Cover’s comment
Autonomous Trap 001 (2017) by James Bridle
Autonomous Trap 001 is a trapping ritual for self-driving cars designed to
raise questions about autonomous vehicles. The “trap” consists of a salt circle, a traditional form of protection – from within or without – in mag-ical practice. By reproducing a “No Entry” road marking, the circle con-fuses the car’s vision system into believing it is surrounded by no entry points, and entraps it.The car itself is a research vehicle built by the artist, who wrote the soft-ware, equipped the vehicle with cameras and built neural networks to transform it into a self-driving car.
The project is part of Bridle’s work and research on contemporary tech-nologies of automation. It directs our attention to socio-technical issues such as the automatization of labour and the power asymmetries it creates, by allowing the imagining of a future where cab drivers chalk white lines on side streets to derail self-driving Ubers which are putting them out of work. In this respect, Autonomous Trap 001 might represent a new pos-sible form of socio-technical resistance.
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(University of Antwerp – BE)
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(University of Padova – IT)
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(University of Bergamo – IT)
Enrico Marchetti
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Alvise Mattozzi
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Sergio Minniti
(University of Padova – IT)
Barbara Morsello
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Giuseppina Pellegrino
(University of Calabria – IT)
Barbara Pentimalli
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Giacomo Poderi
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Annalisa Pelizza
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Tomás Sánchez Criado
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Cornelius Schubert
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Barbara Allen
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Mario Biagioli (University of California
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Wiebe Bijker
(Maastricht University – NL)
Geoffrey Bowker
(University of California Irvine – USA)
Massimiano Bucchi
(University of Trento – IT)
Christine Hine
(University of Surrey – UK)
Massimo Mazzotti
(University of California Berkeley – USA)
Amade M'charek
(University of Amsterdam – NL)
Alessandro Mongili
(University of Padova – IT)
Michela Nacci
(University of L’Aquila – IT)
Federico Neresini
(University of Padova – IT)
Giuliano Pancaldi
(University of Bologna – IT) Luigi Pellizzoni
(University of Pisa – IT)
Trevor Pinch
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Lucy Suchman
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Mariachiara Tallacchini (Catholic University of Piacenza – IT)
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Table of Contents
TECNOSCiENZA
Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Vol. 10, Nr. 2, December 2019
Cover Autonomous Trap 001 (2017) by James Bridle
Essays
James W.E. Lowe, Sabina Leonelli and Gail Davies Training to Translate: Understanding and Informing Translational
Animal Research in Pre-Clinical Pharmacology p. 5
Letizia Zampino
Self-tracking Technologies and the Menstrual Cycle: Embodiment
and Engagement with Lay and Expert Knowledge p. 31
Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma
Reflections on Self-tracking Routines: Conducting Maintenance
of Digital Data p. 53
Mariacristina Sciannamblo
In Other Words: Writing Research as Ethico-onto-epistemic Practice p. 79
Matthew DelSesto
Forming and Opening the Socio-spatial Logic of Constraint p. 99
Crossing Boundaries
Paolo Giardullo, Luigi Pellizzoni, Sonia Brondi, Giorgio Osti, Paula Bögel and Paul Upham Connecting Dots: Multiple Perspectives on Socio-technical Transition
and Social Practices p. 121
Scenario
Michael Schlauch
Learning as a Matter of Concern. Reviewing Conventional,
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Book Reviews
p. 173
L. Centemeri La permaculture ou l’art de réhabiter [Permaculture or the
art of re-inhabiting] (2019)
by Silvia Bruzzone
A. Pelizza Communities at a Crossroads: Material semiotics for online
sociability in the fade of cyberculture (2018)
by Polina Kolozaridi
M. Puig de la Bellacasa Matters of Care. Speculative Ethics in More
Than Human Worlds (2017)
