Christopher M. Kelty

Hello friends. We made a podcast. It's about nature in Los Angeles. Rats, mountain lions, sustainability, coyotes, feral cats, hazing, and also, Satan. @uclasustainla @uclaioes newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/l…

Here's one way to understand what has happened to the public university in the last 5 years: My bookmarks used to look like this: library.ucla.edu, it.ucla.edu, hr.ucla.edu, etc. Now they all look like this:… mastodon.social/@ckelty/1096…

i like how this article was written by Borges.

“The two scientists sat there thinking, or appearing to think, staring at the robot that continued to move on the table.” nytimes.com/2023/01/06/scien…

i dreamed all my friends in academia hated their jobs and wanted to move oh wait

“We don’t want the O.J. [Simpson freeway] chase happening with P-22,” she said.

apropos of any future STS handbook this editorial raises great points about method. #ESOCITE4S22 #sts

And if not a handbook, then what? And of course... can it create some revenue for the 4S and not be a cost to the membership? So many questions! Join me in Mexico to discuss! 7/7 #ESOCITE4S22 #STS

Does STS need a new edition of the handbook? Can such efforts actually "represent" the field rather than creating new exclusions? What is a programmatic statement for a field as diverse as STS? 6/7 #ESOCITE4S22 #STS

There have been many other handbooks in STS too---postcolonial sts, digital STS, queer feminist science studies, Indigenous STS and many more programmatic statements. 5/7 #ESOCITE4S22 #STS

Materially, the STS Handbook provides a revenue source (through royalties from MIT Press) for the 4S Scholarly Society, but symbolically they are often much more than just a book. 4/7 #ESOCITE4S22 #STS

The current series, now in 4th Edition was first published in 1995 (1st/2nd ed.), with subsequent editions in 2008 and 2017. They have each been very different in focus and inclusion. 3/7 #ESOCITE4S22 #STS

What's an STS handbook for the 2020s? Do we need a handbook? What are the alternatives? How can it serve the field best? Who wants to be involved? 2/7 #ESOCITE4S22 #STS

As chair of the 4S publications committee, I am chairing a workshop at #ESOCITE4S22 Cholula to think about the next "STS Handbook." Join me Friday between 11-1 in A110. Spread the word, engage here with the idea, participate? #STS 🐘[email protected] 1/7

It also has an extensive methods section about using Nextdoor because we were, ahem, questioned by the journal about the ethics of the research. #ethics #methods

The article is based in hundreds of conversations on the platform about wildlife in LA. It is our modest attempt to help move the somewhat stalled theorization of "entanglement" along a bit. #sts #entanglement #multispecies #environnement #losangeles

Very excited to have published an article with the incomparable Soledad Altrudi about Los Angeles, Nextdoor, and arbitrary domination, three things I love to hate! doi.org/10.1215/22011919-996…

Which article should I write? "Latour in Action" "The pasteurization of Latour" "We have never been Latour" "Reassembling Latour" "An inquiry into the modes of existence of Latour"