019Nay Stanley-Jones and her team of Risers have to find a way to secure the cell depository and revitalize the movement.2 Time heals? Social fiction: Writing social science research as fiction.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28799", "words": "10657", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Leong, Diana", "title": "The Mattering of Black Lives: Octavia Butler\u2019s Hyperempathy and the Promise of the New Materialisms", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropocene; black; blackness; bodies; body; butler; coole; duke; durham; frost; human; lauren; materialisms; matter; new; politics; press; race; university", "summary": "In fact, from at least the 16th century onward, black bodies provided crucial raw material for the development of natural history, the natural sciences, and the life philosophies in Enlightenment thought.4 Both geology and biology, for example, pursued notions of species and evolution that preserved early racial taxonomies; the techniques of observation and interpretation used to analyze geological activity were the same as those employed by the racial science of phrenology. His claim that the concept of the Anthropocene reproduces race-making technologies gestures to the historical fact that the human as such has emerged through the exclusion and extermination of black bodies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28800", "words": "9207", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bailey, Moya", "title": "Misogynoir in Medical Media: On Caster Semenya and R. Kelly", "date": "2016", "keywords": "age; body; caster; feminist; gender; girl; health; kelly; media; medical; science; semenya; sex; studies; tanner; women", "summary": "I see racism and sexism as public health concerns that critically impact medical treatment and medical science, as they touch all aspects of our culture and society. This formulation of Black feminist health-science studies, when focused on this trial, provides evidence of the co-constitutive nature of medical science and popular perception, underscoring the need to engage them simultaneously.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28801", "words": "15336", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jackson, Zakiyyah", "title": "Sense of Things", "date": "2016", "keywords": "african; black; fiction; girl; hopkinson; jeanne; knowledge; mater(nal; mother; myth; new; novel; press; question; race; reality; representation; science; self; sense; terms; university; world; wynter", "summary": "Rather than functioning within the limited discourse of empirical facts or seeking the authority of scientific method, black female representations in Brown Girl in the Ring underscore the manner in which representation performs in worlds and in the (un)making of worlds.17 Moving away from science fiction\u2019s defining investments in scientific fact, the novel provokes a consideration of the problem of representing a sublime function that necessarily exceeds any claim to knowledge but that can only be approached in a gesture of representation.18 Moreover, one could argue that the longstanding black feminist preoccupation with representation, in particular the seemingly inescapable burden of paradoxical modes of visibility/invisibility, do not primarily gesture towards the (in)accuracy of representations but rather toward the performative labor representation does in worlding processes. While the text certainly problematizes calcified representations of black womanhood, the novel does not then reinvest in the proper re-presentation of black women but rather performs representation in a speculative mode.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28802", "words": "7860", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Doucet-Battle, James", "title": "Bioethical Matriarchy: Race, Gender, and the Gift in Genomic Research", "date": "2016", "keywords": "african; american; black; exchange; family; gender; genomic; gift; hela; henrietta; lacks; matriarchy; new; press; race; research; status; university", "summary": "Moreover, it accented the line between the racial gift as social exchange and the gendered commodity as market exchange. Umbilical cord blood: From social gift to venture capital.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28803", "words": "8979", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Harvey, Sandra", "title": "The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling", "date": "2016", "keywords": "cells; contamination; example; gartler; hela; henrietta; human; knowing; lacks; life; new; passing; press; race; research; science; scientists; university", "summary": "Through the framework of racial biostatistics, Gartler concluded that the sample cell lines had been taken over by HeLa cells and marked by a phenotype most commonly held by black men. However, scientists\u2019 reactions to HeLa cells passing were also affected by socio-cultural imaginaries.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28804", "words": "7407", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Merid, Beza", "title": "Stroke's No Joke: Race and the Cultural Coding of Stroke Risk", "date": "2016", "keywords": "african; american; campaign; care; disease; disparities; health; heart; joke; knowledge; race; risk; stroke; stroke risk", "summary": "These programs put into action research-driven interventions on racial stroke disparities. In examining African American stroke disparities and the institutional undertakings to address and mitigate them, I argue that this process of essentializing and racializing cultural difference positions both race and culture as apolitical and ahistorical risk factors, stripping such well-intentioned institutional interventions of their stated aims toward equity.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28805", "words": "2684", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "24", "author": "Hatch, Anthony Ryan", "title": "The Metabolic Fetish: Introduction to Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America", "date": "2016", "keywords": "american; disparities; ethnicity; health; metabolic; metabolic syndrome; race; research; syndrome", "summary": "Because of historical and current federal research policies that regulate demographic data collection, statistical information about a research subject\u2019s race and ethnicity is routinely collected along with anthropomorphic, molecular, and genetic information about the subject\u2019s metabolism.4 Therefore, the sampling frames, analytic strategies, and research findings of metabolic syndrome research studies are often framed using these racial and ethnic categories. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) document substantial and persistent racial disparities in the distribution of and complications from these major chronic metabolic conditions.13 For decades, social epidemiologists have documented such disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups.14 This research on racial health disparities reveals that African Americans and other racially categorized minority groups experience higher rates of death owing to chronic metabolic diseases and higher rates of complications from those diseases, in large part because of the interactive dynamics of racism, sexism, and class inequality on health.15\u00a0 This body of literature on racial health disparities has received less attention in terms of making a theoretical contribution to critical race theory, science and technology studies, or political sociology, and instead has been more embraced in the fields of social epidemiology and public health.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28806", "words": "1346", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lingel, Jessica", "title": "Review of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne (Duke University Press, 2015)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "book; browne; studies; surveillance", "summary": "Template BOOK REVIEW \u00a0\u00a0 Review of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015) \u00a0\u00a0 Jessa Lingel University of Pennsylvania jlingel@asc.upenn.edu Surveillance studies is having a moment. Artists, activists, and academics are variously turning to surveillance studies (and elsewhere \u2013 science fiction, for example) a theoretical vocabulary that can both describe and offer tools for navigating structures of monitoring and control.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28807", "words": "5851", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "80", "author": "Brown, Kimberly Juanita; Dunye, Cheryl; Hamilton, Dell M.", "title": "Toyin Ojih Odutola\u2019s Art Practice as a Technology of the Skin", "date": "2016", "keywords": "art; cheryl; dell; kimberly; kind; people; right; skin; work", "summary": "and she has a large archive of work already, and it's a very particular style of visual representation, visual art and the kind that people want to say is not something that is a museum, and/or art gallery production. They\u2019re works of art on skin.\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28808", "words": "11147", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Andrews, Lindsey", "title": "Black Feminism\u2019s Minor Empiricism: Hurston, Combahee, and the Experience of Evidence", "date": "2015", "keywords": "century; combahee; empiricism; experience; feminist; hurston; knowledge; new; press; science; scientific; standpoint; university; value; women; work; york", "summary": "Understanding scientific virtues as aesthetic values, magnified through attention to the literary, allows us to trace the counter-history of Black feminist empiricism that operates by way of an insistent opacity, and for which the condition of possibility is precisely its ongoing illegibility as science, its eternal minority.16 Hortense Spillers's essay, Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book, raised this incompatibility as a central problem that has threatened Black women's thought and existence, from the first moments of African colonization to the present, precisely at this interface. They also make possible the alternative temporality mobilized for Black feminist empiricism.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28809", "words": "12493", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Atanasoski, Neda; Vora, Kalindi", "title": "Surrogate Humanity: Posthuman Networks and the (Racialized) Obsolescence of Labor", "date": "2015", "keywords": "alfred; economy; global; human; humanity; labor; new; objects; race; revolution; rifkin; service; studies; techno; technological; technology; things; work; workers; world; wynter", "summary": "This conception of transparency, however, doesn't allow for an analysis of non-innovative human labor, or service labor such as that organized through the Alfred service, as a commodity within the digital economy. The IoT might portend the first smart infrastructure revolution, but this is a revolution that is haunted by the specter of what Rifkin calls the last worker standing: Big Data, advanced analytics, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and robotics are replacing human labor across the manufacturing industries, service industries, and knowledge-and-entertainment sectors, leading to the very real prospect of liberating hundreds of millions of people from work in the market economy (p. 121).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28810", "words": "11792", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Cheng, Jih-Fei", "title": "El tabaco se ha mulato: Globalizing Race, Viruses, and Scientific Observation in the Late Nineteenth Century", "date": "2015", "keywords": "american; century; colonial; crevaux; global; mosaic; mulato; nation; new; nineteenth; plant; queer; race; science; tabaco; term; tobacco; university; virus; viruses; visual; writing", "summary": "To demonstrate how virus knowledge proceeds on a colonial racial and sexual foundation, I analyze iterations of el tabaco se ha mulato in scientific and historical texts written between the late nineteenth century and the contemporary era. While it is impossible to assume the vantage point of the late nineteenth-century reader, it might be safe to say that Crevaux's use of the term mulato provided a referent\u2014a feeling of quality\u2014without having to conjure a clear image of biological continuity between humans and tobacco plants.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28811", "words": "8848", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Pollock, Anne", "title": "Heart Feminism", "date": "2015", "keywords": "body; brain; disease; feminist; heart; heartbeat; life; new; personhood; press; science; system; theory; university; ways; wilson; women", "summary": "One of the disease processes that I am most interested in is heart failure\u2014this is a key disease category in my previous work about race and heart disease (Pollock, 2012). Although this individual burden of responsibility for disease is not unique to heart disease, narratives about [heart disease] are especially individualized and moralized (Weiner, 2011, 1766).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28812", "words": "2771", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wilson, Elizabeth A.", "title": "Depression, Biology, Aggression: Introduction to Gut Feminism (Duke University Press, 2015)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "biology; body; feminist; gut; press; theory; university", "summary": "Rather, I want to extract from these analyses of depressed viscera and mood some gain for feminist theory. What conceptual innovations would be possible if feminist theory wasn\u2019t so instinctively antibiological?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28813", "words": "5994", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Orr, Jackie", "title": "Enchanting Catastrophe: Magical Subrealism and BP's Macondo", "date": "2015", "keywords": "catastrophe; disaster; gulf; hold; macondo; magic; new; oil; petroleum; realism; site; thought; time; u.s; years", "summary": "By the 1920s the discovery and production of U.S. oil is increasingly standardized by the monopoly power of the Rockefeller enterprise. In 1953, after nearly a century of preeminence, the United States loses its global hegemony in oil production, no longer the sole nation mining over half the world's petroleum supplies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28814", "words": "126", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Zylinska, Joanna", "title": "The Vanishing Object of Technology", "date": "2015", "keywords": "technology", "summary": "She is the author and editor of many books on technology, culture, art and ethics, including Bioethics in the Age of New Media (MIT Press, 2009), Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (MIT Press, 2012, with Sarah Kember), and Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2014).\u00a0 Bio Joanna Zylinska is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28815", "words": "9966", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Jain, S. Lochlann; Stacey, Jackie", "title": "On Writing About Illness: A Dialogue with S. Lochlann Jain and Jackie Stacey on Cancer, STS, and Cultural Studies", "date": "2015", "keywords": "academic; book; cancer; diagnosis; example; life; new; press; queer; sense; studies; time; university; ways; work; writing", "summary": "Using the language of the confessional or the personal to describe the styles we each use threatens to reiterate the generic conventions of cancer narratives that we are trying to undo. I think this pairing can itself be seen as symptomatic of the overdetermination of narratives that come to be seen overarchingly as cancer narratives.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28816", "words": "4000", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Irani, Lilly; Sengul-Jones, Monika", "title": "Difference Work: A Conversation with Lilly Irani", "date": "2015", "keywords": "amazon; amt; companies; employers; irani; labor; software; technology; turkopticon; work; workers", "summary": "Venture capital investors, or VCs, estimate how much a company will be worth in the future; they routinely value technology companies more highly than labor companies. It's a whole other thing to recognize how AMT sets up this labor market platform to make workers available, but at the same time workers themselves are organizing their own forums, teaching new workers, educating employers, and doing free task design consulting for employers to sustain AMT", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28817", "words": "13950", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Reardon, Jenny; Metcalf, Jacob; Kenney, Martha; Barad, Karen", "title": "Science & Justice: The Trouble and the Promise", "date": "2015", "keywords": "barad; cruz; engineering; ethics; haraway; human; justice; knowledge; new; objects; practices; press; program; research; response; santa; science; scientists; students; studies; technology; training; university; work; world", "summary": "The propriety of governing research practices in the social sciences and humanities according to the Common Rule and its implicit assumptions about research ethics has been vociferously contested, particularly when it interferes with social justice goals (for example, see: Basset & O'Riordan 2002; The ethical case against ethical regulation in humanities and social science research.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28818", "words": "2332", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Jones, Donna V.", "title": "Review of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (University of Illinois Press, 2014)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "darwin; ghosts; life; science; variation", "summary": "She remarks that ghosts were at once frustrating, fitting too neatly within the Western imaginary of an India riven by mysticism on the one hand, and technological ambition on the other; yet ghosts were nonetheless central to understanding these very processes of marginalization which would locate the ideal form of the scientific disposition in the figure of a European man. Although the West might only understand India's ghosts as an indication of the nation's stubborn anti-rationalism, in India, and to Indians, ghosts convey a complex rationality of their own.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28819", "words": "1919", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "35", "author": "Nguyen, Trung PQ", "title": "Review of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "labor; life; new; press; university; vora", "summary": "At a moment when ethical relationships staged by science and technology must be accountable to the racialized and gendered realities of postcolonial histories that sustain the on-going processes of global capital, Kalindi Vora's book stages a politically urgent and needed intervention by asking us to rethink how knowledge production reinscribes colonial hierarchies predicated upon difference and uneven extractions of life energies across the globe. Describing vital energy as the substance of activity that produces life, Vora argues that its transmission from sites of life depletion to life enrichment under global capital is a continuation of colonial strategies of accumulation, where affective and biological labor transmit human vitality (p. 3).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28820", "words": "6041", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lind\u00e9n, Lisa; Sullivan, Mairead", "title": "Review of Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (Routledge, 1997)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "cancer; chapter; feminist; jain; new; press; queer; science; stacey; sts; studies; teratologies; university", "summary": "Although Teratologies has long been on the readings lists of students and scholars of queer and feminist STS, feminist health studies, and cancer cultural studies more widely, Malignant's more recent publication highlights the many cultural shifts and theoretical innovations that have taken place in the time between their publications: the stabilization and rapid growth of feminist STS studies on medicine, the increased discussion around temporality and affect in feminist and queer theory, the advent of the information age, and the wider attention to environmental and social correlates to cancer, to name just a few. The overlapping themes in the books are plenty: patient perspectives, cancer time, emotions such as fear, hope and anxiety, critiques of the individualization of risk and health responsibility, and an understanding of cancer as complex and elusive.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28821", "words": "3622", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Joel, Daphna; Kaiser, Anelis; Richardson, Sarah S.; Ritz, Stacey A.; Roy, Deboleena; Subramaniam, Banu", "title": "A Discussion on Experiments and Experimentation: NIH to Balance Sex in Cell and Animal Studies", "date": "2015", "keywords": "differences; feminist; gender; health; nih; research; sex; studies; women", "summary": "Rodents have sex differences, but they are different than human sex differences. But requiring all scientists to look for sex differences in their basic research will produce a proliferation of sex difference findings that are hard to interpret and in many cases will be meaningless.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28822", "words": "4125", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "M\u00fchlberger, Elke; Roy, Deboleena; Scully, Pamela; Subramaniam, Banu; Terry, Jennifer", "title": "Ebola and its Discontents", "date": "2015", "keywords": "disease; ebola; feminist; health; outbreak; people; pham; science; studies; university; virus; women", "summary": "Yet some folks continue to speculate that Ebola virus may become airborne through just a couple of mutations. Out of an abundance of caution, poor Excalibur, the perfectly healthy dog of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola virus, was euthanized, even though there is, and has never been, any indication that dogs can either be infected with or transmit Ebola virus.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28823", "words": "3406", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "31", "author": "Editorial Board, Catalyst Journal", "title": "Introduction to the Inaugural Issue", "date": "2015", "keywords": "board; catalyst; editorial; feminist; issue; journal; practice; research; sts; studies; technoscience; theory", "summary": "Thus feminist science studies is not the exclusive focus of Catalyst; the journal also seeks to support and foster feminist science studies through expanded forms including mixtures with other critical traditions, research-based critical media practice, new orientations, and experiments that will continue to elaborate the future of the field. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The launching of this journal both recognizes these diverse legacies and sites of work and offers a manifesta for the continued catalyzing of theory, practice, and feminist technoscience studies into the future.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28825", "words": "2491", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Journal, Catalyst", "title": "Introduction", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bustamante; catalyst; issue; military; training; war; warfare; women", "summary": "Isra Ali introduces a sustained interpretation of the role of tactical compassion offered to US women soldiers enlisted into contemporary warfare\u2014specifically, their placement by the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq, in the 2010s, in special ops programs such as Lioness that are explicitly designed to use women as mediators and as cultural intelligence gatherers in situations where direct violence and male presence have been recognized to be less than successful, namely in situations where local women are off limits to male soldiers. We must recognize the problematic situation, she notes, not only of US women soldiers performing in this gendered scheme of empowerment through enlistment into tactical compassion, but also that of Muslim women, who are situated as being in need of rights and empowerment on the model of the US woman soldier.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28826", "words": "16030", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gillis-Buck, Eva Mae", "title": "Redefining \u2018Virgin Birth\u2019 After Kaguya: Mammalian Parthenogenesis in Experimental Biology, 2004-2014", "date": "2016", "keywords": "biology; birth; cells; development; egg; embryonic; embryos; genome; genomic; human; imprinting; journal; kaguya; kono; mammalian; mice; mouse; parthenogenesis; parthenotes; reproduction; science; scientists; sperm; stem", "summary": "http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2010.12.002 Nelissen, E. C. M., van Montfoort, A. P. A., Dumoulin, J. C. M., & Evers, J. L. H. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4797648/ns/technology_and_science- science/t/mice-born-without-dads-dna/#.UPUyD6FLg5f Rodrigues, J. C. M., Luo, M., Berger, F., & Koltunow, A. M. G. (2010).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28827", "words": "10156", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Suchman, Lucy", "title": "Configuring the Other: Sensing War through Immersive Simulation", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bodies; camera; door; figure; flatworld; ict; iit; immersion; marines; media; military; new; project; real; room; simulation; system; time; training; war", "summary": "I am interested in the ways in which training simulations like FlatWorld might work in the service of encapsulation, while at the same time they promise imaginative transportation of the bodies that they enclose into unfamiliar territory. I take seriously the imaginaries informing virtual reality projects, while maintaining a critical skepticism regarding the extent to which the technologies actually realize their imagined promises.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28828", "words": "10360", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Cohen Iba\u00f1ez, Emily", "title": "Military Utopias of Mind and Machine", "date": "2016", "keywords": "body; combat; exposure; life; military; mind; new; people; press; rainer; reality; research; rothbaum; soldiers; stories; stress; system; terry; therapy; university; vre; war; world", "summary": "Virtual reality exposure therapy in the treatment of fear of flying: A case report. Rick described having visions of virtual worlds at the tender age of 8, which accompanied his affinity for science fiction novels.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28829", "words": "12691", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Brandt, Marisa Renee", "title": "Simulated War: Remediating Trauma Narratives in Military Psychotherapy", "date": "2016", "keywords": "agency; bravemind; experience; exposure; fear; media; military; narratives; new; patient; ptsd; system; therapist; therapy; trauma; traumatic; treatment; university; veterans; vret; war", "summary": "Many reasons have been hypothesized, including the complex nature of war traumas, gendered norms around masculinity and personal confession, and lack of trust between military patients and civilian therapists, among others. It is a behaviorist tool that materializes common features of military trauma narratives as controllable digital objects.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28830", "words": "12574", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Rice, D. Andy", "title": "Weaponizing Affect: A Film Phenomenology of 3D Military Training Simulations during the Iraq War", "date": "2016", "keywords": "action; affect; affective; army; awareness; body; center; culture; documentary; experience; film; fort; fort irwin; iraq; irwin; military; new; public; realism; simulation; soldiers; time; training; troops; war", "summary": "I reject the conclusion that such manifestations of \u201ccultural awareness\u201d in simulation training demonstrate that the US military is becoming a progressive institution. I visited Fort Irwin in 2007 and 2012 to document and observe training simulations.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28831", "words": "9167", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Ali, Isra", "title": "Tactical Tactility: Warfare, Gender, and Cultural Intelligence", "date": "2016", "keywords": "afghanistan; civilians; combat; engagement; gender; intelligence; iraq; knowledge; militarism; military; muslim; soldiers; war; war zone; warfare; women; women soldiers; work; zone", "summary": "The question of how to access civilian women was answered in the form of consolidating women soldiers who were functioning disparately in the war zone into all-female platoons, something commanders on the ground began doing early on in both the Iraq and Afghanistan military campaigns (Lemmon, 2015). Though women soldiers have long been present in the war zone, formal acknowledgement of women\u2019s combat service becomes possible when Muslim women are central to the rhetoric of warfare, and cultural practices of gender segregation in Muslim societies are foregrounded in the development of military strategies in the war zone.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28832", "words": "6540", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Chandler, Katherine Fehr", "title": "A Drone Manifesto: Re-forming the Partial Politics of Targeted Killing", "date": "2016", "keywords": "aircraft; black; box; control; cyborg; drone; firebee; human; machine; military; play; system; war", "summary": "The cyborg reminds us that the problem is not drone aircraft per se, but the ways drone systems tie into ongoing practices of patriarchal capitalism, the legacy of colonialism, and techno-determinism. chandler ARTICLE \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Drone Manifesto \u00a0\u00a0 Katherine F. Chandler Georgetown University Kfc9@georgetown.edu Division and asymmetry are hallmarks of drone aircraft.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28833", "words": "2730", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Terry, Jennifer", "title": "Introduction to Attachments to War: Violence and the Production of Biomedical Knowledge in Twenty-first Century America", "date": "2016", "keywords": "attachments; biomedicine; bodies; century; new; university; war", "summary": "War need no longer be announced through an official declaration for the general population to know that we are in a continual state of attachment to war, phrased in a political grammar of xenophobic \u201csecurity\u201d against a racialized figure of \u201cterror\u201d and through which emotional attachment to the state of war permeates myriad affective ways of being. The United States and War are themselves inextricably attached to each other in the twenty-first century, as are war and biomedicine.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28834", "words": "1073", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Gotkin, Kevin", "title": "Review of iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials by Sarah Kember (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "glass; imedia; kember", "summary": "Gotkin REVIEW \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Review of iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials by Sarah Kember (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) \u00a0\u00a0 Retelling Kember\u2019s story is difficult because it is storytelling itself that she brings into focus, first by fogging up the lenses traditionally used to make subjects/objects appear, and then by placing new prisms for new patterns under the brilliant light that is feminist thought.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28835", "words": "1743", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "34", "author": "Edmiston, Kale", "title": "Feminist Bioethics and Intersex Medical Interventions: A Review of Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine (Indiana University Press, 2014)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "child; feder; intersex; making; medical", "summary": "Feder then deliberately \u201cturns the lens\u201d from intersex patients to clinicians, arguing that the assumption of a clinical imperative to conceal intersex bodies stems not from medical need but from projected provider disgust. Throughout the book, Feder investigates intersex medical interventions from multiple angles, including the primacy of the child-parent relationship, the ethics of caregiving and consent, and the complex slippage that occurs when \u201cgood medicine\u201d does not equate to \u201cethical medicine.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28836", "words": "1426", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Wu, Cynthia", "title": "Review of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies by Rachel C. Lee (New York: New York University Press, 2014).", "date": "2016", "keywords": "asian; book; human; lee", "summary": "Throughout these examples, Lee puts the disparate sources of her archive into coherent, complementary (but also productively frictive) conversation about the creation of interfaces among differing categories of biological life produced by modernity. This is the question that undergirds Rachel C. Lee\u2019s ambitious and playful recent book.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-28839", "words": "2678", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Subramaniam, Banu; Willey, Angela", "title": "Introduction: Remaking Science(s)\u00a0", "date": "2017", "keywords": "catalyst; feminist; science; studies; subramaniam; theory; willey", "summary": "In remaking sciences, they use methodologies such as auto-ethnography, autobiography, reflexivity, parody, genealogy, embedded histories, and art installations as modes that illuminate, make knowledge, and are science. In navigating a disciplinary academy, scholars in WGSS, and feminist science studies in particular, are stifled in their imaginative capacities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28840", "words": "9244", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Woelfle-Erskine, Cleo Assan", "title": "The watershed body: Transgressing frontiers in riverine sciences, planning stochastic multispecies worlds", "date": "2017", "keywords": "beavers; body; catalyst; cole; creek; destiny; erskine; erskine catalyst; feminism; human; klamath; people; practices; projects; queer; river; salmon; technoscience; theory; trans; watershed; woelfle", "summary": "Beavers do not recognize Manifest Destiny boundaries of human and natural, and many people who collaborate with them on flow or salmon rehabilitation projects also reject binaries between human and natural landscapes when they encourage beavers to build dams in city parks or reinforce beaver dams with posts to help them withstand high flows. In conversation with Eva Hayward\u2019s writing on transgender embodiment, this paper explores how beaver modify landscapes differently than human engineers, and how human engineering might be transformed through riverine collaborations with beavers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28841", "words": "8967", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Gundermann, Christian", "title": "Reading Blood Work is an Art Form: Toward an Embodied Feminist Practice of Veterinary Science and Care", "date": "2017", "keywords": "body; care; catalyst; ecir; feminism; grief; gundermann; hoof; horses; human; knowledge; lilly; science; technoscience; theory; time; work", "summary": "This essay narrates my experience with my mare Lilly who suffered from a rare auto-immune disease; at the same time, it describes and analyzes the history and strategies of the world's largest internet- based equine patient advocacy network on metabolic illness, a network that supported my journey of knowledge acquisition and contribution, through our case history, to a larger alternative veterinary cause of knowledge production. What processes of violence do I bring to bear on one material-discursive construct (lived reality with Lilly) to transform it, step by step, into another, an academic text?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28842", "words": "8536", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Asher, Kiran", "title": "Thinking Fragments: Adisciplinary reflections on Feminism and Environmental Justice", "date": "2017", "keywords": "asher; catalyst; culture; development; environmental; feminism; forest; gender; india; knowledge; nature; new; politics; research; technoscience; theory; women; world", "summary": "This imperative arose as much from the specificities of economic development and conservation in post- independence India as from the international conservation biology debates of the time (see Note 3 below). My attempts to understand the \u201cbundles of relationships\u201d between the environment (which I understood to be non-human nature) and human development (which I understood to be social and cultural) led me to wander purposefully through various fields of scientific inquiry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28843", "words": "8766", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Forlano, Laura", "title": "Data Rituals in Intimate Infrastructures: Crip Time and the Disabled Cyborg Body as an Epistemic Site of Feminist Science", "date": "2017", "keywords": "body; catalyst; cgm; cyborg; data; feminist; forlano; glucose; human; insulin; pump; rituals; science; technoscience; theory; time", "summary": "This attention to the affective state around data and calculation exemplifies how these mundane, everyday activities can be understood as feminist data practices. Rather than clock time or lived time, the data creates a liminal time that mediates bodies, data, and technologies in the middle of the night.3 With frequent sleep interruptions, I find myself irritable and have difficulty concentrating the following day.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28844", "words": "8361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Bailey, Moya; Peoples, Whitney", "title": "Articulating Black Feminist Health Science Studies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bailey; bfhss; black; body; catalyst; feminist; health; justice; media; new; peoples; science; social; studies; technoscience; theory; women; work", "summary": "We propose BFHSS as an emergent lens and praxis, built on existing and growing research that demands a multi-pronged approach to ameliorating the health disparities of Black women. We draw on the work of Dorothy Roberts, Alondra Nelson, Cathy Cohen, and Evelynn Hammonds, among others, as we grow an interdisciplinary community dedicated to creating better health outcomes for Black women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28845", "words": "8646", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Jamieson, Michelle", "title": "Between the Sciences Psychosomatic Medicine as a Feminist Discipline", "date": "2017", "keywords": "body; catalyst; dunbar; feminism; jamieson; knowledge; medicine; object; organism; psychosomatic; technoscience; theory", "summary": "In Dunbar\u2019s vision, psychosomatic medicine promised to correct this issue by intervening into the very organization of medical knowledge and practice itself. Wilson\u2019s thought serves as a critical resource for recognizing the feminist import of Dunbar\u2019s work, as it clearly articulates the philosophical and empirical complication at the heart of psychosomatic medicine as a field: namely, psyche-soma interrelationality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28846", "words": "8316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Treusch, Pat", "title": "The Art of Failure in Robotics: Queering the (Un)Making of Success and Failure in the Companion Robot Laboratory", "date": "2017", "keywords": "armar; catalyst; failure; feminism; human; machine; robot; robotics; success; technoscience; theory; treusch", "summary": "My argument is that a posthumanist feminist account of the making of robot companionship allows the linking of a queer theory of failure with the aim of creating robot companions in a productive manner for both fields of expertise. Demonstrations: The Laboratory as a Space for Realizing and Querying Robot Companionship: This article discusses the realization of robot companions using one humanoid robot, namely Armar III.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28847", "words": "10304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Brault, Claire", "title": "Feminist Imaginations in a Heated Climate: Parody, Idiocy, and Climatological Possibilities", "date": "2017", "keywords": "brault; capitalist; catalyst; change; climate; climate change; economies; feminism; future; geoengineering; human; ipcc; new; parody; press; scenario; stengers; technologies; technoscience; theory; university", "summary": "Through a parodic rewrite of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate scenarios, I challenge the rise of geoengineering technologies as a mitigation solution for the current ecological crisis. The models imagined and projected to assess climate futures are implicitly capitalocentric, to borrow J.K. Gibson-Graham\u2019s adjective (1996).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28848", "words": "5335", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Myers, Natasha", "title": "Ungrid-able Ecologies: Decolonizing the Ecological Sensorium in a 10,000 year-old NaturalCultural Happening", "date": "2017", "keywords": "catalyst; ecology; feminism; forms; lands; myers; oak; press; technoscience; theory; university", "summary": "In this post-truth world order, where alternative facts threaten to unravel even the most stably constructed scientific claims, it may seem utterly blasphemous to question whether more science or even better science are what we need in order to respond to the dire circumstances unfurling all around us. This is a call for a robust mode of knowing that can break from the very forces that science was designed to serve: those capitalist and colonial desires for knowledge forms that facilitate the management of lands and bodies.4 For too long these forces have shaped what we can and cannot know about 3 Myers Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 3(2) the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28849", "words": "4320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Schrader, Astrid; Johnson, Elizabeth R.; Buller, Henry; Robinson, Deborah; Rundle, Simon; Sagan, Dorion; Schmitt, Susanne; Spicer, John", "title": "Considering Killability: Experiments in Unsettling Life and Death", "date": "2017", "keywords": "animals; catalyst; death; feminism; johnson; killability; killing; life; schrader; theory", "summary": "Not all animals can be killed with the same ease as John Spicer points out; other lives - i.e. that of livestock - are dependent on their very killablity. Susanne Schmitt Ludwig-Maximilians University info@movingnaturalhistorymuseums.com Astrid Schrader University of Exeter a.schrader@exeter.ac.uk John Spicer Plymouth University J.I.Spicer@plymouth.ac.uk In February of 2015 we held a workshop at the University of Exeter with the goal of creating a conversation among marine biologists, social scientist, and artists around the relationship between life and death.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28850", "words": "3983", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Liboiron, Max; Ammendolia, Justine; Winsor, Katharine; Zahara, Alex; Bradshaw, Hillary; Melvin, Jessica; Mather, Charles; Dawe, Natalya; Wells, Emily; Liboiron, France; F\u00fcrst, Bojan; Coyle, Coco; Saturno, Jacquelyn; Novacefski, Melissa; Westscott, Sam; Liboiron, Grandmother", "title": "Equity in Author Order: A Feminist Laboratory\u2019s Approach", "date": "2017", "keywords": "author; clear; feminism; liboiron; memorial; newfoundland; order; research; theory; university", "summary": "Recognizing that the stakes are high for CLEAR members, we have developed an approach to author order that emphasizes process and equity rather than system and equality. Although CLEAR\u2019s approach differs from others\u2019, we take author order seriously as a compromised but dominant structure within science we must contend with.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28851", "words": "2314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Smiley, Sam", "title": "A Knotty Problem: Arts Based Action Research in and out of a Community Garden", "date": "2017", "keywords": "arts; community; feminism; japanese; knotweed; smiley; theory", "summary": "In the spring of 2016, I worked with Americorps volunteers and community garden members to create a sculpture of Japanese knotweed rhizomes and roots on the premises of B-Street Gardens, located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA. Ultimately, I wanted to create an intervention that would spawn complex dialogue about Japanese knotweed and the concept of \u201cinvasiveness\u201d in general.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-28852", "words": "4525", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Wentworth, Kara", "title": "Handholds (and other kill floor mnemonics)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "animal; body; butcher; cut; hide; material; skin", "summary": "These notes refer to a video component titled Handholds and Other Kill Floor Mnemonics available on Catalyst Journal at www.catalystjournal.org Abstract On the kill floor of a small U.S. animal slaughterhouse, butchers use knives to separate pig hides from bodies. How do bodies come to matter and come to be meaningful in the process of killing and taking apart?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29579", "words": "8406", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Gibson, Margaret F.; Douglas, Patty", "title": "Disturbing Behaviours: Ole Ivar Lovaas and the Queer History of Autism Science", "date": "2018", "keywords": "autism; behaviors; catalyst; children; douglas; feminism; gender; gibson; intervention; lovaas; technoscience; theory; treatment; university; work", "summary": "ABA is the most commonly used and funded autism intervention today that seeks to shape normal behaviors in autistic children while extinguishing those behaviors designated as autistic (Williams & Williams, 2011). Autistic children emerged as objects of study and concern in a landscape where \u201cfeeblemindedness\u201d and \u201cmental retardation\u201d were primary eugenic concerns, representing racialized and classed varieties of disabled \u201cunfitness\u201d that many sought to prevent, reduce, or eliminate in both Kanner\u2019s United States and Asperger\u2019s Nazi-controlled Austria (Snyder & Mitchell, 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29581", "words": "9779", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Zyskowski, Kathryn; Milland, Kristy", "title": "A Crowded Future: Working against Abstraction on Turker Nation", "date": "2018", "keywords": "amazon; catalyst; community; feminism; labor; milland; mturk; nation; research; technoscience; theory; time; turker; turker nation; work; workers; working; zyskowski", "summary": "Developed, managed, maintained, and operated by Mechanical Turk workers for mTurk workers\u201d. While artists are being told to \u201cconnect\u201d with audiences over social media, Turkers have built supporting sites (such as Turker Nation) precisely because there was no way to connect with other workers or Requesters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29582", "words": "13015", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kenney, Martha", "title": "Fables of Response-ability: Feminist Science Studies as Didactic Literature", "date": "2019", "keywords": "ability; attention; bodies; catalyst; chemical; chen; didactic; environmental; feminism; hayward; hustak; kenney; life; myers; response; science; stories; studies; technoscience; theory; university", "summary": "They glean suggestive phrases from biological texts and involve them in other stories\u2014stories of affective ecologies, intimate encounters, and articulate orchids. In Fables of Kenney Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5(1) 6 Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments Ethics and Politics, Thomas Keenan highlights the role of this moral address in defining what kinds of stories fables are and how they work on their readers: \u201cWhat is at stake in the fable is, more than anything else, the interpretation and practice of responsibility\u2014our exposure to calls, others, and the names with which we are constituted and which put us into question\u201d (p. 45).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29584", "words": "4391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Helmreich, Stefan", "title": "Ghost Lineages, Ghost Acres, and Darwin\u2019s \u201cDiagram of Divergence of Taxa\u201d in On the Origin of Species", "date": "2018", "keywords": "darwin; diagram; feminism; ghost; helmreich; history; press; species; stefan; subramaniam; theory; university", "summary": "CUL- DAR121.- Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, at Darwin Online, http://darwin- online.org.uk/ Darwin, C. (1842). \u201cGhost Lineages, Ghost Acres, and Darwin\u2019s \u201cDiagram of Divergence of Taxa\u201d in On the Origin of Species: Critical Commentary Inspired by Banu Subramaniam\u2019s Ghost Stories for Darwin.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29586", "words": "10891", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Phan, Thao", "title": "Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness", "date": "2019", "keywords": "alexa; amazon; catalyst; class; customer; echo; feminism; figuration; home; labor; new; phan; race; reviews; servant; service; technoscience; theory; voice; white; women; work", "summary": "Amazon Echo customers implemented equivalent solutions with their own wilful assistants that included \u201cunplugging until the flaw is fixed\u201d or simply discarding the device as \u201cjunk\u201d. Listening, both not enough and far too much, were equal causes of anxiety for domestic employers and Amazon Echo users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29588", "words": "797", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "20", "author": "Chakravartty, Paula; Mills, Mara", "title": "Virtual Roundtable on \u201cDecolonial Computing\u201d", "date": "2018", "keywords": "chakravartty; computing; mills; roundtable", "summary": "Moreover, modern information technologies have long been deployed to rule over and govern colonial subjects through 2 Chakravartty, P. and Mills, M. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4(2) surveillance, military interventions, and counterinsurgencies at \u201chome\u201d and abroad. 2018 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license CRITICAL COMMENTARY Virtual Roundtable on \u201cDecolonial Computing\u201d1 Paula Chakravartty New York University Paula.chakravartty@nyu.edu Mara Mills New York University mmills@nyu.edu Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are inseparable from the emergence and expansion of modern capitalism, colonialism, and racial regimes of militarized power, yet they have remained peripheral to decolonial critique.2 Computer networks, digital media, and automated industrial systems underpin the economic imperialism of the United States.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29592", "words": "3451", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Parvin, Nassim", "title": "Look Up and Smile! Seeing through Alexa\u2019s Algorithmic Gaze", "date": "2019", "keywords": "catalyst; echo; fashion; feminism; look; parvin; technoscience; theory; women", "summary": "It is absolutist in the sense of assuming that a universal set of principles could provide the basis for fashion choices, therefore undermining individual and cultural diversities in fashion expression as well as the deeply social and situated nature of fashion for dominant Western, heteronormative notions of style and beauty. In April 2017, Amazon debuted Echo Look, the latest in their cluster of products that are built on artificial intelligence called Alexa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29593", "words": "1598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Bley, Kallista", "title": "Review of The Economization of Life by Michelle Murphy (Duke University Press, 2017)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "life; murphy; reproduction", "summary": "Even after eugenics was commonly disregarded, Murphy shows how racialized devaluation of life persisted through the quantification of differential life worth, a valuation assessed in relation to economic productivity. The book, described by Murphy as a \u201cprovocation\u201d (p. 7), offers a compelling example of how to assess and analyze the material effects and affects of our capitalist environment (referred to as a \u201csurround\u201d (p. 1)), without precluding agency or the potential for \u201clife otherwise\u201d (p. 81).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29594", "words": "1425", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kafer, Alison", "title": "Review of Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare (Duke University Press, 2017)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "book; clare; cure; imperfection", "summary": "Review of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare (Duke University Press, 2017. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(2), 1-5. http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Alison Kafer, 2018 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license REVIEW Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare (Duke University Press, 2017) Alison Kafer Southwestern University kafera@southwestern.edu", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29595", "words": "1304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Juliano, Linzi", "title": "Review of Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble (NYU Press, 2018)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "information; juliano; noble; search", "summary": "This search launched a more serious inquiry into ranked relevance, commercialized search engines, and how information scholars can contribute to fair, inclusive classification systems. For this reason, she argues, it is imperative to rethink public policy in relation to information, and the ideologically reflexive nature of commercialized search.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29596", "words": "1666", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Carmody, Todd", "title": "Review of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogart (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blackness; carmody; hogarth; physicians; slavery", "summary": "More particularly, the book argues that the medicalization of blackness was fueled by the professionalization of medical practitioners and medical institutions alike. Hogarth makes the case for disaggregating the creation of medical knowledge about blackness from political defenses of slavery with a comparative analysis of medical discourse, practice, and institutional history in slave societies in South Carolina and the West Indies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29607", "words": "10102", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Hamraie, Aimi; Fritsch, Kelly", "title": "Crip Technoscience Manifesto", "date": "2019", "keywords": "access; catalyst; crip; crip technoscience; design; disability; disability technoscience; feminism; fritsch; hamraie; justice; making; non; people; practices; press; technology; technoscience; theory; university; work; world", "summary": "Mainstream disability technoscience presumes disability as an individual experience of impairment rather than a collective political experience of world-building and dismantling. Disability technoscience reinforces the sense that disabled people are not already making, hacking, and tinkering with existing material arrangements.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29612", "words": "9817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Banner, Olivia", "title": "Technopsyence and Afro-Surrealism's Cripistemologies", "date": "2019", "keywords": "banner; black; capitalism; care; catalyst; crip; data; digital; disability; feminism; health; media; mental; new; people; press; psy; research; risk; studies; technoscience; theory; university; white", "summary": "Since the Affordable Care Act mandated equity in both health and mental health care coverage, corporate clients of LexisNexis Risk Solutions will want analyses of mental health risk as well. Abstract This article critiques today\u2019s digital mental health research and treatment paradigms through a crip theoretical approach.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29613", "words": "8898", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Horrocks, Stephen", "title": "Materializing Datafied Body Doubles: Insulin Pumps, Blood Glucose Testing, and the Production of Usable Bodies", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blood; bodies; body; catalyst; devices; diabetes; glucose; insulin; medical; people; t1d; technoscience; theory; users", "summary": "it is through networked insulin pump treatment that Datafied Body Doubles are used to materially alter T1D bodies themselves. These Datafied Body Doubles fundamentally alter the conceptual and material experience of living with T1D in the twenty-first century by, first, providing users a new technological/medical (and therefore expert) point of reference in their methods of reading and interpreting their own bodies; and, second, these Body Doubles are themselves materialized back in/on T1D bodies as people apply them to their ritualized daily Diabetes treatment acts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29615", "words": "11218", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Felt, Lindsey Dolich", "title": "Cyberpunk's Other Hackers: The Girls Who Were Plugged In", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bell; bodies; body; burke; catalyst; crip; delphi; disability; felt; feminism; girls; gtx; information; operators; p. burke; press; switchboard; system; technoscience; telephone; theory; tiptree; women", "summary": "This critique is rendered through the figure of a disabled female protagonist named Philadelphia Burke (P. Burke), who is selected to Felt Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5(1) 4 undergo a radical procedure that enables her to remotely operate a beautiful synthetic body named Delphi. P. Burke agrees to \u201cplug in\u201d to the Global Transmissions Corporation\u2019s (GTX) network under the premise that, as Delphi, she will become an instant media celebrity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29616", "words": "9366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kim, Eunjung", "title": "Continuing Presence of Discarded Bodies: Occupational Harm, Necro-Activism, and Living Justice", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bodies; catalyst; death; disability; feminism; harm; health; justice; kim; kim catalyst; korea; labor; manufacturing; movement; people; samsung; semiconductor; south; technoscience; theory; workers", "summary": "The protests and demands for justice have continued to resurface to stop the exportation of the same toxic machine imported from Japan and the development of the polluted land, as well as to address local residents\u2019 health, the employment of disabled workers, and funds for medical treatments, to name a few issues. The Return after Death Focusing on the cases of Samsung semiconductor workers, The Empire of Kim Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5(1) 14 Shame records Yi Yun-j\u014fng\u2019s progression toward death with brain cancer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29617", "words": "6561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Nelson, Mallory Kay; Shew, Ashley; Stevens, Bethany", "title": "Transmobility: Possibilities in Cyborg (Cripborg) Bodies", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bodies; body; catalyst; disability; feminism; leg; nelson; people; shew; stevens; technoscience; theory", "summary": "By picturing and describing our crip bodies with varieties of technologies that we use, we use these pictures and corresponding narratives about disabled bodies in technology to tell a larger story about the constitution of disability with technologies, as well as the modes of mobility available to disabled bodies. Our visual and narrative elements serve to argue that disabled bodies have a wider array of mobilities and ways of being than are afforded to non-disabled bodies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29618", "words": "10472", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kafer, Alison", "title": "Crip Kin, Manifesting", "date": "2019", "keywords": "body; catalyst; crip; disability; feminism; figure; kafer; kin; making; relations; skin; taylor; technologies; technology; technoscience; theory; work", "summary": "Gradations of debility and capacity: Biocapitalism and the neoliberalization of disability relations. Yet any such reimaginings take place across the backdrop of histories of eugenics and neglect, with refuse signaling the way such bodies have been discarded, segregated, abandoned (Kim, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29619", "words": "10454", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Elliott, Denielle", "title": "Neurological Disturbances and Time Travel", "date": "2019", "keywords": "anomia; brain; catalyst; denielle; ecologies; elliott; feminism; injury; issue; memories; memory; plantarium; press; research; technoscience; theory; time; university; vol", "summary": "As someone who is forgetful with a range of memory disturbances and as a researcher interested in memory, I find it curious how concerned people and popular culture generally are with memory loss or change. Forgetfulness, forgetting, and the forgetful are subjects of the popular imagination as seen in movies such as Memento (Nolan, Todd, & Todd, 2000), the film noir whose main character is unable to form new memories (suffering from anterograde amnesia) and tattoos reminders all over his body as he tries to solve the murder of his wife and the attack that left him with amnesia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29626", "words": "569", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Catalyst, Editorial Board,", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; technoscience", "summary": "We join our colleagues (faculty and administrators) in other fields, and editors of other journals to work to support our authors, feminist technoscience scholars, and the integrity of the publishing process. Feminist journals often under appreciated the role of science, and STS (technoscience) journals under-appreciated the role of social categories such as gender, race, class, sexuality, nation, and indigeneity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29627", "words": "1531", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Merid, Beza; Kneese, Tamara", "title": "Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; illness; kneese; narratives; publics", "summary": "Taken together and individually, these pieces consider the ways that human-technological assemblages intersect with illness narratives, and how these assemblages help us make sense of such intrusions. Illness narratives are crafted not only by those who are personally ill, but by the experiences of those around them; illness bloggers often write about the ways their friends and family are coping as they detail their own lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29628", "words": "7181", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ostherr, Kirsten", "title": "Privacy, Data Mining, and Digital Profiling in Online Patient Narratives", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; care; catalyst; data; feminism; health; illness; information; medical; medicine; narratives; new; online; ostherr; patient; privacy; stories; technoscience; theory", "summary": "Participants in the Quantified Self and e-patient movements take an active stance toward curating their own stories and health data (Ferguson and the e-Patient Scholars Working Group, 2007), transforming the process of health datafication into a process of health \u201cdata-making\u201d (Nafus & Sherman, 2014; Pybus, Cot\u00e9, & Blanke, 2016) that aims to benefit the people whose bodies generate the data rather than those who manufacture their device or act as data brokers (Van Dijck & Poell, 2016). We could find, really, no good actionable insights [because] it\u2019s very difficult to get good social determinants in health data\u201d (Muoio, 2017: n.p.).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29629", "words": "9257", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Whynacht, Ardath J.", "title": "'Marks on bodies' : agential cuts as felt experience", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; borderline; bpd; care; catalyst; collaborators; experience; felt; feminism; personality; project; technoscience; theory; whynacht", "summary": "This paper is not intended to be a test case 4 Whynacht Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4(1) for theory; it is simply an account of what became possible when we intentionally included felt experience in our attempts to practice agential realism collaboratively. If felt experience is a territory in which agential cuts land, then I remain firmly committed to experimentation with intentional vulnerability as an onto-epistemological practice, to better understand what differential responsiveness to violence might mean in community-based research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29630", "words": "13243", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Klein, Reisa", "title": "Networked Scars: Tattooed Bodies after Breast Cancer", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; areola; bodies; body; breast; breast cancer; cancer; catalyst; discourses; feminism; health; klein; mastectomy; media; new; practices; tattooing; tattoos; technoscience; theory; ways; women", "summary": "Rather women often engage with bodily representations and display through digital media\u2019s multi-modal capacities to make breast cancer bodies more visible as well as create networks of support. Through a lack of representation, women of color are almost entirely occluded from breast cancer discourses, as though their bodies cannot be reshaped into normative codes of femininity and sexuality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29631", "words": "7882", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Jacobson, Susan", "title": "Among the Metavivors: Social Media and Illness Narratives of Stage IV Breast Cancer Patients", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; breast; breast cancer; cancer; catalyst; disease; feminism; illness; jacobson; media; narrative; patients; research; stage; technoscience; theory", "summary": "Social media may provide an outlet for metastatic breast cancer patients to tell their stories, exchange information and, in a meaningful way, circumvent the traditional top-down communication of doctor-to-patient (Dray & Papen, 2004; Klawiter, 200) to potentially enable what Haraway (1998, p. 590) describes as a community of situated knowledges, where \u201cpartiality and not universality is the condition of being heard to make rational knowledge claims.\u201d Kleinman\u2019s approach to the chronically ill may be particularly resonant with metastatic breast cancer patients, who may live with their illness for several years before succumbing to the inevitable.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29632", "words": "11144", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Murray, Stuart J; Steinberg, Deborah Lynn", "title": "To Mourn, To Re-imagine Without Oneself: Death, Dying, and Social Media/tion", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; blog; body; catalyst; death; deborah; feminism; life; mourning; murray; place; steinberg; technoscience; theory; words", "summary": "If life has become the object and objective, the means and the end, of everything from medicine to politics to war, and if life is now our secular sacred something, understood in technological terms, then it saturates our mediatized imaginary, and it fosters a bioethos \u2500 Deborah\u2019s coinage for the widespread cultural character and social comportment organized around the specter of \u201clife itself,\u201d and in which a discourse on death is drowned out by the cult of the cancer warrior, the vitalizing accomplishments of biomedicine and genomics, and their digital avatars, which might well include the veritable industry of cancer blogs and other illness narratives. \u00a9 Stuart J. Murray and Deborah Lynn Steinberg, 2018 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license ARTICLE", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29633", "words": "12114", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Chilianis, Melanie", "title": "Listening to Epilepsy: Reexamining SoundCloud, Sonic Desire, and Affective Labor", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; body; catalyst; chilianis; disability; epilepsy; feminism; listening; media; music; new; press; self; social; soundcloud; subject; subjectivity; technoscience; theory; time; university", "summary": "At different stages of the research, I have aimed to be reflexive by thinking about how my actions, writing and music processes impact the meaning of the framed experience at hand (Hockman, 2010). As a platform, many music and audio creators use SoundCloud to share their audio or in the hope of finding an audience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29634", "words": "3552", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hamilton, Jennifer", "title": "Critical Perspectives on Whiteness and Technoscience: An Introduction", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; feminism; hamilton; labor; papers; race; technoscience; theory; whiteness", "summary": "Technoscientific dimensions of digital labor consolidate older inequalities and manifest new ones. The global dimensions of digital labor become clear in Thakor\u2019s discussion of the \u201cdifficult and disposable work\u201d of computer content mediation (CCM) in anti-trafficking domains and in Keilty\u2019s attention to the politics of digital infrastructure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29635", "words": "3668", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya", "title": "BioRobotics: Surveillance and the automation of biological life", "date": "2018", "keywords": "biology; body; catalyst; human; intelligence; life; nature; schaeffer; theory", "summary": "With the dominance of the natural sciences in definitions of the human from the nineteenth century to today, secular science, mathematics and logic defined and tracked 4 Schaeffer Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4(1) human life in ways that conflated evolutionary notions of racial selection (i.e., white rationality at the apex of the species) and dysselection (i..e., racial primitivity at the bottom) with the invisible hand of the market. As the life sciences meet Artificial Intelligence (AI), intelligent design and consciousness find the body\u2019s behavioral movements as an intelligent pathway to coordinated action (rather than the brain), alienating the active properties of the body-as-matter (biomass) from human intelligence, intention, will, and agency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29636", "words": "2944", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Nguyen, Lilly", "title": "\u201cThis is not who we are\u201d: Freedom as Moral Affect and the Whiteness of Mutuality", "date": "2018", "keywords": "affect; fod; freedom; mai; mutuality; phuong; vietnam", "summary": "Through an ethnographic account of a design workshop in Vietnam, this paper reveals how freedom as moral affect serves as a cultural fault line that organizes conflicting desires for social relations. For Mai- Phuong, this acute search for mutuality and communal belonging contradicted the forms of social hierarchy conferred through freedom as feeling.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29637", "words": "3723", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Atanasoski, Neda; Vora, Kalindi", "title": "The Surrogate Effect: Technoliberalism and Whiteness in a \u201cPost\u201d Labor Era", "date": "2018", "keywords": "atanasoski; catalyst; feminism; jobs; labor; trump; vora; white", "summary": "In response to claims that immigrant others are responsible for the loss of a glorious era of white labor in the United States, tech industry leaders emphasized that in fact it was automation that was the biggest threat to American workers. It then addresses how technoliberal imaginaries that argue that it is robots, not racialized others, who are taking US jobs, pin their anti-racist logics on a post- racial technological future.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29638", "words": "5189", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Irani, Lilly", "title": "\u201cDesign Thinking\u201d: Defending Silicon Valley at the Apex of Global Labor Hierarchies", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; catalyst; design; feminism; ideo; irani; labor; new; pink; technoscience; theory; thinking; work; workers", "summary": "It demonstrates that \u201cdesign thinking\u201d articulates a racialized understanding of labor, judgment, and the subject, emerging as a defense of North American design in the face of global competition from Asia. As design workers in Asia begin competing with North American designers, North American design consultancies articulate and stabilize design thinking, I argue, as a way of defending North American design at the apex of global hierarchies of labor and creativity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29639", "words": "4766", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Thakor, Mitali", "title": "Digital Apprehensions: Policing, Child Pornography, and the Algorithmic Management of Innocence", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; child; detection; digital; feminism; images; pornography; software; thakor; theory; work", "summary": "Abstract This paper examines how racial bias plays out in the algorithmic detection and classification of child pornography images by police and non-police actors, including computer scientists and content moderators at technology companies. These viewers rely on a combination of their tacit knowledge and accumulated expertise as they sift through child abuse image content to identify faces and bodies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29640", "words": "2767", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Keilty, Patrick", "title": "Pornography\u2019s White Infrastructure", "date": "2018", "keywords": "gay; industry; keilty; media; polo; pornography; supremacy; white; world", "summary": "Their twitter page, with hashtags like #bymenformen and #manosphere, features mid-century drawings of white men fixing their ties or smoking a pipe in the style of Mad Men. In the weeks following the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a number of journalists, pundits, and fashion critics commented on the new uniform of white supremacy: a polo shirt and khaki pants.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29641", "words": "9087", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ward, Anna E", "title": "Between the Screens: Brain Imaging, Pornography, and Sex Research", "date": "2018", "keywords": "4(1; arousal; brain; brain imaging; catalyst; feminism; film; imaging; orgasm; research; response; sex; technoscience; theory; ward; women", "summary": "Rapid developments in brain imaging technologies since the 1980s have provided researchers a new means to pursue sexual response research, as well as tap into a larger fixation on the brain as the newest frontier of scientific research. Sexual response research on men is typically quite vague regarding the content of the visual stimuli used, perpetuating the notion that men will respond to most anything that is sexually explicit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29642", "words": "1349", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Apgar, Amanda", "title": "Review: Des Fitzgerald, Tracing Autism; Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience", "date": "2018", "keywords": "autism; fitzgerald; neuroscience", "summary": "To trace autism by following the genetic to the environmental to the similarities between autisms to brain scans is to insist there is something being traced (pp. 11-12). And this is a point that Des Fitzgerald wants us to understand in Tracing Autism; Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience: not so much that autism remains an enigma \u2500", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29643", "words": "2261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "De Wolff, Kim", "title": "Review: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt and Unreal Objects by Kate O\u2019Riordan", "date": "2018", "keywords": "arts; living; objects; planet; press; university", "summary": "Review of: Review of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt (Minneapolis, MN and London, UK: Minneapolis University Press, 2017) and Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities (Digital Barricades) by Kate O\u2019Riordan (London, UK: Pluto Press, 2017). \u00a9 Kim De Wolff, 2018 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license REVIEW Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt (Minneapolis, MN and London, UK: Minneapolis University Press, 2017) And Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities (Digital Barricades) by Kate O\u2019Riordan (London, UK: Pluto Press, 2017) Kim De Wolff University of North Texas kim.dewolff@unt.edu", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29722", "words": "1460", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Sur, Abha", "title": "Review of Feminists and Sciences: Critiques and Changing Perspectives in India Volume 1 & 2 (Sage Publications, 2015-2017)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "feminists; gender; india; science; women", "summary": "Nonetheless Feminists and Science is an admirable and ambitious project that will go far in establishing the field of feminist science studies in India. Although the twenty-six essays that comprise the two volumes are case studies rooted in specific historical, social, cultural and institutional practices in India, the theoretical and analytical frameworks employed by the authors draw liberally upon international feminist scholarship in science studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29840", "words": "1537", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Alpert-Abrams, Hannah", "title": "Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age", "date": "2018", "keywords": "abrams; alpert; catalyst; colonial; language; theory", "summary": "Colonial digitization projects invite us to think about our relationship with the ways that discourse has been negotiated in the past and in the present. In situating these definitions within a social media context, it is making fun of the presentism of social media even as it joins other (human) #UsaTuVoz tweeters in adding indigenous languages to our daily streams.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29841", "words": "2939", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Irani, Lilly; Philip, Kavita", "title": "Negotiating Engines of Difference", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; difference; feminism; india; irani; philip; technoscience; theory; world", "summary": "The dazzling array of global difference has been good for products and profits. At the same time, anti-colonial nationalist projects shored up cultural difference in the name of national sovereignty (Lu, 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29842", "words": "1235", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Mills, Mara", "title": "The Hard Disciplines", "date": "2018", "keywords": "computing; mills; science; technology; theory", "summary": "Many of the core applications and standards of digital computing, including programming languages, operating systems, and applications, have been developed, documented, and serviced in English\u201d (Park, 2016, p. 40). In 2012, Kavita Philip, Lilly Irani, and Paul Dourish published \u201ca tactical survey\u201d of possibilities for postcolonial computing, noting that \u201cthe \u2018hard\u2019 disciplines\u201d \u2014 the sciences and science studies \u2014 had by and large held themselves apart from the political and theoretical movements common across other academic fields.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29843", "words": "1395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Chakravartty, Paula", "title": "Decolonizing Infrastructures of Empire", "date": "2018", "keywords": "chakravartty; empire; media; press; studies; theory", "summary": "Given the deep imprint of the US as the normative center that shapes the overwhelming majority of social theories of media and technology across the globe, we feel it is an opportune time to foreground the question of the decolonization of the social studies of computing and digital media. Media imperialism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29844", "words": "1989", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Say Chan, Anita", "title": "Decolonial Computing and Networking Beyond Digital Universalism", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; chan; computing; decolonial; knowledge; media; theory", "summary": "Writing as researchers bridging conversations and debates across four continents, but facing the new millennium largely as scholars with roots and ties to Latin America, they renewed critiques of how the colonial underpinnings of global knowledge production continued to reassert Western frames of thought as universal scientific truths. Pressing on \u201cthe importance of thinking within\u201d and alongside the perspective of these movements (Mignolo & Escobar 2010, p. 19), they urged scholars not only to reimagine their roles as academic documentarians of movements (as actors still dedicated to a reproduction of dominant forms of modern epistemologies), but to decenter their own forms of knowledge practice by beginning to \u201cthink with [movements] theoretically and politically.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29907", "words": "9498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kazimierczak, Karolina Agata", "title": "Medical Imaging and the \"Borderline Gaze of Touch and Hearing\": The Politics of Knowledge beyond \"Sense Atomism\"", "date": "2018", "keywords": "apparatuses; breast; cancer; catalyst; feminism; hearing; imaging; kazimierczak; knowledge; practices; technoscience; theory; touch; vision", "summary": "As I read in a medical textbook on breast imaging: The most common sonolucent mass in the breast is the simple cyst. Breast imaging.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29908", "words": "11178", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "van de Wiel, Lucy", "title": "Prenatal Imaging: Egg Freezing, Embryo Selection and the Visual Politics of Reproductive Time", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; egg; egg freezing; embryo; embryo imaging; feminism; fertility; freezing; imaging; ivf; lapse; lapse embryo; life; technoscience; theory; time; van; wiel", "summary": "As these two sets of prenatal images reference dying eggs and non-viable embryos, they demonstrate a necropolitics of reproductive time, in which not only the generativity of new life but also the encounter with the death, finitude and fallibility of reproductive substances drives a widespread and intensified engagement with reproductive technologies. With a close reading of the frozen egg\u2019s photomicrograph, I will analyse how the discursive practices and apparatuses of imaging that frame the frozen eggs reconceptualize and repoliticize reproductive time in cells and bodies alike.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29909", "words": "9730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wesner, Ashton Bree", "title": "Contested Sonic Space: Settler Territoriality and Sonographic Visualization at Celilo Falls", "date": "2018", "keywords": "ace; catalyst; celilo; columbia; columbia river; falls; feminism; land; oregon; place; press; river; settler; sound; state; technoscience; theory; university; water; wesner; woody", "summary": "The state-sanctioned move to uncover and (re)cover Celilo Falls is integrally constituted by imaging processes. I take up feminist materialist analytics developed by Native American and Indigenous Studies scholarship on cartography and refusal, and place them in conversation with the sonic geographies of Columbia River Indigenous writers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29911", "words": "9371", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Fitsch, Hannah; Friedrich, Kathrin", "title": "Digital Matters: Processes of Normalization in Medical Imaging", "date": "2018", "keywords": "body; brain; catalyst; data; digital; feminism; fitsch; fourier; friedrich; human; imaging; intra; new; processes; technologies; technoscience; theory", "summary": "In a theoretical and analytical perspective, we argue that a critical analysis of digital imaging processes calls for scrutiny of the epistemic and operational preconditions that are actualized but concealed in the application of imaging technologies. As we have argued throughout this article, a critical analysis of digital imaging processes calls for scrutiny of the epistemic and operational preconditions actualized but concealed in the application of imaging technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29927", "words": "6586", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Hausken, Liv; Papenburg, Bettina; Schmitz, Sigrid", "title": "Introduction: The Processes of Imaging / The Imaging of Processes", "date": "2018", "keywords": "catalyst; feminist; images; imaging; media; new; papenburg; practices; processes; schmitz; science; studies; technologies; theory; university", "summary": "The case studies presented exemplify the aim of our larger project to attend to the social, cultural and political dimensions of imaging practices through careful analysis of both the ways in which processual phenomena are rendered palpable using imaging technologies and the processes in which scientific images are constructed, circulated and deployed. In line with this project, the articles foreground the political dimension of imaging practices, open up anew the discussion on how imaging technologies perpetuate cultural values and beliefs, and suggest avenues for further research on practices of resistance that occur in conjunction with or in response to imaging practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29935", "words": "1726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Schuller, Kyla", "title": "Review: Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology, by Angela Willey", "date": "2019", "keywords": "human; monogamy; science; willey", "summary": "Schuller Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5(1) 2 Kennedy\u2019s logic, feminist science studies scholar Angela Willey would say, is naturalizing, for it legitimates same-sex marriage by producing marriage itself as simultaneously a biological fact and social ideal. Review of Undoing monogamy: The politics of science and the possibilities of biology, by Angela Willey (Duke University Press, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29949", "words": "7741", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Lingel, Jessa; Crawford, Kate", "title": "Alexa, Tell Me about Your Mother\u201d: The History of the Secretary and the End of Secrecy", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; crawford; feminism; gender; jessa; kate; labor; lingel; new; research; secretaries; secretary; technoscience; theory; women; work", "summary": "With women comprising most of its labor force, secretary work has historically involved harassment, boredom, and objectification, but rather than reimagining a more equitable workplace, AI secretaries foreclose these labor pathways while redirecting that work onto many more (unpaid or underpaid) people to keep themselves organized. The emergence of AI systems to further automate of secretary labor supports the narrative that this profession can and should be automated, and even those who design the personalities of AI secretaries are seen as disposable.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-29950", "words": "1494", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Swanson, Kara W.", "title": "Review: Reinventing Hoodia, by Laura A. Foster", "date": "2019", "keywords": "foster; hoodia; law; san; science", "summary": "These materialities include the text of patents and other legal documents, scientific practices, and Hoodia plants in the veld and under cultivation, as well as on websites and product labels. Review of Reinventing Hoodia: People, plants and patents in South Africa, by Laura A. Foster (University of Washington Press), Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5 (1), 1-5. http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Kara W. Swanson, 2019 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license REVIEW Reinventing Hoodia: People, Plants and Patents in South Africa, by Laura A. Foster (University of Washington Press, 2017)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-30027", "words": "7707", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jacobs, Joela", "title": "Phytopoetics: Upending the Passive Paradigm with Vegetal Violence and Eroticism", "date": "2019", "keywords": "catalyst; feminism; human; issue; jacobs; joela; life; matter; original; plants; research; technoscience; theory; vegetal", "summary": "Panizza\u2019s priest invokes this symbol of violent destruction as a retribution for vegetal transgressions, yet the Biblical Deluge punished human sins while plants survived, and the eradication of plant life that Ewers\u2019s police chief imagines would Special Section | Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies | Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Joela Jacobs, 2019 8 also result in the extinction of humans, thus demonstrating the power of plants. The human entanglement with and dependence on plant life emerges most clearly in the texts when both police chief and priest express their desire to \u201ceradicate all plants on the entire earth, to destroy these lusting, incestuous, perverse creatures root and branch\u201d (Ewers, 1904/1919, p. 123) in a \u201cnew Deluge\u201d (Panizza, 1891/1981, p. 168).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-30420", "words": "1558", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Thompson, Vilissa", "title": "How Technology Is Forcing the Disability Rights Movement into the 21st Century", "date": "2019", "keywords": "movement; technology; thompson", "summary": "Within social work, there was little representation of disabled voices, and I felt that I could fill this important gap with my perspectives. Disabled people of color have always been here and we are fighting for our rights since the beginning of the Disability Rights Movement; the Joyce Jacksons (Thompson, 2017a) and Johnnie Lacys (Thompson, 2017b) of the movement cannot be ignored or be reduced to a footnote in recounting powerful leadership.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-30435", "words": "2788", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Wong, Alice", "title": "The Rise and Fall of the Plastic Straw: Sucking in Crip Defiance", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bans; july; people; plastic; straws; technoscience; theory; wong", "summary": "\u201cThere was a day when plastic straws, plastic bendy straws, straws by the pack and individually wrapped, roamed the earth. The wizened storyteller coughs, continuing her story.] \u201cLike canaries in a cave mine, the Disabled Ones said, \u2018We need plastic straws to drink, for nutrition and hydration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-30459", "words": "3275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Sheppard, Alice", "title": "Staging Bodies, Performing Ramps: Cultural, Aesthetic Disability Technoscience", "date": "2019", "keywords": "catalyst; dance; disability; feminism; movement; ramp; sheppard; technoscience; theory", "summary": "Like so many other wheelchair users, I am frustrated with the access ramp.6 Architectural ramps release such pleasurable movement for me; access ramps are almost uniformly utterly unpleasant. DESCENT ramp animation GIF.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-30477", "words": "1727", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Gotkin, Kevin", "title": "Crip Club Vibes: Technologies for New Nightlife", "date": "2019", "keywords": "club; deaf; disability; new; nightlife; technoscience", "summary": "That\u2019s not because being disabled in nightlife spaces is in itself exhausting. But the DJ must also refuse the audism of nightlife spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-30498", "words": "1628", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Murillo III, John", "title": "Review: Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture, by Britt Rusert", "date": "2019", "keywords": "forms; rusert; science", "summary": "Fugitive science describes a heterogeneous, innovative, resistant, \u201cdynamic and diverse archive of engagements with, critiques of, and responses to\u201d (p. 4) the antiblack racial science that proliferated the antebellum episteme, and it expands the definition of science to include forms of praxis and experimentation typically, and often deliberately, unrecognized as science: conjuring, performance, astrology, mysticism, mesmerism, and imaginative speculation. Review of Fugitive science: Empiricism and freedom in early African American culture, by Britt Rusert (NYU Press, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-30987", "words": "5977", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Taylor-Alexander, Sam; Davies, Sharyn", "title": "Temporal Orders and Y Chromosome Futures: Of Mice, Monkeys, and Men", "date": "2019", "keywords": "chromosome; degeneration; feminism; future; gender; genes; human; men; sex; time", "summary": "And of the Y, Time, Sex and Gender If ARTs have produced new relations between time, sex, and biology, then research exploring the minimum number of Y chromosome genes needed for human reproduction has become a focal point for understanding what our biological and technological present means for sex/gender in the near future. And in exploring this interrelationship, we are, as mentioned above, particularly interested in how and why Y chromosome degeneration and experimental ARTs limiting the number of Y chromosome genes needed for reproduction, are spoken about together.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-31893", "words": "1771", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Rusert, Britt", "title": "Review: The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century, by Kyla Schuller", "date": "2019", "keywords": "biopolitics; century; feminism; schuller; women", "summary": "Her own attention to the eugenical and imperial dimensions of the women\u2019s movement in the postbellum and Progressive Era would at the same time warn us against uncritical embraces of activism today, pointing instead to the emancipatory micro-politics that animate social movements in and against the micro-fascisms they sometimes reproduce.2 While drawing on a broad and interdisciplinary nineteenth-century archive, Schuller boldy draws connections to debates within feminist, queer, and trans studies, suggesting that these fields have inherited and continue to bear the traces (or impressions) of biological models of sex, as well as presumptions about how genital morphology relates to both identity and desire. Review of The biopolitics of feeling: Race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century, by Kyla Schuller (Duke University Press, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-31922", "words": "9063", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lykke, Nina", "title": "Co-Becoming with Diatoms: Between posthuman mourning and wonder in algae research ", "date": "2019", "keywords": "algae; diatoms; ecologies; feminism; human; issue; lykke; nina; research; schrader; technoscience; theory; wonder; | catalyst", "summary": "Co-becoming with diatoms: Between posthuman mourning and wonder in algae research. To contextualize my ensuing reflections and the article\u2019s suggestions for a wonder-based approach to algae research, let me briefly elaborate on these entangled layers of commitment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-31947", "words": "3742", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Chacko, Xan Sarah", "title": "Digging up Colonial Roots: The Less-Known Origins of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bank; gardens; kew; msbp; plants; seed; thompson", "summary": "Having inherited a collection of elm seeds from Kew\u2019s historic collecting projects, Thompson pointed out that since they had been acquired before the spread of the disease, they were likely to be uncontaminated. The choice of where to target seed collection is another example of what Murphy (2017) calls the \u201ceconomization of life,\u201d where plant life is selected for \u201csaving\u201d based on a calculus of endangerment, funding, and future worth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-31955", "words": "1978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Earle, Joshua", "title": "Imagining Otherwise: The Importance of Speculative Fiction to New Social Justice Imaginaries", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bahng; earle; fiction; new; schalk", "summary": "Bahng does, in this scholarly work, to scholarly work what she describes speculative fiction doing to speculative finance, capitalism, and various colonialisms, including neo- and post-. In her 2018 Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times, Aimee Bahng also uses speculative fiction to disrupt expectations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-31961", "words": "1038", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Hamraie, Aimi", "title": "Introduction to Crip Technoscience Roundtable", "date": "2019", "keywords": "crip; disability; n.d; technoscience", "summary": "\u201cCultural-Aesthetic Technoscience\u201d Alice Sheppard\u2019s account of disability technologies and dance performance offers the critical concept of \u201ccultural-aesthetic technoscience,\u201d a term grounded in notions of disability culture as aesthetic possibility. Thompson reflects on her groundbreaking project, Ramp Your Voice!, a platform for \u201cBlack disabled women/femmes,\u201d and her hashtag #DisabilityTooWhite, arguing that the activist use of hashtags has, for disabled activists, highlighted unacknowledged issues (such as racism within disability movements).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-31966", "words": "1207", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Montoya, Sarah Alyssa", "title": "Review of Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country, Marisa Elena Duarte", "date": "2019", "keywords": "colonialism; duarte; internet", "summary": "However, there is little work that explicitly links these technical projects with colonialism and settler colonialism. Dominant representations of \u201cthe internet\u201d as a singular, democratic, disembodied space work towards concealing the logics of colonialism and settler colonialism, specifically those related to the territory and land\u2014what Patrick Wolfe calls the \u201cirreducible element\u201d of settler colonialism (2006, p. 388).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-31998", "words": "2461", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Fritsch, Kelly; Hamraie, Aimi; Mills, Mara; Serlin, David", "title": "Introduction to Special Section on Crip Technoscience", "date": "2019", "keywords": "crip; disability; fritsch; hamraie; mills; serlin; studies; technology; technoscience", "summary": "This special section of Catalyst maps the central nodes of the emerging field of crip technoscience, which we situate at the intersection of feminist technoscience studies and critical disability studies. But in their works, they have often built on two important foundational claims: one, through disability studies, that natural and built environments are constructed rather than given; and two, that science and technology shape the expression, enactment, or elimination of disability, impairment, madness, d/Deafness, neurodiversity, chronic conditions, and illness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32050", "words": "9843", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jabloner, Anna; Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin", "title": "Who is the Right Fit? Doing Diversity in Translational Research", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anna; diversity; feminism; gender; innovation; jabloner; lee; press; program; research; sandra; science; team; tech; technoscience; theory; women", "summary": "Team diversity: An ethnography of institutional values. We journaled fieldnotes that addressed these issues, including questions about how to study gender diversity as an absence that seemed to constantly be present for everyone (M\u2019charek, Schramm, & Skinner, 2014; Smith, 2005), our ambiguities about the \u201ccounting\u201d of bodies entailed in doing diversity (Ahmed, 2012, 17),3 and questions about the impact of our presence at Med-Tech\u2014as ethnographers, ethicists, women, and often as perceived auditors who warrant caution.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32068", "words": "1696", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Molldrem, Stephen", "title": "Review of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, by Alexis Shotwell", "date": "2019", "keywords": "book; chapter; purity; shotwell", "summary": "Similarly, in her work on the politics of care in feminist science studies, Michelle Murphy (2015) calls upon \u201cscience studies scholars to take a more critical stance toward the politics of care in technoscience, by attending to the complexities and complicities in recent histories of care\u201d in such a way that can adequately attend to how the notion of care itself is constitutive of \u201chistories of persistent racisms, class privilege, colonialism, and American imperial ambitions\u201d (p. 719). Review of Against purity: Living ethically in compromised times, by Alexis Shotwell (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32070", "words": "10803", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Glabau, Danya", "title": "Food Allergies and the Hygienic Sublime", "date": "2019", "keywords": "allergies; allergy; family; feminism; food; food allergies; food allergy; glabau; home; human; hygienic; issue; people; purity; research; section |; sublime; technoscience; theory; white; | catalyst; | plantarium", "summary": "Cooking nutritious, pathogen-free, aesthetically pleasing food remains a central pillar of the domestic expectations for the homemakers and caretakers in food allergy families in the United States. Food allergies and the hygienic sublime.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32081", "words": "2989", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Hickman, Louise", "title": "Transcription Work and the Practices of Crip Technoscience", "date": "2019", "keywords": "access; disability; knowledge; practices; studies; technoscience; work; workers", "summary": "The displacement of human workers, along with the increased outsourcing of transcription work to microtasking platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), is premised on the idea that the means of access is a neutral process of Hickman Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5(1) 6 transferring speech and visual data into readable and spoken text, in turn disavowing the centrality of situated and affective labor in the complexity of access work. Knowledge practices informed by a stenographer\u2019s transcription work also draws parallels with care work, repair and maintenance work, and access work that largely occurs through the process of practicing knowledge in situ.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32084", "words": "4803", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Lasker, Grace A; Simcox, Nancy J", "title": "Using Feminist Theory and Social Justice Pedagogy to Educate a New Generation of Precautionary Principle Chemists", "date": "2020", "keywords": "chemistry; education; environmental; health; justice; learning; science; social; students; theory", "summary": "Student empowerment in an environmental science classroom: Toward a framework for social justice science education. Pedagogical foundations for social justice education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32089", "words": "14669", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Shadaan, Reena; Murphy, Michelle", "title": "EDC's as Industrial Chemicals and Settler Colonial Structures: Towards a Decolonial Feminist Approach", "date": "2020", "keywords": "body; canada; catalyst; chemical; colonialism; communities; edcs; endocrine; entanglements; environmental; feminism; health; issue; land; michelle; murphy; pollution; reena; relations; section; settler; shadaan; special; state; technoscience; theory; violence; vol", "summary": "First defined by Carmen and Waghiyi (2012), environmental violence refers to the disproportionate impacts of chemical violence on Indigenous women. That is, they can be traced back through the chain of production to their manufacture and a larger disbursement of environmental violence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32093", "words": "12504", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Fiske, Amelia", "title": "Naked in the Face of Contamination: Thinking Models and Metaphors of Toxicity Together", "date": "2020", "keywords": "amazon; amelia; bodies; catalyst; chemical; contamination; ecuador; effects; entanglements; exposure; feminism; fiske; health; issue; lidia; life; oil; production; section; technoscience; theory; toxicants; toxicity; university; vol; water", "summary": "Amelia Fiske, 2020 2 Amazon come in contact with the toxic substances involved in oil production.1 A trained biologist, he lived in the Amazon in the 1990s and has since worked on environmental issues associated with oil production, including in relation to the Aguinda v. Texaco lawsuit. The failure of discrete mechanisms of chemical pathways to capture the effects of everyday life alongside oil production is seen in Camilo\u2019s contrast between \u201cEPA\u2019s polluted guy\u201d and \u201cEcuador\u2019s polluted Special Section: Chemical Entanglements | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 1)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32105", "words": "4308", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Munson, Peggy ", "title": "Paean to Bicillin L-A \u00ae and the End of Harry Harlow's Rhesus Monkey Experiments", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; ciba; disease; feminism; geigy; issue; lyme; monkey; munson; peggy; perspectives; technoscience; theory; vol", "summary": "Dr. Robert Bransfield has extensively researched and spoken about the links between a small subset of late-stage Lyme patients and violence induced in part by direct brain infection and inflammation (violent or combative behavior can happen in other brain infection as well), including in very rare cases homicidal violence, yet Lyme treatment remains controversial due to the efforts of the Infectious Disease Society of America, which openly debunks the notion of chronic Lyme disease and long-term antibiotic therapies in most cases. At the end of 2008, after an Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) doctor refused my positive blood tests for these infections and denied me intravenous antibiotics, emboldened by the \u201cLyme Wars\u201d and the IDSA\u2019s official stance against the chronicity of Lyme disease, I was abandoned to die in the corner of a bedroom and adjoining bath at my house, largely without care when I could not crawl beyond a few feet and had to live within tiny parameters or a room\u2019s corner and adjoining bathroom\u2014like a Harlow monkey isolation experiment\u2014for over 7 months, immobilized, ultimately dependent on a noninvasive BiPap ventilator to breathe, unable to bathe or speak out loud, mostly without human contact and scarce media for twenty-four hours a day.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32148", "words": "1874", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Brilmyer, Gracen M.", "title": "Review of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability, by Aimi Hamraie", "date": "2019", "keywords": "design; disability; hamraie; history", "summary": "These cuts, alongside Hamraie\u2019s detailed archival research, allow for Building Access to rewrite and expand the history of disability activism, exposing how people with disabilities shape(d) and define(d) different design discourses not only by making disability a legible piece of the design process but also by subverting systems: decentering disability so that accessibility, packaged as \u201cgood design,\u201d could be encompassed within more mainstream design practices. Through this work, they complicate disability history, highlighting \u201cthe friction between liberal demands for compliance, productivity and assimilation and radical anti-assimilationist and crip methods of knowing-making the world", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32253", "words": "11301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "S\u00e1nchez Barba, Mayra G.", "title": "\u2018Keeping Them Down\u2019: Neurotoxic Pesticides, Race, and Disabling Biopolitics", "date": "2020", "keywords": "barba; california; catalyst; chemical; children; chlorpyrifos; disability; entanglements; environmental; exposure; feminism; health; issue; mayra; pesticides; press; section; s\u00e1nchez; technoscience; theory; university; vol", "summary": "Concerned groups underscore that fetuses and young children are most vulnerable to the exposure of this neurotoxicant.3 Building from more complex toxicological models that explain the importance of the timing of the exposure during the life course, rather than \u201cthe dose makes the poison,\u201d anti-chlorpyrifos groups affirm that any amount of chlorpyrifos exposure can be unsafe. This study measured a biomarker of chlorpyrifos exposure during pregnancy among seven hundred African American and Latino mothers in New York City, and followed the children from birth into middle childhood to measure their brain physiology and cognitive functioning Special Section: Chemical Entanglements | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 1)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32309", "words": "1943", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Foster, Laura", "title": "Critical Perspectives on Plants, Race, and Colonialism: An Introduction", "date": "2019", "keywords": "foster; human; peoples; plants; press; university", "summary": "As South African San peoples interrupted forces of patent ownership and their binary logics in powerful and limited ways through benefit sharing, so too did Hoodia plants through their own enactments or doings. Hoodia plants (e.g., chemicals, seeds, metabolites, spatial arrangements) refused, changed, or even aligned with practices of patent law and pharmaceutical science by evolving in patchy spatial distributions, growing too slowly when cultivated, and interacting with the human body in unpredictable ways that interrupted desires to make a Hoodia-based anti-obesity product.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32314", "words": "10071", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ford, Andrea Lilly", "title": "Purity is Not the Point: Chemical Toxicity, Childbearing, and Consumer Politics as Care", "date": "2020", "keywords": "andrea; catalyst; chemical; childbearing; consumer; environmental; feminism; ford; issue; lilly; new; politics; press; relations; section; social; technoscience; theory; toxicity; vol", "summary": "This differential exposure is systemic, and Special Section | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 1) Andrea Lilly Ford, 2020 15 cannot be addressed by individual consumer choice. I call this tension a double bind and suggest that it is mirrored by childbearing, arguing that childbearing offers a particularly compelling site for thinking through the possibilities and limits of consumer politics as a response to chemical toxicity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32326", "words": "1780", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Frost, Samantha", "title": "Review of Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab, by Deboleena Roy", "date": "2019", "keywords": "feminist; roy; scientists", "summary": "Roy\u2019s insistence that feminist scientists pay attention \u201cto matters of scale\u201d (p. 19), her recommendation that they shift between the molecular and the molar, enables feminist scientists to wander paths that bypass the orthodoxies that often organize molar-scale feminist politics and that, more distressingly, undermine feminist scientists\u2019 autonomy and their confidence in the worth of their work. Roy argues that the Deleuzian distinction between the molecular and the molar allows feminist scientists to specify the socio-cultural and political-economic contingency of the concepts that scientists use to represent their research and to pose questions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32339", "words": "14339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Tessaro, Lara", "title": "Potency and Power: Estrogen, Cosmetics, and Labeling in Canadian Regulatory Practices, 1939-1953", "date": "2020", "keywords": "canada; catalyst; chemical; cosmetics; dose; drugs; entanglements; estrogen; feminism; food; health; hormone; issue; lara; national; products; section; sex; technoscience; tessaro; theory; use; vol; women", "summary": "How was this test squared with Pugsley\u2019s claim that National Health had adopted an upper potency limit for estrogenic cosmetics? Neutered by Pugsley\u2019s advice, National Health inspectors predictably took no action.34 National Health\u2019s most protracted investigation of estrogenic cosmetics, pursued from its Vancouver office in 1952, provides a second example of how dose was enacted through labeling practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32350", "words": "10769", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "O'Laughlin, Logan Natalie", "title": "Troubling Figures: Endocrine Disruptors, Intersex Frogs, and the Logics of Environmental Science", "date": "2020", "keywords": "african; catalyst; chemical; chromosomes; entanglements; feminism; figure; frogs; hayes; humans; intersex; issue; logan; male; natalie; o\u2019laughlin; pesticides; section; species; technoscience; theory; university; vol", "summary": "Troubling figures: Endocrine disruptors, intersex frogs, and the logics of environmental science. Hayes\u2019s creative performance style, which incorporates rhyme and comedy, has helped popularize inflammatory language about intersex frogs and make this toxic animal figure all the more compelling.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32370", "words": "1358", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "19", "author": "Cai, Kathryn", "title": "Review of Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body, by Ari Larissa Heinrich", "date": "2019", "keywords": "body; chinese; heinrich", "summary": "Moreover, this methodological choice also enacts the primacy of Chinese histories and forms of production that Heinrich\u2019s study theorizes. Note 1 Eric Hayot\u2019s On Literary Worlds (2012) engages and complicates theories of world literature and Euroamerican histories of genre categories beyond a Chinese context in part through considering Chinese cultural production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32379", "words": "11165", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Vaughn, Rachel", "title": "Compost and Menstrual Blood : Women Wastepickers and the Work of Waste Futurity", "date": "2020", "keywords": "campaign; catalyst; chemical; design; entanglements; feminism; global; health; hygiene; issue; management; pickers; products; rachel; section; swach; technoscience; theory; vaughn; vol; waste; waste management; waste pickers; women; work", "summary": "Menstrual waste products represent some three hundred pounds of garbage per person over the course of a lifetime in the US where these materials are regularly utilized. Indebted to this scholarship, as well as research in waste studies and transnational feminism (such as Max Liboiron, 2013; Liboiron, Tironi, & Calvillo, 2018; Michelle Murphy, 2013, 2017; Murphy et al., 2016), and others centered on waste picker organizing and waste metabolism (Hanson, 2016; Chikarmane, 2016; Harshey & Sharma, 2016; Dias & Ogando, 2015; Buckingham, Reeves, & Batchelor, 2005), I focus on the futurities of menstrual waste, as those futurities involve engaging different senses (sight, smell, touch) in an effort to transform these biological materials, both materially and discursively.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32411", "words": "1048", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Peterson, Kristin", "title": "Review of Edges of Exposures: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal, by No\u00e9mi Tousignant", "date": "2019", "keywords": "capacity; lab", "summary": "Tousignant sketches Senegal\u2019s history of toxicology capacity via French collegial relationships, the productive use of machinery, and the creation of lab buildings and other infrastructures located within the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Universit\u00e9 Cheikh Anta Diop. Faced with declining resources since the implementation of Structural Adjustment Programs (beginning in 1994), toxicologists have had to draw on their professional networks and resources to build up scientific capacity and work toward the creation of a national regulatory environment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32430", "words": "1785", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Vint, Sherryl", "title": "Review of Infrahumanisms: Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood, by Megan H. Glick", "date": "2019", "keywords": "book; glick; human; sherryl", "summary": "Throughout the book, Glick engages with scientific discourses contemporary to the period under examination. The gaps in time between the three periods and the shift among scientific discourses across the sections\u2014primatology in Part I, radiation and exobiology in Part II, AIDS and xenotransplantation in Part III\u2014 makes this work less integrated as a single volume than would be ideal, but the Book Review | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Sherryl Vint, 2019 3 trade-off that comes from a lack of sustained focus on a single period of history or body of scientific knowledge is the fact that Glick demonstrates the pervasive way that the discourse of species enables racial bias to persist in new bodies of knowledge.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32532", "words": "2946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Grandia, Liza", "title": "Carpet Bombings: A Drama of Chemical Injury in Three Acts ", "date": "2020", "keywords": "building; carpet; environmental; grandia; green; liza; new; theory; university; vincent", "summary": "After new carpets sickened a fifth of their workforce, EPA scientists launched their own investigation and found the common denominator was a semi-volatile compound, 4-phenylcyclohexene (4-PC) that is a byproduct of the benzene-derived glues in carpet. Act III, Enough Four years later, my only daughter was sickened by new carpet in the public schools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32801", "words": "1768", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Madenga, Florence", "title": "Review of Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones", "date": "2020", "keywords": "book; internet; jones; media; twitter", "summary": "Looking at Black online communities on social media and how conversations are facilitated between members and with non-members is one avenue through which to pay attention to those discourses. On this Book Review | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 1) Florence Madenga, 2020 2 community within a community, Jones tackles questions around misogyny and racism (including harassment and violence by some, mostly male, members of Black Twitter towards Black feminist activists) and the simultaneous hypervisibility and marginalization of Black feminist voices in spaces on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32805", "words": "9253", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bhatia, Rajani", "title": "Tricky Tools for Feminist Struggle: Sex Ratios as Indicators of the Status of Women and Girls ", "date": "2020", "keywords": "abortion; bhatia; birth; catalyst; feminism; india; issue; population; rajani; ratio; research; selection; sex; sex ratio; sex selection; technoscience; theory; women", "summary": "Today, I would suggest more questioning about what sex ratios are meant to indicate, whether we can assume that an imbalance in sex ratio necessarily signifies that the practice of sex-selective abortion is widespread, and even why only two sexes should be measured in binary relation to one another. I argue that sex ratios, like other numerical abstractions that stand in as representations of empirical reality, are tricky tools for addressing social problems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32808", "words": "10252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Morgan, Alli; Fortun, Kim", "title": "Toxic Soldiers, Flickering Knowledges, and Enlisted Care: Dispossession and Environmental Injustice", "date": "2020", "keywords": "agent; alli; burn; catalyst; chemical; entanglements; exposure; feminism; fortun; issue; kim; military; morgan; orange; pits; soldiers; technoscience; theory; veterans; war", "summary": "Dr. Anthony Szema, one of the few physicians (a pulmonologist) who has publicly advocated for burn pits veterans, Special Section: Chemical Entanglements | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 1) Alli Morgan & Kim Fortun, 2020 16 describes how burn pits first registered as a problem with him when he noticed that his waiting room\u2014once filled with WWII and Vietnam-era veterans\u2014was filled with veterans in their twenties struggling to pass their fitness tests upon returning from deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq. In one line of analysis and discussion, burn pit veterans focus on a multitude of symptoms and conditions in order to convey the magnitude of exposures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32832", "words": "1029", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Doyle, Richard", "title": "Review of Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World, edited by Prudence Gibson and Baylee Brits", "date": "2019", "keywords": "doyle; plant; richard; theory", "summary": "Covert Plants: Vegetal consciousness and agency in an anthropocentric world. Book Review | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Richard Doyle, 2019 2 But, yet more good news: Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World offers a glorious sampler of strains and genres of plentiful plantitude, a seed mix of covert plant action tended and cultivated by Prudence Gibson and Baylee Bries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32833", "words": "1070", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hern\u00e1ndez, Krisha", "title": "Co-Creating Indigenous Futurities with/in Academic Worlds", "date": "2019", "keywords": "beings; futurities; land; work", "summary": "I often think with the work of Kanaka Maoli political scientist Noelani Goodyear-Ka\u2018\u014dpua (2016), who reminds one that Indigenous Peoples forge their relationships with place/land and land-bodied beings, and, therefore, researchers are obligated to such land beings far beyond the scope of a research project. Place/land and all beings tied up with them, despite having much to teach, are Critical Perspectives | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Krisha Hern\u00e1ndez, 2019 2 rarely treated and centered as living beings in academic analysis (Tuck & McKenzie, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32834", "words": "1096", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Gan, Elaine", "title": "Sorting Seeds into Racialized Futures and Pasts", "date": "2019", "keywords": "assemblages; elaine; gan; rice; seeds", "summary": "The multispecies assemblages that go along with Ifugao rice are co-constitutive of and contemporary to the assemblages of moderns like IR8, the first successful IRRI cultivar, cross-bred from Indonesian and Taiwanese varieties and released for field Critical Perspective | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Racial discourse, played out through typecast seeds, scaffolds research at institutes that now produce 75% of rice varieties grown (IRRI, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32835", "words": "1480", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ives, Sarah", "title": "\u201cMore-Than-Human\u201d and \u201cLess-Than-Human\u201d: Race, Botany, and the Challenge of Multispecies Ethnography", "date": "2019", "keywords": "human; ives; nature; race", "summary": "In a planet increasingly affected by human-caused climate change, research that foregrounds the legacies of Indigenous peoples, colonial histories, transformed ecosystems, and multispecies entanglements is more urgent than ever. 2 Violent connections between race and nature have hardly been relegated to Africa, as demonstrated by research connecting plants and eugenics in the United States (Stern, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32836", "words": "1121", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gibson, Diana", "title": "KhoiSan Indigeneity and Entangled Becomings with Kanna, a Teacher Plant", "date": "2019", "keywords": "human; kanna; khoi; plants", "summary": "As assigned members of a botanical plant family named Mesembryanthemaceae and species called Sceletium turtuousum, Kanna succulent plants disconcert our timelines and human foci. For millions of Critical Perspective | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Diana Gibson, 2019 2 years they have shaped lively, biodiverse assemblages in harsh conditions, adopted multiple and various forms, developed photosynthetic and other unique life strategies in and with arid landscapes, intermittent rainfall, poor soil, and high irradiation, and have thrived in life-creating multispecies entanglements with other plants, microbes, insects, reptiles, birds, and micromammals (Ihlenfeldt, 1994).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32837", "words": "1400", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Ellis, William", "title": "A Tree Walks through the Forest: Milkwoods and Other Botanical Witnesses", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cape; ellis; milkwood; tree", "summary": "Colonial settlers prized milkwood trees as a hard wood great for shipbuilding, tool-making, and architectural uses. Trees such as milkwoods became scarce in the early Dutch colony as settlers cleared the land for farming and establishing settlements.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32863", "words": "8197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Cielem\u0119cka, Olga; Szczygielska, Marianna; Sandilands, Catriona", "title": "Thinking the Feminist Vegetal Turn in the Shadow of Douglas-Firs: An Interview with Catriona Sandilands: An Interview with Catriona Sandilands", "date": "2019", "keywords": "catalyst; cielem\u0119cka; ecologies; human; marianna; olga; plant; press; studies; szczygielska; theory; thinking; turn; vegetal", "summary": "Shteir\u2019s Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science (1996) is a rich excavation of British women\u2019s diverse botanical knowledge-practices in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Schiebinger\u2019s Plants and Empire (2007) is a key text for anyone who is interested in the global circulation of plants and plant knowledges. Cate: I think it is important to think about feminist plant studies because the material-biopolitical history of plant knowledges is profoundly gendered.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32875", "words": "4773", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Szczygielska, Marianna; Cielem\u0119cka, Olga", "title": "Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies", "date": "2019", "keywords": "catalyst; cielem\u0119cka; ecologies; human; marianna; olga; plantarium; plants; press; science; section; studies; szczygielska; university", "summary": "Drawing on history of science (Merchant, 1990; Shteir, 1996; Carney, 2001; Schiebinger, 2017), feminist science and technology studies (Hustak & Myers, 2012; Subramaniam, 2014), and plant science (Gagliano, 2018; Simard, 2018), critical theories of plants problematize plant\u2013human relationships in the context of power relations running along the lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and more. From yet Special Section | Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies | Introduction | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Marianna Szczygielska & Olga Cielem\u0119cka, 2019 6 another perspective, contemporary research in plant science that concerns vegetal cognition, sentience, and communication (see, e.g., Mancuso & Viola, 2015; Simard, 2018) invites critical perspectives that challenge the historically inherited Western hierarchy of the human, the animal, and the vegetal life (Marder, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32904", "words": "11643", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Beltr\u00e1n , H\u00e9ctor ", "title": "The First Latina Hackathon : Recoding Infrastructures from M\u00e9xico", "date": "2020", "keywords": "beltr\u00e1n; catalyst; computing; event; feminism; hackathon; home; h\u00e9ctor; issue; latina; mexican; m\u00e9xico; participants; section; software; south; space; technology; technoscience; theory; time; vol; women; work", "summary": "\u201cWork is just for timepass\u201d: Gendered Inversions of productive and non-productive time for women technology workers in Bangalore.\u201d The first day of the event opened with female role models who described software as \u201calgo que te extiende, que te libera\u201d (something that extends you, that liberates you), and attempted to convince young women that coding was far more social than popular imaginaries made it out to be.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32905", "words": "11249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "McElroy, Erin Mariel Brownstein", "title": "Corruption, \u0218mecherie, and Siliconization: Retrospective and Speculative Technoculture in Postsocialist Romania", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; computer; computing; erin; feminism; issue; mcelroy; people; postsocialist; practices; press; queer; repet\u0103; romania; section; siliconization; socialism; south; technoscience; theory; university; valley; vol; western; \u0219mecherie", "summary": "It\u2019s dark\u2014it\u2019s always dark\u2014and Black is trying to escape unnoticed from the repressive regime that is socialist Romania. Technological growth in socialist Romania in part developed due to the country\u2019s maverick status with both the West and the Soviet Union.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32943", "words": "3749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Weinberg, Lindsay", "title": "Feminist Research Ethics and Student Privacy in the Age of AI", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ethics; feminist; lindsay; privacy; recognition; research; students; studies; technology; university; weinberg", "summary": "It argues that feminist STS ethics provides a framework for not only challenging the ways that university research inquiry actively contributes to oppressive power structures, but also for reimagining university research ethics for a greater engagement with questions of justice. The article identifies the limitations of dominant institutional ethics and privacy rights discourses for centering justice considerations, and instead outlines an intersectional feminist approach to university research ethics that reimagines the relationship between research processes, power, and social impacts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-32956", "words": "10860", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Leighton, Mary; Roberts, Elizabeth F", "title": "Trust/distrust in Multi-disciplinary Collaboration: Some Feminist Reflections", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; city; data; element; elizabeth; feminism; health; issue; leighton; mary; mexico; research; researchers; roberts; technoscience; theory; trust; water", "summary": "They needed convincing that Samuel\u2019s description of the Illuminati was in fact data about water trust that could be analyzed reliably. Somewhat to the frustration of our environmental public health colleagues, we have not developed a questionnaire to measure water trust because we rejected the notion that trust is something that can be captured by a quantifiable form, completed by research subjects, validated against other surveys, and connected to a deliverable intervention as an \u201coutput.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33041", "words": "13060", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Okune, Angela ", "title": "Open Ethnographic Archiving as Feminist, Decolonizing Practice", "date": "2020", "keywords": "angela; angela okune; catalyst; computing; data; development; ethnographic; feminism; issue; kenya; knowledge; nairobi; okune; practices; qualitative; research; research data; sharing; south; technoscience; theory; university; vol; work", "summary": "Over the course of the research, I found research data provided scaffolding upon which I could investigate the politics of knowledge production in Africa at its many scales. Building off of a set of structured analytics specifically looking at data sharing developed by Poirier and Costello-Kuehn (2019), I use these layers to understand research data through multiple frames.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33043", "words": "9109", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "West, Sarah Myers", "title": "Redistribution and Rekognition: A Feminist Critique of Algorithmic Fairness", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; data; discrimination; fairness; feminism; field; intelligence; issue; myers; research; sarah; systems; technoscience; theory; vol; west; women; work", "summary": "But as I dug deeper, reading the work of scholars who had long been critiquing technological discrimination, I recognized how much my understanding of algorithmic oppression was limited by how many systems worked well for me as a white, cisgendered woman based in the United States\u2014and that making AI systems \u201cwork better\u201d wasn\u2019t necessarily the right objective to be seeking at all.1 Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 2) Finally, fairness discourses insufficiently account for the ways that breakdowns in AI systems can be productive.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33065", "words": "6035", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Horn, Claire", "title": "Ectogenesis is for Feminists: Reclaiming Artificial Wombs from Antiabortion Discourse", "date": "2020", "keywords": "abortion; care; ectogenesis; feminist; fetus; horn; reproductive; research; right; technology; theory; womb", "summary": "I argue that authors who make these claims fail to understand why feminists fight for abortion rights, take a narrow approach to reproductive freedom, neglect the social construction of \u201cviability\u201d, and fail to acknowledge the dependency of the fetus on care. Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 1) Claire Horn, 2020 4 Reproductive Freedom Beyond Severance Theory The authors of recent articles that proclaim that artificial wombs foretell the end of abortion rights (including Blackshaw & Rodger, 2019; Mathison & Davis, 2017), like their predecessors (Singer & Wells 2006; Kaczor 2005) return to moral philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson\u2019s 1971 paper, \u201cA Defense of Abortion.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33181", "words": "7821", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Williams, Rua", "title": "Six Ways of Looking at Fractal Mechanics", "date": "2021", "keywords": "access; autism; bodies; community; crip; disability; equity; fractal; inclusion; inclusionism; institution; justice; liberation; mechanics; neoliberalism; oppression; people; relations", "summary": "I introduce fractal mechanics as a method for thinking through how \u201cthe institution,\u201d broadly understood, travels and transmutes from physical structure localized in place to a set of internalized rule sets that bind themselves to transinstitutionalized \u201chost bodies\u201d\u2014a NeoLiberation. I then integrate critiques of liberation within neoliberal frames with crip imaginings of justice-in-relation to explicate how fractal mechanics can be understood not only as a method of oppression but also a method for revolution.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-33191", "words": "9908", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Roussel, Natacha; Stolfi, Ariane", "title": "Taking Back the Future: A Short History of Singular Technologies in Brazil.", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ariane; baob\u00e1xia; catalyst; communities; community; computing; feminism; issue; natacha; networks; organization; projects; roussel; section; software; south; stolfi; technologies; technology; technoscience; theory; vol", "summary": "As the Global Information Society (2018) reports, community networks worldwide are underdocumented. Decentralising culture: The challenge of local content in community networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33197", "words": "1724", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Wei Ling, Tony", "title": "Review of Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices, by Toby Beauchamp (Duke University Press, 2019)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "beauchamp; gender; surveillance; trans", "summary": "But as the Epilogue, \u201cOn Endurance,\u201d concludes, \u201csurveillance practices thrive on the illegibility that they themselves assign to certain populations,\u201d and gender nonconformity alone\u2013\u2013like queerness itself\u2013\u2013can hardly deliver \u201can inherently resistant foil to the workings of surveillance\u201d (p. 140). The continued misapprehension of gender nonconformity as \u201cinherently deceptive,\u201d Beauchamp writes, creates the justification for \u201ccontinued surveillance to locate its truth\u201d (p. 134).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33381", "words": "1836", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Diran, Ingrid", "title": "Review of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America by Greta LaFleur (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).", "date": "2020", "keywords": "history; lafleur; race; sexuality", "summary": "Without romanticizing environmental sexuality, LaFleur concludes by citing its key discursive sites\u2014natural history and population theory\u2014as \u201ctwo vocabularies for cataloging the long-eighteenth-century ways of understanding sex without or at a distance from the subject\u201d (p. 198). Alongside Foucault\u2019s conception of productive disciplinary power, LaFleur situates the history of environmental sexuality, suggesting that \u201cas modern notions of the hermetic, biopoliticized body, fighting off its environment rather than coexisting ecologically with it, rose to dominance, eighteenth-century genealogies of the environmental body became harder to see\u201d (p. 190, my emphasis).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33445", "words": "3501", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Soto, Ana; Brilmyer, Gracen", "title": "On Language, Scientific Metaphor, and Endocrine Disruption: An Interview with Feminist Scientist Ana Soto", "date": "2020", "keywords": "gracen; people; science; theory; way", "summary": "In order for something to be science rather than science fiction or literature, we need to have a theory. And that is the beauty of science, that theories could be proven wrong and dismissed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33523", "words": "10884", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Kaishian, Patricia; Djoulakian, Hasmik", "title": "The Science Underground: Mycology as a Queer Discipline", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; djoulakian; feminism; fungi; hasmik; human; issue; kaishian; knowledge; mushrooms; mycology; nature; patricia; people; queer; research; science; technoscience; theory; vol", "summary": "No one should doubt the importance of these perspectives\u2014after all, many fungi are pathogens, parasites, and disease agents of agriculturally and economically important crops\u2014but the vast majority of fungi are not limited to those roles, if they fill them at all. Our scientific understanding of mushrooms and other fungi has been shaped and indeed impeded by mycophobia, a condition of fear and revulsion that we compare here to queerphobia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33524", "words": "3311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Balayannis, Angeliki; Garnett, Emma", "title": "Chemical Kinship: Interdisciplinary Experiments with Pollution", "date": "2020", "keywords": "air; balayannis; chemicals; data; garnett; kinship; pollution; research", "summary": "The paper has two specific aims: first, to think across different research projects that we have found offer innovative ways of working with chemical relations, and second, to extend conceptualizations of chemical kinship by approaching research and practice as processes of invention (Marres, Guggeinheim, & Wilkie, 2018). There are three key dimensions to good chemical research present in each example that we would like to highlight as we conclude this paper: first, these projects have extended temporal relations of care \u2014a sense of obligation to the material over time, sustained through the involvement of different actors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33525", "words": "1726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Leff, Jack", "title": "Review of What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use by Sara Ahmed", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ahmed; sts; use; uses", "summary": "Like most of Ahmed\u2019s books, the conclusion takes a moment to reflect on how we can resist the ways use forecloses queer horizons and employ queer use to scratch at the walls of hegemony. Book Review | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 1) Jack R Leff, 2020 2 Where the introduction sets up Ahmed\u2019s archive and begins her exploration of the uses of use, Chapter 1 brings us immediately to a discussion of use and technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33761", "words": "1138", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Kim, Kelsey", "title": "Review of A Future History of Water, by Andrea Ballestero (Duke University Press, 2019)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ballestero; future; water", "summary": "Rather than focusing on residents\u2019 experiences with water accessibility, Ballestero makes a conscious effort to show readers the bureaucratic labor of making water accessible. Arguing that water as a public good leads to exploitation, the Libertarian Party has compiled and employed a taxonomy of thirty-one types of water, from rain to laundry water to ice cubes, to question who would own water if it were to become a public good.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33862", "words": "1752", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Charette, Michelle", "title": "Review of Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves, by George Estreich (MIT Press, 2019)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "book; disability; estreich; innovations", "summary": "Estreich\u2019s story is a many-years-in-the-making reflection on how disability narratives and genetic innovations, when coupled, can cause epistemic violence. Genealogically, Estreich argues that eugenics, capitalism, and problematic metaphors about futures and bodies give rise to the notion of genetic innovation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33904", "words": "10383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Lee, Rachel", "title": "A Lattice of Chemicalized Kinship : Toxicant Reckoning in a Depressive-Reparative Mode", "date": "2020", "keywords": "agent; catalyst; chemical; chemical entanglements; endocrine; estrogen; fan; feminism; health; introduction; issue; lee; mother; orange; rachel; rachel lee; section; systems; technoscience; technoscience issue; theory; university; vol; war; way; work", "summary": "Introduction to Special Section: Chemical Entanglements | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Rachel Lee, 2020 6 Figures 1 & 2. That Introduction to Special Section: Chemical Entanglements | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Rachel Lee, 2020 10 American-grown crops would not be available to US consumers or turned into global commodities without the metabolic overdrive of Latinx farmworkers\u2019 kidneys and livers is both a scandal and no longer news (Horton 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-33963", "words": "2517", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "McCann, Carole", "title": "Review of On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women\u2019s Rights in the Era of Climate Change, by Jade S. Sasser (New York University Press, 2018), and Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context, by Rajani Bhatia (University of ", "date": "2020", "keywords": "feminist; population; reproductive; sasser; selection; sex; women", "summary": "Feminist science studies is well equipped to build our understanding of the complex vulnerabilities of feminist reproductive organizations and principles to external forces, and the fault lines of gender, race, and class that have always defined them. At a moment when Planned Parenthood\u2014the largest provider of reproductive health care for low-income and women of color in the US\u2014has lost 40% of its budget, the precarious economic and political position of feminist reproductive health, rights, justice organizations in these neoliberal times is particularly ripe for analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34030", "words": "10035", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Siegel, Derek P.", "title": "Medicalization and Naturalization: Understanding Abortion as a Naturecultural Phenomenon", "date": "2020", "keywords": "abortion; catalyst; derek; example; experience; feminism; issue; participants; people; research; siegel; social; technoscience; theory; vol; women", "summary": "But after a number of these exchanges, I began to consider how little we know about people\u2019s embodied abortion experiences. In its current state, most abortion research is segmented into one of two camps: biomedical research studies the effect of abortion on bodies, and social scientific research focuses on how legal and cultural context shapes abortion experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34034", "words": "1722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Chao, Sophie", "title": "Review of Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds, by Mar\u00eda Puig de la Bellacasa (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bellacasa; care; puig", "summary": "Making time for care time, Puig de la Bellacasa suggests, serves to disrupt the anthropocentric, technoscientific, productionist, and future-driven nature and telos of these temporalities, paving the way for alternative practical, ethical, and affective ecologies of care. Sophia Chao University of Sydney sophie.chao@sydney.edu.au Drawing from over forty years of empirical and theoretical work in science and technology studies (STS), feminist studies, ethical theory, and environmental humanities, Mar\u00eda Puig de la Bellacasa\u2019s Matters of Care offers a speculative exploration of the significance of care for thinking, knowing, and living in more than human worlds (p. 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34037", "words": "7984", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Borenstein, Hannah", "title": "Tracking Work from the Wrist: The Surveillance of Ethiopian Women Athletes for Capital", "date": "2021", "keywords": "athletes; catalyst; devices; feminism; health; new; self; sport; technoscience; theory; time; tracking; training; watch; women; work", "summary": "The circumstances of South African Caster Semenya is case-in-point here, as her gender being publicly called into question portrayed her participation as her gender being publicly called into question portrayed her participation as toxic to sport and gender, and a racial pathology (Bailey 2016; Jordan-Young and Karkazis 2019).2 While Semenya\u2019s circumstances have rightly garnered the attention of those working at the intersections of feminist technoscience and sport, this essay engages the entanglements of bodies, technologies, labor, and global capitalism that Ethiopian women athletes find themselves trafficking in and around. Thus, the experiences of Ethiopian women athletes remain important not only for unveiling the ways in which surveillance, self-monitoring, and value extraction are currently operating; their perspectives are also important because a failure to attend to complicated entanglements can have damaging implications.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34039", "words": "10558", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Weinberg, Lindsay", "title": "Mental Health and the Self-Tracking Student", "date": "2021", "keywords": "app; care; catalyst; college; data; design; differences; education; ethics; feminism; health; lindsay; politics; section; self; students; technology; technoscience; theory; tracking; universities; university; weinberg; wellness; welltrack", "summary": "WellTrack, Structural Racism, and Austerity WellTrack\u2019s emphasis on individual self-care and accountability is just one way in which the app serves to disconnect student mental health from structural factors. For many students of color, the impacts of racism on student mental health discussed above are thus compounded by experiences of financial precarity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34062", "words": "8395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Mularoni, Alessandra", "title": "Feminist Science Interventions in Self-Tracking Technology", "date": "2021", "keywords": "alessandra; bodies; body; catalyst; data; differences; ethics; feminism; health; medical; mularoni; new; people; politics; section; self; technology; technoscience; theory; tracking", "summary": "Ubiquity, in the form of tracking technologies as well as face and speech recognition algorithms, maintains these boundaries of race, class, and ability by allowing biotechnologies to surveil those who have been historically positioned as suspect. As a medical device designed to keep the heart beating, the wireless cloud- connected pacemaker embodies the intersection of digital health products and the digital economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34101", "words": "12083", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Berkhout, Suze; Zaheer, Juveria", "title": "Digital Self-Monitoring, Bodied Realities: Re-Casting App-Based Technologies in First Episode Psychosis", "date": "2021", "keywords": "berkhout; care; catalyst; digital; doi; ema; ethics; experience; feminism; fep; health; juveria; mental; politics; psychosis; self; service; suze; technologies; technoscience; theory; tracking; zaheer", "summary": "We explore the discursive strategies that position first episode psychosis and digital technology as progressive, curative paradigms and utilize our own ethnographic work within the field of first episode psychosis to consider how lived experience is transformed within and through digital technologies. These insights should lead us to ask whether digital health technologies can be other than what Olivia Banner (2019) terms \u201cextractive racial capitalism,\u201d with fantasies of digital futures that reify tropes of white savior technophiles while governing mental disability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34176", "words": "1004", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Okune, Angela ", "title": "Review of Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in and African Research World, by Crystal Biruk (Duke University Press, 2018)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "biruk; data; research", "summary": "\u00a9 Angela Okune, 2020 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Book Review | Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World, by Crystal (Cal) Biruk (Duke University Press, 2018) Angela Okune University of California, Irvine aokune@uci.edu An ethnography of survey research in Malawi, Cooking Data traces the social lives of numbers, demonstrating how the making of quantitative global health data requires a sociotechnical knowledge infrastructure to manage the people, places, and things that characterize the messiness of fieldwork. The book\u2019s middle three chapters in particular foreground the expertise and importance of fieldworkers who are key to ensuring that data collection proceeds smoothly and that produced data is deemed objective, clean, and consumable, as determined by survey research standards.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34282", "words": "8395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Liu, Xin", "title": "Keeping Fit in the Smog: Health, Self-Tracking and Air Pollution in Post-socialist China ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "air; china; example; health; jog; jogging; liu; media; posts; section; self; smog; tracking", "summary": "In line with this theoretical framework, I collect and analyze social media posts that include qualitative data such as non-numerical images and textual descriptions that may not seem immediately relevant to the practices of self- tracking. For example, despite different approaches to digitized health\u2014some put emphasis on the regulatory and mediating force of the abstract and disembodied data (see, for example, Kenner 2015), others underscore the social and affective aspects of health data (see, for example, Maturo and Setiffi 2015)1\u2014the analysis of health is typically grounded in the individual body, which functions as the basic unit of measurement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34339", "words": "10390", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Land, Nicole", "title": "Thinking Post-developmental Pedagogies with Physical Activity Pedagogical Resources\u2014Or, How Might We Entangle Pedagogies and Physiological Knowledges Differently?", "date": "2022", "keywords": "activity; childhood; childhood education; children; education; epoc; euro; exercise; guidelines; health; ketchabaw; knowledges; movement; pacini; pedagogies; pedagogy; physiology; practices; response; science; studies; university; western", "summary": "Keywords Post-developmental pedagogies, physiological knowledges, feminist science studies, physical education \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction This article proposes that post-developmental early childhood education pedagogies can engage with physiological sciences in an effort to unsettle the hegemonic stability of predominant physical activity pedagogies that are underpinned by scientific epistemologies. I organize my argument in two primary movements that echo the intentions of early childhood education post-developmental pedagogies to both trace existing educational trajectories (the beginning section) and orient toward inventing speculative, situated responses to complex worlds (the concluding section) (Nxumalo, Vintimilla, and Nelson 2018; Vintimilla and Pacini-Ketchabaw 2020).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34356", "words": "8818", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Della Bianca, Laetitia", "title": "The Cyclic Self: Menstrual Cycle Tracking as Body Politics", "date": "2021", "keywords": "body; catalyst; data; della; differences; feminism; fertility; health; laetitia; politics; self; technology; technoscience; theory; tracker; tracking; users", "summary": "Building upon Joseph Dumit\u2019s (1998) concept of \u201cobjective self-fashioning,\u201d the \u201ccyclic self\u201d provides a heuristic to investigate the normative biosociotemporality of self-tracking practices that is particularly useful for analyzing the (mis)fits, (non-)alignments, and discrepancies that emerge between normative expectations and the lived realities of menstruating bodies. However, several users became more trusting subjects of the technology after looking for information to make sense of their tracker, body, and/or data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34363", "words": "3902", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Wu, Angela Xiao", "title": "Chinese Computing and Computing China as Global Knowledge Production [Special Section]", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; china; chinese; computing; data; feminism; report; technoscience; theory; womin", "summary": "In addition to social science computing Chinese trace data, it is worth noting that its appropriation of platform-generated trace data begs questions about epistemic assimilation in service of platform power. In her overview about the unprecedented explosion of digital trace data from China, political scientist Daniela Stockmann (2018) hopes that, combining data science with China-specific knowledge, scholarship will \u201cvisualize the complex and dynamic nature of Chinese society and...allow this vision to better travel beyond the China field\u201d (p. 407).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34382", "words": "9821", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Lester, Quinn", "title": "Bio-orientalism and the Yellow Peril of Yellow Life", "date": "2021", "keywords": "american; asian; bio; form; individual; life; london; orientalism; possessive; press; research; theory; threat; university; white; worra; zombie", "summary": "Through an attention to biological depictions of Asian life in Yellow Peril literature, I chart how bio-orientalism imagines Yellow Life as ontologically different from Western life forms and as innately animate through both its macroscopic growth and microscopic threat of contagion. Introduction In a cynical yet intimate travelogue of late nineteenth-century Canton, Rudyard Kipling moves quickly through the main motifs that mark Asian life as a different form of life, as Yellow Life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34456", "words": "3978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gupta, Hemangini", "title": "Postcolonial Assembly Protocols for Unnamed Automation Projects [Special Section]", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bangalore; catalyst; feminism; gupta; hemangini; images; issue; labor; startup; technoscience; theory; vol", "summary": "Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 6(2), 1\u201314. http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Hemangini Gupta, 2020 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Postcolonial Assembly Protocols for Unnamed Automation Projects Hemangini Gupta Middlebury College hgupta@middlebury.edu Bangalore is now imagined as an entrepreneurial ecosystem: a hub for technological innovation with Images and Texts | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 2) Hemangini Gupta, 2020 2 entrepreneurial citizens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34470", "words": "1618", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "R. Murillo, Luis Felipe", "title": "Moral Circuits [Special Section]", "date": "2020", "keywords": "circuits; felipe; luis; murillo", "summary": "Luis Felipe R. Murillo, 2020 positive sociotechnical change depend on our struggles to people hegemonic circuits (Fischer, 2009), then computing in/from the South offers a methodology for the realization of moral circuits. \u00a9 Luis Felipe R. Murillo, 2020 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Moral Circuits Luis Felipe R. Murillo University of Virginia lfr6d@virginia.edu It all starts with a gesture that introduces a difference: parsing an excess of information to procure the basic elements that will integrate the blueprint of a new software / hardware project.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34505", "words": "7015", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Pape, Madeleine; Latham, J.R.; Karkazis, Katrina; Ritz, Stacey", "title": "Resisting and Remaking Sex in the Petri Dish, the Clinic, and on the Track", "date": "2020", "keywords": "catalyst; feminist; gender; issue; lab; pape; people; sex; technoscience; theory; university; work", "summary": "Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 6(2), 1\u201317. http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Madeleine Pape, Katrina Karkazis, J. R. Latham, & Stacey A. Ritz, 2020 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Resisting and Remaking Sex in the Petri Dish, the Clinic, and on the Track Madeleine Pape University of Lausanne madeleine.pape@unil.ch Katrina Karkazis Emory University katrina.karkazis@emory.edu J. R. Latham Deakin University and University of Melbourne textual.gore@gmail.com Stacey A. Ritz McMaster University ritzsa@mcmaster.ca Abstract Assemblages of sex are continuously being enacted by policymakers, scientists, and medical providers across a range of settings, resulting in multiple and often contradictory notions of what \u201csex\u201d is and how it is expressed in the body.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34506", "words": "9319", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Fox, Sarah; Spektor, Franchesca", "title": "Hormonal Advantage: Retracing Exploitative Histories of Workplace Menstrual Tracking", "date": "2021", "keywords": "catalyst; company; data; differences; ethics; feminism; fox; franchesca; health; new; politics; sarah; section; self; spektor; technoscience; theory; tracking; vitti; women; work; workers; workplace", "summary": "In an earlier example, historian Lara Freidenfelds (2009) describes a study launched by an Ohio rubber company to assess whether women office workers Figure 1. Before discussing these examples of workplace menstrual tracking, we first turn to two streams of scholarship that animate our discussion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34563", "words": "7955", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Meldgaard Kj\u00e6r, Katrine; Ojala, Mace; Henriksen, Line", "title": "Absent Data: Engagements with Absence in a Twitter Collection Process ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "absences; absent; collection; data; data collection; derrida; digital; ghosts; hauntology; media; process; research; silences; ways", "summary": "Rather, we argue that by using the lens of hauntology, it becomes possible to explore how these apparent absences are deeply relational and co-constructive, and therefore an inherent part of digital data research. Although the ethics of relying on large companies for social media research data have been discussed (Cooky, Linabary, and Corple 2018), the relative ease of data access has nonetheless made Twitter a popular source for controversy mapping approaches.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34567", "words": "14094", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Rentschler, Carrie; Nothwehr, Benjamin", "title": "Transmitting Insulin: The Design and Look of Insulin Delivery Devices as Technologies of Communication ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "benjamin; carrie; catalyst; design; device; diabetes; diabetics; feminism; insulin; insulin delivery; insulin pump; like; look; medical; nothwehr; pen; pens; pump; rentschler; research; syringe; technologies; technoscience; theory; type; use", "summary": "The sheer cost of insulin pump technologies and their supplies carries clear financial and class implications. Insulin pens and insulin pumps transform the aesthetics of insulin delivery away from the medicalized appearance of syringes toward that of beautiful technological artifacts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34594", "words": "8509", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Amrute, Sareeta; Murillo, Luis Felipe R.", "title": "Introduction: Computing in/from the South", "date": "2020", "keywords": "amrute; catalyst; computing; data; digital; felipe; feminism; issue; luis; murillo; press; sareeta; section; south; technoscience; theory; university; vol", "summary": "Many of these same geographies are also subject to the utopian projects of elite philanthropy even while they may harbor political computing projects that refuse both labor exploitation and prefabricated technologies for (their own) good. In doing so, we tease out computing practices that move between and beyond the poles of techno-deficiency and techno- resistance too often ascribed to the South as a geographic location.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34614", "words": "10179", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Roberts, Celia; Waldby, Catherine", "title": "Incipient Infertility: Tracking Eggs and Ovulation Across the Life Course", "date": "2021", "keywords": "catalyst; catherine; celia; differences; egg; ethics; feminism; fertility; freezing; future; health; ovulation; politics; roberts; section; self; technoscience; theory; time; tracking; waldby; women", "summary": "Two sides of the same reproductive coin\u201d (2018, 56).3 So, while for many women fertility is constituted as a scarce, elusive quality to be carefully fostered and managed in the present if it is to be realized in the future, for others it is deemed all too abundant, a wasteful capacity to be curtailed. \u201cConfusing Fertility Advice Sparking Unnecessary Worry among UK Women.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34622", "words": "2439", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Amrute, Sareeta", "title": "Follow the Money. Follow the Bodies. Follow the Design: An Afterword to Computing in/from the South", "date": "2020", "keywords": "amrute; catalyst; computing; lives; research; sareeta; south", "summary": "Gupta\u2019s approach makes masterful use of mimicry to simultaneously index the global discourse of muscular corporate computing cultures, and gesture toward the ample space within those tropes for play, revivified imagination, and misdirection (Amrute, 2019 & 2020, Boyer 2013, Ferdandez and Huber 2001). These are their orientation points to understanding computing in and from the perspective of the South.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34625", "words": "11648", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Meek, Laura A.", "title": "Shit Voyeurism, Anti-Blackness, and the Spherical: Rendering Antibiotic Use in Africa", "date": "2024", "keywords": "africa; article; black; catalyst; feminism; global; health; kibera; laura; man; meek; new; nyt; press; research; richtel; shit; technoscience; theory; university; world; york", "summary": "Keywords Racism, coloniality, global health, media, antimicrobial resistance, waste, militarized biopolitics, Kenya mailto:laura.meek@ubc.ca Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 10 (2) Laura A. Meek, 2024 2 Introduction Laura A. Meek, 2024 13 work\u201d in global health, demonstrating how it is fundamentally racialized despite never mentioning race explicitly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34640", "words": "13542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Fitsch, Hannah; Jordan-Young, Rebecca; Kaiser Trujillo, Anelis; Kraus, Cynthia; Roy, Deboleena; Schmitz, Sigrid", "title": "Coalition-Making and the Practice of Feminist STS in the time of COVID-19", "date": "2020", "keywords": "brain; catalyst; covid-19; et al; feminist; fitsch; gender; issue; lab; meeting; network; neurogenderings; neuroscience; pandemic; people; race; research; science; sex; sts; studies; surveillance; technoscience; theory; university; vol; women", "summary": "The misuse of critical analyses of feminist science studies is not new; remember, for example, the polemics in the 2000s of the creationists, who took up the critique of gendered ascription in Darwinian theory of evolution for prompting God\u2019s creation of intelligent humans in order to argue that the theory should be excluded from education. However, during these few months, as a critical neurofeminist, I have been trying to see what I can do now\u2014before I rely on my usual instruments to critique or deconstruct science and proceed towards creating productive empirical alternatives through feminist science (Kaiser, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34699", "words": "1854", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Shindle, K.S.", "title": "Book Review | Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment, by Aren Z. Aizura (Duke University Press, 2020) ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aizura; gender; people; reassignment; trans", "summary": "This format works to set the stage for Aizura\u2019s argument in the first half through a more historical context, and then to show how these patterns have continued, strengthening his overall claim that to fit in the neoliberal model of gender transition, trans people must experience their physical transition elsewhere. In the most compelling chapter of the book, \u201cTransnational Entrepreneurialisms,\u201d Aizura describes how trans people from Australia and the US think about and use Thai gender reassignment clinics to show how privilege and transnationalism function in access to care.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34704", "words": "8086", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Rosenfeld, Heather", "title": "Witnessing Pandora: Doing \"Undone Science\" at Chicken Sanctuaries", "date": "2021", "keywords": "animal; care; chickens; health; hens; implants; knowledge; production; queer; sanctuaries; sanctuary; science; use; witnessing; work", "summary": "Keywords activist science, animal sanctuaries, chickens, feminist science, queer ecology, witnessing \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction Pandora is on birth control. And indeed, the mission of many farmed animal sanctuaries includes rescuing and caring for formerly farmed animals\u2014animals bred for food but no longer to be used as such.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34734", "words": "10690", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kraemer, Jordan", "title": "The Gender of the Interface: Coding Masculinity, Crafting Femininity among Berlin\u2019s Creative Class", "date": "2021", "keywords": "berlin; class; design; facebook; feminine; femininity; friend; gender; gendered; knitting; like; masculinity; media; music; nerd; new; people; platforms; practices; press; sites; technology; twitter; university; women", "summary": "Many people in my research viewed social media sites like Twitter and Facebook as neutral platforms for social connection, even as they were coded masculine or feminine by their design features (and by topical focus, such as Pinterest and Etsy). In Cramer\u2019s (2016) analysis, for example, the white backgrounds and minimalist design of social media sites recapitulates the aesthetic of Modernist architecture.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34774", "words": "7378", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Onzik, Kristi; Gagliano, Monica", "title": "Feeling Around for the Apparatus: A Radicley Empirical Plant Science", "date": "2022", "keywords": "apparatus; empirical; feeling; gagliano; knowing; making; maze; new; pea; plant; roots; science; scientist; sense; time", "summary": "The apparatus was to be a more complicated variation of a previous one, in which pea plant roots were asked to make a choice inside of a two-way Y-maze: to either grow towards the sound of water, or away. Water is here understood to be an evolutionarily necessary and thus desirable resource for peas, and sound being one possible modality through which pea plant roots can sense and locate water.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34781", "words": "9590", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Das, Sanghamitra; Das, Samhita", "title": "Intimate Labor at Biomedical Frontlines: Situated Knowledges of Female Community Health Workers in the Management of COVID-19 in India", "date": "2021", "keywords": "asha; asha workers; catalyst; communities; community; das; feminism; health; healthcare; india; knowledge; pandemic; practices; research; samhita; sanghamitra; social; technoscience; theory; workers", "summary": "Recognition, Remuneration, Respect: Understanding the Demands of ASHA Workers Understanding the embodied labor that ASHA workers perform and its contribution to the management of the pandemic in India necessitates paying close attention to the demands of the ASHAs for reforming the conditions of their work. Ranjana Nirula (2015), the convenor and member of the All India Coordination Committee on ASHA Workers, has published an online statement listing the demands of ASHA workers, including becoming \u201cregularized as government health workers\u201d; \u201cpaid (a) minimum wage Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 7 (1)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34839", "words": "11516", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Goetz, Teddy", "title": "Swapping Gender is a Snap(chat): Limitations of (Trans) Gendered Legibility within Binary Digital and Human Filters ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "binary; digital; face; facial; features; feminine; figure; filter; gender; gendered; hair; images; individuals; legibility; makeup; masculine; participants; press; snapchat; trans; transgender; twin; width; year", "summary": "Such a construct depends upon the coder\u2019s life experience and socialization; we can take this literally for digital gender filters. Zooming Out My work with trans participants here offers key insights into external gendered legibility, Western binary hegemonic gendered ideals, and how digital distortion with facial filters may allow exploration of self-recognition (or personal intelligibility).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34903", "words": "9231", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong", "title": "The Space between Us: Network Gaps, Racism, and the Possibilities of Living in/Difference ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "american; asian; camps; columbia; community; friends; hilltown; housing; internment; japanese; lazarsfeld; leighton; merton; networks; new; poston; press; research; residents; social; spaces; university; world", "summary": "Network clustering, central to social media networks and recommendation engines, presumes homophily\u2014that \u201cbirds of a feather flock together.\u201d Lazarsfeld and Merton\u2019s housing study foreshadows the \u201csocial engineering\u201d central to contemporary social networks.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34906", "words": "7435", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Toncic, Jason", "title": "I Dream of Siri: Magic and Female Voice Assistants", "date": "2021", "keywords": "assistants; circle; human; language; magic; new; occult; power; practices; press; siri; society; speakers; spells; technology; use; voice; voice assistants; witch; women; york", "summary": "Perhaps it is how one interacts with smart speaker voice assistants that may explain their social appeal. While this is true from a technical aspect, smart speakers and voice assistants did not develop in isolation from the rest of human society.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34916", "words": "11911", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Radhakrishnan, Radhika", "title": "Experiments with Social Good: Feminist Critiques of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in India", "date": "2021", "keywords": "companies; data; development; diagnosis; feminist; good; healthcare; hospital; india; knowledge; labor; patient; poor; research; sick; social; state; systems; technologies; technology", "summary": "I analyze the layers of expropriation and experimentation that come into play when AI technologies become a method of using diverse bodies and medical records of the sick-poor as data to train proprietary AI algorithms at a low cost in the absence of effective state regulatory mechanisms. It is in this postcolonial context that I attempt to bring fresh perspectives to these seemingly disparate theoretical framings of technology by critically examining the implications of perceiving AI technologies as objective solutions to social and development challenges in healthcare. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34921", "words": "1069", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Pollock, Anne", "title": "Book Review | Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators, by Nelly Oudshoorn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cyborgs; defibrillators; heart", "summary": "For example, in addition to providing a rich account of the experiences of particular Dutch patients and clinics that she has interviewed and observed, Oudshoorn also brings in the voices of wired heart cyborgs from beyond the Netherlands by drawing on comments from web forums that connect interlocutors from varying locales. As cyborgs, wired heart cyborgs have hybrid bodies that are notably susceptible to intertwinement with the electrical world beyond their skin.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-34926", "words": "5518", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Willet, Jennifer", "title": "INCUBATOR Art Lab: Reimagining Biotech Futures through Integrated Laboratory Practices", "date": "2021", "keywords": "activities; art; art lab; bioart; community; incubator; incubator art; lab; laboratory; love; research; science; university; work", "summary": "Working with joy, pleasure, love, fun, and friendship as a research methodology undermines capitalist, patriarchal, colonial models for perpetuating laboratory research practices, postsecondary education, and contemporary art production. We meet as a group once a week to manage ongoing lab research projects, produce art exhibits, facilitate the bioart class, and support each other\u2019s professional, creative, and research goals.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34994", "words": "8148", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ludwig, Ariel", "title": "\ufeff\ufeffFrom Criminal Man to Carceral Body: An Ethnography of Intake in the New York City Jails", "date": "2021", "keywords": "abolitionist; abolitionist sts; body; carceral; crime; criminal; criminology; data; feminist; incarceration; justice; man; mass; multiplicities; new; phenomenology; press; race; sts; university; york", "summary": "Here, abolitionist STS is a response to Ruha Benjamin\u2019s call for \u201cabolitionist consciousness\u201d and \u201cconceptualizing efforts to exercise freedom and agency\u201d (2016, 151) arising from critical race STS. Critical phenomenology, thus, provides abolitionist STS with the tools to disrupt the individualization of carceral subjecthood.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-34995", "words": "13909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Asher, Kiran; Chen, Mel; Khubchandani, Kareem ; Nelson, Eli; Subramaniam, Banu", "title": "Cyborgs Unbound: Feminist STS, Interdisciplinarity, and Graduate Education ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "asher; banu; catalyst; chen; cyborg; eli; eli nelson; feminism; gender; kareem; khubchandani; kiran; kiran asher; lab; meeting; mel; mel y.; nelson; queer; science; settler; studies; subramaniam; technoscience; theory; university; women; work; y. chen", "summary": "From the cartography guiding westward expansion to anthropology\u2019s civilizational hierarchies\u2014from the Indian Health Service\u2019s forced sterilization of Indigenous women to the physics and geology behind American nuclear proliferation\u2014the narratives, spaces, racial ontologies, and temporalities made manifest in the production of US sciences for over two centuries have all served this dual settler imperative of termination and appropriation. Indigenous women and queer and Two-spirit people have been at the forefront of Native science movements for over a century, especially in the fields of medicine and environmental science.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-35066", "words": "7970", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Erdener, Jasmine", "title": "Human/Machine Fusions and the Future of the Cyborg ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bodies; body; cyborg; cyborg foundation; disability; dod; emanuel; foundation; harbisson; human; hybridity; ribas; technologies; technology", "summary": "But the report also seems to acknowledge that cyborg technologies could create new categories of ability and disability, as \u201cenhanced\u201d individuals possess capabilities beyond those of unmodified individuals, and removing (or amputating) cyborg technology could have significant physical, psychological, or social repercussions (Emanuel et al. 2019, 19). \u00a0 The report builds on ableist and transhuman precedents to suggest disabled bodies as the initial site or forefront for cyborg technologies, perhaps eventually eradicating disability entirely; these presumptively curative technologies are the direct justification for pursuing a heavily militarized cyborg.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35069", "words": "2833", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Tikka, Heidi", "title": "The Body, the Threshold, and the Cut: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Measuring in Interactive Media Art", "date": "2021", "keywords": "art; child; installation; measuring; mother; threshold", "summary": "An example of how such a state change would appear to a visitor of the Mother, Child installation is that if the \u201cchild is crying,\u201d the software plays a moving image sequence of a \u201cnursing child\u201d after the visitor has been swaying the projection fabric to \u201ccalm the child.\u201d Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 7 (1): 1\u20137. http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Heidi Tikka, 2021 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non- Commercial No Derivatives license The Body, the Threshold, the Cut: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Measuring in Interactive Media Art Heidi Tikka Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture heidi.tikka@aalto.fi Abstract New media artists working on interactive installations often rely on different monitoring techniques, such as variable sensors in the design and the production of responsive environments and objects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-35071", "words": "7762", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Posocco, Silvia", "title": "Harvesting Life, Mining Death: Adoption, Surrogacy and Forensics across Borders", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adoption; arrangements; children; communities; death; episteme; guatemala; labor; life; medicine; mexico; necropolitics; new; posocco; practices; press; state; substance; surrogacy; university", "summary": "The article charts the simultaneous demise of transnational adoptions in Guatemala and growth in surrogacy arrangements in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, as well as the inception of oocyte harvesting for in vitro fertilization (IVF) in reproductive medicine providers in Guatemala City. Keywords adoption, surrogacy, forensics, borders, biolabor, biopolitics, necropolitics \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction Demographers, anthropologists, and global social policy experts have documented a considerable decline in transnational adoptions globally and the parallel rise of transnational surrogacy arrangements in the latter part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century (Scherman et al. 2016; Selman 2006, 2012).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35072", "words": "8351", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Van Wichelen, Sonja", "title": "Law as Anti-Kinship: The Colonial Present in Global Surrogacy", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adoption; children; convention; hague; human; international; kinship; knowledge; law; press; regulation; rights; states; surrogacy; university", "summary": "Rather than public international law\u2014which deals with laws between nations\u2014private international law is the system called upon in regulating surrogacy because they concern the governance of individuals. In this article I challenge this liberal narrative of regulation by looking at how cross-border surrogacy arrangements are currently debated in private international law.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35126", "words": "1693", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Stevenson, A.E. ", "title": "Book Review | Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (New York University Press, 2020)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "black(ened; blackness; book; human; jackson", "summary": "The alchemical processes that Jackson nurtures in Becoming Human have fundamentally changed the course of my thinking with regards to (post)humanism. Jackson intervenes in these ontological debates stating that the violence of black(ened) humanity comes from its \u201cplasticization\u201d through which \u201c\u2018the animal\u2019 is one but not the only form blackness is thought to encompass\u201d (3).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-35133", "words": "12001", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Chacko, Xan Sarah", "title": "Stringing, Reconnecting, and Breaking the Colonial \u201cDaisy Chain\u201d: From Botanic Garden to Seed Bank", "date": "2022", "keywords": "australia; bank; banking; botanic; brisbane; chains; collections; colonial; fertility; funding; gardens; hill; history; human; jacaranda; kew; new; people; plants; press; queensland; science; seed; settler; university", "summary": "Even as changes in international regulations attempt to create avenues for justice through the distribution of credit and wealth in exchange for access to Indigenous plants, I argue that the replacement of long-term public funding with neoliberal competitive grants reprioritizes the focus of seed banking towards making more new collections instead of caring for the seeds that are already under their purview. Each of the incentives links current practices of seed collection and banking to the forms of patronage and credit offered in the past to sustain the colonial botanic chains (Endersby 2008). \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35188", "words": "11225", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Parry, Bronwyn; Ghoshal, Rakhi", "title": "Reproductive Empires and Perverse Markets: Unpacking the Paradoxical Dynamics of ART Market Expansion in Non-urban India and Beyond", "date": "2022", "keywords": "africa; art; bourn; clinics; dynamics; expansion; fertility; global; hall; india; ivf; market; metropolitan; new; providers; provision; reproduction; research; service; state; women; world", "summary": "It\u2019s very rewarding\u2026a less-input, high-output kind of business (Mohan, industry clinician and IVF clinic owner, London, June 5, 2013). \u00a0 These domestic providers recognized early that ART markets were highly stratified; that it was not just India\u2019s urban elite who sought access to reproductive technologies but also its peri-urban and rural poor.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35192", "words": "1774", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Glowacki, Becca Rose", "title": "Book Review | Data Feminism by Catherine D\u2019Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (MIT Press, 2020)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "authors; book; data; feminism; power", "summary": "The numbers do not speak for themselves, and data feminism strives to communicate inequalities that are represented by data though restoring context. As a whole, Data Feminism provides a methodological guide for developing more socially just Book Review | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 7 (1) Becca Rose G\u0142owacki, 2021 2 data through its critiques of data practices, theoretical discussions, and practical guidelines on ways to implement change.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-35201", "words": "1784", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Durocher, Myriam", "title": "Book Review | Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making, by Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "biocultures; book; life; making", "summary": "The concept of biocultures itself highlights how biomedicine has become central to everyday life, to our relationships with our selves, bodies, and others: \u201cBiocultures are enmeshed with the biomedical pursuit of fostering biological life\u2014understanding, treating, and preventing disease\u2014and, within biocultures, life is increasingly viewed through the lens of biomedical logics, innovations, and possibilities\u201d (1). Every chapter thus questions the deathly conditions and processes produced by life affirmations that operate in relation to a \u201cparticular biomedically framed problem or issue\u201d (7).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-35229", "words": "11634", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gillespie , John", "title": "Anarcha\u2019s Science of the Flesh: Towards an Afropessimist Theory of Science", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anarcha; anti; betsy; black; blackness; body; flesh; gender; human; lucy; new; science; sims; slave; spillers; studies; violence; women; world; wynter", "summary": "It is this very nexus, precisely at the moment where one might rush to identify the irreducibly \u201cwoman\u201d character of a specific form of gendered anti-Black violence or the irreducibly non-gendered character of a specific form of anti-Black violence, that Spillers\u2019s description of the appearance of Black gender as an outcome of \u201ca territory of cultural and political maneuver\u201d becomes a most necessary reminder. In what follows, I read Latour and Woolgar\u2019s contribution to science, technology and society studies in and through the work of Hortense Spillers, Sylvia Wynter, Saidiya Hartman, Frank Wilderson, and Calvin Warren to argue that anti-Black violence is not a peripheral component to the accumulation of gynecological knowledge; rather, it is central to the primitive accreditation of scientific knowledge in general, with gynecological knowledge providing a paradigmatic account to the indispensable fact of anti-Blackness to the conceptual economy of modern science.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35232", "words": "10363", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Weinbaum, Alys Eve", "title": "The Slave Episteme in Biocapitalism", "date": "2022", "keywords": "biocapitalism; black; blackness; dispossession; extraction; history; human; labor; new; press; processes; products; race; re)production; reproduction; slavery; university; women; york", "summary": "By digging into the thorny question of the relationship of the extraction and dispossession of (re)productive labor and products in biocapitalism to the extraction and dispossession of (re)productive labor and products in Atlantic slavery, I seek to contribute to the discussion about the colonial present an understanding of the importance of engaging with the long history of Atlantic slavery. When tracking the slave episteme, it is useful to underscore an instructive if seldom acknowledged fact: There are only two periods in modern world history during which in vivo (re)productive labor and products have been expressly engineered for profit.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35273", "words": "5662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Dolezal, Luna ; Oikkonen, Venla ", "title": "Introduction: Self-Tracking, Embodied Differences, and Intersectionality", "date": "2021", "keywords": "body; catalyst; data; differences; dolezal; feminist; health; politics; section; self; technologies; technoscience; tracking", "summary": "The use of \u201ctracking\u201d in Tikka\u2019s work demonstrates how the data generated from sensor and tracking technologies have complex trajectories and potentials. Such technologies enable continuous monitoring of bodies, activities, and physiological states in the name of health, fitness, and well-being.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-35973", "words": "8799", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Coleman, Beth", "title": "Technology of the Surround", "date": "2021", "keywords": "artificial; data; human; intelligence; learning; logic; machine; object; outside; predictive; press; sense; subject; surround; system; technology; theory; wild", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Special Section: Probing the System: Feminist Complications of Automated Technologies, Flows, and Practices of Everyday Life Technology of the Surround \u00a0 \u00a0 Beth Coleman University of Toronto beth.coleman@utoronto.ca \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract In addressing the issue of harmful bias in AI systems, this paper asks for a consideration of a generatively wild AI that exceeds the framework of predictive machine learning. In particular, I engage three concepts toward the thinking of a liberatory function of AI technology: Stefano Harney and Fred Moten\u2019s (2013) Black Studies figuration of the surround, Luciana Parisi\u2019s (2019) techno-philosophic alien intelligence, and Karen Barad\u2019s (2003) atomic intra-actions.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35975", "words": "3227", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hegde, Radha Sarma", "title": "Pathogens, Precarity, and Digital Politics of Exclusion", "date": "2021", "keywords": "access; digital; media; new; pandemic; precarity; systems; violence; virus", "summary": "The pandemic, among other things, has shown how technologies of connectivity and digital infrastructures, both in their presence and absence, have accommodated, extended, and accelerated social systems of exclusion. The required isolation and social insularity during the pandemic are, in actuality, embedded within hierarchically arranged, interdependent, and intersecting social systems and networks.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-35995", "words": "1539", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "35", "author": "Rauchberg, Jessica Sage", "title": "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, by Andr\u00e9 Brock Jr. (NYU Press, 2020) ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blackness; brock; cybercultures; media; twitter", "summary": "Chapter 1\u2019s literature review situates jouissance as a technology for Black digital data that embodies desire and local Black American cultural practices. Examining the transformative roles of information and computer technologies (ICTs) in developing Black digital rhetorics and culture, Brock pursues an anti-essentialist critical study of the networked relationships across various social media platforms that constitute Black cybercultures. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36103", "words": "1715", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Adams, Olivia", "title": "Pain: A Political History, by Keith Wailoo (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "chapter; disability; fraud; medical; pain; wailoo", "summary": "Furthermore, the largely partisan debates surrounding pain policies gave rise to a number of larger issues; pain became a lightning rod for pointed debates regarding trust, ideal citizenship, and consent. \u00a0 Wailoo makes clear, however, that the basic fear regarding pain fraud and mismanagement of the disability benefits system transcended political parties as reducing fraud was first a goal of Democratic President Jimmy Carter.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36163", "words": "1818", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Edwards-Grossi, \u00c9lodie", "title": "Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, by Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University Press, 2017)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bodies; book; physicians; schiebinger; slaves", "summary": "Colonial physicians carried out experimentations on slave bodies as a way to contain slave riots (117), which shows how medical practices served the colonial order. At the same time, European British and French physicians, informed by debates over skin color and climate, tried to measure whether successful acclimatization of African slaves to tropical territories such as Saint-Domingue or Jamaica could be systematized to further increase labor production (38). \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36172", "words": "9653", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Roy, Deboleena", "title": "Transplacental and Molecular Migrations: Methyl Isocyanate Gas and Reproductive Bioeconomies in Bhopal", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bhopal; bhopal gas; chains; chemical; disaster; effects; fertility; gas; health; india; labor; mic; reproduction; services; studies; surrogacy; surrogate; tragedy; women", "summary": "Independent and non-governmental agencies claim, however, that this number is grossly underestimated and that closer to eight thousand people died during the first week following exposure to MIC gas (International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal 2019a). \u00a0 As we now know, MIC gas took part in a highly exothermic reaction that lasted only a matter of seconds, but to this day, continues to serve as a catalyst for further biological, biochemical, and biopolitical reactions in Bhopal.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36199", "words": "5400", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Smith, Jamie; Willis, Eva", "title": "We Refuse to Cope! The Vitruvian Nurse, the Code of Conduct, and Nurses\u2019 Lived Knowledge", "date": "2022", "keywords": "care; code; metaphor; needs; nurse; nursing; patients; practice; vitruvian; work", "summary": "The Vitruvian Nurse, the Code of Conduct, and Nurses\u2019 Lived Knowledge \u00a0 \u00a0 Jamie B. Smith University of Edinburgh Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin Jamie.smith@charite.de \u00a0 Eva Willis Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin eva-maria.willis@charite.de \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract We, as nurses, refuse to cope. Nurses are not simply put on a pedestal; instead, they chase the ideal that always seems to slip\u2014giving nurses the impression that they are suboptimal, never enough.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36203", "words": "8410", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Henriksen, Line; Wang, Cancan", "title": "Hello, Twitter Bot!: Towards a Bot Ethics of Response and Responsibility", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bot; bot ethics; bots; creators; ethics; hello; hello30762308; hospitality; human; response; responsibility; twitter; twitter bot; use", "summary": "Towards a Bot Ethics of Response and Responsibility \u00a0 \u00a0 Line Henriksen Malm\u00f6 University Line.henriksen@mau.se \u00a0 Cancan Wang IT University of Copenhagen cawa@itu.dk \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract In this paper, we explore the troubles and potentials at stake in the developments and deployments of lively technologies like Twitter bots, and how they challenge traditional ideas of ethical responsibility. In this article, we explore the troubles and potentials at stake in the developments and deployments of lively technologies such as Twitter bots, and how they challenge traditional ideas of ethical responsibility.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36206", "words": "7962", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Jaworski, Sophia", "title": "Chemical Disability and Technoscientific Experimental Subjecthood: Reimagining the Canary in the Coal Mine Metaphor", "date": "2022", "keywords": "animal; bird; canaries; canary; century; chemical; coal; disability; environmental; exposure; human; knowledge; life; metaphor; press; production; sensitivity; technoscience; university; use; work", "summary": "Keywords chemical sensitivities, technocultures, canary knowledges, coal mine metaphor, chemical infrastructures, feminist knowledge production \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction \u00a0 The Sound a Canary Bird makes is so sharp and quavering, that when it screeches and shakes its little Throat and Chaps, whistling with all its force, it even gives an Ecco to the Hall or Parlour where he hangs. While lived experiences of chemical disability demonstrate how canary knowledge can guide toxicological knowledge production, the epistemological and allied work of building canary knowledges is still in the process of learning and growing.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36212", "words": "9624", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Broer, Tineke; Pickersgill, Martyn; Cunningham-Burley, Sarah", "title": "Temporal Imaginaries in Accounts of Parenting Practices: Negotiations of Time, Advice, and Expertise", "date": "2022", "keywords": "advice; analysis; brain; children; family; future; mothers; parenting; parents; past; practices; programs; recommendations; society; sociology", "summary": "Accordingly, we analyze how these temporal imaginaries help to justify accounts of parenting practices. Concepts and findings from the neurosciences have been given particular prominence in policy discourses and interventions upon parenting practices (Lee, Macvarish, and Bristow 2010; Featherstone, Morris, and White 2013; Macvarish, Lee, and Lowe 2014, 2015; Edwards, Gillies, and Horsley 2015; Lowe, Lee, and Macvarish 2015a, 2015b; Broer and Pickersgill 2015).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36220", "words": "1112", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "30", "author": "Deomampo, Daisy", "title": "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism\u2019s Philosophy of History, by Alys Eve Weinbaum (Duke University Press, 2019)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "episteme; slavery; weinbaum", "summary": "Weinbaum conducts what she calls a \u201ccritical speculative engagement\u201d with the afterlife of reproductive slavery in each of these sources, arguing that such an engagement is both \u201cmethodologically useful and politically necessary\u201d (15). As Weinbaum argues, these are the two main periods in modern history during which reproductive labor power has been used for profit, and the slave episteme enables the ongoing gendered and racialized exploitation of human reproductive labor. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36263", "words": "9606", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "McKinney, Cait; Cifor, Marika", "title": "On Digital Models: Responding to Viral Metaphors in Pandemic Times", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aids; alice; bob; contact; covid-19; data; health; hiv; information; media; metaphors; modeling; models; network; new; patient; people; public; queer; science; spread; studies; university; virus", "summary": "We consider a deliberately capacious, heterogenous range of viral network models, drawing out the shared tension between what they promise to lay bare and what they must externalize to accomplish that work. A return to HIV network models of the 1980s helps map the social implications of this latest turn to modeling.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36526", "words": "1554", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Rouse, Rebecca", "title": "Transmissions: Critical Tactics for Making and Communicating Research, edited by Kat Jungnickel (MIT Press, 2020)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "liboiron; making; reader; research; work", "summary": "As a collective, the projects do indeed move beyond materials-as-metaphors in research practice. There is an inherent irony, of course, in a book publication examining modes of research transmission that seek to push beyond the confines of the codex, as these multidimensional research works are pressed into text-and-image form to fit between the pages of the book.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36598", "words": "6782", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica; MacAlpine, Kelly-Ann", "title": "Queer Synthetic Curriculum for the Chthulucene: Common Worlding Waste Pedagogies", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bodies; bottles; center; childhood; children; chthulucene; classroom; curriculum; education; figure; human; materials; pedagogies; plastic; queer; synthetic; waste", "summary": "Their collections The Bargain Hunter and The Bargain Hunted (jayhavens.me/artworks) use plastic bags \u201csourced from retail locations on a number of reservations\u201d (2016, 29) to recreate traditional objects (masks, cornhusk dolls, drum) and animals (buck, heron), and engage with, confound, and complicate contemporary consumerist practices. We moved furniture and took away age-appropriate toys/materials that had been there for at least a decade to make space for plastic bottles and plastic bags that we gathered with the help of children\u2019s families.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36623", "words": "11051", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Underhill, Vivian", "title": "From Kern Island to the Streets of Bakersfield: Logics of Contamination, Embodied Empiricisms, and the Afterlives of Reclamation ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "air; california; chemical; colonial; contamination; environmental; health; history; joaquin; justice; kern; land; new; oil; press; race; river; san; settler; time; tribe; tule; university; valley; water; white; work", "summary": "Today, San Joaquin Valley environmental justice organizers rely on discourses of contamination to articulate the disproportionate chemical exposures of predominantly Latinx residents in fenceline communities such as Arvin. The valences of environmental contamination have shifted, such that whiteness is often positioned as\u2014and produced through\u2014environmental privilege and invulnerability to premature death.10 Today, chemical toxicity in the San Joaquin Valley disproportionately affects low-income Latinx groups, producing clear group-differentiated exposure to premature death through farmworkers\u2019 occupational proximity to pesticides and fertilizers, or residents\u2019 proximity to oil fields or storage tanks.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36687", "words": "5335", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Dortdivanlioglu, Hayri", "title": "Mapping Invisible Surveillance on the North Avenue Smart Corridor, Atlanta ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "avenue; cameras; cctv; city; data; map; mapping; north; north avenue; street; surveillance; technologies; view", "summary": "More specifically, I show that unnoticeable materiality and invisible processes of smart surveillance technologies prevent the public from forming an opinion on their intrusion into daily life. In another recent example, city authorities all over the world have used smart surveillance technologies to monitor and govern people's mobility and interactions to track COVID-19 infections (Smith 2020;", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36728", "words": "9888", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kenney, Martha", "title": "Daphnia and Apollo: An Epigenetic Fable", "date": "2022", "keywords": "apollo; article; bodies; comparison; daphne; daphnia; environmental; epigenetics; feminist; health; humans; life; new; organisms; press; rats; research; science; species; stories; studies; university; water", "summary": "Working within the metaphoric tissue of technoscience, I bring recent research on Daphnia epigenetics together with the story of Daphne and Apollo from Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses in order to activate new possibilities for understanding the relations between humans and animals, organisms and their environments. \u00a0 \u00a0 I bring recent research on Daphnia epigenetics together with the story of Daphne and Apollo from Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses in order to activate new possibilities for understanding the relations between humans and animals, organisms and their environments.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-36952", "words": "1806", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda", "title": "Dear Science and Other Stories, by Katherine McKittrick (Duke University Press, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "book; livingness; mckittrick; science", "summary": "Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 8 (1): 1\u20135. http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, 2022 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Book Review | Dear Science and Other Stories, by Katherine McKittrick (Duke University Press, 2021) Chanda Prescod-Weinstein University of New Hampshire chanda.prescod-weinstein@unh.edu In Dear Science and Other Stories, Katherine McKittrick tells a recursive tale of Black thought, Black life, Black loss, Black triumph, Black brilliance, Black love, and yes, hallelujah, Black science. Black liberation work is disruptive to disciplining, to disciplines.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-36962", "words": "5457", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Gardner, Paula; Kember, Sarah", "title": "Introduction: Probing the System: Feminist Complications of Automated Technologies, Flows, and Practices of Everyday Life", "date": "2021", "keywords": "communication; feminist; gender; hci; health; human; media; new; platforms; practices; research; section; studies; systems; technology; work", "summary": "Lucy Suchman (2007), for example, shows the importance of revealing system logic in order to exploit it in informed, interactive engagement. Drawing on this knowledge, this Special Section focuses on how automation, labeling, and categorization practices make visible the raced, gendered, sexuality, and otherwise biased environments that produce, deploy, and in turn reify system logics.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37003", "words": "9538", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Gondouin, Johanna; Thapar-Bj\u00f6rkert, Suruchi", "title": "Indian \u201cNative Companions\u201d and Korean Camptown Women: Unpacking Coloniality in Transnational Surrogacy and Transnational Adoption", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adoption; american; british; children; colonial; coloniality; imperial; india; kim; korean; labor; mothers; native; press; race; reproductive; south; surrogacy; university; white; women", "summary": "In the early period, it was primarily Christian, white, middle-class families who adopted Korean children. In the 1960s and 1970s, a decline in the number of mixed-race children paralleled with a booming interest in the US to adopt Korean children, lead to practices such as baby hunting and financial renumeration to birth mothers (E. Kim 2010).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37014", "words": "11055", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Holden, Kerry; Harsh, Matthew; Bal, Ravtosh", "title": "Memories and Motherhood in the Rhythms of Ugandan Computing", "date": "2023", "keywords": "africa; computer; computing; data; development; florence; future; global; joy; julianne; life; makerere; museveni; participants; present; press; research; science; technology; time; uganda; university; women; work", "summary": "As a narrative device, Uganda's past is not only used by research participants, donors, and technology companies to promote the developmental promise of computing; the past also serves as a resource for the current authoritarian regime of the National Resistance Movement that has been in power since 1986. Research participants had ties to the local private sector, especially with local telecom providers and nongovernmental agencies such as the UN Global Pulse Lab.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37243", "words": "9997", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Tarjem, Ida", "title": "Feminist Crops: A More-than-Human Concept for Advancing Feminist Crop Breeding for Development", "date": "2022", "keywords": "africa; agriculture; banana; breeding; cassava; crop; crop breeding; development; entanglements; et al; feminist; food; gender; human; journal; knowledge; people; plant; power; press; relations; research; science; social; studies; technology; university; ways; women", "summary": "What may technical advances within molecular crop breeding hold for feminist crops and feminist crop breeding? Applying the feminist crop concept infers not only an appreciation of the constitutive role that nonhumans play in the making of plant breeding knowledge but also acknowledging that, once disseminated, crop plants have agency in shaping human identities, roles, and relations.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37276", "words": "7837", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Llamas-Rodriguez, Juan", "title": "The Tunneling Metaphor in Networked Technologies", "date": "2022", "keywords": "access; border; connectivity; film; internet; media; metaphor; network; new; online; sorting; traffic; tunnel; tunneling; underground; users; vpns; world", "summary": "The use of underground tunnels in the game offers the possibility of movement without surveillance from the authorities. Using a Tor browser to access and navigate the dark web likewise makes more sense as an entry into a \u201cseries of underground tunnels\u201d than as a hub for transporting data from faraway servers through the use of specialized transmission protocols.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37277", "words": "9278", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wu, Hong-An", "title": "Trouble[shooting]caring Technologies in Pedagogical Practice", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; care; education; knowledge; library; metaphor; moments; new; participants; practice; teaching; technologies; technology; time; trouble; troubleshooting; university; work", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Special Section Troubleshootingcaring Technologies in Pedagogical Practice \u00a0 \u00a0 Hong-An Wu University of Texas at Dallas HongAn.Wu@utdallas.edu \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract As digital media making becomes increasingly popularized in classrooms, media and arts educators are faced with not only familiarizing digital technologies for curricular planning but also improvising with these unwieldy objects during pedagogical exchanges. As Anita Say Chan argues, \u201cdigital technologies today have come to be imagined as agents of reform whose impacts readily take effect as much at scales of the global as they at the level of the individual\u201d (2013, 4).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37278", "words": "1761", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Ihar, Zsuzsanna", "title": "What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion, by Eva Haifa Giraud (Duke University Press, 2019)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "book; chapter; exclusion; giraud; review", "summary": "Whilst it is often easy to picture oneself as tangled up in an abundant world of diverse multispecies relations, Giraud's book is ultimately a reminder that the origin of the word tangle derives from tagilen, meaning to involve in a difficult situation.\u201d Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion, by Eva Haifa Giraud (Duke University Press, 2019)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-37283", "words": "5577", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Silver, Jake", "title": "Science\u2019s Stories and Other Possible Grammars", "date": "2022", "keywords": "2020; black; jackson; life; mckittrick; prescod; science; stories; story; weinstein; world", "summary": "Science as a concept and a practice itself circumscribes who can sit at the table to discuss how science happens, what it can mean, what it can do. Scientific stories and breakthroughs, after all, cannot escape the social contexts upon which they stand; they are \u201ca site of\u2014rather than an alternative to\u2014social and political contestation\u201d (Pollock 2012, 2). \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37332", "words": "9865", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "McCartha, Madison", "title": "Notes toward a Virtual Poetics: An Essay on Solaris, Assemblage, and Blackness", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; browne; language; like; media; new; object; ocean; poem; poetics; poetry; power; press; reader; solaris; space; surface; text; ways", "summary": "If the Solarian ocean becomes, like a work of new media art, an interactive surface for its foreign occupants, then this abject interface allows us to imagine the ocean\u2019s refractive activity as one in a series of defensive strategies the surface deploys to protect itself against the logics of the human, and of the gaze; the political-aesthetic stakes of which are made clear by the single racialized simulacra in Lem\u2019s novel\u2014a surrogate surface for the ocean itself. What are the poetics new media technology makes possible, and how does new media\u2019s complicity with processes of racialization both change and charge, for artists and writers, the politics of choosing to work with these technologies? \u00a0 \u25c8 \u00a0 Vision always comes true.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37431", "words": "1766", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Shotwell, Alexis", "title": "The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Bold Type Books, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "book; prescod; science; weinstein", "summary": "Alexis Shotwell, 2022 4 Weinstein shows a critical axiom lock functioning systemically within science, between axioms necessary to accurately perceiving the world and racist axioms. The epistemic salience of this coproduction of whiteness and (non)objectivity, alongside the production of who knows and who can be known rests, as so many things do, on the material conditions that produce racialization, prestige asymmetries in science practice, Book Review | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 8 (1)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-37434", "words": "1790", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rosenberg, Aron", "title": "Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning, by Mizuko Ito, Crystle Martin, Rachel Cody Pfister, Matthew H. Rafalow, Katie Salen, and Amanda Wortman (New York University Press, 2019)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "affinity; learning; networks; online", "summary": "Online affinity networks \u201cprovide opportunities that are self-selected and intentional, and that are also tied to contributions to social communities and authentic recognition in these communities\u201d (17). The cases featured in the book include examples of online affinity networks where users gather digitally to learn about fanfiction, crafting, online gaming, sports, anime, vlogging, and dance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-37572", "words": "1802", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "17", "author": "Kornstein, Harris", "title": "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies, by Cait McKinney (Duke University Press, 2020)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "activism; book; information; lesbian; mckinney", "summary": "One of McKinney\u2019s key contributions in disrupting such invention narratives is to introduce the titular concept of \u201cinformation activism,\u201d a community-based approach to documenting and distributing difficult-to-come-by information via ever-evolving social techniques and technologies. McKinney\u2019s conceptualization of information activism thus incorporates a range of projects and platforms, including community archives, newsletters, hotlines, bibliographic indexes, websites, and social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-37643", "words": "5694", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Morrison, Romi Ron; Britton, Loren", "title": "How Can You Spell Care with Only 1s and 0s?", "date": "2021", "keywords": "book; computation; disability; green; july; people; practices; press; ritual; space; ways; work", "summary": "In this project we have been developing ritual and material based experiments that are inspired by practices of survival in oppressive contexts and take the form of ritual practice. So I think there is a lot here to consider towards Black Computational Thought that invites ritual practice rather than prediction when trying to mitigate risk by making space for it as a relation. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37644", "words": "4978", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Cheang, Shu Lea; Gardner and Stephen Surlin, with Paula", "title": "3x3x6 \u2013 9 Sq.m. and 6 Surveillance Cameras", "date": "2021", "keywords": "3x3x6; casanova; exhibition; figure; gallery; panopticon; prison; recognition; space; surveillance; system", "summary": "Yet I was also quick to realize the current data tracking facial recognition surveillance apparatus has turned the larger society into a digital panopticon without four walls. Hacking digital surveillance technologies and social media, the artist uses the site of the prison to create a real-time dissident interface that the visitor is invited to join.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37645", "words": "830", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Mills, Mara", "title": "Introduction: \u201cCitation Networks as Antidiscriminatory Practice\u201d", "date": "2021", "keywords": "catalyst; citation; feminist; liboiron", "summary": "Quantitative studies of publications, citation rates, and editorial positions in particular fields\u2014like \u201c#CommunicationSoWhite\u201d by Paula Chakravartty, Rachel Kuo, Victoria Grubbs, and Charlton McIlwain\u2014reveal that today, still, \u201cWhite masculinity Even after decades of (too-slow) gains in hiring and publication rates, citation equity requires overt cross-platform campaigns like #CiteBlackWomen, launched in 2017 by anthropologist Christen Smith. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37646", "words": "1315", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Haraway, Donna; Subramaniam, Banu", "title": "Donna Haraway and Banu Subramaniam in Conversation (April 22, 2021\u2014excerpt)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "citation; scholars; work", "summary": "There's another question from Sheiva Rezvani asking, \u201cI would like to hear more elaboration of the rebuilding networks as antidiscriminatory practice specifically within a transdisciplinary, inter-disciplinary world, especially when these newer areas of academia don\u2019t necessarily have an established canon.\u201d \u00a0 DH: Citation practice is something I've been interested in for 50\u2011odd years or more. I think citation apparatuses are also about language.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37648", "words": "2867", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ngata, Tina; Liboiron, Max", "title": "A M\u0101ori Approach to Starting Research from Where You Are", "date": "2021", "keywords": "m\u0101ori; plastic; pollution; research; science; work", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Roundtable A M\u0101ori Approach to Starting Research from Where You Are \u00a0 \u00a0 Tina Ngata https://tinangata.com \u00a0 Max Liboiron Memorial University of Newfoundland mliboiron@mun.ca \u00a0 \u00a0 In the summer of 2020, a plastic pollution advocacy group in Aotearoa (New Zealand) emailed me (Max) to inquire about anticolonial methods for working with plastic pollution. I thought that was odd, since Aotearoa-based researcher Tina Ngata (Ng\u0101ti Porou) was leading investigations and approaches to plastic pollution from an Indigenous, specifically M\u0101ori, perspective.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37654", "words": "6059", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Guti\u00e9rrez Aguilar, Raquel; Shokooh Valle, Firuzeh; Garc\u00eda-Deister, Translated by: Vivette", "title": "Defender la vida: Una entrevista con Raquel Guti\u00e9rrez Aguilar [Defending Life: Interview with Raquel Guti\u00e9rrez Aguilar]", "date": "2021", "keywords": "academia; aguilar; como; con; c\u00f3mo; de la; del; desde; eso; feminist; fsv; guti\u00e9rrez; la vida; las; life; los; muy; m\u00e1s; para; pero; por; que; raquel; rga; una; universidad; vida; women", "summary": "Su pensamiento y su praxis\u2014sobre los bienes comunes, la autonom\u00eda y los movimientos comunitarios, los movimientos ind\u00edgenas, las luchas feministas, la violencia contra las mujeres\u2014se mueven por la siguiente pregunta fundamental: \u201c\u00bfc\u00f3mo se garantizan las condiciones para la sostenibilidad de la vida?\u201d Y ah\u00ed cada vez m\u00e1s surge esta cuesti\u00f3n de la defensa de la vida, la defensa de la vida digna, de la vida generosa.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37655", "words": "1840", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Solomon, Marisa; Wool, Zo\u00eb", "title": "Waste is Not a Metaphor for Racist Dispossession: The Black Feminist Marxism of Marisa Solomon", "date": "2021", "keywords": "material; people; solomon; value; waste", "summary": "The clarity of her thinking is matched by the clarity of the gems she offers us in her writing: If redlining is a socio-material process that distributes risk and reward with durable consequences, gentrification is a process that effaces black material histories by rewriting what matter matters (Solomon 2019); Producing materiality productive for capital requires policing to maintain (#); Racism has to be material for it to be structural (#). Black feminist Marxists also make the argument that the material conditions of racism are not only historical, they create the conditions of possibility for anti-Black futures through constraint, the regulation of labor, gender, sexuality, and most importantly, property. \u00a0 ZW: What forms of scholarly engagement are the most generative and vital to you? /", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37697", "words": "8251", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Paredes, Veronica", "title": "Natural Metaphors for Network Gathering: Technologies of Meeting at the Allied Media Conference", "date": "2022", "keywords": "amc; book; brown; collective; complex; conference; dandelions; detroit; emergent; gathering; media; metaphors; movements; nature; network; organizing; projects; strategy; work", "summary": "The group held annual summer workshops from 2013 to 2015, culminating in a summer workshop funded by Yale University, alongside the International Alliance of Research Universities.7 By this point in the network\u2019s story, next steps were uncertain and though I would be part of a group representing FemTechNet (hereafter FTN) at AMC network gatherings in 2016 and 2017, we were mostly \u201cFemTechNet\u201d in name only. (3) \u00a0 Mycelium: Interconnectedness In her book The Next American Revolution, Detroit organizing legend/ancestor Grace Lee Boggs describes AMC organizers as \u201cembody[ing] the spirit and hope emanating from Detroit", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37709", "words": "10651", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Corron, Amy; Rouse, Rebecca", "title": "Game Over: The Perils of Framing Feminist Game Design Pedagogy as Repair versus Transformation", "date": "2022", "keywords": "affairs; change; development; dialogue; diversity; education; faculty; games; institution; justice; learning; new; pedagogy; personnel; project; rensselaer; social; student; teaching; work", "summary": "Social justice pedagogy aims to assist individuals in developing their own awareness and knowledge to examine issues of justice, and also to connect reflection and analysis to action in order to interrupt and change oppressive patterns and behaviors within themselves and the communities that they are a part of (Adams 2016).25 Additionally, social justice education pedagogy specifically acknowledges the emotional, as well as cognitive, components of learning and encourages participants to reach new levels of self-awareness as they work through more challenging levels of complexity and uncomfortable emotions. Finally, we suggest the need for better integration of student affairs faculty and academic faculty.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37713", "words": "15462", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Parvin, Nassim; Rouse, Rebecca; Alvarez, Diana; Haghani, Sanaz; Clark, Sharon; Gaskins, Nettrice R.; Sullivan, Anne; Mergil, Erin; Pelizari, Jessica; Anupam, Aditya; Casula, Pooja; Gupta, Shubhangi", "title": "Mess and Making Matters in Feminist Teaching", "date": "2022", "keywords": "artists; audience; children; design; digital; experience; feminist; justice; making; materials; media; mess; messiness; montessori; new; paper; performance; practice; process; quilt; scraps; students; technology; theater; time; toy; use; ways; women; work", "summary": "Feminist Philosophical Toys Rebecca Rouse and Nassim Parvin \u00a0 Feminist Philosophical Toys presents a re-imagined set of paper machines as feminist materials for designers and makers, artists and theorists to think with.3 Grounded in an understanding of the rhetorical and educational powers of material engagements,4 this project provides a grounded approach to feminist design and critique through the use of cut-and-fold paper objects. See Drucker (2004) and Fanni, Flodmark, and Kaaman (2020) for extended discussions of this history in feminist artist books, printing, and typography. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37723", "words": "6041", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Britton, Ren Loren; Pritchard, Helen", "title": "For Careful Slugs: Caring for Unknowing in CS (Computer Science) ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "computer; computer science; disability; metaphors; practices; press; pritchard; queer; science; slugs; technoscience; trans*feminist; university; work; world", "summary": "CS Careful Slugs In this paper we pick up CS (Careful Slugs) as one of the CS metaphors, from the \u201cCS Field Manual section \u201coperation for CS practices\u201d (see Figure 1), and develop it as a situated and speculative practice that makes interventions into the \u201chow,\u201d \u201cwhy,\u201d and what \u201cto do\u201d when approaching computational work or working in CS (Computer Science). The work of building, finding, and attending to the possibilities of alternative outcomes comes from focusing on the conditions that set up the not naturalized and not taken for granteds of CS practice. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37828", "words": "9292", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Blacker, Sarah", "title": "Technologies of Quiescence: Measuring Biodiversity, \u201cIntactness,\u201d and Extractive Industry in Canada", "date": "2022", "keywords": "abmi; alberta; bii; biodiversity; canada; colonial; data; extraction; industry; institute; intactness; knowledge; land; metaphor; nullius; quiescence; science; settler; state; terra; use", "summary": "If the metaphor of intactness enables settler colonial environmental science to produce a future for itself, then what might lead to paradigm change? This paper argues that the BII is a concrete mechanism through which terra nullius remains extant in settler colonial environmental science.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37829", "words": "1661", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Subramaniam, Banu", "title": "Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women\u2019s Digital Resistance, by Moya Bailey (NYU Press, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bailey; book; misogynoir; women", "summary": "For example, she describes the emergence of the hashtag #RuinABlackGirlsMonday, which featured posts of images of white women with round butts, ample chests, and long hair, and the suggestion that these images would ruin a Black girl\u2019s day because the white women had features that Black women were assumed to solely possess. In a wonderful moment in the book, and one that should be a mantra for all of us, she begins with a powerful challenge: \u201cI challenge you, dear reader, as you read this text, to think of \u2018Black women\u2019 first when you see the word \u2018woman,\u2019 to think of queer and trans women first when you read the term \u2018Black women\u2019\u201d (20).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37839", "words": "7453", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Gartley, Luke-Elizabeth", "title": "Through the Eyes of the T. rex: Animal Behavior in Dinosaur Fiction ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "animal; bakker; bissette; comics; delgado; dinosaurs; fiction; graphic; male; narrative; nature; new; raptor; red; science; stories; understandings; world", "summary": "Naturalist John Burroughs attributed the popularity of animal stories of the time to the public\u2019s love of both nature and fiction, but harshly criticized Thompson Seton for anthropomorphizing animal protagonists and labeled his work \u201csham natural history\u201d (1903, 298). Nearly a century after the \u201cnature fakers\u201d controversy, a different kind of animal story similarly generated both praise and criticism.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37867", "words": "8308", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Rosner, Daniela", "title": "The Bias Cut: Toward a Technopoetics of Algorithmic Systems", "date": "2022", "keywords": "2020; adeyemi; bias; cambridge; cloth; cut; design; fabric; grain; learning; machine; material; mit; new; press; rosner; systems; technology; textile; university; use; women; work; world; york", "summary": "At a time when the developers of algorithmic systems are exploring concepts of bias like never before, textile bias (or the skew of woven material) offers an alternative view into the scripts of computational engagement. In an unusual autobiographical essay on learning to write, Brodkey uses textile bias to critique a masculinized plug-and-play approach to literacy discourse, exposing its feigned objectivity and strict application of rules.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37872", "words": "1823", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Gonz\u00e1lez Santos, Sandra P", "title": "Gestos textiles: Un acercamiento material a las etnograf\u00edas, los cuerpos y los tiempos, by Tania P\u00e9rez-Bustos (Editorial Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "book; bustos; gestures; p\u00e9rez; textile", "summary": "Textile gestures are situated, embodied, and material doings, they are ways of thinking, ways of enunciating, of communicating, and of being in the world. Textile gestures transform materiality, and by doing so, they transform the lives of those who perform them; they transform their stories, their memories, their views of the future and of themselves. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37920", "words": "6355", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Vertommen, Sigrid; Parry, Bronwyn; Nahman, Michal", "title": "Introduction: Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies", "date": "2022", "keywords": "chains; colonial; colonialism; fertility; global; israel; labor; new; press; reproductive; section; slavery; surrogacy; technologies; university; women; work", "summary": "Engaging with the \u201ccolonial present\u201d of a broad array of reproductive technologies, including surrogacy, adoption, seed saving, \u201cslave breeding,\u201d and in vitro fertilization in different (post)colonial sites of inquiry, including India, Korea, Australia, the United States, and the borderlands between Mexico and Guatemala, the papers in this collection draw on the foundational work of materialist, STS, Black, Indigenous, and decolonial feminists to foreground three main \u201crelational\u201d themes: (1) between past and present colonial materializations and imaginaries of ARTs; (2) between colonialism\u2019s myriad, intraconnected reproductive grammars of slavery, genocide, conservation, exploitation, and extraction; (3) between ART\u2019s life and death functions and their mutually constitutive biopolitical and necropolitical logics. \u00a0 \u00a0 As such, the vignette also evokes some of the key themes and areas of concern that are foregrounded in this Special Section on the colonial lineages of reproductive technologies, practices, and markets, with their highly gendered and racialized regimes of labor, property, and population control, that prove life-generating for some and highly extractive or exploitative for others.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37921", "words": "4476", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Vora, Kalindi", "title": "Intertwined Colonial Pasts and the Present in Global Fertility Chains", "date": "2022", "keywords": "colonial; india; labor; press; race; reproductive; slavery; surrogacy; university; women; work", "summary": "However, as detailed in Life Support, examination of the history of slavery and indenture in India itself and as part of British colonial labor allocation in the colonies adds an additional and important layer for considering the content of labor that is understood to be produced by a free, liberal subject: \u201cAlready in the early stages of the transnational surrogacy market was evidence that the history of slavery and indenture means that any study of reproduction and labor is likely to fail to fully accommodate the incorporation of partial rather than whole subjects, or the maintenance of permanent exclusion not just as surplus labor but as what Hong calls existential surplus (2012): being excluded from full subjecthood to maintain the valorization of protected spheres of life\u201d (Vora 2015a, 142). At the end of the day the threat of class warfare, of class struggle, is just too dangerous to face\u2026.They cannot see the changing face of global labor\u2014the faces of the women and children whom transnational white supremacist capitalist patriarchy exploits at home and abroad to do dirty work for little pay.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-37948", "words": "7633", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Barcelos, Chris", "title": "Fluid-Bonding and Feelings Condoms: Ambivalent Technologies of Queer Safer Sex ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "communities; dams; gloves; health; participants; people; practices; queer; research; risk; sex; technologies; trans; use; women", "summary": "In other words, white queers may have internalized messages of queer sex as risky or deviant, but those internalizations escaped the intersection of racialized queer sexual deviance. \u00a0 Gloves and Dams as Ambivalent Technologies Multiple social worlds of queer safer sex may exist simultaneously, and my analysis here is not meant to suggest a uniform or stable social world. I argue that the social world of queer safer sex is marked by ambivalent technologies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38131", "words": "9987", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Mulvin, Dylan; McKinney, Cait", "title": "The Girl in the Bubble: An Essay on Containment", "date": "2023", "keywords": "accommodation; aids; board; bubble; case; chamber; children; classroom; containment; court; disability; eliana; glass; glass chamber; hiv; mart\u00ednez; puerto; rico; rosa; school; social", "summary": "The chamber was installed to contain Eliana Mart\u00ednez during school hours. Had Eliana Mart\u00ednez ever occupied the chamber, the scene would seem an absurd disjuncture: it is not a reasonable place for children, for learning, or for care.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38144", "words": "8935", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Sivakumar, Akshita", "title": "Data Surrogates as Hosts: Politics of Environmental Governance", "date": "2023", "keywords": "air; community; data; data surrogates; emissions; environmental; feminist; justice; new; portside; power; practices; press; property; regime; relations; reproduction; residents; science; state; surrogates; university; work", "summary": "Technocrats typically use data surrogates to alleviate this pervasive problem. By combining feminist technoscience and critical environmental justice approaches, this article argues that data surrogates are far more than fungible substitutes and rely on more than scientific rationality and transcendent objectivity.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38155", "words": "6088", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Kirk, Gabi", "title": "Wartime\u2019s \u201cUndeniable Linkages\u201d: Feminist Studies of Everyday Militarisms across Time and Space", "date": "2023", "keywords": "baik; chapter; everyday; feminist; history; kaplan; korean; militarisms; military; studies; terry; violence; war", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Review Essay Wartime's Undeniable Linkages: Feminist Studies of Everyday Militarisms across Time and Space \u00a0 Review of Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America by Jennifer Terry (Duke University Press, 2017); Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above by Caren Kaplan (Duke University Press, 2018); and Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory by Crystal Mun-hye Baik (Temple University Press, 2020) \u00a0 \u00a0 Gabi Kirk University of California, Davis gekirk@ucdavis.edu \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract Feminist scholars and social movements have long been important voices against war and empire. Jennifer Terry's Attachments to War seeks to understand how empire manifests in discursive and material projects of care and healing in our present moment to naturalize and depoliticize violence and war (4).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38160", "words": "2415", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Sutton, Barbara", "title": "\u201cLoved by Moms and Law Enforcement Alike\u201d: Militarizing Civilian Bodies Through Bulletproof Fashion", "date": "2023", "keywords": "armor; body; bulletproof; children; fashion; gun; n.d; security", "summary": "Civilian bulletproof fashion reflects the percolation of militarized logics and materials into the domestic realm, blurring private/public divides and adding to a \u201cdomesticity at war\u201d (Colomina 1991-92). Keywords armor, domesticity, gun violence, militarization, security \u00a0 \u00a0 Who knew that \u201cback-to-school\u201d shopping lists would now include bulletproof backpacks for children?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38163", "words": "2435", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Davis, Heather", "title": "Teflon: Slipperiness and the Domestication of Toxicity ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "chemical; dupont; slipperiness; stick; teflon; toxicity", "summary": "In an extensive report on C8 conducted by Sharon Lerner at The Intercept, she describes how chemical harms were known decades before DuPont was forced to stop producing C8. The patterns of this fall on predictable lines, where \u201cchemical harm concentrates in zones of dispossession, that is, zones in which life is rendered not just precarious to chemical effects, but also more disenfranchised and devalued in the larger political economy\u201d (Murphy 2008, 698).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38168", "words": "2882", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Grealy, Liam; Lea, Tess", "title": "Washing and White Goods", "date": "2023", "keywords": "australia; community; figure; grealy; health; housing; lands; liam; machines; washing", "summary": "In the United States, which has its own racialized history of laundering (see Wang 2004; Wooten and Branch 2012), the manufacture of domestic washing machines was disrupted by World War II but expanded dramatically postwar with the Bendix company selling 600,000 units in 1947. \u00a0 \u00a0 Roundtable: Housewife\u2019s Secret Arsenal Washing and White Goods \u00a0 \u00a0 Liam Grealy University of Sydney and Menzies School of Health Research liam.grealy@sydney.edu.au \u00a0 Tess Lea University of British Columbia tess.lea@ubc.ca \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract On the A\u1e49angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, an environmental health worker salvages discarded washing machines to reinstall in remote community homes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38174", "words": "10619", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lynes, Krista", "title": "Pollination and the Horrors of Yield: Scarcity and Survival in the Glasshouse", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agriculture; bee; bees; film; food; glasshouse; greenhouse; human; infrastructures; life; multispecies; plants; politics; pollination; pollinators; queer; relations; south; species; survival; theory; wild; yield", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Original Research Pollination and the Horrors of the Yield: Scarcity and Survival in the Glasshouse \u00a0 \u00a0 Krista Lynes Concordia University krista.lynes@concordia.ca \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract Pollination is a lynchpin anchoring multispecies survival, but in the racial capitalist configurations of condensed environment agriculture, pollination politics are informed by life-depleting and carceral logics, as well as imaginaries steeped in racial hierarchies and sex binaries that ground future survival in colonial, heteropatriarchal, and normative terms. This article argues that pollination politics are focused on intensifying agriculture and increasing yield within carceral infrastructures, and that the orchestration of pollination is governed by socio-sexual schemas about fitness and fecundity that are governed by a normative reproductive futurism.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38235", "words": "1614", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "28", "author": "Ahern, Dana", "title": "Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender, by stef m. shuster (New York University Press, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "medicine; providers; shuster; trans", "summary": "They describe the tension that exists for trans medicine providers throughout history as providers attempted to defend themselves from criticism by those who consider trans medicine \u201cquackery.\u201d shuster helpfully reiterates the urgency in understanding how earlier legacies of trans medicine that attempted to \u201cnormalize\u201d the patient and protect the provider continue to impact and inform current trans medicine.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38239", "words": "1423", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Ellcessor, Elizabeth", "title": "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy by Hannah Zeavin (The MIT Press, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "distance; media; therapy; zeavin", "summary": "Rather than taking for granted the ways in which therapy has talked about itself in authoritative and institutional sources, Zeavin\u2019s turn to mediated therapy reveals some of what has been core to the therapeutic experience all along. \u00a0 But remote therapy has a history before Zoom.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38240", "words": "10327", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Vega, Rosalynn A.", "title": "Mitochondrial Memory: Transgenerational Trauma, Functional Medicine, and Quantum Physics", "date": "2025", "keywords": "barad; body; catalyst; cell; feminism; health; human; medicine; memory; mitochondria; mother; new; physics; picard; popo; quantum; research; rosalynn; technoscience; theory; time; vega; women", "summary": "One beam of my diffractive methodology reads recent discoveries in mitochondrial medicine through Pandolfi\u2019s perspective of female bodies as physiological memoirs containing a multilevel sense of self. Specifically, I open a space for mitochondrial memory, combining the theory of entanglement from quantum physics with recent advances in mitochondrial medicine, thereby embracing the murky waters between the literal and the figurative.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-38252", "words": "3765", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Stack Whitney, Kaitlin", "title": "Ladybugs: The (Natural) Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend? Enlisting Ladybugs into the War on Insect Pests ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; control; convergent; garden; gardeners; harlequin; home; insects; ladybugs; pest; war", "summary": "This figure shows harlequin ladybugs do look very similar to this iconic image, but convergent ladybugs do not (they are oval and have a distinctive patterned \u201cneck\u201d area that is not visible on any of these). These risks include causing declines in populations that are harvested for home garden releases, bringing diseases and other pests to other ladybugs in the transplanted location, and competition with local ladybugs and other insects for food (Jepsen and Black 2014).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38296", "words": "8916", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Pico, Tamara", "title": "Performing Geology: Risk and Conquest in the Origin Stories of a Field Science ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; body; culture; earth; experiences; field; fieldwork; geologist; geology; history; nature; origin; powell; practices; press; research; science; stories; students; undergraduate; university; white", "summary": "Although rich cultural traditions in geology exist across the globe, this essay focuses on US field geology, and is specifically concerned with deep-time rock-centric research. In this article I attempted to demonstrate that the behavioral norms required for US field geologists to be recognized as legitimate are encoded in the discourse of origin stories told in field geology training and research.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38355", "words": "2779", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Richardson, Michael; Schnepf, J.D.", "title": "Home Drone: How to Militarize the Smart Home with the Ring Always Home Camera ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "camera; drone; home; housewife; ring; security; surveillance; war", "summary": "Playing out and investing in the technological capture of racialized populations at home, the turn to home security by drone unveils contemporary militarized domesticity's necropolitical imagination. Domestic drone security is for middle-class homeowners who can afford to be surveilled, who want surveillance for the anxious comfort it brings, and for whom digital capitalism is either not yet a yoke or an unrecognized one.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38357", "words": "10501", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Duong, Natalia", "title": "Homing Toxicity: The Domestication of Herbicidal Warfare", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agent; agent orange; air; base; bayer; chemical; civilian; domestic; eglin; exposure; force; herbicides; home; life; military; orange; refugees; site; use; vietnam; vietnamese; war; workers", "summary": "Given this myopic view of domestic herbicide exposure, what might knowledge of these entangled ecologies\u2014as extensions of war and the refugee condition\u2014further contribute to diasporic solidarity calling for supranational action? Though Alvin L. Young was hired as the main agronomist (herbicide physiology and environmental toxicology) by the US government, several studies later showed that Young often revised his research to claim the opposite of what his studies initially reported; at first, Young found trace amounts of dioxin and concluded that herbicide exposure had minimal effects on nearby human and nonhuman life, whereas he later reported that exposure did in fact have the potential to harm nearby ecologies (Ornstein, Wei, and Hixenbaugh 2016). \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38406", "words": "2586", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cohler, Deborah", "title": "Starch: Faultless Premium Spray Starch", "date": "2023", "keywords": "faultless; ironing; labor; military; spray; starch; training; uniform; war", "summary": "When the can of Faultless spray starch on an ironing board in the MAMF kitchen becomes a touchstone of military identity and verisimilitude, the military stands for safety, order, and homogeneity. Some veterans report formal lessons in military ironing techniques.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38415", "words": "9859", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Cardwell, Emma", "title": "Moral Economies of Life and Death: Agricultural Improvement, Imperialism, and Chemical Kinships with Reactive Nitrogen", "date": "2023", "keywords": "british; century; chemical; colonialism; family; key; kin; kinship; land; life; nitrogen; power; relations; saltpetre; science; state; story; university; white; working; world", "summary": "Smil (2004) estimates that without industrial nitrogen, our food production would drop so significantly that 50 percent of the world's population would not be alive today, as they could not be fed. Building on the concepts of chemical kinships and pollution as colonialism, I use a feminist storytelling methodology grounded in relational ontology to explore my kinship relationships with reactive nitrogen, and the way it both hurts me and gives me life.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38439", "words": "7875", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kelley, Lindsay", "title": "Invert Syrup, Feminist Snap: Anzac Biscuits and Feminist Resistance to Imperial Logics ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "ahmed; anti; anzac; anzac biscuits; anzac day; australian; biscuits; day; feminist; invert; national; new; snap; sugar; syrup; violence; war; women", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Special Section Invert Syrup, Feminist Snap: Anzac Biscuits and Feminist Resistance to Imperial Logics \u00a0 \u00a0 Lindsay Kelley Australian National University lindsay.kelley@anu.edu.au \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract Baked for Anzac Day in April but eaten all year, Anzac biscuits memorialize the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) participation in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I. Baked for Anzac Day in April but eaten all year, Anzac biscuits commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps' (ANZAC) participation in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I. ANZAC soldiers were among the first Allied divisions to land on a beach near the Ar\u0131burnu headlands in present-day Turkey (now Anzac Cove) on April 25, 1915.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38452", "words": "9707", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Wool, Zo\u00eb", "title": "All that is Solid Burns into Smoke: US Military Burn Pits, Petrochemical Toxicity, and the Racial Geopolitics of Displacement", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bases; burn; burn pits; chemical; domestic; foreign; houston; iraq; kinship; logistics; military; new; pits; press; relations; smoke; toxicity; university; veterans; violence; war; waste", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Special Section All That Is Solid Burns into Smoke: US Military Burn Pits, Petrochemical Toxicity, and the Racial Geopolitics of Displacement \u00a0 \u00a0 Zo\u00eb H. Wool University of Toronto zoe.wool@utoronto.ca \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract Focusing on US military burn pits in Iraq, this paper traces entanglements between the materials of US war-making, the logistics of global capitalism, and the racialized displacement of toxicity and chemical kinship. The toxicity of burn pits helps us to undermine this ideology of domestic security, opening new spaces to reckon with the relation between US and Iraqi experiences of US military toxicity. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38456", "words": "1440", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Kim Chacko, Joshua", "title": "Cover Art | Outdoor Seating Area at the Visitor's Center", "date": "2023", "keywords": "figure; hambach; pit; war", "summary": "While the open pit mine may be an especially poignant subject, there are aspects of the domestication of war that can be seen in every suburban home; the backyard lawn that hides toxins and buries histories of stolen land; the swimming pool or open pit of chlorinated water that belies the reality of water scarcity. The elements juxtaposed in this photograph illustrate how the possibility of leisure presses up against an anthropocenic nightmare of an open pit mine.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38457", "words": "9365", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Hod\u017ei\u0107, Saida", "title": "The Inheritance of Militarization: Toxic Gifts, Furtive Critique, and Survivance in Post-War Bosnia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bosnia; country; critique; factories; factory; igman; konjic; life; militarization; military; neighborhood; people; residents; river; state; town; toxicity; war; waste; world", "summary": "Bosnia is awash in military factories (some working, others hollowed out in war), as socialist Yugoslavia located much of its military industry in this mountainous, mineral-rich terrain where the country was birthed and defended. Bosnia\u2019s government is overseen the EU/US joint operation called the Office of the High Representative that is supposed to advance Bosnia\u2019s membership in the EU but considers the country a perpetual candidate.12 \u00a0 The Gift of Debt A vestige of socialist industrialization, military factories continue to produce people and communities, but their toxicity is more violent and more apparent under conditions of dispossession and deregulation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38477", "words": "9274", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Velasquez-Potts, Michelle", "title": "Between Past and Future: The Slow Death of Indefinite Detention", "date": "2023", "keywords": "adayfi; bay; camps; care; death; detention; feeding; force; guant\u00e1namo; hospice; hospice care; life; military; prisoners; rosenberg; torture; war", "summary": "End-of-life care may include palliative care, medical care meant to manage serious illnesses such as cancer, or hospice care, provided when a physician deems a patient unlikely to live beyond six months. This essay asks what it means to think of hospice care in a torture facility, arguing that the military is using the possibility of hospice as a curative, both politically and rhetorically, to disavow the effects of torture on the bodyminds of captives. \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38487", "words": "1610", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "26", "author": "Kay Jones, Leslie", "title": "Digital Black Feminism, by Catherine Knight Steele (New York University Press, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "chapter; feminism; media; steele; women", "summary": "In Chapter 1 Steele situates her inquiry of Black feminist digital production within a history of Black women as \u201ctechnological innovators, laborers, and creative manipulators of feminized communication\u201d (23). For example, Steele argues that Black women used the performance of \u201crespectability politics\u201d as \u201can avenue to hone argumentation skills and cement their position in Black cultural life\u201d (37) in spite of the interpersonal and intrapersonal political marginalization of Black women.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38561", "words": "3440", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Z\u00e1rate, Salvador", "title": "Business Cards: Rolodex Half-Life, An Exposed Life Told in Cards ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "body; bracero; california; card; exposure; father; labor; orange; press; university", "summary": "I'm left wondering, still, how his Bracero ID would come to serve as an originary marker, a kind of harbinger, for an approaching lifetime\u2014decades\u2014that would abound my father's life with domestic toxic exposures; from his continued work as a farmworker to his labor as a residential gardener in Orange County. Oakland: University of California Press.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38780", "words": "1424", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "22", "author": "Quintanilla, Leslie", "title": "Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds, by Sara Ann Wylie (Duke University Press, 2018)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "book; data; environmental; health; wylie", "summary": "The text closes with a provocation for potential organizers in every sector: \u201cHow can we grapple with environmental health problems such as climate change, endocrine disruption, and chemical contamination due to fracking that transcend biological, legal, and social boundaries?\u201d And for those workers in extractive industries who find themselves questioning the societal, environmental, and climate impacts of industry practices that continue to frack, extract, and destroy land, waters, and community health, this book offers ways to channel important knowledges, tools, and interests towards accountability and responsibility.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38793", "words": "1604", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Hood, Jacob", "title": "How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity, by La Marr Jurelle Bruce (Duke University Press, 2021)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "book; bruce; chapter; madness", "summary": "This concept guides the third and fourth chapters in unpacking the gendered and sexual dynamics of black madness in literature. It demands an attentiveness to the experiences of black mad lives at the nexus of the prison- and medical-industrial complexes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38868", "words": "6207", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Davies, Sarah; Pham, Bao-Chau; Dessewffy, Esther; Schikowitz, Andrea; Mora G\u00e1mez, Fredy", "title": "Pinboarding the Pandemic: Experiments in Representing Autoethnography ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "academic; care; experiences; home; laptop; pandemic; pinboard; practices; research; science; spaces; sts; university; work", "summary": "Career stage was also important: entering academia at a time when in-person contact was impossible resulted in both challenges (isolation and confusion) and opportunities (to find one own\u2019s way to \u201cdo\u201d academic work), while, at more senior levels, gendered norms continued to structure our (self) expectations of how to perform the role of the \u201cgood academic.\u201d Our family and home lives (and the care commitments and dependencies they entail), disposable income, resources, and experiences and expectations of academic work vary significantly.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38871", "words": "9708", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Wolf-Meyer, Matthew", "title": "Idiosyncratic and Non-Unitary: Disability Memoirs and Antinormative Bioethics", "date": "2025", "keywords": "attention; autism; bioethics; bodies; care; category; disability; experiences; individual; life; lives; normative; people; person; practice; press; university; university press; ways", "summary": "Such an attention aligns with Louise Hickman\u2019s (2019) characterization of the ethics of crip technoscience, which she suggests offers knowledge-from-below; I prefer to situate disability experience as marginalized rather than existing in a hierarchy, which allows for the possibility of centering disability experiences instead of needing to subordinate disability or ability as the primary basis of knowledge-making. If the traditional medical model of disability placed disability in bodies, and the social model of disability situated it as a function of the interaction between impaired bodies and specific environments, disability as a cybernetic experience draws attention to how the interactions between bodies, dominant ideologies of disability and ability, and social environments create feedback systems that compound experiences of disability while also attending to the ways that micro-interactions between individuals and their caregivers, environments, and technologies facilitate participation in social life (Wolf-Meyer 2020b).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-38872", "words": "8292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Lawrence, Heather", "title": "Memes on Trial: From Permit Patty to Karen", "date": "2024", "keywords": "anti; blackness; complaint; feminism; heather; karen; lawrence; media; memes; online; permit; theory; trial; video; white; women", "summary": "In her analysis of Karen\u2019s circulation and reception, Lewis argues that White women and Black men are both victims and accomplices of racism and sexism, and presents White men as their shared oppressor, but doesn\u2019t attempt to incorporate Black women into this framework.2 Lewis\u2019s failure to adequately consider Black women\u2019s perspectives in her analysis of Karen is disappointing considering the centrality of Black women to the work of complaint and because Black women often captured the videos that make up the alliterative hashtag name meme, including Permit Patty. 2 Lewis does mention the critique of Black feminists and women of color in her article, but her discussion of these perspectives is limited to a paragraph where she argues that the origins of the Karen meme lie just as much in White sexist online cultures as much as they do in the anti-racist work of Black women, and in a brief aside where she mentions that the Yale Collective on Women of Color and the Law issued a critique of an essay by Catherine McKinnon without elaborating on the details of the critique.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-39036", "words": "9633", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Cowan, TL; Rault, Jasmine", "title": "Introduction: Metaphors as Meaning and Method in Technoculture", "date": "2022", "keywords": "culture; digital; feminist; haraway; life; material; media; metaphor; method; models; new; politics; press; science; section; settler; sts; technologies; technology; university; women; work", "summary": "As scholars of media technologies, our editorial impulse towards this Special Section is also motivated by the intensification of (indeed, the explosion of) metaphor-work in digital technoculture: the implementation of metaphor and other figurative, comparative, associative, and indexical naming work to introduce and familiarize users with new technocultural extensions of men (Sharma 2022, 17); the critical-cultural-theoretical-analytic work of understanding these new associations, what they drag in with them, how they structure contemporary life; and the strategic conceptual work of introducing new metaphors to reorient technocultural futures. Just as there are some metaphors we need to expel from our ways of framing technocultural existences and relationships, we also see that new metaphors are needed to help us frame our experiences, our designs, practices, innovations, inventions, reimaginings, and emergent expressive cultures.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39206", "words": "10897", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Mora G\u00e1mez, Fabiola; S\u00e1nchez Aldana, Eliana; Papadapoulos, Dimitris", "title": "Affecting Infrastructures: Crafting and Weaving as Alternative Repairs ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "affect; cec; collective; colombia; conflict; crafting; infrastructures; luc\u00eda; making; material; movements; new; pain; practices; spaces; stories; textile; violence; war; weaving; women", "summary": "This interconnectedness with other infrastructures grants them stability over time. Mobility is one of the most evident features of such affecting infrastructures, inasmuch as they are easily moveable between cities, towns, and other sites.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39207", "words": "7327", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Nguyen, Josef", "title": "Scripting Consenting Fictions in Sex Technology Imaginaries", "date": "2023", "keywords": "consent; design; digital; imaginaries; lovesync; press; recording; sex; sex technologies; technologies; technology; university; users; women", "summary": "Re-scripting Consent as Interactional In treating explicit consent as the line between what counts as consensual sex and what counts as rape, consent-recording applications like Good2Go and LegalFling as potential technologies for documenting consent frame consent as an obstacle to sex through what Jetta Rae criticizes as the \u201cconsent as conquest\u201d (2015) approach. \u00a0 \u00a0 Original Research Scripting Consenting Fictions in Sex Technology Imaginaries \u00a0 \u00a0 Josef Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas josef.nguyen@utdallas.edu \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract This article examines how the intended and implied uses and users of emerging commercial sex technologies negotiate understandings of sexual consent as a social fiction articulated as contractual-yet-contingent autonomy and transactional access that is framed as a prerequisite obstacle to sexual gratification.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39214", "words": "7035", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Carpenter, Laura M.", "title": "Remembering our Dead: Physicalizing State-Level COVID-19 Mortality Data in Textile Form", "date": "2025", "keywords": "carpenter; catalyst; color; covid-19; data; deaths; feminism; health; knitting; laura; mortality; pandemic; research; technoscience; theory; yarn", "summary": "Implementation How might one physicalize COVID-19 mortality data in fiber-art form? In this essay, I offer one technique for presenting mortality data in textile form and consider the benefits, challenges, and effects\u2014personal, social, and scholarly\u2014of doing so.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-39249", "words": "12652", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Lockett, William", "title": "Autistic Mental Schema and the Graphical User Interface circa 1968 ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "catalyst; code; computer; feminism; form; function; lockett; logo; meaning; mental; mind; models; new; papert; piaget; press; programming; research; technoscience; theory; thinking; time; university; way; william", "summary": "In the archives of LOGO, model minds and graphical screens are entangled. Autism was evidence that the transcendental regulation of mental form is a genuine historical process, operating both in the mind, on screen, and in the school system.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-39335", "words": "6898", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "34", "author": "Lewis, Ashley", "title": "STS Researchers as Technology: Multiple Positionalities as Interpretations of Participant Expectations and Agendas ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "collaboration; collaborators; dynamics; interdisciplinary; meetings; process; project; research; researchers; role; science; spy; technology; work", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Special Section STS Researchers as Technology: Multiple Positionalities as Interpretations of Participant Expectations and Agendas \u00a0 \u00a0 Ashley Lewis Independent Researcher Ashley.Lewis@bailliegifford.com \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract Science and technology studies (STS) researchers integrated into interdisciplinary research projects learn important lessons of collaboration dynamics by analyzing the lived experience of the research participants. This definition demonstrates Sara Ahmed\u2019s (2019) conceptualization of \u201cuse,\u201d which emphasizes my ethnographic role and interdisciplinarity research as utilitarian components towards a useful end.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39341", "words": "9261", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Croissant, Jennifer", "title": "Late to the Party: Articulating Time and Care in Interdisciplinary Projects", "date": "2023", "keywords": "activities; analysis; bfp; data; ethnography; faculty; graduate; group; interdisciplinarity; knowledge; life; participants; press; project; registers; research; science; scientists; social; students; studies; time; university; work; year", "summary": "Meeting times, here, reflect centrality and disciplinary hierarchies. The second observation from these presentations is the articulation of an extreme instrumentalization of social science work.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39355", "words": "1011", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "cruse, alex", "title": "Cover Art | ABOUT 26 SQUARES \u2013 Artist Statement", "date": "2022", "keywords": "forms; lissitzky; shapes; squares", "summary": "The material substrate upon which this performance takes place \u2013 a length of black fabric \u2013 invokes \u2018telling the bees,\u2019 a nineteenth century European beekeeping tradition of telling one\u2019s hives of events and changes in the household. Beekeepers would inform their bees of deaths by placing a piece of black cloth over the apiary.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39359", "words": "8904", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Wylie, Caitlin; Murillo, Luis Felipe Rosado", "title": "Care-fully?: The Question of \u201cKnowledge Co-production\u201d in Arctic Science ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "arctic; care; communities; community; data; knowledge; nsf; papers; percent; power; practices; production; research; researchers; science; scientists; studies", "summary": "But this is not the meaning that the NSF ascribes to co-production, as shown in the NNA program\u2019s first request for proposals: \u201cCommunity collaborations and knowledge co-production with Arctic Indigenous communities are encouraged in both [funding] tracks, when appropriate. Worse, the 2019 revised request for proposals takes a less encouraging tone: \u201cKnowledge co-production with Arctic Indigenous communities is encouraged only when appropriate and must be strongly justified and supported in the proposal text and project budget\u201d (NSF 2019, emphasis added).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39368", "words": "8886", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Carrigan, Coleen", "title": "Sheltering: Care Tactics for Ethnography Attentive to Intersectionality and Underrepresentation in Technoscience ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "care; carrigan; case; color; data; ethnography; experiences; feminist; knowledge; members; new; participants; power; press; refusal; research; science; study; technoscience; university; women", "summary": "We see research participants \u201cgazing back\u201d and feel accountable to them as well as readers by explaining the grounds on which interpretation has been made (Harding 2004). The researcher\u2019s gaze includes seeing research participants as \u201cgazing back\u201d and the researcher is accountable to them (Harding 2004).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39395", "words": "9406", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Clancy, Erin", "title": "The Fantasy of Anorexia: Historical Entanglements of Evolutionary Thought, Food Restriction, and Curative Imaginaries ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "anorexia; body; catalyst; clancy; disability; dyspepsia; eating; erin; feminism; food; nervosa; research; strings; studies; system; technoscience; theory; white; women", "summary": "Erin Clancy, 2024 3 was predominantly, if not exclusively, reserved for white women of a certain class, and emphasize the anxiety around the sexuality of the self-starving girls. While white men could control how they were affected and improve as a result, white women were considered to always be at Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 10 (1)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-39401", "words": "10026", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kaplan, Caren", "title": "Domesticity at War: Bringing the War Home in Martha Rosler's \"House Beautiful\" Wartime Photomontages", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; colomina; domestic; domesticity; feminist; figure; home; house; images; life; martha; martha rosler; new; photomontage; press; rosler; series; university; vietnam; war; war home; white; world", "summary": "Keywords Photomontage, War Art, Domesticity, Vietnam War, War on Terror \u00a0 \u00a0 The bright experiments of postwar American architecture are covertly organized by the trauma of war\u2014the trauma of the war that just finished and the trauma of the fact that it had not really finished after all. In 1967, during the Vietnam War,^\u20601^ artist Martha Rosler created a series of flyers to be circulated at anti-war demonstrations in the US.^\u20602^ Composed of images clipped from the mainstream, glossy magazines House Beautiful and Life, the photomontage flyers pasted photojournalist representations of warfare in Vietnam into idealized scenes of North American suburban homes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39402", "words": "8737", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "37", "author": "Mayers, Leifa", "title": "Capitalization, Optimization, and Choice : The Law and the Politics of Patenting Reprogenetic Technologies", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; biotechnology; health; hearings; innovation; law; medicine; patent; patent law; pgt; property; public; research; risk; section; statement; technologies; testing; women", "summary": "Set against the gendered logics of patent law, the assetization of genetic technologies and material and accompanying somatic ethic produces a unique matrix of risk, whereby health risk management bolsters the financial potential of genetic patents. A more predictable patent framework is seen as the key to the liberation of capital; genetic patents mitigate biotechnology companies\u2019 financial risk and enable scientific innovations that reduce the health risk faced by patients and advance consumer choice.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39407", "words": "2379", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Pandit, Niharika", "title": "Window: Spatializing Occupation", "date": "2023", "keywords": "anam; home; kashmir; militarism; occupation; window", "summary": "Under conditions of military occupation that long persist in Kashmir, claims to home, constituting home, and being at home are caught in volatility, especially when the Indian state's insistence on \u201cKashmir as integral\u201d to its imaginaries of the nation constricts any semblance of home and self-determination for Kashmiris surviving occupation. Keywords military occupation, militarism, gender, Kashmir, space \u00a0 Spatializing Occupation What is home under perpetual siege? \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39502", "words": "10849", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Yue, Emily", "title": "Ethnicity Statistics as Tricky Tools in \u201cPost-Racial\u201d Britain: Celebrating the Lives and Obscuring the Deaths of Mixed-Race Populations", "date": "2025", "keywords": "britain; ethnicity; ethnicity statistics; men; mixed; populations; post; prevention; race; rates; research; statistics; studies; suicide; suicide prevention; white", "summary": "Reporting place of birth in UK suicide statistics (like in Maynard et al.\u2019s 2012 study) alongside ethnicity has the potential to visibilize \u201cmixed Brits\u201d and identify suicide inequalities among them. While I have problematized the erasure of Britain\u2019s mixed population(s) from UK suicide prevention, Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Star emphasize the \u201ctightrope between increased visibility and increased surveillance\u201d (2000, 29).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39526", "words": "7816", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Wang, Anne-chie", "title": "Attuning to the Erratic End of Life: The Logic of Care in Hospice at Home ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "care; carers; death; end; family; health; home; home care; hospice; hospice home; hospital; life; medical; members; patients; taiwan", "summary": "Usually, these families have abundant financial resources, understand how to practice hospice home care, and are willing to support patients in home care. The Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan, for example, has promoted hospice home care and respecting patient autonomy to improve the quality of end-of-life experiences.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39527", "words": "9607", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Ihar, Zsuzsanna", "title": "Properties of War: The Militarization of Housing Policy and Urban Planning in Contemporary Azerbaijan", "date": "2023", "keywords": "apartment; azerbaijan; baku; conflict; disabled; domestic; families; home; housing; idps; karabakh; life; militarism; military; nagorno; new; policy; political; post; press; servicemen; spaces; state; war", "summary": "It is a far cry from depictions of the IDP population in state policy reports and media accounts as disempowered and passive. The Memory of Loss: Voices of Azeri Storytellers from Nagorno Karabakh.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39531", "words": "6131", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Pardo Pedraza, Diana; Chacko, Xan Sarah; Terry, Jennifer; Neimanis, Astrida", "title": "Introduction: Domestication of War", "date": "2023", "keywords": "articles; bodies; care; domestic; domestication; everyday; feminist; home; life; militarization; military; practices; spaces; university; violence; war; ways", "summary": "Adopting an intersectional approach, this scholarship has reflected on multilayered impacts of war technologies and practices on socionatural arrangements including bodies (Cohen 2012; Wool 2015; Aciksoz 2019; Pinto-Garc\u00eda 2019), lands (Coates 2016; Kim 2016; Touhouliotis 2018; Henig 2019), environments (Sloterdijk 2009; Nixon 2011; Neimanis 2018), ecopolitical relations (Navaro-Yashin 2009; Krupar 2013), and biomedical knowledge production (Terry 2017; Brandt 2013). This collection resists conventional spatialities, temporalities, and incarnations of war while calling attention to the obscuring of violence through practices of care and marketing operations. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39607", "words": "8457", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Estien, Cesar O.", "title": "Queering Ecology: (Re)Constructing Ecology as a Home to Better Understand the Social-Ecological Pressures Wildlife Face", "date": "2025", "keywords": "animals; cities; conflict; coyote; ecologists; ecology; et al; home; human; interactions; nature; nonhuman; processes; queer; urban; wildlife; world", "summary": "Specifically, I have argued that through (re)constructing ecology as a home, we can best identify the vast social-ecological pressures, including systemic racism, charged rhetoric, and constructed perceptions, that shape wildlife ecology. Lastly, I sit within the ecological home to examine urban wildlife and the environmental pressures they are subjected to\u2014using the urban coyote as an example.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-39671", "words": "15971", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rolef Ben-Shahar, Tom", "title": "Cellular Narratives in Nuclear Time: On Living with the (Epigenetic) Memory of Trauma", "date": "2025", "keywords": "barad; ben; biological; biology; catalyst; chromatin; effects; entanglements; epigenetic; et al; experiences; exposure; feminism; function; hayashi; health; journal; mechanisms; meloni; memories; memory; model; nuclear; present; press; radiation; research; rolef; shahar; technoscience; theory; time; tom; university", "summary": "Keywords Agential realism, nuclear, Ky\u014dko Hayashi, epigenetic memory, chromatin, Walter Benjamin, temporality, temporal-intersectionality mailto:tomrbs1@gmail.com Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 11 (2) Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar, 2025 2 Without sustained remembrance, we cannot learn to live with ghosts and so cannot think. At the most fundamental level, epigenetic memory refers to the maintenance and transmission of altered gene expression states and the Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 11 (2) Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar, 2025 6 correlating epigenetic patterns, long after the initiating environmental signal has passed (Cavalli and Heard 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40097", "words": "1496", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "36", "author": "Keaney, Jaya", "title": "Book Review | Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era by Natali Valdez (University of California Press, 2022)", "date": "2023", "keywords": "book; health; trials; valdez", "summary": "As the first ethnography of postgenomic pregnancy trials, Weighing the Future makes a significant contribution to science and technology studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology. Weighing the Future is motivated by a stark reality that haunted me as I traversed its chapters: to date, despite hundreds of pregnancy trials across diverse contexts, there is no conclusive evidence that lifestyle interventions into diet and exercise reduce pregnancy complications or significantly improve health outcomes of birth parents and children.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-40202", "words": "1776", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Florin-Sefton, Mia", "title": "Book Review | Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade, by Sara Matthiesen (University of California Press, 2021)", "date": "2023", "keywords": "matthiesen; reproduction; state; women; work", "summary": "This, then, is the reproduction that Matthiesen asks her reader to reconceive: the labors that state neglect produces, just as it simultaneously refuses to recognize them. \u00a0 This is striking evidence of another of Matthiesen\u2019s most urgent interventions: state neglect doesn\u2019t just punish those who are its victims, but it necessitates that they have to do more work to survive.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-40269", "words": "1860", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Smilges, J. Logan", "title": "Book Review | Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire, by Akemi Nishida (Temple University Press, 2022)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "care; disability; justice; nishida; people", "summary": "Such a mobilization effort is what Akemi Nishida refers to as care justice, which puts forth a politics of care rooted in the beliefs that care can be just and that justice\u2014in its purest form\u2014is care. Across five, highly accessible body chapters of storied prose and interview-based research with disabled people and their care workers, Nishida illustrates that if we want to practice just care, as in care justice, then we first need to recognize the justness of care.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40286", "words": "10416", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Yoon, Hyaesin", "title": "\u201cWarm Robots\u201d for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder? The Thermodynamics of Human Sociality and the Technology of Inclusion in South Korea ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "affective; autism; care; catalyst; children; feminism; human; hyaesin; korea; people; research; robots; science; sociality; society; south; technology; technoscience; theory; therapy; yoon", "summary": "Labeling these robots as social robots separate from care robots is an interesting change from the basic plans. Predicting disruptive behaviors that match diagnostic criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-V), among AIs and robots,4 digital design and development scholar Gregory P. Garvey warns that \u201chumanoid robots will betray serious limitations especially in social situations\u201d such as \u201cinappropriate verbal responses, abnormal eye contact and repetitive actions,\u201d despite the rapid advance in social robots and affective computing (2015, 525).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40289", "words": "9061", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Varino, Sofia", "title": "A Viral Pedagogy: Undoing Things with Long COVID\u2019s Autoimmunities", "date": "2024", "keywords": "autoimmune; autoimmunities; autoimmunity; bodies; body; catalyst; conditions; covid; covid-19; feminism; health; long; section; self; sofia; technoscience; theory; varino; viral; wake", "summary": "In this article, I consider the uncertainty at work in viral autoimmunity, particularly in the autoimmune mechanisms involved in severe and long COVID, to show the pedagogical and therapeutic potential of not knowing. As a pedagogical and therapeutic tool, viral autoimmunity encapsulates how a single pathogenic agent can instigate a broad spectrum of immune responses among individuals and across time, some of which are not entirely understood within current scientific and clinical frameworks of causality, predictability, or replicability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40290", "words": "8348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Patton, Cindy; Alexander, Travis; Shahani, Nishant", "title": "Autoimmunities after COVID: An Interview with Cindy Patton", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aids; cindy; covid; covid-19; disease; gay; health; hiv; men; mpox; pandemic; patton; people; public; sex; zika", "summary": "Despite the skepticism that had surrounded the COVID vaccines and their rollout, at the first hint that there was a vaccine for Mpox, gay health activists and public health called for its immediate use. Early in my documentation of the epidemic (perhaps around 1985), I wrote an essay called \u201cFrom Grassroots to Business Suits,\u201d in which I described the transformation of liberationist groups into gay health organizations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40295", "words": "9418", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Mameni, Salar", "title": "Derrida, Autoimmunity, and Islamic Medicine", "date": "2024", "keywords": "american; autoimmunity; body; derrida; disease; islamic; medical; medicine; organism; pharmakon; philosophy; poison; technoscience; theory; virus", "summary": "Derrida Today 15 (1): 67\u201384. \u201cDerrida, Autoimmunity, and Islamic Medicine.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40296", "words": "17383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Gundermann, Christian", "title": "The COVID Emergency as Autoimmune Disease", "date": "2024", "keywords": "autoimmunities; catalyst; christian; countermeasures; covid-19; disease; dod; emergency; fda; feminism; government; gundermann; health; human; immune; immunity; jackson; medical; mrna; ota; pfizer; products; public; regulatory; section; security; spike; system; technoscience; theory; transfection; vaccine; wake", "summary": "IgG4 plays a pathological role in many different diseases, including cancer, autoimmune diseases, allergies, and helminth infection\u201d (2023).29 Furthermore, in an analysis of the data available on the CDC\u2019s own Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), Seneff et al. raise the troubling observations that \u201cCOVID-19 vaccines accounted for 96% of all cases in VAERS in 2021 where \u2018lymphoma\u2019 was listed as a symptom. Since 2021, a total of 50 cases of pancreatic carcinoma have been reported in VAERS, all of which were associated with COVID-19 vaccines\u201d (2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40297", "words": "10518", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ghosh, Bishnupriya", "title": "The Plague Check: Population Culling as Pandemic Realpolitik ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "autoimmunities; bishnupriya; body; catalyst; covid-19; culling; death; economic; feminism; ghosh; home; india; lockdown; march; modi; pandemic; people; politic; population; regime; section; state; technoscience; theory; wake", "summary": "The political will to cull populations becomes evident when one connects the seemingly disparate lockdown decision to Modi regime\u2019s expressed population control agenda. Plotting Malthusian historical resonances between war, famine, and disease, I characterize the Modi regime\u2019s readiness to countenance migrant deaths as a \u201cpopulation culling\u201d that is, unfortunately, an iterative feature in the archives of global pandemics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40298", "words": "7976", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Caleb, Amanda", "title": "Campaigns of Autoimmunity: Public Health Responses to AIDS and COVID-19 ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aids; amanda; autoimmunity; body; campaigns; catalyst; communities; covid-19; disease; health; ohio; public; response; risk; self", "summary": "Public health campaigns aligned two major HIV transmission routes\u2014unprotected sexual intercourse and injecting drug use\u2014with Black communities, representing a longer history of discrimination that were intertwined into autoimmune intolerance during the pandemic. Poster from America Responds to AIDS campaign, 1989.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40299", "words": "2075", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Briggs, Charles; Daniel, Sharon; Juhasz, Alexandra; Hebert, Pato; Ho, Tammy; Lee, Rachel; Ling Lee, Cynthia; Moodie, Megan; Peterson, Marina; Simpson, Nikita", "title": "Introducing How We Make It: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community, a Multimedia Project ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "autoimmunities; collective; covid-19; disability; justice; university; wake", "summary": "Keywords crip joy, chronic illness, anti-Asian violence, incarceration, long COVID, disability, AIDS activism, electromagnetic fields, care burdens, mental distress, art of deep listening Link to How We Make It: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community Figure 1. 2380-3312 \u00a9 How We Make It Collective, 2024 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Introducing How We Make It: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community, a Multimedia Project Charles L. Briggs Cynthia Ling Lee UC Berkeley UC Santa Cruz clbriggs@berkeley.edu clee185@ucsc.edu Sharon Daniel Rachel C. Lee UC Santa Cruz UCLA sdaniel@ucsc.edu rlee@humnet.ucla.edu", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40300", "words": "19951", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "AI Humanities Research Group", "title": "Autoimmunity and Affect: Tolerance and Time in Three Narratives ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "affect; anger; autoimmunities; autoimmunity; body; care; catalyst; chronic; condition; covid-19; diagnosis; disease; distress; experience; feminism; group; humanities; immune; life; lyme; model; press; research; response; section; self; state; system; technoscience; theory; time; tolerance; tomkins; treatment; wake", "summary": "Below we track the reverse flow, narrating how treatment responses produce immune system experiences of relayed biopolitical affect (Protevi 2009, 115\u201340) in which (in)tolerance figures centrally in an ethos of inclusion and care. We therefore track flows of affect over time in the situated contexts of tolerating autoimmune diagnosis experience, regarding autoimmunity as a queer art of failure (Halberstam 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40476", "words": "1610", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Sullivan, Mairead", "title": "Review of Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aids; cifor; hiv; new", "summary": "The technologies employed by more contemporary AIDS art and activist work, Cifor demonstrates, reach to the past, especially with the use of recognizable images and texts from AIDS archives, while also mobilizing current digital and visual modalities, such as the Tumblr platform. Why We Fight signaled a critical mass of interest in early AIDS activism, especially the archives of ACT UP/New York, which are housed at the NYPL, as well as an attempt\u2014though one not always well executed\u2014to broaden the dominant narrative of AIDS activisms, which frequently foreground the lives and works of cis white men.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-40522", "words": "10491", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Happ, Lea", "title": "Making Feminist Selves: Reflections on the Biopolitical Working of Misoprostol in Argentine Abortion Activism ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "abortion; aborto; access; activism; activists; affective; argentina; biopolitics; en red; expertise; feminist; knowledge; misoprostol; people; pharmaceutical; practices; red; senred; socorristas; solidarity; vacarezza; women", "summary": "Abortion activists have taken the Madres as \u201cmoral and political reference\u201d (Sutton and Vacarezza 2020, 740) and placed \u201c\u2018human rights\u2019 at the center of their legislative project, reiterating that abortion is a \u2018debt to democracy\u2019\u201d (Morgan 2015, 143). Expertise is included because it carries significant affective charge in the context of feminist abortion accompaniment.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-40811", "words": "2704", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Salda\u00f1a-Tejeda, Abril", "title": "Genetic Kinship and the Future of Human Genome Editing", "date": "2024", "keywords": "editing; future; genome; genome editing; human; science; summit", "summary": "Baltimore\u2019s speech made me think about the tension between the expectation of nation-states to regulate the future of human genome editing and an increasing global circuit where physicians, tools, knowledge, human subjects, and biological material move across borders in search of places where new reproductive technologies can be applied. It reports on the narratives and voices that were prioritized, and the excitement and tensions that followed some of the arguments presented over the future, limitations, and potentiality of human genome editing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-40851", "words": "1329", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Melling, Rowan", "title": "Book Review | The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot, by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (MIT Press, 2020)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "book; wife", "summary": "Building on similar critiques such as Safiya Noble\u2019s Algorithms of Oppression (2018) and Jennifer Rhee\u2019s The Robotic Imaginary (2018), the authors\u2019 aim is \u201cto develop smart wives that promote gender equity and diversity\u201d (209). Here, they theorize that \u201csmart wives\u201d arise out of a real \u201cneed\u201d (9); that is, they are a logical response to \u201cthe contemporary slump in available or willing wives\u201d (6), or the \u201cwife drought\u201d (1), a term they take from Annabel Crabb.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41070", "words": "6291", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Carrigan, Coleen; Caitlin D. Wylie", "title": "Introduction: Caring for Equitable Relations in Interdisciplinary Collaborations", "date": "2023", "keywords": "care; collaborations; ethnographers; feminist; knowledge; power; practices; research; researchers; scholars; science; scientists; sts; technology; work", "summary": "Social science research from Black feminist perspectives takes up new questions, valorizes lived experiences, and practices an ethics of caring centered on empathy, individual creativity, and emotional intelligence (Collins 2000). Specifically, she documents how the project\u2019s operational practices, such as scheduling, role allocations, communication, and outputs, reproduce and codify the subordinate status of social science researchers in collaborations.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-41259", "words": "1918", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Espinel-Quintero, Natalia", "title": "Book Review | Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power, by Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky (MIT Press, 2022)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "book; discard; power; systems", "summary": "Discard studies emerged in 2010 as an interdisciplinary field of research initiated by Robin Nagle, founder of the Discard Studies online hub. Book Review | Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power, by Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky (MIT Press, 2022)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41270", "words": "1670", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Cedillo, Christina", "title": "Book Review | Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900\u20131950s, by Natalie Lira (University of California Press, 2022)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "california; colony; lira; pacific; sterilization", "summary": "Allegedly intended as a treatment facility for people with developmental disabilities, Pacific Colony was used as a carceral institution where young people deemed criminals, troublemakers, or potential burdens to the state could be consigned, often against their will and that of their families. Sterilization was usually a condition of release from the facility, making Pacific Colony the apotheosis of eugenicists\u2019 social engineering goals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41299", "words": "9426", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Falu, Nessette", "title": "Predatory Medicine: Concealed Economies of Sexual Violence and Racial Capitalism ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "exam; falu; feminism; gynecology; intimidation; medical; medicine; nessette; patients; physicians; power; predatory; research; students; technoscience; theory; tyndall; university; violence; women", "summary": "Institutional Intimidation and Complaint Reporting The reporting of sexual violence complaints is yet another intimidating factor for any patient, specifically college students and BIPOC students. However, it is not until 2018 after the Los Angeles Times ruptures the institutional silence that hundreds of people come forward with sexual violence complaints.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41540", "words": "6111", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Weiss, Alexandra (Sasha)", "title": "Liberation After/life: Narrative Connectivity and Black Women\u2019s Cancer Mortality", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cancer; care; cells; death; lacks; life; lorde; people; sasha; women; work", "summary": "Keywords Blackness, cancer, mortality, afterlives, interconnectedness In the eyes of the state and its systems of white supremacy, Black women are presented as dangerous, as life outgrowing the limits of white definition, as refusing to follow rules. But, from the perspectives of Black women facing cancer, their illnesses are inextricably caught up in the violences of structural racism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41548", "words": "1721", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Gitzen, Timothy", "title": "Book Review | Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes, by Amber Benezra (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "benezra; feminist; microbes; microbiome", "summary": "Crucial to Benezra\u2019s innovative methodological endeavor is her commitment to feminist science studies, as the very impetus for her methodological maneuvering is rooted in feminist epistemologies and methodologies that similarly eschew disciplinary boundaries. Benezra\u2019s collaboration is primarily with microbiome scientists, but Book Review 2 | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 10 (1) Timothy Gitzen, 2024 she proposes that such a collaboration with microbiome scientists\u2014rooted in feminist anthropological and science studies modes of engagement\u2014is ultimately \u201cin pursuit of a future science that doesn\u2019t elide the past but allows us to \u2018live with its ghosts\u2019\u201d (39).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41793", "words": "9576", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Daborn, Merissa", "title": "Surveillant Metrics: Technologies of Whiteness and the Production of Food Insecurity", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; deprivation; deserts; food; food deserts; food insecurity; grocery; health; indexes; individuals; insecurity; research; social; stores; studies; swamps; whiteness; winnipeg", "summary": "Food deserts and swamps narrowly focus on the presence of appropriate grocery stores to access food, with food deserts referring to a perceived lack of grocery stores, and food swamps referring to a perceived overabundance of corner stores or fast-food restaurants (Kolavalli 2019, 100; Reese 2019, 6). Studies that have avoided measuring population deprivation have turned their focus on deprivation to food environments instead by indexing areas of food deprivation by having dietitians approve retail food stores as appropriate food sources (Slater et al. 2017), measuring how low-income neighborhoods score in relation to a healthy eating index (Allcott et al. 2019), and using a retail environment index to measure the association between obesity rates and food swamps (Cooksey-Stowers et al. 2017).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-41797", "words": "7507", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Shildrick, Margrit", "title": "The Temporalities and Spatialities of Death, Dying, and Heart Donation ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "catalyst; death; donation; donor; heart; life; living; margrit; organ; proxies; recipients; self; shildrick; theory; transplantation", "summary": "Coinciding with the instinctive feelings expressed by proxies, the work of Mauss suggests that some essence of the gift giver does live on in another, as is sometimes explicitly recognized by the recipients of donor organs. Not surprisingly, many other donor proxies are invested in the hope that donation somehow prolongs the essence of their loved one, while also voicing a deep concern for recipients.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41801", "words": "4068", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "McCormack, Donna", "title": "Memories of Futures: The Temporalities of Organ Transplantation", "date": "2024", "keywords": "body; dead; death; donna; life; mccormack; organ; transplantation", "summary": "For some recipients, there are memories of futures that never were, imagined plains of deceased donor lives, and lives recipients will never live, because of illness, attachments to specific medical teams, and so many more disabled and sick ties that bind us. What kinships are forged through living body parts from dead people?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41817", "words": "9533", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Heinemann, Laura", "title": "\u201cBack Then,\u201d \u201cAround Here,\u201d and \u201cDown the Road\u201d: Proximity, Recursivity, and the Present Future in Transplantation", "date": "2024", "keywords": "care; catalyst; feminism; frictions; future; futurity; heinemann; laura; medicine; m\u00f6bius; press; section; strip; technoscience; theory; time; transplant; transplant medicine; transplantation", "summary": "We had first met at the Transplant Center the week prior, while she waited for her series of appointments to begin at the outpatient clinic, as part of her ongoing evaluation for kidney transplant. Mrs. M had tried to encourage her mother to act on the knowledge they had received from Seattle, yet they both could sense that cutting-edge medicine remained out of reach: Back then, kidney transplants were only being done in Denver, Colorado.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41830", "words": "3274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Hudson, Stephanie", "title": "Living with the Pharmakon: A Call for Futurity", "date": "2024", "keywords": "disease; drugs; effects; kidney; lithium; medicine; pharmakon; transplant", "summary": "Carswell et al. (2023) found that though there is increased risk of chronic kidney disease, those who are diagnosed with severe mental illness are less likely to receive specialist nephrology care, less likely to be evaluated for a kidney transplant, less likely to be on the register to receive a kidney transplant, and less likely to receive a kidney transplant, suggesting significant inequalities in kidney care. In their international review, Claire Carswell et al. (2023) found that there is increased risk of chronic kidney disease in those who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and Clodagh Cogley et al. (2022) explain that these higher incidences can be partially explained by known factors, such as the use of lithium.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41853", "words": "9347", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Cruz, Maya", "title": "(Machine) Learning How to See Like a Rover: Feminist Objectivity and the Demonic Ground of Martian Sand ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "demonic; feminist; human; mars; objectivity; research; rover; sand; science; space; spoc; studies; terrain; theory", "summary": "As I will show, SPOC signals a significant innovation in the engineering of autonomy in the Mars Exploration rovers because it has the capabilities to accurately classify Martian sand (an infamously dangerous and notoriously risky terrain for Mars rovers) for the very first time. As the rover drives, more images are generated of the surface of Mars, and, crucially, more images of Martian sand; these images become more data that can be used to further train the terrain classifier and perfect its capacity to predict the presence of sand; as the terrain classifier is further trained and perfected, the rover is able to navigate further, with reduced risk to its overall safety; as the rover navigates further, it produces more images of Martian sand, which become more data to train SPOC, and thus, cyclically, ensure the increased command and control over space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41952", "words": "10855", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Stack Whitney, Kaitlin", "title": "Thinking with Termites about Fractious Futures for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the United States", "date": "2024", "keywords": "catalyst; donor; et al; fda; feminism; fmt; frictions; futurity; gut; guts; health; human; kaitlin; medicine; microbes; microbial; microbiome; people; potential; section; stack; stool; technoscience; termites; theory; transplantation; whitney", "summary": "Doctors, scientists, and FMT donors and recipients have disparate interests in and understandings of feces, such as a source of illness or cure, ordinary or disgusting. Like Paxson\u2019s work on raw-milk cheeses and the microbes that make them, FMT similarly evokes post-Pasteurian promises of good, diverse microbes from FMT donors replacing and outcompeting the perilous bad microbes in recipients (Paxson and Helmreich 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-41995", "words": "7820", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Paehr, Iz", "title": "More-than-human Infrastructures in the World Wide Wet", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cables; catalyst; feminism; fiber; gutta; history; infrastructures; internet; material; networks; paehr; percha; research; submarine; technoscience; telegraph; theory; world", "summary": "Considering animals as part of internet infrastructures makes it possible to learn from their non-compliancy and their queering practices, too: The materials that make internet infrastructure are involved in the games and digestion of nonhuman animals such as sharks and worms, as well as human skin care routines. Internet cables connect to houses in Germany via gray internet distribution boxes in the streets.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-42011", "words": "3670", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Tanio, Nadine; Malik, Sarah", "title": "Flowing and Flown: Transition and the Crafting of Possible Futures", "date": "2024", "keywords": "film; heart; medicine; nadine; sarah; storytelling; theory; transition; transplant", "summary": "Though the first pediatric heart transplant surgery occurred over fifty years ago, only recently have pediatric heart transplant recipients begun surviving into adulthood. Sarah is among the first generation of pediatric heart transplant patients to survive and build a future in the interstices of precarity, disability, and medical innovation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-42060", "words": "662", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Timbes, Kate", "title": "Cover Art | Bloomer Artist Statement", "date": "2023", "keywords": "art; paper", "summary": "The cover image captures two primary mediums, textiles and handmade paper, which speak to cycles, sustainable and traditional ways of making, and narratives of both objects and individuals that we often forget or silence. Working primarily in painting, video, and sculpture, she weaves mediums together, carrying objects, paintings, seeds, weavings, and sculptural handmade paper through physical, emotional, and digital landscapes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-42134", "words": "9653", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Alexander, Travis; Shahani, Nishant", "title": "Introduction: Autoimmunities in the Wake of COVID-19 ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "alexander; autoimmunities; autoimmunity; care; catalyst; collective; covid-19; essay; feminism; history; nishant; pandemics; section; self; shahani; technoscience; theory; travis; wake; work", "summary": "From that basis, Varino\u2019s essay thinks autoimmunity as an ontological arche, an Special Section: Autoimmunities in the Wake of COVID-19 | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 10 (1) In this way, \u201cDerrida, Autoimmunity, and Islamic Medicine\u201d recovers the very logic of autoimmunity operating within the dialectic of Western/Islamic globality: the self at permanent war with \u201cits\u201d self\u2014the catachresis or double cross at the epistemic origin.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-42498", "words": "5045", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Sofides, Athena", "title": "Autoethnography of a Pancreas: Lessons on Synthetic Humanness and Disrupting Endocrine Disruption ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; body; bpa; diabetes; edcs; endocrine; environmental; health; hormones; human; insulin; life; non; people", "summary": "In the case of hormones, state-sanctioned optimization of the capacity for illness-related profit means allowing non-consensual exposures to hormone mimickers/disruptors that thwart the body\u2019s metabolic processes (in food wrappers, can linings, pesticides, receipts, frying pans, clothes, drinking water), and to other stressors that exacerbate or otherwise interfere with metabolic processes. The chemical mechanism underlying the kind of diabetes I have is an autoimmune malfunction of the pancreas\u2019 beta cells, which produce insulin and other hormones that regulate blood sugar and metabolic processes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-42825", "words": "9244", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Jerreat-Poole, Adan", "title": "Scraps, Scrappiness, Scrapper: Crafting/Coding as Disabled Feminist (World)Making", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; adan; care; catalyst; crip; culture; design; digital; disability; feminist; game; gender; jerreat; makers; making; masks; media; poole; queer; research; studies; technoscience; theory", "summary": "However, game makers from the margin have continued to design, prototype, playtest, and publish games, often within a community of feminist, anti-racist, and queer media makers. Turning to Rest Rest Convalesce!, we can see how crip game design can invite players to inhabit the time and space of post-surgery recovery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-42961", "words": "11243", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Berkhout, Suze; Fritsch, Kelly; Keeley, Brian; Keeley, Bibo", "title": "Troubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics of Time, Machine, and Health", "date": "2024", "keywords": "berkhout; bibo; brian; brian keeley; bridge; catalyst; experience; feminism; fritsch; futurity; heart; journal; keeley; kelly; life; medicine; organ; suze; technologies; technoscience; theory; time; transplant; transplant medicine; transplantation", "summary": "As noted by heart transplant recipient Andrea Barrett, \u201cpeople feel they cannot share certain facets of transplant life and the harsh realities of transplant medicine because it could potentially reduce the Special Section: Frictions of Futurity in Transplant Medicine | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 10 (2) Although levels of fatigue in heart transplant recipients are reportedly moderate overall, in some cases it has significant impacts on the ability of a recipient to participate in life activities, as for example, there are higher levels of fatigue reported among younger heart transplant recipients, whose expectations of health post-transplant and quality of life may be higher (Almgren et al. 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-42991", "words": "1690", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Whitenack, Mariko", "title": "Book Review | Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment, by Hi\u02bbilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart (Duke University Press, 2023)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cold; hawai\u02bbi; hobart; ice; maunakea", "summary": "In other words, Hobart shows that what we might have learned to think of as naturally pleasurable or refreshing at the sensorial level\u2014such as eating ice cream on a hot day\u2014is actually deeply shaped by thermal colonialism, or how environments are made friendly to settler habitation according to ideas of temperature normativity. Chapter 4 discusses early twentieth-century legislation regulating the production of poi and the butterfat content of ice cream.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-43003", "words": "8345", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Macal, Carla", "title": "Healing Cartographies: Weaving Memory, Movement, and Embodied Testimonios across Imaginary Lines", "date": "2025", "keywords": "angeles; borders; community; cultural; feminist; girls; gmr; groups; guatemala; healing; los; maya; memory; people; press; research; state; tijax; university; war; women", "summary": "Keywords cultural memory, embodiment, Guatemala, Los Angeles, diaspora, healing cartographies \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction We must liberate land and life by actively honoring our responsibilities to kinship at this moment, fostering good relations within all creation in our intentions and actions. The solidarity networks woven among transnational feminist groups across the hemisphere are mapping healing tools and methods to preserve cultural memory and counter-state hegemonic narratives, which I call healing cartographies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-43005", "words": "12295", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Vado, Karina", "title": "\u201cI Graft a New Tribalism\u201d: Affiliative Biofuturities and New Terrains of Mestizaje in the Work of Gloria E. Anzald\u00faa", "date": "2025", "keywords": "american; andrea; anzald\u00faa; borderlands; eugenics; feminist; gloria; human; knowledge; latinx; life; mesquite; mestizaje; metaphors; new; press; queer; race; science; science studies; scientific; story; studies; tree; university; work; world", "summary": "Keywords Gloria Anzald\u00faa, arboreality, futurity, queer feminist science, spirituality \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction Due to diabetes-related complications, Gloria Evangelina Anzald\u00faa, the queer Chicana intellectual whose theorizations of geographical and metaphorical borders and borderlands profoundly influenced fields such as Chicanx/Latinx studies, queer and gender studies, and postcolonial studies, among others, would only live to see the first four years of the new millennium. \u201cGloria Anzald\u00faa as Philosopher: The Early Years (1962\u2013 1987).\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-43050", "words": "10497", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Fernandez de la Reguera, Alethia", "title": "Encroaching Borders and Defencelessness of Migrants at Checkpoints in Southern Mexico", "date": "2025", "keywords": "actors; authorities; border; checkpoints; chiapas; control; detention; guardia; human; immigration; inm; law; mexican; mexico; migrants; mobility; nacional; ngo; people; rights; security; staff; state; violence", "summary": "\u00a0 \u00a0 Encroaching Borders and Defenselessness of Migrants at Checkpoints in Southern Mexico \u00a0 \u00a0 Alethia Fern\u00e1ndez de la Reguera National Autonomous University of Mexico alethia_reguera@unam.mx \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract After an intimidating experience I had during a checkpoint on the southern border of Mexico in 2023, I began to investigate the prevalence and impacts of immigration checkpoints. Technologies of border control with the participation of the armed forces and the proliferation of state and municipal authorities operating checkpoints further reinforce the blurring of criminal law and immigration law.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-43074", "words": "9877", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Kabella, Dan", "title": "Anti-Colonial Recoveries: Building an Alternative Infrastructure in New Mexico", "date": "2025", "keywords": "addiction; albuquerque; chicano; community; drug; efforts; infrastructure; joe; land; methadone; mexico; new; new mexico; people; press; program; quebrar; radar; rehabilitation; site; south; struggles; systems; treatment; university; valley", "summary": "Resumen Este art\u00edculo explora el surgimiento de Quebrar, un programa de rehabilitaci\u00f3n de drogas dirigido por la comunidad, como una infraestructura alternativa din\u00e1mica y en evoluci\u00f3n dentro de los complejos contextos hist\u00f3ricos, pol\u00edticos y sociales de Nuevo M\u00e9xico. University of New Mexico Press.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-43193", "words": "9538", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "M\u00e9ndez-Arreola, Roberto", "title": "Ecolog\u00edas plurales del cuidado: Observaci\u00f3n y documentaci\u00f3n de tecolotes, monjitas y codornices en la frontera norte de M\u00e9xico", "date": "2025", "keywords": "actividades; agua; as\u00ed; aves; aves y; bravo; ciencia; ciudad; ciudadana; como; con; con las; construcci\u00f3n; cuidado; datos; de aves; de las; del; desde; donde; ecolog\u00edas; en el; en la; entidades; entre; estas; este; figura; formas; frontera; gabriela; han; humanos; isaac; ju\u00e1rez; la ciudad; las; las aves; las personas; los; lugar; m\u00e1s; m\u00e9xico; observaci\u00f3n; otras; para; personas; plurales; por; presencia; press; producci\u00f3n; pr\u00e1cticas; que; que las; r\u00edo; science; sobre; social; sus; tambi\u00e9n; tecolotes; trata; trav\u00e9s; una; vida; y la", "summary": "El objetivo de este texto es problematizar distintas actividades de observaci\u00f3n y documentaci\u00f3n de las aves que se cruzan con la producci\u00f3n de conocimiento ambiental, el activismo, la creaci\u00f3n art\u00edstica y la defensa del espacio p\u00fablico. \u201cCrecimiento urbano de Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez Chihuahua (1920-2015): Hip\u00f3tesis sobre el impacto en las coberturas y uso de suelo y el abatimiento del acu\u00edfero urbano.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-43252", "words": "1746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Fahey, Fionna", "title": "Book Review | In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, by Sophie Chao (Duke University Press, 2022)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "book; chao; human; marind; oil; palm", "summary": "She brings us through the Upper Bian landscape in West Papua to the other-than-human worlds of the Marind Peoples, sago (dakh in Marind or Metroxylon sagu Rottb\u00f8ll), and oil palm (sawit in Indonesian or Elaeis guineensis Jacquin). Later in Chapter 3, one of Chao\u2019s interlocutors, Oktavianus, lamented that \u201cthe problem with oil palm is that we do not know its skin\u201d (94).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-43487", "words": "10585", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Sevilla, Jessica; del Bosque, Rosela", "title": "Relaciones y po\u00e9ticas fronterizas en el Archivo Familiar del R\u00edo Colorado", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agua; antes; archivo; aunque; baja; california; ciudad; colorado; como; con; con el; con la; cuando; cuerpos; c\u00f3mo; de agua; de la; del; del r\u00edo; delta; desarrollo; desde; desierto; el agua; el archivo; en el; en la; entre; espacio; esta; estados; este; estos; familiar; figura; flujos; frontera; fuente; hacia; historia; humano; imagen; jessica; laguna; las; los; mayor; mexicali; m\u00e1s; nos; nosotras; nuestra; otros; paisaje; para; parte; pensar; pero; planta; por; porque; proyecto; que; que el; regi\u00f3n; relaciones; relaci\u00f3n; r\u00edo; r\u00edo colorado; sea; serie; sevilla; sobre; son; sus; tambi\u00e9n; una; unidos; valle; v\u00e9ase; y el; y la", "summary": "El conocimiento lleg\u00f3 al cuerpo en la Laguna Salada, al pensar en la muerte de una abuela, la evaporaci\u00f3n total de su cuerpo y de la misma laguna. y narrar las relaciones con el agua y el r\u00edo en Mexicali sin la benevolencia auxiliadora de las ciencias y la mirada del explorador?, \u00bfcu\u00e1les son las relaciones que queremos narrar?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-43497", "words": "761", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hebert, Pato", "title": "Artist Statement", "date": "2024", "keywords": "hebert; pandemic; pato", "summary": "mailto:pato.hebert@nyu.edu Special Section: Autoimmunities in the Wake of COVID-19 | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 10 (1) Pato Hebert, 2024 2 The raw, expansive park also offers the gift of images. The cover image comes from the Lingering project, a large body of work that addresses the COVID-19 condition of long hauling, a state of ongoing symptoms and challenges that persist well after the initial 4-6 weeks of acute infection.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-43542", "words": "7737", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Sandoval-Cervantes, Iv\u00e1n", "title": "Before and After: Dogs\u2019 Biographies Along and Across the Mexico-US Border", "date": "2025", "keywords": "animal; biographies; border; care; ciudad; dogs; individual; ju\u00e1rez; life; lives; mexico; organizations; photo; politics; social", "summary": "The photo collages seek to create rescued dogs as objects of care, but what does it mean to think about care in a critical way, \u201cbeyond the conflation of care with affection, happiness, attachment, and positive feeling\u201d (Murphy 2015, 719)? Caring as Erasure The act of rescuing and adopting street dogs from Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez appears to be an evident act of care. This collage, however, is not only about this particular dog, but also about the construction of dogs\u2019 biographies as objects of care and, thus, about the effects of that care directed towards rescued dogs.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-43810", "words": "1823", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Clevenger, Alba", "title": "Book Review | Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire, by Mel Y. Chen (Duke University Press, 2023) : Book Review", "date": "2025", "keywords": "book; chemical; chen; disability; race; university", "summary": "Book Review | Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire, by Mel Y. Chen (Duke University Press, 2023) Book Review | Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire, by Mel Y. Chen (Duke University Press, 2023) Chen further weaves together intoxication, race, and disability by exploring how chemical intoxication is part of chronicity, a method of governance through temporalized modes of control.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-44066", "words": "5421", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Frankel, Alexandra Vieux; Fritsch, Kelly; Berkhout, Suze", "title": "Introduction: Undoing and Unfolding Temporal Modes of Transplantation", "date": "2024", "keywords": "alexandra; berkhout; frictions; fritsch; futures; futurity; imaginaries; kelly; medicine; section; suze; theory; transplant; transplantation; university", "summary": "The result is a tentacular (Haraway 2016) accounting of transplant futures rather than a genealogical scholarly intervention. The final piece in the Special Section, the Perspectives piece, \u201cLiving with the Pharmakon: A Call for Futurity\u201d by Stephanie Hudson, invites an interrogation of accessibility to solid organ transplantation and how access to transplant futures is configured in biomedicine.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-44213", "words": "1548", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "30", "author": "Zhou, Kedi", "title": "Book Review | Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling, by Jaya Keaney (Duke University Press, 2023)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "family; keaney; making; queer", "summary": "This colorblind approach can inadvertently reproduce the same racial hierarchies and exclusions that queer families seek to resist. Her text asserts that while love can be a unifying force, it can simultaneously function as a mechanism of erasure, particularly in multiracial queer families, where people often minimize or celebrate racial differences superficially.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-44400", "words": "1742", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "35", "author": "Heitz, Kaily", "title": "Book Review | Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times, by Erin McElroy (Duke University Press, 2024) ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "capitalist; chapter; mcelroy; silicon; state; valley", "summary": "They point to the way that liberalism is the vector through which fascism proliferates by specifically sublimating anti-capitalist movements for housing and environmental justice. The Coda, finally, links anti-Roma and anti-Black racisms and technologies, and proposes abolition from property as the key to liberatory futures.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-44403", "words": "1623", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "30", "author": "Owens, Golden", "title": "Book Review | Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism by Apryl Williams (Stanford University Press, 2024)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "dating; racism; users; williams", "summary": "Examining how online dating platforms privilege whiteness at the expense of marginalized people, Not My Type explores the concept of sexual racism, which Williams defines as \u201cpersonal racialized reasoning in sexual, intimate, and/or romantic partner choice or interest\u201d (28). Williams asserts that sexual racism has been automated by online dating platforms via algorithms that filter who daters see by who algorithms think individuals will find attractive, based in part on users\u2019 own looks and in part on the proliferation of white beauty standards.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-44600", "words": "3304", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Y\u00e9benes, Zenia; Parrini-Roses, Rodrigo; Smith, Lindsay A.; Torres, Mar\u00eda", "title": "Mexico is a burial machine : A conversation with Marcela Turati", "date": "2025", "keywords": "book; fernando; m\u00e9xico; people; san; turati; violence", "summary": "El libro San Fernando: \u00daltima parada, publicado en 2023, permite hablar sobre las maneras en que las fronteras constituyen nodos complejos de flujos humanos, econ\u00f3micos, pol\u00edticos y criminales, donde se entrecruzan ecolog\u00edas, paisajes, territorios y pr\u00e1cticas sociales diversas. Turati\u2019s latest book, San Fernando: \u00daltima parada (2023), is the result of 12 years of research on the city of San Fernando in Tamaulipas, 85 miles from the Mexican border with Texas.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-44601", "words": "8622", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Smith, Lindsay A.; Torres, Mar\u00eda; Parrini-Roses, Rodrigo", "title": "Introduction: Knowing Borders: Materialidades, ecolog\u00edas, est\u00e9ticas", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anzald\u00faa; attention; border; borderlands; care; del; english; feminist; human; infrastructures; language; las; mexico; migration; new; pocho; politics; practices; press; que; research; river; section; space; spanish; states; university; work", "summary": "Tras llevar a cabo una revisi\u00f3n cuidadosa de las literaturas sobre fronteras y migraci\u00f3n en los Estados Unidos y M\u00e9xico, sugerimos el poder anal\u00edtico de estos lentes para nutrir la atenci\u00f3n feminista tanto a las violencias como a la vitalidad y las potencias que se despliegan en las fronteras contempor\u00e1neas, abogando por una pol\u00edtica situada de la solidaridad y el cuidado. Despite this intricate, intimate relationship, Indigenous border communities are too rarely invited to participate in conversations about the borderlands.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-44728", "words": "9964", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Gonz\u00e1lez-Duarte, Columba; Sundberg, Juanita", "title": "Tracing Relational Care Across Borders: Towards Geopolitical Imaginaries Otherwise", "date": "2025", "keywords": "berries; berry; border; canada; care; colonial; communities; conditions; desert; eulalia; feminist; gonz\u00e1lez; human; kerian; land; life; m\u00e9xico; national; north; practices; press; relations; research; settler; soils; university; work; workers", "summary": "I connect my long-term research on monarch butterflies with the \u201cberry revolution\u201d in the context of NAFTA, while also demonstrating how ancestral forms of land care persist within the berry fields. Michelle Daigle\u2019s reflections on Indigenous care work address the spatial dimensions of care and draw attention to the ways \u201ccare work is embodied through movement to sustain, rebuild, and be accountable to the relationships that shape Indigenous life\u201d (2023, 85).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-44763", "words": "8406", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Pollock, Anne; Wakeford, Nina; Pittea, Maithili; Leach, Aysha", "title": "Careful Whisper, Heart Feminism ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anne; anne pollock; aysha; catalyst; feminism; heart; heart feminism; leach; maithili; nina; nina wakeford; pittea; pollock; science; section; technoscience; theory; wakeford", "summary": "I was able to reallocate a small pot of funding to hire Mait as an intern to be paired with the intern appointed by Goldsmiths, art student Aysha Leach. We had known each other for decades and she had drawn on another of my essays (on queer birds, which was published in the Object-Oriented Feminism edited collection, Behar 2016)\u2014in a project commissioned by Science Gallery London that involved drag kings and endocrinologists.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45099", "words": "1131", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Paz, Nirvana", "title": "Cover Art | Hogar-refugio para migrantes La 72 / Home-shelter for migrants La 72: From: Collateral Damage Series", "date": "2025", "keywords": "como; mirada; para", "summary": "Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de M\u00e9xico; Ganadora del concurso Cuerpo y fruta, Embajada de Francia en M\u00e9xico, Komopa Jap\u00f3n 2001, entre otras. \u00a0 \u00a0 Cover Art | Hogar-refugio para migrantes La 72 /Home-shelter for migrants La 72 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nirvana Paz contact@nirvanapaz.com \u00a0 A diferencia de la concepci\u00f3n m\u00e1s tradicional de la fotograf\u00eda como pr\u00e1ctica de extra\u00f1amiento y construcci\u00f3n de otros fotogr\u00e1ficos, mi inter\u00e9s como artista visual est\u00e1 marcada por procesos de empat\u00eda y reconocimiento.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "catalyst-45194", "words": "1877", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Peterson-Salahuddin, Chelsea", "title": "Book Review | Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice, by Ashleigh Greene Wade (Duke University Press, 2024)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "digital; girls; practices; wade", "summary": "While Wade does not ignore the potential harm that may be brought to Black girls through their use of corporate-owned social media platforms, she asks the reader to expand their conceptualization of Black girls\u2019 agency within these spaces to highlight the often dynamic, intersectional, and nuanced relationship that Black girls develop with digital platforms. Here, Wade puts her work in conversation with larger discussions in Black girlhood studies that argue Black feminism can overshadow the \u201cgirl-specific\u201d aspects of Black girls\u2019 lived experiences, and more specifically, their media mailto:caaps@umich.edu Book Review 2 | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 11 (2) Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, 2025 practices, in line with other scholars working at the intersection of technology and Black girlhood, such as Andrea Adomako and Zari Taylor.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45429", "words": "1996", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Velocci, Beans", "title": "Book Review | Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics, by Jess Whatcott (Duke University Press, 2024)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "book; eugenics; future; press; university; whatcott", "summary": "A succinct epilogue reiterates Whatcott\u2019s ultimate goal: using this history of eugenics to inform carceral abolition in the present. Whatcott makes two main interventions into the history of eugenics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45494", "words": "3856", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Foster, Laura; Parvin, Nassim; Pollock, Anne", "title": "Catalyst Lead Editing as Creative Worldbuilding", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anne; catalyst; feminist; foster; journal; laura; nassim; parvin; pollock; technoscience", "summary": "Building off previous successful requests for institutional support made by Murphy (University of Toronto) and Deboleena Roy (Emory University), I wrote a detailed proposal and spoke to administrators at Indiana University Bloomington to make the case that feminist journals like Catalyst are not only intellectually vital but also deserving of real institutional investment. Unlike many journals anchored by traditional publishers or professional societies, Catalyst is collectively run and intentionally independent.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45495", "words": "1808", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Cheng, Jih-Fei", "title": "Book Review | Microbial Resolution: Visualization and Security in the War Against Emerging Microbes, by Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "kim; microbes; microbial; resolution; war", "summary": "Book Review | Microbial Resolution: Visualization and Security in the War Against Emerging Microbes, by Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) Kim\u2019s use of the term microbial resolution entwines two dimensions of preemptive biopreparedness: the \u201cdiscursive processes and visualization practices in the U.S.- led war against emerging microbes\u201d and the act of \u201csolving\u201d the \u201cproblem\u201d of an \u201cill-formed entity (such as a diffuse threat)\u201d by bringing it \u201cinto shape\u201d (5).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45558", "words": "3717", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Krishnan, Shweta; Jencka, Mathena; Langmead, Abigail; Manzo, Annabelle; Matsumoto, Rio; Mcauliffe, Raven; Silva de Almeida Barros, Beatriz", "title": "A Pedagogical Ecosystem: Building Connections In and Beyond the Classroom", "date": "2025", "keywords": "catalyst; class; feminism; gender; krishnan; section; studies; technoscience; theory; university", "summary": "Overall, we all agreed that thinking with feminist STS enriched our overall intellectual contribution to critical feminist studies. While I chose to focus on feminist science technology studies, the seminar has focused on other topics in the previous years.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45589", "words": "4853", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Herzig, Rebecca; Subramaniam, Banu", "title": "Here We Go Again: On the Biological", "date": "2025", "keywords": "banu; biological; catalyst; feminism; fsts; gender; herzig; press; rebecca; science; sex; studies; subramaniam; technoscience; theory; women", "summary": "Three Lasting FSTS Contributions Among the contributions that an FSTS perspective might bring to contemporary claims about \u201cimmutable biological classifications,\u201d is, first, and perhaps most simply, that \u201cbiology\u201d is not the body. Keywords sex/gender, biology, biological classification, science, biopolitics mailto:rherzig@bates.edu mailto:bs108@wellesley.edu Tenth Anniversary Section |", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45590", "words": "7385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Keilty, Patrick; Murphy, M.; Subramaniam, Banu; Aristarkhova, Irina; Pienaar, Kiran", "title": "Reflections on Catalyst\u2019s legacy and future: Catalyst editors in conversation", "date": "2025", "keywords": "catalyst; feminist; journal; keilty; people; technoscience", "summary": "When Mara and David [Serlin, former Catalyst editor] said, \u201cOkay, we can\u2019t do it. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 11 (2): 1\u201316. http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 \u00a9 Patrick Keilty, M. Murphy, Banu Subramaniam, Irina Aristarkhova, and Kiran Pienaar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45612", "words": "6868", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Roy, Deboleena; Pienaar, Kiran; Lee, Robyn", "title": "Catalyst Origin Stories: Deboleena Roy in Conversation with Kiran Pienaar and Robyn Lee", "date": "2025", "keywords": "catalyst; deboleena; feminist; journal; robyn; work", "summary": "Even in that respect, I think we\u2019re a little different than a lot of academic journals out there, so it\u2019s a broader space that\u2019s more inclusive. I thought even back then, \u201cWhy isn\u2019t there a feminist science studies journal?\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45635", "words": "7299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Catalyst editorial collective; Pienaar, Kiran; Aristarkhova, Irina; Lee, Robyn; Phan, Thao; Chacko, Xan; Truyts, Carina; Cifor, Marika", "title": "Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary section of Catalyst", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anniversary; catalyst; editorial; feminism; issue; journal; labor; section; team; technoscience; theory; work", "summary": "When you are despairing, when exhaustion is the main thing that plagues feminist work. You never know when knowledge would become community, https://litsciarts.org/slsa2021/ https://lsa.umich.edu/ac/people/faculty/lnakamur.html https://www.osmankhan.com/bio https://www.osmankhan.com/bio https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=a3tVgIcuGyk http://imanicoopermkandawire.com/ http://imanicoopermkandawire.com/ http://imanicoopermkandawire.com/ https://provost.duke.edu/profile/zakiyyah-iman-jackson/ https://chanda.science/ https://chanda.science/ http://cristobalmartinez.net/ https://lizlerman.com/ https://www.janeprophet.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQbu94GAw50 Tenth Anniversary Section | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 11 (2) Editorial Team 2025 13 when community would become energy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45636", "words": "4135", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Kuljian, Christa; Chacko, Xan", "title": "An Origin Story for Feminist Science Studies: A Conversation with Christa Kuljian", "date": "2025", "keywords": "book; catalyst; christa; feminist; kuljian; race; science; studies; women", "summary": "I\u2019ve also been heartened to see an uptick in job postings for feminist science studies, often cross-listed between science studies and feminist studies, or specifically within women's studies departments in the US, Europe, and Australia. She appears in the book in 1994, at the joint conference of the Society of Social Studies of Science and the History of Science Society, when she delivered a scathing attack on Bruno Latour, the French scholar of science studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45638", "words": "2549", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Wood, Jordan; Scarce, Yhonnie", "title": "Cover Art \u2013 Artist statement and Cover Artist Jordan Wood in Conversation with Indigenous Australian Artist Yhonnie Scarce: On History, Haunted Places, and Fractured Identities", "date": "2025", "keywords": "jordan; scarce; wood", "summary": "\u00a9 Jordan Wood and Yhonnie Scarce, 2025 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Cover Art\u2014Artist\u2019s Statement Teacher, 2021, by Jordan Wood Jordan Wood jordanlouisewood@gmail.com Teacher, 2021, is collage on a found silver gelatin print. Jordan Wood and Yhonnie Scarce, 2025 Figure 1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45670", "words": "5818", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Hickman, Louise; Mills, Mara; Serlin, David", "title": "Alt Text: Feminist Technoscience Meets Crip Authorship", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; catalyst; david; disability; journal; louise; mara; mills; studies; technoscience; work", "summary": "And we wanted to foreground disability studies, and feminist disability studies even more specifically, both at the level of content as well as at the infrastructural level in terms of editorial policy. On the occasion of Catalyst\u2019s tenth anniversary, Mara Mills initiated a conversation between herself and two other members of the journal\u2019s first editorial team, Louise Hickman and David Serlin, to reflect on the way that feminist disability studies, as an interdisciplinary field, and accessibility features, such as alt text, were incorporated into the journal\u2019s emerging editorial ethos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45780", "words": "258", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Ding, Gao", "title": "Tenth Anniversary Artwork: Gao Ding's \u2018Bits and Pieces\u2019 ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "ding", "summary": "ff CATALYSTCATALYST feminism, theory, technoscience Tenth Anniversary Artwork: Gao Ding\u2019s Bits and Pieces Gao Ding gao.ding@u.nus.edu This digital collage draws on the Smithsonian\u2019s open-access archive. ff Ding, Gao. 2025.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45781", "words": "466", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Tilsen, Jenny", "title": "Tenth Anniversary Artwork: Jenny Tilsen's \u2018Self Portrait in Fragments\u2019", "date": "2025", "keywords": "jenny; tilsen", "summary": "2380-3312 \u00a9 Jenny Tilsen, 2025 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license CATALYSTCATALYST feminism, theory, technoscience Figure 1. Jenny Tilsen, Self-Portrait in Fragments (collage), 2020.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45807", "words": "1033", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Van Wichelen, Sonja", "title": "Relational Presence", "date": "2025", "keywords": "microbiome; populations; van; wichelen", "summary": "Microbiome research, therefore, does not simply reflect microbial reality; it inscribes microbial life within systems of control and optimization, generating new populations that can be governed and intervened upon. Conceptual divisions of microbial populations into those from urban, industrialized, and (over)developed places (dysbiotic or \u201cunhealthy\u201d microbiome) against those from un(der)developed, pre-industrialized, and subsistence economies (eubiotic or \u201chealthy\u201d microbiome) make certain bodies (and their microbiota samples) more treasured for the extraction of bioinformation (Van Wichelen 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45808", "words": "963", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Tien, Jianni", "title": "The Geological", "date": "2025", "keywords": "earth; geological; life; population", "summary": "\u00a9 Jianni Tien, 2025 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non- Commercial No Derivatives license The Geological Jianni Tien University of Sydney jianni.tien@sydney.edu.au Keywords geophilosophy, geology, geopower, populations, planetary, feminist theory, Anthropocene Populations have been theorized through the scientific disciplines of chemistry (Hayden 2014), biology (Foucault 1978), and computer science (Halpern 2023), amongst others. In this short provocation I ask, What could happen if populations were theorized through the discipline of geology?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45809", "words": "1360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Waldby, Catherine", "title": "Malthusian Discontents", "date": "2025", "keywords": "catherine; malthus; population; women", "summary": "Because land is inherently finite, and cannot be increased, this dynamic can only be avoided by constraints on human sexual desire, particularly late, provident marriage. His famous Essay on the Principle of Population (there were several versions) addresses the consequences of his claim that the both the underlying dynamics of population growth and the capacity for agricultural production are constants: Population increases geometrically while agriculture, constrained by land scarcity, grows arithmetically (Malthus 1798).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45810", "words": "974", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "valentine, kylie", "title": "Staying with the Sign", "date": "2025", "keywords": "murphy; people; policy; populations", "summary": "These are populations described in longitudinal cohort studies and statistical datasets of health, in articles in economics and policy journals: aging populations, urban populations, drug-using populations, unemployed, and at-risk populations. At least some of these concerns are animated by statistical evidence pointing to apparent population decline in well- being and achievement over time, recalling earlier eugenic concerns about population health and degeneration (Meloni 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45813", "words": "988", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Adams, Sophie", "title": "Articulating Agency", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adams; agency; change; transition", "summary": "Population as undifferentiated, natural force no longer features explicitly in environmental discourses\u2014but, as I outline below, echoes of such a framing continue to appear in the way that the mechanisms of sustainable transition are understood, and in debate about the place of people in such transitions. In a formative article titled \u201cMore Evolution Than Revolution: Transition Management in Public Policy\u201d (2001), Dutch transition theorists Jan Rotmans and colleagues locate the roots of the transition concept\u2014 http://S.Adams@latrobe.edu.au/ Roundtable: Pursuits of Populations | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 11 (2) Sophie Adams, 2025 2 defined as a process of change in the structural character of society\u2014in biology and the study of population dynamics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45814", "words": "1462", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Keaney, Jaya", "title": "Artifice", "date": "2025", "keywords": "artifice; feminist; jaya; keaney; population; reproductive", "summary": "First, it can foreground how a heteronormative model of genealogy that throbs within histories of population anxiety is increasingly joined by a logic of replication. Here, population anxieties take non-conceptive and non- genealogical forms, instead following logics of copy and imitation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45815", "words": "1760", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Liu, Jessie", "title": "Homophonic Followings", "date": "2025", "keywords": "china; history; liu; reproduction", "summary": "While homophonic followings as a method does not inherently yield this insight, the unpredictable juxtapositions that are created through its practice\u2014in this case between babies and frogs\u2014push us to examine moments in reproductive history that are outside of dominant discourses and processes, which for feminist scholars can also help to reveal how reproductive policies were negotiated, resisted, and reshaped on the ground. As I show, tracing reproductive homophones can bring us to surprising moments in reproductive history, moments that are often marginal or forgotten, but in fact can point to alternative possibilities of how, in this case, Chinese reproductive history might have unfolded.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45816", "words": "1397", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Quinan, CQ", "title": "Replication and Recognition", "date": "2025", "keywords": "gender; quinan; trans", "summary": "While in our increasingly Roundtable: Pursuits of Populations | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 11 (2) CQ Quinan, 2025 5 biometrically-determined world, one must be digitally legible in order to lay claim to rights, what does it mean when AI image generators exacerbate stereotypical notions of what a \u201ctransgender woman\u201d or a \u201ctransgender man\u201d looks like? AI Image generator\u2019s response to \u2018Produce a photograph of a non-binary person\u2019 Just as facial recognition software struggles to accurately \u201crecognize\u201d nonbinary users (precisely because the technology is binary-based), AI image generators cannot consistently represent a coherent person outside binary gender norms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45817", "words": "1085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Pala, Roberta", "title": "Fragility", "date": "2025", "keywords": "herd; immunity; population", "summary": "The case of herd immunity, as in the form of population immunity that is produced specifically through effective vaccines, is an interesting example of the ways in which the biological capacities of the population are used to advance biotechnological fixes in a neutral way. In practice, though, population immunity is a much more fragile, inconsistent biosocial and ecological phenomenon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45820", "words": "1004", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Reardon-Smith, Mardi", "title": "Compromised Care", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cats; conservation; species", "summary": "While compassionate conservation advocates agitate for the development of non- lethal control methods, and some Aboriginal Traditional Owner groups express concerns about the impacts of cat control tools on valued non-target species, like the dingo, in general, public support for feral cat control is at an all-time high. Conservation biologists engage in a range of feral cat control programs, including cat-proof fencing, shooting, trapping, baiting, and\u2014increasingly\u2014developing new technologies to identify and (lethally) control feral cats.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45821", "words": "2360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Keaney, Jaya; Phan, Thao; van Wichelen, Sonja", "title": "Introduction to Pursuits of Population: An Antipodean Toolkit", "date": "2025", "keywords": "feminist; life; phan; population; technoscience; theory; thinking; university", "summary": "Population and population thinking are distinct here; we are attentive to both powerful intensifying rhetorics of populationism from populist states\u2014driven by selective pronatalism and barely submerged hierarchies of lives worth nourishing vis-\u00e0-vis matter left to whither\u2014alongside the many banal iterations of population as an epistemological frame for science. As we traverse a cultural moment where hegemonic polities actively dismantle democratic infrastructures, justified by a searing rhetoric of populism and fragile populations whose privilege needs defending, a renewed reflection on populations and population thinking is warranted.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "catalyst-45869", "words": "896", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Byrne, Henrietta", "title": "Refusing Colonial Legibility ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "abc; colonial; study", "summary": "I argue that knowing populations through cohort studies such as the ABC study privileges certain forms of colonial http://henrietta.byrne@sydney.edu.au/ Roundtable: Pursuits of Populations \u00a9 Henrietta Byrne, 2025 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Refusing Colonial Legibility Henrietta Byrne University of Sydney henrietta.byrne@sydney.edu.au Keywords populations, birth cohort studies, epigenetics, legibility, anthropology In 2009 the Australian government delivered a report titled Closing the Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage: The Challenge for Australia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]