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  • 2012

  • Allhutter, Doris (2012): Mind Scripting. In: Science, Technology, & Human Values 37 (6), S. 684-707. DOI: 10.1177/0162243911401633

    Abstract: The interventionist turn in science and technology studies (STS) increasingly involves researchers with practices of technology development and thus entails the need for appropriate methodologies. Based in software engineering, this article introduces the deconstructive technique of "mind scripting" as a method for analyzing processes of the co-materialization of gender and technology and as a tool to support cooperative, reflective work practices. Anchored in critical design approaches, "mind scripting" is a means for development teams to disclose discourses implicitly guiding work practices in order to make negotiable the underlying value systems. After discussing its foundation in deconstructivist feminist theory, the author illustrates how the method is applied by drawing on selected empirical results. Generating insights into the reproduction of hegemonic social discourses in development processes, "mind scripting" enables the rethinking of established ways of doing.

    Keywords: deconstruction, design practices, Gender, Konstruktion des Selbst, mind scripting, performativity, practice-based learning, Science and Technology Studies (STS), script

  • 2011

  • Tyler, Colin (2011): Power, alienation and performativity in capitalist societies. In: European Journal of Social Theory 14 (2), S. 161-179. DOI: 10.1177/1368431011403460

    Abstract: The article presents a model of performative agency in capitalist societies. The first section reconsiders the problem of third-dimensional power as developed by Steven Lukes, focusing on the relationships between universal human needs and social forms. The second section uses the concepts of the 'self', 'I' and 'person' to characterize the relationships between human nature, affect, individual alienation, social institutions and personal judgement. Alienation is argued to be inherent in human agency, rather than being solely created by capitalism. The next section applies this analysis within an agonal theory of civil society that is driven by the individual's performative participation in associations that compete within institutional settings. Finally the article considers the political ramifications of this model, rejecting contemporary constitutionalist approaches in favour of a revised form of pluralist associationalism. Throughout, the article warns of the dangerous marginalization of emotions (or 'affect') by excessively self-conscious, rationalist approaches such as Mead's social theory, liberal universalism and even some performative theories.

    Keywords: Affect, agonal politics, alienation, alienation and self, Disziplin, Entfremdung, Favoriten, human needs, Marx, Modelle/Theorien, performativity, POWER, Soziale Angemessenheit, Soziologie, Soziologische Entfremdungstheorien
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