Journal
SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE
Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 701-721Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0306312714531473
Keywords
affect; equivocation; experiment; interdisciplinarity; lie detection; neuroscience; transdisciplinarity
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- European Neuroscience and Society Network (European Science Foundation)
- Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation's University Investment Grant
- University of Illinois Research Board at the University of Illinois
- Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois
- Kinesiology and Community Health Department at the University of Illinois
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This article is about a transdisciplinary project between the social, human and life sciences, and the felt experiences of the researchers involved. Transdisciplinary' and interdisciplinary' research-modes have been the subject of much attention lately - especially as they cross boundaries between the social/humanistic and natural sciences. However, there has been less attention, from within science and technology studies, to what it is actually like to participate in such a research-space. This article contributes to that literature through an empirical reflection on the progress of one collaborative and transdisciplinary project: a novel experiment in neuroscientific lie detection, entangling science and technology studies, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Its central argument is twofold: (1) that, in addition to ideal-type tropes of transdisciplinary conciliation or integration, such projects may also be organized around some more subterranean logics of ambivalence, reserve and critique; (2) that an account of the mundane ressentiment of collaboration allows for a more careful attention to the awkward forms of experimental politics' that may flow through, and indeed propel, collaborative work more broadly. Building on these claims, the article concludes with a suggestion that such subterranean logics may be indissociable from some forms of collaboration, and it proposes an ethic of equivocal speech' as a way to live with and through these kinds of transdisciplinary experiences.
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