IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB933360562

Give Me an Experiment and I Will Raise a Laboratory (July 2016)

Gross, Matthias (Author)

Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 41
Issue: 4
Pages: 613-634

DOI: 10.1177/0162243915617005

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Geothermal resources Laboratories Participation Risk Experiments and experimentation Science Latour, Bruno

Bruno Latour once argued that science laboratories actively modify the wider society by displacing crucial actors outside the laboratory into the “field.” This article turns this idea on its head by using the case of geothermal energy utilization to demonstrate that in many cases it is the experimental setup outside the laboratory that is there first, with the activities normally associated with a laboratory setting only being decided upon and implemented post hoc. As soon as the actors involved perceive unknowns and uncertainties, these are relocated to various kinds of closed laboratories to be dealt with in a more controlled environment. This is done, for instance, by inviting stakeholders to laboratory-like settings or by analyzing the geochemical composition of fluids in laboratories. Thus, the risk-laden production of new knowledge by means of real-world experimentation amounts to a practice of relocating the context of discovery in society to laboratories of justification sometimes defined as such post hoc. Experimental processes in society can then be conceptualized as “real” experiments and laboratory activities as merely temporarily subordinated components of the larger experiment.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB933360562/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Leonie Dendler; Gaby-Fleur Böl; (July 2021)
Increasing Engagement in Regulatory Science: Reflections from the Field of Risk Assessment (/isis/citation/CBB423909656/)

Article Anna Krzywoszynska; Watson Matt; Alastair Buckley; Prue Chiles; Nicky Gregson; Helen Holmes; Jose Mawyin; (September 2018)
Opening Up the Participation Laboratory: The Cocreation of Publics and Futures in Upstream Participation (/isis/citation/CBB795838743/)

Article Alisha Rankin; (2022)
How to 'Be Expert' in Early Modern Europe (/isis/citation/CBB778994997/)

Article Jennifer S. Singh; (Marvh 2015)
Narratives of Participation in Autism Genetics Research (/isis/citation/CBB713757349/)

Article Brandon Boesch; (2018)
Representing in the Student Laboratory (/isis/citation/CBB947401532/)

Article Adrian Currie; (2020)
Bottled Understanding: The Role of Lab Work in Ecology (/isis/citation/CBB604254804/)

Article Loo, Stephen; Sellbach, Undine; (2013)
A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of Insects and Humans in Jakob Von Uexküll's Laboratory (/isis/citation/CBB001320126/)

Chapter Klein, Ursula; (2004)
Chemical Technoscience in Eighteenth-Century Europe (/isis/citation/CBB000411176/)

Article Korff, Sebastian; (2012)
Das Geiger-Müller-Zählrohr (/isis/citation/CBB001420907/)

Article Sjoerd Zwart; (2022)
Engineering Laboratory Experiments – a Typology (/isis/citation/CBB476453019/)

Thesis Clow, Nani N.; (1999)
The laboratory of Victorian culture: Experimental physics, industry, and pedagogy in the Liverpool Laboratory of Oliver Lodge, 1881--1900 (England) (/isis/citation/CBB001562684/)

Article Klein, Ursula; (2008)
The Laboratory Challenge: Some Revisions of the Standard View of Early Modern Experimentation (/isis/citation/CBB000950509/)

Article Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg; (2001)
History of Science and the Practices of Experiments (/isis/citation/CBB000770060/)

Article Stewart, Larry; (2007)
Experimental Spaces and the Knowledge Economy (/isis/citation/CBB000772554/)

Article Beek, Viola van; (2009)
“Man lasse doch diese Dinge selber einmal sprechen”. Experimentierkästen, Experimentalanleitungen und Erzählungen zwischen 1870 und 1930 (/isis/citation/CBB000933310/)

Article Vanessa Heggie; (December 2016)
Higher and colder: The success and failure of boundaries in high altitude and Antarctic research stations (/isis/citation/CBB453806040/)

Article Pere Grapí; (2020)
The Reinvention of the Nitrous Gas: Eudiometrical Test in the Context of Dalton’s Law on the Multiple Proportions of Combination (/isis/citation/CBB622848708/)

Multimedia Object Lukas Rieppel; Cowles, Henry M.; (2020)
Henry M. Cowles, “The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey” (Harvard UP, 2020) (/isis/citation/CBB489190367/)

Article Maria Teresa Monti; (2020)
Spallanzani, la chimica e la “variazione accettabile” (/isis/citation/CBB416789495/)

Book Newcomb, Sally; (2009)
The World in a Crucible: Laboratory Practice and Geological Theory at the Beginning of Geology (/isis/citation/CBB001021017/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}